EPISODE
SEASON
The Oblongs - Season 1
The misadventures of a goofy family deformed by toxic waste.
16 April 1952, Detroit, Michigan, USA
25 September 1951, Oakland, California, USA
16 February 1971, San Rafael, California, USA
13 September 1951, Seattle, Washington, USA
30 March 1958, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
12 January 1972, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
1947, USA
16 July 1967, Irvine, California, USA
23 August 1954, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
26 April 1962, South Ozone Park, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
24 January 1967, Los Angeles, California, USA
January 02, 2020
I applaud the show's robustly anticorporate satire, but I admit to discomfort at the sight of Dad spanking a kid with his head.
January 02, 2020
This is wicked, daring satire.
January 02, 2020
The Oblongs" on the WB packs a one-two punch: sick and funny. Sick, sick, sick. And yet, I'm obliged to say, demented, twisted and wickedly funny.
January 02, 2020
Though "The Oblongs" is supposed to be "edgy," a word that has come to mean tasteless more often than not, the half-hour's social satire is buried under a pile of toxic jokes and an obsession with all things disgusting and vile.
January 02, 2020
Everything here reeks of "Simpsons" mimicry, even the basic rhythm with which the jokes unfold. To stand out and break out, a show like this needs to offer a genuinely original voice.
January 02, 2020
The family's biggest handicap is that it isn't funny, even though Will Ferrell and Jean Smart supply the parents' voices.
January 02, 2020
When you strip away the too-deliberate attempts to be politically incorrect, there's not much left here but figurative (and literal) dwarf-tossing and lame rich folk-poor folk jokes. Ugh.
January 02, 2020
Although some of the animated figures are intriguing, their weak dialogue won't keep you hooked.
January 02, 2020
The Oblongs is funny, sometimes very funny.
January 02, 2020
The jokes are mostly sophomoric, the kind you'd expect FM disc jockeys to consider clever.
January 02, 2020
The Oblongs is premiering three times in one night, in hopes of getting an audience. Isn't that funny? It could be about as big a laugh as you'll get.
January 02, 2020
"The Oblongs" wants to offer salient social commentary on the haves and the have nots, but it's so busy stereotyping the two groups, it says nothing at all.
