Television: Teachers

Here's the thing. I want to like NBC's new show "Teachers." I really do. It's got a very attractive cast, at least one actress I've been entertained by before (the principal, whose name I don't know and will not research), a great post-"Scrubs" time slot, and a potentially funny concept. What's more, I plan on being a high school English teacher and have been a teacher for the last two years. This show should be custom built to make someone like me laugh.

The only problem is it's absolutely not funny. I keep trying to watch it and keep regretting my decision ten minutes in to the episode. Oh sure, I've chuckled once or twice, but more often than not I've sat in stony silence while the laugh-track cackles riotously in the background.

The show's writers (and by the way, promos loudly proclaim that one of the writer's was associated with "Scrubs," but if this is the quality of his or her work, there's a reason why they're not writing for "Scrubs" anymore) go for obvious when they could go for subtle, go for physical comedy when they should go for wit, and go for countless stupid sex jokes when they could go for something more intelligent. To top it off, the actor's, while enjoyable eye candy, are predictable and wooden basically down to a person. They've all got a "type," and they play it in such broad strokes that no one here is believable as what they claim to be. It's just mind-numbingly dull and awful. If a student turned in "Teachers" as an assignment, they'd definitely fail in my gradebook.

Final Score: 1 Cent (and that's generous)