"The Goode Family": ABC's New Cartoon Lifts Joke From "The Office" (VIDEO)

In the first season of the U.S. version of "The Office" manager Michael Scott gets himself in trouble during the company's diversity day and tries to recover by creating his own games and tests. They do not go well and while he ponders what he could've done differently the following exchange occurs:

Michael: I just wanted...I just wanted to do it our way. You know? On our own. Man I should have gotten some food...If I'd brought in some burritos or some colored greens. Or some pad Thai. I love pad Thai.
Stanley: It's collard greens.
Michael: What?
Stanley: It's collard greens.
Michael: That doesn't really make sense. Because you don't call them collared people, that's offensive.

Last night on ABC's new animated sitcom "The Goode Family" the same joke was repeated.

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"The Goode Family," which premiered last night to mixed reviews (see a few here, here and here), is the brain-child of Mike Judge who also created "King of the Hill" and "Beavis and Butt-head."

It pokes fun at the politically correct world of uber-liberalism, which is ripe for the mocking. Unfortunately, the show is a lot lock this clip: It feels like a recycled joke you've heard a million times in other, better forms.

Comments

[PoliticalEnnui]

When Mike Judge did the "Lesbian Seagull" song on Beavis and Butthead, it was funny. It was funny because Political Correctness really had gotten out of hand. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5IswrbAiLU
That was back in the mid-1990s when Clintonism and Democratic dominance were caving in and Republicans were in the ascendancy.

But when Sean Hayes slipped an off-the-cuff reference to the song on and episode of Will & Grace, it was even funnier. That's because anyone who recognized the reference knew it was from a different era. The GOP and PC-bashing have been the dominant meme for over a decade and a half. It's possible that The Goode Family could be funnier in a few years, but jeez Mike! Don't you have to have an active fatigue before you can parody something. Be a real Libertarian and take some pokes at the Right that are less kitten-ish.

[x004Ronin]

South Park is hilarious and tells jokes from a libertarian perspective, meaning more than once they've made fun of liberals (Check out the episode about Hybrids).
I liked King of the Hill and loved Office Space, so I tuned into this show with high hopes, expecting it to be like a South Park that focused entirely on uber-liberals. However, the first thing that comes to mind to this show is "hackneyed." If you've watched more than 1 show or comedian in the past 10 years that made fun of liberals, you've probably heard all the jokes in this first episode.

[cyjames1975]

I noticed this joke theft immediately when I tuned into this show, which held my attention for about 5 minutes. It's just not good. It's straining so hard to be clever, but just fails miserably. If you're going to be satirical and political, you're going to have to keep the writing very sharp or it veers off into offensive or mean or smug. In the five minutes I watched, Goode Family managed to hit all three.

[Oski82]

Greg Daniels from the American Office co-created King of the Hill. Colored Greens/Collard People is probably a joke he and Mike Judge both know, they probably both saw somebody actually say "colored greens."

[zippythemajor]

Alex...LITTLE HISTORY LESSON...
THE OFFICE was based on/a carbon copy of OFFICE SPACE...which was created by Mike Judge. It's ur basic Chicken before the egg stuff

[pghnappyrhino]

"the office" is an american adaptation of a bbc sitcom, also called "the office."

[FlipFlopFlimFlam]

wow, so smug and so wrong at the same time!

[zippythemajor]

Ezine...Ricky Gervais - Voice of the Jilted Office Generation

...The Office shares common traits with the 1999 cult hit movie Office Space - in that both productions focus on the banal and unsatisfying nature of mundane office jobs, and indeed The Office makes a subtle nod to Office Space, in its reference to a former employee of Wernham-Hogg going by the name of Peter Gibbons - the name of the lead character of Office Space.

smug? just non revisionist history dude

[MikeDu]

From the promos it seems to be a rather mean-spirited show that gets its humor mocking decent liberal values. I'm not saying I'm not going to watch it, I am saying I'm going to note down the shows sponsors and avoid their products.

[cungar]

I'm sure you'll put them out of business.

[GoDogGo]

The show was shockingly bad. There's a gold mine of humor in mocking ultra-liberals but they completely missed it. Every joke was so hackneyed. Painful to watch.

[mathme]

It's a pretty obvious joke. I'm sure a lot of people have made it off-hand in the grocery store.

[NoCheapShotsPlease]

It's like an updated version of "Wait 'til your Father gets Home", late sixties early seventies.

[Nathan Idais]

This is one of those HuffPost non-stories. It's a recycled joke, similar but not verbatim. So what?

[BlackJAC]

The betting window is now open: how long before THE GOODE FAMILY is cancelled? The over/under is three episodes, $10 a square, house takes 5%.

[ProperGanda]

I was expecting a headline of "Neocon propaganda show DEBUNKED after STOLEN JOKE!!!!!!!" and then a couple of follow up articles slamming ABC for putting this show on

[TLaw]

Is the daughter biracial?

[jayburd]

Mike Judge is a one trick pony. And that one trick was used up looooong ago....

[Sonni]

Hey, I'm African-American and when I saw that on The Office I laughed out loud.