Tonight was the premiere of Method Man and Redman's new sitcom on Fox, which I caught the 2nd half of out of more or less morbid curiousity. Granted, How High was pretty good for what it was, they're both funny motherfuckers in general, and even their short-lived pre-Punk'd hidden camera show on MTV had its moments. But this show looked pretty damn unpromising, from the title(METHOD AND RED? Who the fuck calls them that? Was Fox afraid that if they called him "Meth" people would get the wrong idea?) to the horrible tagline "Putting The Urban In Suburban".

That said, I was somewhat pleasantly surprised. It wasn't quite head and shoulders above UPN shit, and most of the humor was derived from the ever so bold "black people and white people are DIFFERENT" premise, but the writing was actually pretty sharp, and Meth was a pretty good lead (it's clearly his project, he has twice as many lines as Red, and a production credit). They play themselves, famous rappers and everything, but for some reason both live with Meth's mom, and the pilot centered around their white neighbors trying to get them evicted, except for one family they befriend, getting high with the dad, and sticking up for the pubescent son when he gets into a fight at school.

So I dunno, it wasn't that bad, but it pretty much goes without saying that it would be ten times better if it were on cable and/or was based on Red's classic episode of Cribs.

EDIT: At least Meth agrees that the title sucks.