Thursday, April 05, 2007

Andy Barker P.I. is awesome

This is an absolutely hysterical TV show that is probably going to go the way of the do-do bird (or Arrested Development) very quickly. The premise of the show, created by Conan O'Brien and starring his old side-kick Andy Richter, is that CPA Andy Barker moves into an old PI's office and winds up taking some cases from people who still thinks the office belongs to a Private Investigator. There is a nice balance of him doing accounting work and always being interrupted to do some investigating

The cast also has Tony Hale, formerly of Arrested Development and Harve Presnell, the psycho grandfather from Fargo. I don't really understand what Presnell's character Lou's problem is on the show, but he is completely off beat and very funny.

The show plays out like an old Starsky and Hutch episode from the 1970's. A little campy, but still the jokes play well to today's audience. You can watch all the episodes here at the NBC website. Take a look and let me know what you think.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I never heard of it. I'll go check it out, it sounds funny.