In his Lineboil.com review, Keith Staskiewicz hinted that ABC’s new animated series The Goode Family may evolve into something special. Well, you can decide for yourself tonight, when the series premieres at 8/9c. Here’s a 1-minute clip to whet your appetite.
And here’s episode 2 of Cartoon Cannon – The Goode, the Bad and the Family in which our gang blatantly recycles a number of jokes about being green in this modern world.
The Goodes are the blue-state analogues of the Hills, Mike Judge’s venerable 
Texas-twangers who will soon be packing up the propane after a staggering 13 seasons. A bespectacled father voiced by Judge, an overweight son, a midriff-baring daughter, a cantankerous old coot of a father, and a dog named after a political figure; Judge’s creations for his new series The Goode Family, which premieres Wednesday May 27th (9:00-9:30 p.m., ET) on ABC, are the cultural and political negative images of his previous ones. Rather than chugging beer on the front lawn, the Goodes are more likely to be found swigging soy milk in their solar-powered home and then painstakingly recycling the containers.
Here’s a few clips from the pilot:
The pater familias here is Gerald Goode, a poncho-wearing member of the liberal academe. His wife is a local activist with whom he has two children, one adopted and one biological. The dog is an unwilling vegan and they shower outside in a home-made rainwater catchment system. Read more »
We’re less than a month away from premiere of ABC’s The Goode Family, which follows the lives of an obsessively “green” family. The series, which was created by Mike Judge, John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky, premieres on May 27th with back-to-back episodes. Check out this promo package ABC recently released:
The animation table read has become a popular entertainment form ever since Seth MacFarlane and his camp introduced the concept of Family Guy Live. With the premiere of Mike Judge’s new animated ABC series The Goode Family (presumably) only weeks away, we’ve been offered a look at how the voice acting for the show comes together. In this clip package below, we see a bit of animation intercut amidst the reading of an episode titled Pleatherheads.
