The Worst Show On TV Gets Even Worse - Mr. Birchum Episode 2/3 Review 

A genderfluid reimagining of ... do they not know Juliet was originally played by a femboy because women weren't allowed to work in theater in Renaissance England? THE PLAY WAS ALREADY GENDERQUEER!

how did they write ROMEO AND ROMEO instead of the far superior ROMEO AND MERCUTIO. THIS IS PREPOSTEROUS

Adam Carolla couldn't figure out how to write a real conflict between a conservative and a liberal, even his strawman liberal, so he avoids the plot idea and reduces the Romeo play to a single joke about diversity.

"Epic rant Birchum!" What kind of daughter refers to her own father by his last fucking name?!?!

it’s so funny that they’re using Romeo and Juliet when a) Juliet would have originally been played by a man anyway and b) knowing theater kids, it’s far more likely they would either end up with a Juliet and Juliet or have to cross-cast Romeo

It's funny how the wife's one black friend used to be voiced by The Daily Wire's one black friend before she got into a fight with Ben Shapiro...

I'm genuinely impressed that an animated sitcom worse and more mean-spirited than Allen Gregory exists.

The weirdest part is that they're Vietnam veterans, which would make them at the youngest, 68. Also, "you vote for Obama because of white guilt," is sixteen years old, which shows that Carolla hasn't updated the character since the early 90s when he first wrote it.

It’s so weird how they show birchum doing shitty things, and realize they need to come up with some excuse about why he wouldn’t get in trouble. Like they KNOW he’s a shitty teacher and person, but he can’t have consequences because he’s the audiences self-insert.

You know it's rough when a dead pan joke about something literally having bells and whistles is the funniest joke in two whole episodes.

So wait, Mr Birchum is a Vietnam veteran? The US pulled their troops out in 1973 meaning that even if Birchum was drafted as soon as he turned 18, he’d be at least 69 years old and would have served less than a year.

“Bring me in for season 2.” Oh honey, no… love yourself, you don’t deserve that.

Remember when “The Simpsons” completely revolutionized television comedy by sending up the traditional sitcom structure? Now “The Simpsons” IS the status quo. And every adult animated series is a pale imitation of its most successful imitators.

I feel like this show doesn’t even work on its own terms. Like, are conservatives delighted by this? I would assume most conservatives like shows like Family Guy or whatever because they’re funny, and maybe overlook some of the politics. Whereas this show presumes the politics matters more than the humor, and I just feel like there’s not a lot of market evidence to suggest a show that’s not entertaining can be saved by its politics. I think it’s actually the other way around. But this is also kind of a revelation of how conservative big shots assume the media works. They assume that liberal audiences like “liberal” shows because they’re full of liberal propaganda so conservative audiences will surely like a reverse-engineered version of this concept. But again, that just seems like a fundamental misread of what both left AND right wing viewers want from a show, especially a comedy show.

Concerning what you said about participation trophies: I was asking the ref at my kid's soccer game about why they don't keep score. He said it calmed the parents down.

As a veteran, hearing Adam Carolla whinge about performative concern for veterans is incredibly patronizing. Like dude, you're not a veteran. You're an entertainer who grew up in Hollywood. It would be fine if he was just playing a character, but it's obvious that the character is 100% a self insert.

I know I'm not the first to point this out, but I absolutely cannot stand conservatives' empty reverence for war veterans. About ten years ago, i worked in a restaurant in Arizona. Met a guy in a wheelchair wearing one of those Navy veteran ship hats. Like, which boat you were on. Guy served in the Vietnam boondoggle aboard the USS Kitty Hawk. I went over to his table, we chatted about the history, the specs, some of his experiences. After cautiously asking about his obvious health issues, he told me he'd been exposed to agent orange. I was aghast but unsurprised when he told me that more than half the serious exposure cases didn't get any payout or federal aid because they were exposed while decanting or deploying it; when the government finally acknowledged that AO was a Big Problem, they swept the Navy guys who transported and handled it under the rug. If it wasn't dropped on you in Vietnam, you just couldn't possibly have been exposed. He told me he only wore the hat out of respect for his ship and crew, and that he started to resent anyone who thanked him for his service while a defoliant ate him alive and he lived in poverty. He's almost certainly dead now. I feel like Adam Corolla hasn't had a single honest conversation with anyone who actually went to war.

Writer's trick: Instead of making a character likable, tell people they're not allowed to dislike your character by making them a veteran or firefighter.

I'm surprised it took you 5 minutes to determine this would be the worst animated sit-com you've ever watched. 😅 The sacrifice you are making is appreciated. 😂

The only triggering part of this show is how little they gave a fuck because they knew their audience doesn't care

I'm impressed, the Bells and Whistles bit meets the bare minimum requirement to be consider a joke

If this show gets pulled early you know they'll say, "The woke left media just thought this show was being too far!".

I can't belive this but the food fight on Veteran's Day is such a wasted opportunity. They could have done something like use the fight to trigger one of the guys' PTSD or something and then Birchum and other Birchum's crews could uave bonded on that. It would be so easy to turn this episode into something like a 5/10. It's like they actively fought to have this be trash

I legitimately don't think I've heard the term "handicapable" used since 2014

Back in Shakespeare’s time, women weren’t allowed in theatre. So the female roles were played by men. They taught me that in high school.😑

Conservative humor is just bitching about people they're bigoted towards and slandering celebrities and politicians that they hate.

"Please clap." I hope we keep this reference alive for the rest of Jeb's life.

A *lot* of DailyWire/Ben Shapiro stuff makes *way* more sense when you remember that he only really turned to conservative grift as a career after his attempt at becoming a screenwriter failed.

Its like they were tryna make Mr birchum a rip off of Stan smith without realizing American dad is meant to be making fun of the over the top conservative dad

They could've at least found someone who sounds like Vaush since they were going to basically anthropomorphize him.

Actually, it was Boomers handing out the participation trophies to the Millennials which makes it even more ironic 🤓 … as an “Elder Millennial” it always aggravates me when older generations complain about that acting as if we asked for those things! We could give two sh!ts about it since we always knew what they were and that we lost!

This show makes Velma look like a masterpiece.

I’m really enjoying hearing about how god-awful these dumb shows are that conservatives cook up. I’m also glad I don’t get to experience them directly, and just through you, sorry. But I appreciate you!

I have been to Vietnam and WTF are they talking about? No, all of that is wrong.

I am actually wondering if this happens in Conservative based schools. Do they leave their students at work.

I like a show that does what it says on the tin: it looks terrible, it seems terrible, and it turns out that it is terrible.

Its so funny how Pat can point out "hey heres how this episode could be good/ funny" and seeing how adam carolla totally missed it for secretly no reason

I was watching another video where someone was reviewing episode 2 of Mr. Birchum and he's a teacher in 2024 who is a Vietnam vet? Nam vets are like 75 now. How old is he supposed to be exactly? I would at least buy it if he was a Gulf war vet. That would make sense. Btw, I feel like this show could lose The Daily Wire a ton of money, but they wouldn't care b/c it seems like they live in this fantasy world where it's more important to "own the libs," than to do something that makes sense. I'm not sure how many episodes are in the first season, but gods speed on getting thought it man :p

It's actually funny to think seth McFarlane did a better job at making a political show that's all too political but technically counts since he has a liberal daughter.

the media trope of "we have to get one person of every major ethnicity" is so funny to me because of how often it happens 😭 like this is what white ppl think diversity is, "make sure we get a white guy as the main character then give him 1 black, 1 hispanic, and 1 east asian friend

Hey did anyone else notice the two Asian masseuse’s were the same assets but one has on makeup?!?!

This show makes me feel better about my own character writing.

Mr. Birchum suffers from similar issues to Velma. The main character is the producer's mouthpiece, more focused on giving the audience a lecture on the producer's political opinions, and making outdated references. And just like Velma. The only good thing that can come from a show like this is some ad revenue for RU-vidrs who suffer through the show so that we as the audience don't have to.

Like Romeo and Juliet is already something Burchum would not have too much interest in to begin with but they needed to make it Romeo and Romeo...lol.

Our kids typically have school on Veterans Day in PA. They’ll often have an assembly that day and bring in relatives who served etc.

If he’s an O’s fan who’s had to watch both Mr. Birchum and the past couple of O’s games, I truly admire his willpower to keep going

The play plot would have been actually interesting & have lots of opportunities for jokes. South Park would have made such an entertaining episode about this while making fun of both the left & right. They would also include some interesting social commentary. I also thought Mr. Bircham would not like the play being about two gay guys in love. The Daily Wire always makes such a big deal if school students are exposed to gay relationships, but Bircham doesn’t care to “make a stand” against this? Who is this show even made for? I mean, it’s nice to see mr.bircham is such a progressive guy with a very diverse friend group including a gay guy too. Just seems so weird because it includes things that conservatives complain about like when “token POC/LGBT” characters are heavily included to “get woke points” lol

Saberspark calls this "a worse King of the Hill" and ......he's not wrong

I find it hilarious how they’re claiming this show to be super offensive when Adam Carola already voiced a character on an animated show that actually was offensive and crude; Drawn Together. This show’s offensiveness is on pare with those boomer facebook memes with crusty jpegs of classic cartoon characters or minions your aunt Carol and uncle Carl share.

So far, all 3 episodes have been King of the Hill knockoff episodes. So innnovative. Episode 1: knockoff of KotH ep. Little Horrors of Shop Episode 2: knockoff of KotH ep. Unfortunate Son Episode 3: knockoff of KotH ep. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Alamo

This week, on Episode 781 523 of "Conservatives Making Things Up To Be Angry About"

I hate to tell the daily wire about history, but back when Shakespeare was still alive, the women roles were all played by men in drag. Also drag has always been part of our entertainment culture.

Working on my BirchumXKarponzi AO3 fanfic. Feel free to respond with prompts.

fun fact(?): Apparently one of the animators has spoken about the project. Despite the Daily Wire promoting the show as being made 100% in the USA, it was animated by a portugese (or spanish, I can't quite remember) studio. And it was assigned to a team consisting of mostly queer people, who, understandably, had zero motivation to work on it. They just did what they were told to make some money.

Hi Pat, new viewer here, I apologize so much for tormenting you with this show. But... I just love watching people criticize trash 🤣 You're a real one though, hang in there!

Nazis and conservatives think it’s too woke 😂😂

This show is the basically animating the opinions of a stereotypical racist uncle.

This show makes Velma look like a fucking godsend.

I found your channel because of these videos. You fit higher quality humor and social commentary into any given three minutes than this show managed to produce in three episodes.

Nobody says the whole phrase I beat you like I owned you anymore, but just say “owned”

Family guy for people who were there on jan 6.

Will the finale have Mr. birchum be given an offer to live in Russia because Russia made him happy but refuses and stay in America and be miserable so he can whine and complain so he can sympathy from others?

I’m absolutely fascinated by this train wreck of a show. More please!

I've said this before, but I would gladly rather watch review videos of this show than the actual show itself.

Time and time again, conservative 'comedians' fail to understand. If you have to _explain_ a joke, _there is no joke._

Speaking about rants. I am starting to think the main character is Adam carols himself. I heard that TMZ record adam taking his childern to a restaurant during COVID and they denied him service. Adam than went on a rant at the restaurant and they removed him. Worst of all his kids were there. So when the girl said nice rant, Adam wants his kids to support his rants even if it humiliated them.

The most offensive part about the army VS navy feud is the army guys not throwing in a gay joke which shows how much the daily wire actually knows about the military

I kinda from the jump assumed this show was written by people who have absolutely no experience with the public school system, but the fact that they didnt know memorial day is a civic holiday just straight up confirms it.

I saw the trailer thinking it was another generic family guy clone… then the pronoun guy showed up and I was like “wait, Why are they attacking people who don’t even hurt anyone? That’s just alienating possible viewers.” After seeing it was from daily wire it made sense. And isn’t it kinda ironic how the main character is just triggered by the new generation being different? This entire show was made by adults triggered by exaggerated situations made up in their own heads… Pronouns and gender don’t hurt them, but they’re triggered because they don’t want to understand them.

Adult animation is so freeing and expressive, no clue why the bored hacks with too much spare time get to make all of the shows lol

youre braver than the entire US military for watching this

you have to keep watching...we all took a vote and one human mind must be sacrificed to chronicle this show and we all decided on you soo yeaahhh....enjoy episode 4!

Mr. Birchum is a show for people, who have nothing but soup inside their head about people, who have nothing but soup inside their head.

so it's a family guy ripoff for conservatives stuck in 2016

So surface-level. Jokes like "Millennials find triggers triggering", it's so shallow it actually makes you wonder, what are people feeling triggered about?

13:29 what's wrong here is that craftsman LOVE to get oddly specific (and well defined) requirements on their work. This should lead to a scene like: "Mr. Birchram, why are you here on the weekend?" "Your stupid guidelines said the ramp incline needed to be 10 degrees shallower, so I redid the ramp landing to make room." "Wow, thanks." "Stow it, that kid should lift more weights."

Sooooooo you gonna watch Lady Ballers?

I bet the reason they made the co teacher not white is because the writers saw young Sheldon and wanted a George and Wade dynamic

Hey, look! 14:02 Adam Carolla involuntary caused something that made me chuckle. That's new.

many of the things Mr Birchum complains about and blames on the everlooming spectre of "woke" can actually be blamed on capitalism, but conservatives love capitalism, even when it fucks them over directly.

I was actually a pretty big Adam Carolla fan since Loveline. I followed him to his podcast, I went to see him live, bought his 1st book, bought his 1st movie "The Hammer". After a while, I got sick of his conservative lean. My final days of being hia fan was when he gave Ted Cruz the softest interview, and then tried to excuse Dylann Roof's mass murder. It pains me to no end that he is still living in the late 90s/early 2000s...

i found ur content when i was rly high and its now been my favorite thing to consume before i go to bed

So as a veteran i find the premise of this episode quite insulting and tone deaf. Especially when you compare it to a show like King of the Hill. America has a wierd relationship with veterans, they are appreciated, but quickly forgotten. No small amount of vets suffer feom alcohol addiction, tobacco addiction. PTSD, Depression, Anxiety, and suicide rates are incredibly high, for a conservative leaninf show, you would still think you would want to talk about this in a meaningful way, rather than just...hey our troops are just teying to get free stuff and drink on veterans day. Sure maybe MR. Bircham had a good time in service, but a vast majority of veterans have some chronic illness...a show like this seems to only want to target the left. But does so by completely ignoring a lot of systemic issues and tragedies that face the men and women of service. Also again...do they not realize the irony of a navy boy liking wood... seriously who wrote this show?

literally just watched ur other video on this thats crazy, hadnt seen any of your stuff and i subscribed to see the next mr birchum video

I love Mr. Birchum! Other things I love are: leprosy, the smell of grandfather's diarrhea and maggots on toast.

Maybe (hopefully) this show is just really, really, really, really, really, really well veiled satire.

Its great to see your channel is growing. I hope it blows up soon cause your videos are really good

This show is basically a PARTICIPATION TROPHY for Adam Carolla! It's a failure that no one wants.

How do you make Brickleberry/ParadisePD/Farzar even worse? Simple! Just be Ben Shapiro!

This gives the energy of those "comedy" shows where it's just a guy walking around saying shit to baristas or people vaping in public or some shit that the writers wish they could say in real life. Big "and everybody clapped" vibes

I'm a conservative and this show is freaking terrible. At least F for Family was kinda ok.

It would be SO easy to make the food fight appear like an actual warzone; have someone say "cover me" before throwing a bowl of mashed potatoes; someone throws some water over some hot oil and it explodes; have the opposing side commit "war crimes" by throwing food at outside patrons; show someone with food on their face as if their face has been blown off; etc. I know that is too much to ask for the Daily Wire, but you are in a medium that allows for you to be creative and to go as as far as possible! Take advantage of that!

Okay, just so you know, 'Thanos Glove of Bigotry' got you a subscription. I've watched a couple episodes of yours and was close to hitting that button. But that sold me. What an analogy. Excuse me, I need to go stitch up my gut, I done busted it.

I was morbidly curious about how bad this show was, so I appreciate you watching it and filtering it into a more watchiable format... It's so much worse than I even expected!

Food fight? Considering how bad that movie was the bar for bad food fights was already incredibly low.

My favorite food fight is from the Invader Zim pilot

I hate commenting before I finish a video, but. When I was a kid, I had this Archie comic with a three-pager about accessibility. The concept is there's going to be a production of Romeo and Juliet, but Juliet is in a wheelchair and can't even get to the stage, so, of course, it breaks her heart. Betty takes the matter to the school janitor/handyman/mustache guy, and he immediately sees the problem and is like "I can handle this, two shakes"--and builds not only a wheelchair ramp to the stage, making it ADA compliant, but helps them build scaffolding so Juliet can reach the balcony for her biggest scene (uh, besides The Other One). It ends with everyone happy, and with the handyman having seriously flexed on both his skill and his care for the students. So, uh, yeah, Mr. Birchum loses in every capacity to Mr. Svenson. Mr. Svenson even has a better mustache. Get bent, Birchum. ETA: Looked it up and it's a single pager called "Getting Into the Act", and it's simpler than I thought, but basic throughline is there. Turns out it's a PSA from the Cerebral Palsy Association. Those damned woke cerebral palsy snowflakes!

I am a middle aged white man who is dissatisfied with his life and I cant' identify with Birchum.

I’m glad to see your channel growing your videos are great

Poor Fido :(