Super Fun Night: Season 1 (2013)
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews Counted: 34
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 22
Despite the presence of the funny and talented Rebel Wilson, Super Fun Night is overreliant on tired, clichéd weight jokes.
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 11
Despite the presence of the funny and talented Rebel Wilson, Super Fun Night is overreliant on tired, clichéd weight jokes.
Season Info
A big promotion alters an attorney's relationship with her two best friends in this sitcom.
Genre: Comedy
Network: ABC
Premiere Date: Oct 2, 2013
Cast
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Rebel Wilson
Kimmie -
Deborah Baker Jr.
Jazmine -
Lauren Ash
Marika -
Lisa Lapira
Helen-Alice -
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Kevin Bishop
Richard -
Alan Ritchson
Jason -
Kate Jenkinson
Kendall -
Bob Saget
Porter Warner -
John Gemberling
Dan -
Paul Rust
Benji -
Matt Lucas
Derrick -
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Ravi Patel
Alex -
Dan Ahdoot
Ruby -
Rob Huebel
Peter Crane -
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Episodes
Pilot
A tradition is threatened in the opener of this sitcom, in which a big promotion alters an attorney's relationship with her two best friends.
Three Men and a Boubier
The ladies all get dates after Kimmie embellishes their online-dating profiles.
Critic Reviews for Super Fun Night: Season 1
It's a rough launch for a show that manages to be bawdy, sweet and funny.
As a package, Super Fun Night isn't much fun at all.
A wardrobe malfunction leaves Kimmie nearly naked (Spanx and all), exposing her LED-lighted heart panties and bra, which blink out unanswered distress signals to Lucille Ball and Mary Tyler Moore about the sad state of comedy we're in.
The lack of reaction is what hooks us, really: Kimmie may lack self-confidence, but she's trying very hard to change that, and that's why we root for her.
This is not going to be pretty. Unfortunately it doesn't look like it's going to be very funny, either.
Wilson is well worth showcasing. In a medium too often content to let the bland lead the bland, she's a fearless, brakes-free, bracingly original comedian who layers wildly inappropriate behavior over.
Rebel Wilson and her self-deprecating improvisational bent were supposed to be the stuff of comedy gold. But things just don't pan out in either the false start pilot or its eleventh hour substitute.
It's "Mediocre Diversion Night."
The material is relatively slight, and having now seen two stabs at establishing the central trio, one fears the idea bank isn't nearly as deep as it should be.
A grateful America now giddily awaits Super Fun Night, and won't be disappointed.
A gloppy mish-mash of incomplete characterizations, uplifting messages, and fat jokes.
Her show is bold and has some amusing touches, but the first episode is more daring than funny.
Super Fun Night has a star on the rise in Rebel Wilson, but miscalculates what makes her funny and delivers a lot of tired, uninspired moments in the process.
Super Fun Night is neither super nor fun. It does air at night, so the title isn't completely deceptive.
Super Fun Night isn't the worst night ever. It's just a long way from "super" and too many times it's not all that much fun.
It's practically impossible to watch Rebel Wilson doing just about anything and not love her.
No one puts Rebel Wilson in the corner. Except maybe Wilson, who... is as responsible as anyone for making her character less winning - and certainly less of a winner - than she is herself.
Wilson has burdened Kimmie Boubier with constant tiresome references to her less-than-perfect physique. Wilson doesn't put Kimmie's high spirits center stage, but instead her girth. Enough is enough, and then some.
[It] hasn't been much of a joyride so far.
There's a glimmer of hope here, and her name is Rebel Wilson. Now, the show needs to match her talents.
It has the feel of a quirky cable comedy.
Like so many comedies this fall, it's occasionally amusing but rarely outright funny.
This is a vehicle for Wilson, by Wilson, and it doesn't serve her well in the slightest.
It's a cute, endearing comedy with a warm heart and a cast of likable characters that viewers will want to spend more time with. Both the performances and the script keep us enjoyably off balance throughout.
Not super. Not fun. Not worth watching.
It's more like Sad Downer Night watching the talented Wilson repeatedly exploit her own heft in a failed attempt for cheap laughs.
The early prediction is that the show will fail if it doesn't change something. Super Fun Night does have something going for it though.
Wilson is a very charming woman and can be very funny, but this sitcom just doesn't do it for us, to be honest.
Super Fun Night doesn't have the bite Wilson could easily be producing.
It's buffoonish at best, boring at worst. Or maybe the other way around.
Refreshingly, Super Fun Night, though it can be poignant, is mainly just flat out funny, like a sitcom should be.
This is a good show. It's funny, it's weird and it makes heroes out of the kinds of women usually shoved to the side in popular entertainment.
Worth a look for anyone who appreciates awkward, goofy humor mixed with a sweet underdog tale about a girl and her friends just looking for a good time.
What a strange mess.
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