"Oh, I got it on my face. I fell asleep in this meeting and I got my poop on my face." - Timmy (Timmy Williams) after discovering a little extra something in his pants while attending a departmental meeting
The Whitest Kids U'Know: The Complete First Season DVD Review
By Casey Richards
Imagine if you and your friends decided, while on a bender, to film your own sketch comedy show. If you did, it might look a lot like The Whitest Kids U'Know: The Complete First Season, written and performed by Trevor Moore, Zach Cregger, Darren Trumeter, Sam Brown, and Timmy Williams.
Unfortunately, these Kids, like many drunks, don't always know when to shut up. For every guffaw-inducing sketch, there are two or three that either wear out their welcome or just aren't funny in the first place. The good stuff is so funny, though, that almost every episode is worth wading through at least once.
In "Timmy Poop," a departmental meeting is disrupted when an attendee pulls a log of poop out of his pants. "Abe Lincoln" reveals the real story behind the death of our sixteenth president-he kept yelling at the stage during a performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet (the version where blood-sucking vampires take over the castle, leaving the great Dane to battle the undead) until a fellow patron beat him to death with a hammer. Three dumb hunters encounter a "Sexy Fawn." The boys invent a game that involves "Slapping" the other person based on what they say, but they forget to tell a hapless Timmy. "Whip Boy" is a moronic superhero who constantly twirls his whip in the air, entangling himself in the process. In "Classroom," a sadistic teacher makes her class guess which of their mothers just got killed in a horrible car accident. When an up-and-coming executive seeks out the help of a psychic to find out if he'll be getting a promotion, he discovers that he is the victim of a "Ghost Tea Bag." "You're Peeing on My Leg" is-well-pretty much self-explanatory. Sketches like these are puerile, scatological, and psychotically funny.
Other sketches, like "Hitler Rap," "Get a New Daddy," "Pimp Pun Disaster," and "Astronaut Mess" take funny premises and beat them into the ground. And many episodes-especially the later ones-contain a high dud-to-hit ratio. Another problem is that the performers often seem to think that louder is funnier. Yelling is not inherently funny, so modulate, guys.
The ten episodes that make up The Whitest Kids U'Know: The Complete First Season are divided onto two discs. The discs are housed in a standard-sized keepcase with an interior swinging arm to hold the second disc. The keepcase slides into a cardboard outer sleeve.
Viewers can play all of a disc's episodes or watch them individually. The episodes are divided into separate chapters for each sketch.
