I just finished watching the first episode of the new animated comedy, The Goode Family. I have very mixed feelings about it, half the of the time I found it funny, the other half I was asking myself what’s so funny. The main idea behind The Goode Family is to poke fun at the yuppy segment of the America’s left wing. Most jokes revolve around the Goode family’s over-sensitivity to issues of race, personal development, healthy living trends, the environment, etc. Herein lies my problem with The Goode Family though. It is the lumping in of issues like being environmentally concious into a list of jokes that do include more funny, non-consequential matters like their indecisiveness on which politically correct noun should be used to refer to a black person. This, along with some of the other jokes, gives me the impression that this comedy really is geared towards a right-wing crowd laughing at the left. Of course that is all fine and good as we do have plenty of features to poke fun of however The Goode Family seems indescriminate in its criticism.
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