("Arrested Development") and Eric and Kim Tannenbaum ("Two and a Half Men") comes SIT DOWN, SHUT UP, an animated comedy that focuses on the lives of staff members at a high school in a small Florida fishing town (Go Baiters!) who never lose sight of the fact that the children must ALWAYS come second. We watch them grapple with their own egos, needs and personal agendas, their petty insecurities and prejudices, unrequited loves and ruthless battles for power - and that's just at the staff meeting.
SUE SEZNO (Kenan Thompson), a woman who frequently says
"no," is the acting principal of the school (the actual principal is
recovering from a series of unfortunate accidents that might be seen as
escape attempts). Then there's Vice Principal STUART PROSZAKIAN (Will Forte)
who has a terrifically positive and upbeat attitude...possibly from the
performance-enhancing medication he's been secretly put on by the other
teachers.
ENNIS HOFFTARD (Will Arnett) is the pseudo jock English
teacher who's love of the ladies is only eclipsed by his love of
himself. Rounding out the staff is the aging German teacher WILLARD
DEUTSCHEBOG (Henry Winkler), a deeply defeated man whose yearbook quotation reads "If I believed in reincarnation, I'd kill myself tonight."
Uptight HELEN KLENCH (Cheri Oteri), a librarian whose
life's work in research and archiving can now be surpassed by the
average Google search from the average cell phone. Proud ANDREW
LEGUSTAMBOS (Nick Kroll) is the flamboyant drama teacher. Also, finally, there's HAPPY (Tom Kenny),
the plotting secretive custodian who's assumed to be Hispanic despite
the fact that his real name is Muhannad Sabeeh Fa'ach Nuabar.
With a distinctive new look - a combination of animation against a
live-action backdrop - SIT DOWN, SHUT UP is a series for the young and
old at heart. It lampoons modern society while exposing the dreams,
flaws and struggling humanity of our first and most formative authority
figures: teachers.
