I am not sure why so many people here are giving negative reviews of this show. I just happened to come across this program last fall while I was surfing channels looking for something to watch. It was the third week of the season and I stopped to watch.That is all it took and I was hooked!!! I have watched every episode, every week since that funny night and for the first two weeks I watched those On Demand! The storyline is usually believable and could happen in real life, but isn't probable unless you are an extremely unlucky person. Those four main actors and even their sidekicks make it so believable and funny! I have always enjoyed watching them on other shows and now they have pulled it together and added more characters to their posse and have developed a great sitcom! They are so funny and it is always fun to see what their next antics will be! I see that this program is on the hatchet list and will probably be done this season. I can only hope that FOX will reconsider and those of us who like it can convince those that are negative to watch it and give it another chance and they just might be surprised at how funny it really is! It is one of those shows that you can come home and watch and be able to tuck your troubles to the back of your mind and forget about them, at least for a few minutes. So if you haven't seen it, check it out and see what you think and if you have seen it, watch it again and see if there is something you missed, you just might be surprised! I am sure that at least one of those characters will bring a smile or two to your face! From my point of view I am not sure how they could miss! For myself and many others we will continue to watch and LOL!!!

I have to admit, I watched the pilot and had a few laughs. I set it on my DVR as I thought I might enjoy watching it and give it a chance. Simply, I watch now if I have nothing else to do, as my curiosity is hinged on how bad each episode is getting. Its like watching a car crash, you can't look away. That's how bad this show is. I am never offended by the jokes or stereotyping, its just that the writing is absolutely terrible and the story-lines are worse. For someone like Seth McFarlane to write and produce this show, with the success and wit of Family Guy, somehow seems paradoxical.The wit in this show is non- existent, the reliance on one-liners to carry the humour when they are so badly written is evident. This is where the show falls down, and further damaged by the addition of a laugh track, when they advertise that it is filmed in front of a live audience? What gives? The actors are playing beneath their capability, and the only bright lights are the Dads themselves, Martin Mull's dry humour is not wasted here, however when entangled with such bad scripts, it's a shame. He's a great comedic actor and can deliver good performances in this dud. Typical fluff is included of course, like any sitcom, with little Asian cutie Brenda Song (there is always a lot of deference to her race in the script, for laughs) as part of the cast...she's pretty, but slightly chunky in the legs and butt and Hollywood is filled with beautiful, young Asian actresses who could have brought a whole different level of "sexy" to the show which may have offset some of the problems with the writing. And then there's Vanessa Lachey. She's pretty, but definitely showing her age (mid thirties)and totally miscast for the wife of one of Ghost Games partners. In my estimation, there is no need for Lachey to be in this show? Why not two single guys running their company, and building relationships with women as part of the story lines? They run a video game development company after all, a young minded place where fantasy and hormones could run wild and some good stories could come out of that concept if the producers are intent on bringing the sex factor into the show. Why is one of the company partners married, and what does it bring to the show? As well, there is absolutely no believable chemistry between Vanessa Lachey and her sitcom husband, Giovanni Ribisi, and its awkward to watch, and frankly, she could easily be written out of the show with no one noticing. I am unclear of why, other than getting a male audience to watch, that she is in the show ? This is a symptom of how bad the show has become. She has some talent as a TV host in other endeavours, but as an actress, she is weak and it shows. Song, on the other hand, has a lot of previous comedic acting gigs and does bring the some fodder for jokes and stereotyping, the "Asian factor" as I imagine was the original thought process on the concept in adding her to the show. In the pilot, it in included her as a stereotypical Asian fantasy girl (dressed in a schoolgirl outfit, with a short, short little skirt in a very submissive role) to set the tone for what was to come in the series. Seth Green constantly stretches for laughs, his lines in the scripts are based on unfunny one liners and its easy to tell, that half the time, his heart doesn't even seem to be in the delivery. His sitcom dad Peter Reitgert can prop him up in many of the scenes, but here again, there is little chemistry or back story to this relationship. So for Dads, based on lack of character development, use of actor "props" (Lachey) for no apparent reason or need, a terrible unfunny script and storyline from show to show, using laugh tracks because of the weakness in writing, makes this show a complete and total stinker, and not worth the 22 minutes on TV every week. Recent story lines included getting involved with the Mafia to help with a video game they were producing, and a very unfunny mobster made recommendations of a "know it all" actual meatball (as in spaghetti and meatballs) characters to be included in the game. And to top it off, the actor playing the mafia figure was absolutely terrible with stereotypical mafia talk, and an unbelievable story in hiring him as a consultant, when he shows how stupid he is through the script he is delivering. The believability of the show is constantly a problem. Stupid writing, stupid ideas and not funny stuff. Frankly,I am surprised this show hasn't been cancelled and even more surprised that Seth McFarlane and team haven't yet seen how poor this show is and done something about it. Has success Family Guy gone to their heads and they are so arrogant that they think this drivel is funny? I hope not. because it sure looks like it.

Tonight I watched what I believe to be the absolute worst sitcom I have ever seen. I love comedy shows and have thousands of episodes of several dozen different series to prove it. This show was more idiotic than any AND it was offensive. To top it off, they either had an audience full of drunks or were liberally using a laugh track. In the first couple of minutes of this Feb. 4 episode I heard the audience laughing several times at lines that were not the least bit funny.The plot dealt with a stereotype Mafioso coming in to the company that designs video games and in a few hours he ran through all they needed to make a successful new game, including a lead cartoon character.One of the early laughs (from the audience/laugh track, certainly not from me) was when the Mafia guy met one of the partners in the company, a short man with a full beard and asked, "What are you, in kindergarten?" Does it make any sense that he would think someone with a full beard is about 5 years old? Of course not! But that laugh track whooped it up.The cast seemed packed with stereotypical characters including one obnoxious man who seemed compelled to yell out, whenever the word "God" was spoken, "There is no God!" The Mafia guy refused to be paid with a check, so he agreed to take no money, with their promise to do him a favor some time. Five seconds after walking away he returned, asking for his favor. He wanted them to play cards with him.The one partner is seen with few chips while the Mafia guy has a boatload that he puts into the pot. The partner decides to wager the entire store vs. the money on the table. Never mind how this doesn't fit the usual rules of poker, nor how he could hardly wager away his partner's share of the business. Forget about how stupid one would be to bet so much. We all knew he would lose, just as surely as almost every lame punchline in the entire show was easily predictable.Then we see him waking up in bed next to his wife (I guess) and is relieved to find out it was just a dream. But, we the viewer have been tricked. When a scene leads to someone in it waking up, that is supposed to mean it was a dream. But here, it was real, we just suddenly shifted to him waking up and thinking he had a dream.Suddenly the Mafia guy has taken over the entire store, including all operations of the partner with whom he won no bet. He has put in a stripper pole and is quickly making it into all the stereotype operations that mobsters are reported to do. When challenged by the partner who lost the bet, he goes to "take him for a ride." I hope I don't spoil the "surprise" ending by revealing that he doesn't actually kill anyone, but he does threaten to do so to someone else, via the computer.The show was full of the lamest one-liners, clichés, stereotype characters, offensive language, offensive themes, offensive characters—I hated the idiot who kept yelling "There is no God!" I've always enjoyed Martin Mull, but in this episode he seemed to be given almost nothing to do, except sit in the background and say almost nothing.Even if I live to be 200 years old, I will believe that life is too short to waste another half hour of my life watching this miserable excuse for a TV comedy.

Maybe it was because I wasn't expecting much, or maybe it was because some of the other new comedies that I thought would be funny fell flat, but this show was a lot funnier than I expected.From what the critics had to say I expected to be offended and not laugh at all. I only watched it at because I like the two main actors, so I was surprised when I ended up liking the show.The 1st episode was 'ok', but the 2nd episode was really funny. I have told several people about the show (with a warning that there is a lot of politically incorrect content), and so far they have all liked it too.The only thing I disliked was the laugh track. That thing needs to go!! One of the funniest characters is the house keeper. She is not normally mentioned in any of the reviews and she makes me laugh every time she is on screen.