Talk:The Critic/Archive 1

Shorts

There were a series of(5, maybe 6?) shorts of "The Critic" that were made in Flash after the critic had been cancelled. Anyone know where one can find these? They also aren't listed in the shows history.

I recall seeing them on atomfilms or someplace like that, but this was years ago. No idea where one could find them now...Mackensen (talk) 19:48, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Does anyone know why it was canceled. it would be nice to see that in the article

Someone Check Up On This?

(née Wigglesworth)---was this a reference to a gag that appeared in a episode?

No, this was her maiden name, revealed in the episode "A Little Deb Will Do You" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.84.254.178 (talk) 18:48, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

A Day at the Races and a Night at the Opera

I changed the links in the title header. It seems more likely that the episode title is a reference to the two Marx Brothers films, rather than to the Queen albums (which were named after the films), since this is a show about movies. (Ibaranoff24 05:55, 6 January 2006 (UTC))

Generalizing characters because of episodic happenings is not good encylopedic writing. Duke Philips often likes to make up words for Scrabble when he only does this in one episode.

He did make up the word in the one episode, but that episode also made reference to him doing it in the past

"Season 3 (The Webisodes)"

Available at [1]. There are 9 mini-episodes.

Thanks for the link, Ive been looking for at least a clue to find them for the longest time already, now that you gave me these 8 episodes out of ten, I managed to find the remaining 2. This link gives the complete 10 webisodes and are available to download. But without your help I couldn't of find the remaining two. I made a extensive Google search and found them. --Gakhandal 20:45, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm surprised none of the webisodes have been picked up by YouTube.

Your link doesn't work. The website must of been taken down.

Grab them right [2] here, but know that Mediafire links aren't valid forever. --Raijin Z 00:10, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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Sheridan

This is probably elitist, but I'm not keen on this being the primary page for "The Critic" compared to the Sheridan play The Critic. What do people think about downgrading this to The Critic (animation) and having The Critic as a disambiguation page for the play and the animation? Gordonofcartoon 01:45, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

I'd agree if the page for the play wasn't a stub. -- Atama^chat 19:08, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

The Critic in culture and in English Literature is the play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. If we can't change the title of that away from being The Critic (play), we can at least pay the original the respect of not giving a short lived cartoon sitcom the sole rights to the title alone. This page should be renamed The Critic (tv show) or nearest equivalent. Just my two cents, or rather two British Pennies worth.Silas Maxfield (talk) 08:21, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Jon Lovitz on the DVDs

I was listening to a Simpsons DVD commentary, in which Jon Lovitz was a guest commentator. Matt Groening made a joke about how Jon Lovitz is there doing the Simpsons commentary, but is nowhere to be found for any type of "The Critic" Commentary. They had a laugh and then Jon Lovitz laughingly exclaims "They never asked me!". Maybe someone should add this to the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.8.249.246 (talk) 16:58, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

realistically ugly?

"She is at first much prettier but then she was reanimated to be more realistically ugly"

something really doesn't seem right about this comment, prehaps some better wording? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Homor (talk • contribs) 00:18, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure this is vandalism. I've seen nearly all of the Critic episodes and she didn't really change. --DoubleDee0614 (talk) 07:04, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

well then it needs to be deleted. --Homor (talk) 12:13, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Judd Apatow

I know Judd Apatow was involved in this show (consulting producer?) but there is no mention of him in the main body of the article, despite the box 'Works of Judd Apatow' at the bottom. Can anyone shed some light on what his role was in making 'The Critic'? If he didn't do very much, then surely it is inappropriate to say it is his 'work' at the bottom of the article? -- Indy4ever (talk) 14:24, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

jew?

Where is it confirmed that Jay is a jew? As far as I remember he asked his adoption agency that question but nothing was confirmed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolfenstein (talk • contribs) 18:12, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Who writes garbage like this?

"Some of the criticisms they provided, if left unattended to, may have been factors to the show's cancellation." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.102.128.42 (talk) 11:13, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

"Love letter to New York"

I don't know why this is so important that it needs to appear in the very first paragraph of the article, especially since it's cited to a years-later review of the show that is now a dead link.

I previously pointed out that this phrase is almost certainly a joke - describing things as a "love letter to New York" was a cliche even in 1994, and the creators of The Critic couldn't possibly have meant it earnestly as they were respectively raised in Michigan and in a part of Connecticut 100 miles away from Manhattan, both went to Harvard, and then both worked their entire professional careers as TV writers in Los Angeles. I.e. - neither Mike Reiss nor Al Jean has ever lived in New York so the idea that they sincerely wanted to make a show about how much they "love" it is implausible.

If we don't want this explanation in the lead, that's fine, but the quote itself seems to be getting extremely undue prominence. Predestiprestidigitation (talk) 07:13, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Notability?

Not sure if it is notable the web episodes seem to have been animated by a variety of different companies. Webisodes animated by JetCity Studios, unbound studios, and episodes 7 and 8 were animation by flinch studios.

Additional Sources

It is tricky enough to find sources on the web and I managed to dig out a few that might be useful to anyone interested in improving the article.

• "The Critic: The complete series".
• "It stinks!: Jon Lovitz's 4 bizarre career parallels to his best-known role".
• Benjamin Svetkey (Feb 11, 1994). "GOTTA LOVITZ. FORMER 'SNL' MASTER THESPIAN JON LOVITZ GIVES VOICE TO A NEW 'TOON IN 'THE CRITIC'".

I had planned to put more work into it but that isn't going to happen so I'm providing the references here in case someone else might be able to make use of them. -- Horkana (talk) 16:13, 25 March 2010 (UTC)