The Pitts never got its fair shake as a FOX sitcom because it had one very severe count against it -- it was clean humor. (This partly explains some of the problems of the survival of Oliver Beane, which aired around the same time, but was given a little more opportunity to find an audience and reformat to be more appealing--although the idiot executives didn't happen to notice the ridiculous time slot).
The Pitts was a great show if you ever were a fan of sarcastic, witty horror comedy humor like you might find in 'My Best Friends Vampire' or 'My Boyfriend's Back.' Jokes and punks that were obvious, but intended as a state of normalcy. Hell, the story line involved a family who had a sort of supernatural touch. It was dumb humor, but you knew it was dumb humor when you watched it. That's what made it funny, that the situations were so outrageous. That's hard to pull off in a sitcom, too, because that is often skit quality material, something that need only be done sporadically as opposed to regular, half-hour weekly episodes. It's also better material for a movie.
Unfortunately, the dweebs at FOX axed it pretty quickly. I think it only survived about five or six episodes, but nonetheless. It was about the closest thing I had seen to stupid humor, but clean humor, since the Kelsey Grammar variety hour which aired earlier this year, and almost as quickly as The Pitts, was dumped as well. The Networks don't want this. They may say, this sort of thing belongs on an obscure family channel somewhere, meanwhile we need the most violent, most erotic thing the FCC will allow us to run at this point.
The Pitts was a great show if you ever were a fan of sarcastic, witty horror comedy humor like you might find in 'My Best Friends Vampire' or 'My Boyfriend's Back.' Jokes and punks that were obvious, but intended as a state of normalcy. Hell, the story line involved a family who had a sort of supernatural touch. It was dumb humor, but you knew it was dumb humor when you watched it. That's what made it funny, that the situations were so outrageous. That's hard to pull off in a sitcom, too, because that is often skit quality material, something that need only be done sporadically as opposed to regular, half-hour weekly episodes. It's also better material for a movie.
Unfortunately, the dweebs at FOX axed it pretty quickly. I think it only survived about five or six episodes, but nonetheless. It was about the closest thing I had seen to stupid humor, but clean humor, since the Kelsey Grammar variety hour which aired earlier this year, and almost as quickly as The Pitts, was dumped as well. The Networks don't want this. They may say, this sort of thing belongs on an obscure family channel somewhere, meanwhile we need the most violent, most erotic thing the FCC will allow us to run at this point.