Tick fan since first print copy and I was very happy for casting- Warburton was PERFECT for this role!! sad it was short lived!

They really hit it out of the park when they cast Patrick Warburton as The Tick. Dude was born to play the socially inept title role. It's thanks to great writing and Warburton's winning delivery that this show is as (highly) quotable as it is. And it's not just him, it's the whole cast: Liz Vassey, David Burke, and I couldn't see Nestor Carbonell in "The Dark Knight" without thinking of Batmanuel (love that guy!).The whole thing's a winner; good production values, great bizarre sense of humor, and Captain Liberty makes for some major eye candy. "The Tick" deserved a much longer life than it received. 8/10

Somehow, I missed The Tick during its run on television. Thank goodness for DVD! The Tick has to be one of the funniest, most original shows I've seen. It's a riot! I can't believe there are only eight episodes.I can pinpoint two things that make The Tick so good to me. First, the writing. Some of the dialogue in The Tick is laugh out loud funny. In the pilot episode, the first time we see the Tick, he's guarding a bus stop. His main enemy appears to be the coffee machine that has a habit of taking money from customers. I'll never forget the sight of the Tick shaking the coffee machine while saying "Armless bandit... Empty your bladder of that bitter black urine men call coffee! It has its price and its price has been payed! Java devil, you are now my bitch." Hysterical! The second area where the show excels is in the casting. Going back to his days on the television show Dave's World, I've always thought that Patrick Warburton was one the funniest people I've ever seen. He's a big, tough, good-looking guy who can be as goofy as they come. He is simply perfect in the title role of this series. His delivery, mannerism, attitude, and look are dead on. I can't imagine anyone else playing the Tick. As for the rest of the cast, they're wonderful. As much as I can't imagine anyone else playing the Tick, I feel even stronger about David Burke in the role of Arthur. He IS Arthur. Liz Vassey and Nestor Carbonell are the two other regulars rounding out this superb cast.It's a shame The Tick didn't last longer. Eight episodes hardly seems like enough.

I wasn't familiar with the comics in the least... but I was an avid fan of the Saturday morning cartoon series, that I'm still waiting to be put out on DVD... I did enjoy this series, though, more than most other shows on nowadays... I think it could have been better, though, if it was an hour long show. Thirty minutes never seemed to be enough to spin the yarn they were going for. A lot of the episodes seemed rushed.I also hate they couldn't have American Maid on this series, but I do think I preferred Bat Manuell to Die Fladermous. I did wish it had more heroes. One thing I liked about the cartoon, in the first episode, there were hordes of heroes trying to stop the idea men. The Human Bullet (Fire me Boy!), Sewer Urchin, Big Shot...Well, they're truly two completely different series. Apples and Oranges. I will say the homophobic undertones are amusing. I recommend giving this series a chance... Fox sure didn't.