CHRIS QUINN: This ‘Fat Guy’ will give you a fart joke you can laugh about Print E-mail
Monday, 19 May 2008
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When I first heard about this new show on the massively cool Adult Swim network, I acquired several lawyers in hopes of finding some way to sue the hell out of them for infringement on something or another.

Alas, I have been assured, to my great despair, that “Fat Guy Stuck in the Internet” has nothing whatsoever to do with me personally.

It was pointed out that if the show was called “Fat Guy Stuck in a Dodge Intrepid” or “Fat Guy Stuck in the Elevator at Avenue E at Third Street,” then, yes, I might have a case.

Sadly, no one is willing to take my case to court. I am considering changing legal teams, though. Because A: I’m fat and B: I get stuck and C: I have access to the Internet. So, D: $20 million hard ones the easy way! Because in the parlance of our litigious times, I would sue you, sue them, sue her, sue him, sue everybody! And, yes, I just ripped that line from “The Jerky Boys.” So sue me.

Anyway, back to some fat guy stuck in the Internet. The show debuts on Adult Swim on Sunday, June 15. And it is funny. Not the “SNL” polite laugh kind of funny, but the awkward “huh” kind of funny.

It is a live-action comedic romp of convoluted caca that resembles the best fart joke ever told. But not just any best fart joke ever. But a best fart joke ever that is told by Albert Einstein. And at the end of the joke, Einstein farts. So smart, yet crude.

Which is exactly the kind of funny displayed in “Fat Guy Stuck in the Internet.” A show that will confuse many, amuse few and totally blow away the hardcore Adult Swim fan base.

After pouring beer onto an experimental computer keyboard, office jerk/computer programmer Ken Gemberling is sucked into his Internet, where he finds he is the fulfillment to some sort of prophecy.

About this time, I realized something. Shazam! They are totally ripping off “Tron!” “Tron” should sue the hell out of these guys! Then I noticed that the whole show is just a cut and paste job. Themes and ideas from not only “Tron,” but also “Star Wars,” “Flash Gordon,” “Barbarella,” “Raising Arizona” and a few others run amok in the program. And, apparently, this is the whole point of the show.

Despite being extremely confusing, if you let go of your imagination and watch with a blank slate, you’ll laugh. You might not come back for more. But you will laugh at least once or twice.

The writing, look, acting and just about everything in the show is similar to another Adult Swim cult dredge, “Saul of the Mole Men.”

In fact, it is so similar, you will spend half of the time trying to discern if “Fat Guy Stuck in the Internet” is actuality an episode of “Saul of the Mole Men” playing an April Fools joke in June.

 
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