Fred: The Show
Fred: The Show
TV-G | 05 February 2012 (USA)

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    Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
    RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
    ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
    Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
    itaitanchuma We've ALL seen bad from Nickelodeon, with shows like "Fanboy and Chum Chum", "Awesomeness TV" and "Breadwinners", but FRED tops them all, as the reigning king of all bad Nick shows, as well as the reigning king of all bad sitcoms. Even Lucas Cruikshank, Fred's voice actor, admits that he hates voicing the character. It is CONFOUNDING how Nick has imported the absolute most ANNOYING GARBAGE from YouTube (Except Annoying Orange, as CN got THEIR grubby hands on it first), and were somehow SURPRISED when it BOMBED! Anyway, the show focuses on Fred as he squeals around both at school, and at home, and aggravates the ENTIRE world with his obnoxious voice. I remember watching that one episode about Fred taking a driving test with a guy who turns out to be a bank robber, and I INSTANTLY knew that this show was awful. Fortunately, Cruikshank no longer has ANYTHING related to Fred on his channel, and we can ALL sigh in relief that Fred has bombed, as it REMAINS as the WORST show that Nickelodeon has ever created.
    Mellow Online1 This is a great example of why things that you see on the internet, can't be translated into 15 minute TV episodes consisting of 24 episodes. I've been forced to sit through FRED: the show with my little cousin who watches it and likes it for some reason. I didn't know at the time that the show was based on the web series FRED because I never heard of it, so I checked the web series out as I was curious. The web series consists of around 5 min short clips of the character FRED, played by Lucas Cruikshank. I also don't find the web series funny but I found it more bearable than the show as the web episodes are just 5 mins.I've gone way too much into describing the background of FRED, what's the show like. The show is what it is, a 15 minute version of the 5 minute web episodes. The show suffers from the same problem the web series does, it doesn't even try to be funny and because it's not funny and puts this annoying character in front of you, you will find the show annoying and unfunny. It's the same reason why I hate the Annoying Orange as well (which is another show my little cousin has forced me to watch.) If something sort of works on YouTube (and I literally mean it just sort of works) then it is common sense that it will not work for television and FRED: the show is the testament to that. I can't think of one memorable moment from the whole show. So let's do a bit of math. Each episode is 15 minutes long, there are 24 episodes = 6 hours of my life I will never get back. The things that are going on throughout the show don't make any sense at all. I can't tell whether they're trying to be realistic or fictional as it's somewhere in between. One minute it's following the laws of physics, next thing FRED makes a love potion which doesn't exist. That's a great message to send out to the kids isn't it? "Can't find love kids? Just make a magic love potion, no need to go through that stage in life known as dating and getting to know someone, just get a love potion, FRED seal of approval (and the Mellow seal of disapproval.) It also baffles me as to why they made this show, as they already made 2 movies based on this character and they both failed critically and financially, so why did they think a TV show would work? Just leave this "thing" on the internet where it belongs and leave it on the internet.
    TheLittleSongbird Yes, even worse than Chalkzone, iCarly, Rocket Power, Butt Ugly Martians and Zoey 101. A shame really because Nickelodeon has a lot of great shows such as Rocko's Modern Life, The Angry Beavers, Ren and Stimpy, Rugrats and Avatar the Last Airbender as well as the numerous fun game shows. Fred: The Show is simply dreadful, even worse than the movies and 2008's Fred. The biggest problem for me is Fred himself, Nickelodeon has never had a more annoying character(also one of the most annoying characters ever), not just the exaggerated facial expressions, the stupid things Fred does and how he treats people around him- especially his mother- but especially Lucas Cruishank's voice which is not just nails-on-a-blackboard irritating but also quite creepy sounding. The acting as a whole actually is terrible, the only half-way decent actress being Siobhan Fallon, and the characters are shallow and bland. The writing is not funny at all, in fact it reeks of cheese and the painful dialogue delivery just distracts. A lot of it is repetitive too. The stories are often cliché-ridden(not always a problem but it depends on the quality of everything else), very predictable and there are too many to count scenes also of complete irrelevance and mind-numbing stupidity. Fred: The Show even looks amateurish, even for a teen/family-oriented situation comedy. So all in all, a dreadful show and if there was a vote for the worst show that Nickelodeon has ever aired Fred: The Show is a very, very easy personal pick. 0/10 Bethany Cox
    David Davidoff I mean, we all know Nickelodeon is full of shows that are incredibly dull, like "victorious", "Big time rush" etc. But "Fred", which recently arrived to the channel, simply outshines everything else with its astonishing feeblemindedness. I fail to understand who's idea it was to make such a tremendously stupid Internet freakout into a no-less moronic TV show. Either Nickelodeon is currently strapped on cash and out of ideas, or their employees are just constantly high, they actually agreed to show "Fred" on their channel. And nobody cares to pull him off the air, bscly allowing him to grow like mold.And so "Fred:The Show" appeared. A completely redundant parody of a parody of a show, that in addition is supposed to be funny. Guess what? Its not. Neither is it fun, nor interesting or original, as it completely lacks any possible storyline or continuity, and all the so supposed "jokes" are centered around madness, randomness and toilet humor, utilizing the principle "what random load of cr.p should we throw in there to lure at least some reaction out of our audience".Whole idea of the show is that: the main protagonist(the so called "Fred") and a bunch of other freaks together do moronic things in front of a camera while "Fred" is screaming in an inhumanely high-pitched gay voice, creating a literally enormous aura of idiotism and schizophrenic pneumonia, with zombifying stupidness spraying out of the screen, smelling, dirtying your children's clothes, hitting their faces, brains and consciousnesses, leaving you and them with only one question "Whyyyyy?". The sole reason for this "show" to even exist is to dumbify you, as it brings absolutely nothing new, entertaining or educational, and leaves nothing to think of. It is absolutely not original, as every single idiot with a camera is able to do exactly the same thing. Go see some internet videos - they are all there. Stop motion? Voice changer? Cmon! Is this all supposed to be funny? tl;dr This is not a show. This is Media-terrorism. Beware.