When I had time to waste during a layover I watched a couple episodes online; not bad. Somewhere I think the conceptual inspiration for this show was lpsg's own
Jonah Falcon. Here is the link for anyone who wants to view entire episodes:
The Hard Times of RJ Berger | Full Episodes, Photos, Episode Synopsis and Recaps | MTV
When you watch it, remember this show is keeping with all things that are utterly infuriating about American television, including all talk but no skin and dumb innuendo and double entendre jokes. The cast is out of stereotypical sit-com 100 with the central character a scrawny, myopic, curly-haired dweeb who's best friend is a fat kid right out of the movie
Meatballs. If that's going back a generation, there is also a plain-Jane classmate who's root go all the way back to the early 1960s character from
Dobie Gillis, Zelda Gilroy (at least before she proclaimed her lesbianism and ventured into liberal California politics.)
Some things are more contemporary within the walls of Reseda High School where
The Hard Times of RJ Berger was filmed. For one everyone seems to walk, talk and socialize in mysteriously racial and gender-balanced precision. I'm also left wondering what the California high school graduation rate must be at age 18 since many students in the show look as if they flunked five or six grades. It's tough to be a 27 year-old junior.
Beyond having an indeterminately large dong (pick any number between 10" and two feet) RJ Berger has to live with parents that seem as if they spend a lot of time swinging at lifestyles conventions and hitting the conversation pool at Hedonism II in Jamaica or the Caliente nudist resort in Land o' Lakes, Florida. I wonder what Ozzie Nelson and Ward Cleaver would think?
Aw, just have a look folks. :smile:
