Blog:The REDACTED

'''NOTE: This is the very first page on this wiki! TheStarsOftheSkies added this article back on April 18, 2017.''' The REDACTED is a 2007 Filipino-American adult animated sitcom created and produced by Ramon Lopez and co-created by Jesse Hernandez. It was the only Filipino-American television series to be animated. It aired on Myx TV in the United States and Myx in the Philippines.

Plot
Two cousins, Phil and Jack, from completely different areas (San Francisco and the Philippines, respectively) are forced to live together by their overly controlling uncle, Richard "Tito Dick" Cabeza.

Why It's The REDACTED

 * 1) False advertising: The title has nothing to do with the show's premise at all.
 * 2) *China was also never bombed in the episode "Bomb China"; the episode is instead about George W. Bush turning everyone into white people.
 * 3) Bad voice acting.
 * 4) *Most of the characters have exaggerated accents to poke at their ethnicities, making it very mean-spirited and racist.
 * 5) *Phil always sounds like he has a constant cold, making it a bit hard to make out what he's saying.
 * 6) *The half-cyborg tarsier, Horat, has a ridiculously high-pitched voice that makes him sound like a chipmunk.
 * 7) **What doesn't help is that we only have subtitles for Horat. It's hard to follow what most of other characters are saying.
 * 8) *Rainbow Scout's valley girl-like speech mannerisms serve to make fun of actual gay men.
 * 9) Mediocre character designs, especially considering that they look like they were steamrolled, which gets more obvious in the intro.
 * 10) The background music often drowns out the dialogue.
 * 11) The show has loads of unfortunate implications and bad morals; for instance, the episode "Got Surgery?" encourages female viewers to get breast enlargements in order to feel accepted.
 * 12) Most of the characters range from downright disgusting to utterly annoying.
 * 13) The writing is incredibly lazy; The majority of it is filled with dirty jokes along with roundabouts of insults.
 * 14) Some episodes don't even begin with a proper exposition or end with a proper resolution.
 * 15) Overuse of shock humor to where it can hardly be called humor; Each episode is filled to the brim with jokes ranging from toilet humor to jokes about drugs, homosexuality, racism, and sexual themes.
 * 16) *Dick eating a sandwich out of a hole in Jack's right buttock in "Bomb China", as well as visible feces and barf in the same episode.
 * 17) *Phil's dick making a rooster sound in "Pilot". Earlier on in the episode, he is seen masturbating with a magazine.
 * 18) *Cherry Pie getting her breasts enlarged, then ruined at the end in "Got Surgery?".
 * 19) *Horat's habit of throwing feces at everyone.
 * 20) *Snoop Dogg and 2Pac (who are portrayed as ducks) pooping everywhere and someone who looks like Dr. Phil continuing to eat his salad after it's been covered in bird poop.
 * 21) *Sanjee sticking a shish kabob in his butt, feeding it to Tito Dick, as well as El Pinyot Loco's head getting jammed into Rainbow Scout's rectum in "Blind Dick"
 * 22) The animation is incredibly stilted and horrendous, looking like a low-quality Internet flash animation with how robotic-looking the characters move. It also suffers from constant framerate drops.
 * 23) Heavily relies on biased stereotypes.
 * 24) *It is offensive to Filipinos despite (ironically) being a Filipino-American show and the creators being of Filipino descent themselves.
 * 25) *The transgender character, Cherry Pie, serves as an offensive depiction of actual transgender people; She is portrayed as a sex crazed "virgin" that makes everyone around her very uncomfortable, donning a goofy sounding voice.
 * 26) *Sanjee is a stereotype of the "Indian convenience store owner," much like Apu from The Simpsons, but worse because there is no charm to him whatsoever and says a lot of disgusting things.
 * 27) *Rainbow Scout is a buff gay man with an extremely stereotypical voice who enjoys anal sex and cannot stop talking about it.
 * 28) *Ning Ping from "Bomb China" and "Battle of the Bay" is a communist Chinese dictator who is very racist against Filipinos all because a Filipina woman refused to date him.
 * 29) *"Blackapino" is the ultimate punch in the gut when it comes to stereotypes of African-American gangsters. The scene where Jack gets gunned down by Ed and Angel after getting mistaken for an actual gangster adds insult to injury to said stereotype given that most gangsters die by getting shot, even if both Ed and Angel regretted their actions.
 * 30) Most of the theme song's lyrics are basically "It’s The REDACTED!" 16 times (4 more if you listen closely). It quickly gets annoying.
 * 31) *To add salt to the wound, the full version repeats the phrase 28 times!
 * 32) Some scenes make no sense at all and try way too hard to be funny.
 * 33) *It also shoehorns pop culture references at random moments, as if it's trying to be Family Guy, or South Park.
 * 34) Product placements such as Xbox consoles including Halo 3.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) A few of the characters are likeable.
 * 2) *Chita is much nicer than the rest of the characters. The scenes where she scolds Phil and/or throws stuff at him for being a jerk are pretty funny, too.
 * 3) **In fact, every scene in which Phil gets his comeuppance for his rudeness whether it's from Chita or Tito Dick is hilarious.
 * 4) *Dwayne, Phil and Jack's landlord, is admittedly pretty funny at times.
 * 5) The opening theme song, while awful, is catchy. Its "so bad it's good" nature easily turned it into a meme.
 * 6) The animation got a little better in Season 2, and the episodes started to improve plot-wise.
 * 7) *The idea of Angel having the ability to resurrecting deceased individuals was interesting, even if the execution was utterly laughable.
 * 8) The storyboards for the show looked much better before they were animated, styled in a detailed and are in an attractive looking art-style slightly different from the show itself.
 * 9) Horat sounds a bit better when his voice is in a normal pitch.
 * 10) The end credits theme is better than the theme song.
 * 11) The end of Got Surgery, while disturbing, does show a good lesson on why people should not rely on body modification as everyone's surgery backfires on them.
 * 12) The series finale, "Battle of the Bay '' was a pretty decent way to end the show.
 * 13) Despite the overreliance on stereotypes, it at least tried to had representation, unlike a certain web series released ten years after it ended.

Reception

 * The REDACTED was universally panned by critics and audiences and is considered as the one of the worst animated shows ever made. Many online reviewers like PanPizza and Mr. Enter have voiced their disapproval of the show and the show's theme song, calling it one of the worst shows of the 2000s. It currently holds a 2.2/10 on IMDB, along with a 31% on Google. After the rise of the internet memes using its theme song in 2016, the show gained an ironic cult following. On November 15, 2016, RebelTaxi uploaded a video retrospective on the series and its negative reception to YouTube, featuring interviews from the creators of the show, gaining 1,000,000 views in 5 years.

Trivia

 * The show's theme song spawned a lot of memes, which sometimes make the song overtly verbose or replace every instance of "REDACTED" or every noun with something else. Co-creator Jesse Hernandez and the singer of the theme song Nump, have tweeted and posted on Facebook about the memes, appreciating all the support.
 * Despite the creators gushing over its "So Bad, It's Good" cult following, Myx TV seems to express regret broadcasting the series as the network has no plans on releasing season 2 on video anytime soon.
 * Long after the series ended, most videos on the show's official YouTube channel were blocked because of copyright claims by ABS-CBN Corporation.
 * The majority of the cast and crew for this show haven't done anything noteworthy since its cancellation, some of them even quit the TV industry all together.
 * Along with the show's theme song, MyxGlobal uploaded every single episode of the show on YouTube in organized playlists.

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