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In Case Of Emergency
SERIES: ABC, Wednesday 9:30p (30 minutes)


6.9

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Starring Jonathan Silverman, Kelly Hu, David Arquette, Greg Germann, Lori Loughlin, Jackson Bond, and Lee Reherman

A handful of high school friends stumble back into each other's lives many years later in this mid-season ABC comedy.

GENRE(S):	Comedy
CREATED BY:	Howard Morris
FIRST AIR DATE:	January 3, 2007

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron

You get the feeling that if this show is given enough time to find its strengths and understand its characters, it could be around for quite some time.

People Weekly Tom Gliatto

It's a good cast, and Arquette's peculiar charm is always welcome. But I'm tired of comedies about the desperate infantilism of panicked adults. [8 Jan 2007, p.35]

The New York Times Alessandra Stanley

"In Case of Emergency" is uneven, more antic than witty.

Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy

A haphazard farce that fails to find a consistently funny groove.

Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker

In Case of Emergency puts these characters through sadistic slapstick.

USA Today Robert Bianco

It's kind of like Friends if every character had been outlandishly contrived, every situation had been stripped of every humorous moment, and every attempt at sentiment had felt cheap and unearned.

Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan

Its writers are clearly addicted to the tired conceit of giving us three jokes per script page, no matter how played-out the jokes, no matter how predictable the pratfalls.

Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray

Lori Loughlin co-stars as an emergency room doctor who's dragged into their lives in ways so sitcommy they make robbing Mick Jagger look like a halfway decent idea.

Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm

Germann [is] the only good thing in the show.

Miami Herald Glenn Garvin

Where The Class is warm and charming, Emergency is crude and overdrawn.

San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman

It becomes clear rather quickly that there's nothing funny going on here and, by the second episode, the show seems out of ideas for its paper-thin premise.

Salon Heather Havrilesky

There doesn't seem to be a point to the madness here, and that gives this one the expected life span (and the charms) of a housefly.

Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart

It’s not well-cast.... It’s not well-written.

Variety Brian Lowry

Somewhere trapped inside this shrill, irritating comedy is a better show that emerges only in fleeting glimpses, amid the manic tone and Catskills-comic humor.

Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert

A peculiar piece of work that's a whole lot creepier than it means to be.

Los Angeles Times Paul Brownfield

[It] instantly displays a commitment to slapstick in direct proportion to a state of comedic denial.

Newark Star-Ledger

There's a desperation to the whole affair, a sense that if the creators just keep the pace fast and the jokes tasteless, everything will be fine.

Newsday Verne Gay

"Emergency" is sodden, forbidding, a waste of 22 good minutes.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland

"The Class," not a terrific sitcom by any stretch of the imagination, trades in this quarterlife crisis nonsense each week far better than "Emergency" does.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen

Never thought a TV comedy would leave me wistful for Silverman's NBC bomb "The Single Guy," but "In Case of Emergency" manages to do just that.

TV Guide Matt Roush

[A] shapeless, pointlessly annoying comedy.

Washington Post Tom Shales

Dreadful... unwatchable... There's nothing unlikable about the rest of the cast [other than Arquette], but their attempts at farce make you just want to get away from them.

San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum

[It] may be the worst, most annoying comedy to turn up on the networks this season.

The average user rating for this tv show is 6.9 (out of 10) based on 18 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Lin W gave it a3:
The writing is ok, the acting is nickelodeon level and the concept could be interesting if it wasn't such a dishoveled mess. the jokes which could have been funny were all over-acted and fell flat. just wait for thursday and watch my name is earl instead. i can't imagine this show generating any positive buzz and sticking around.

Peggy F gave it a0:
Stupid and trashy. Lousy writing;not funny. Uncomfortable to watch.

Andrew S gave it a6:
The show has it's moments, especially with the situational comedy and the outlandish ways things are resolved. I didn't mind myself enthralled with the series, but it's decent.

J J gave it an8:
This just shows how out of touch most of the mainstream media is. This show ain't bad. One of the critics even said The Class was good. Now that is one of the worst shows I've ever seen.

Mickey F gave it a10:
I think this show is hilarious. Every show has to get started. Even Fraiser, one of the critics' most favorite sitcoms ever, started w/ elements they seemed to forget about later: Daphne was almost insane at the beginning w/ all of the psychic stuff. They completely played that down later on. That said, this show seems to be starting just fine. It has funny actors, funny characters, funny situations. Given time and maybe a better timeslot, I think this sitcom could do well.

Raisa J gave it a0:
It does not get much worse than this insipid mess.

Ron W gave it a10:
One of the best!

In Case Of Emergency SERIES: ABC, Wednesday 9:30p (30 minutes)

In Case Of Emergency
SERIES: ABC, Wednesday 9:30p (30 minutes)