Off With Their Heads! MTV's Sic'EmAtion

Have you ever watched a show so bad, so mind-numbingly awful, that you start contemplating self-lobotomy as a method of escape? I had one of those moments this past week when I was unlucky enough to stumble across MTV2's new animation block that is oh so creatively titled "Sic'EmAtion". The animation block, consisting of old episodes of Beavis & Butthead, new episodes of Celebrity Deathmatch and two new shows, Where My Dogs At? & Chico and Guapo is the most painful thing to grace the small screen since . What makes it suck so much? Firstly it's so clearly trying to be [Adult Swim], which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it misses what makes [AS] great. Much like how hordes of imitators tried to duplicate the success of Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto series by just cramming hookers and four letter words into their craptastic games, MTV thinks that any animated show that has crude, mature humor will be an instant hit. Yes, the [AS] shows are often loaded with blood, vomit and boobie jokes, but they are secondary to the mad-cap humor of the shows. The real key to [AS] is the combination of absurd and surreal elements with real, unique humor. It doesn't always work, but you always get the sense that they are willing to try anything. The Sic'EmAtion shows are the lowest brand of humor; unoriginal, stale and tedious material that is literally flooded with the most assinine of pop culture refrences.

Oooh, Lindsay Lohan & Mischa Barton are both really thin, lets make an entire 22 minute episode about it! Hey that guy is wearing a scarf! He has to be gay, lets fix him up with the leather queen. Ugh. Crap like this kills me. It's typical MTV dreck, soulless, stupid, derivative and oh so self important. It cannot be cancelled fast enough. Get the guillotinne ready. It's choppin' time.

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