Cody Perkins

Saw clips of this years ago on Facebook and curiosity eventually led me to tracking the show down. Admittedly it didn’t grab me from the first season. In fact I found the humor a little too dumb for my tastes. It does get better, but it does also get progressively more dumb, yet it’s like a trainwreck so I can’t help but watch. It grew on me on season 2. There was one episode where Mr. D became the guardian of one of his students and is easily the darkest episode in a typically lighthearted show. It’s too pitiful to really enjoy. Nothing bothered me too bad about this show, I saw it as nothing more than satire and it’s always cool when kids get to do and say stuff you don’t see and hear on most shows, but that one episode was hard to watch. Makes it really hard to like Mr. D as a character. By season 8, the show becomes a farce of itself. The weird thing is that I could’ve watched more of this series even though I’m being generous and calling it middle of the road. Bottom of the barrel is more like it. It has its funny moments though. I want to compare it to It’s Always Sunny but the writing isn’t anywhere near that level of quality.