If this is the best thing people can find on network television, I can see why the ratings are declining.

The character Abed (or Ahmed)-- you can't understand what they actually call him. He talks too fast. This is supposed to be funny, except for nobody actually talks like this and the bit is overdone. And when I say overdone I mean every time we see him he takes anxious rapid little steps while impersonating John Moschitta.

The lawyer character has this confusing "Ferris Bueller" like relationship with some ex professor (WOW ORIGINAL). He's boring too. Except he is supposed to be clever because the writers make him hit repeatedly on a random girl.

The love interest is a completely flat character. We're supposed to get insight into her from the retarded guy Ahmed spouting off 2 seconds of random facts he has allegedly gathered about her. The rest of her appearance is supposedly witty comebacks in response to the man who plays the lawyer. The comebacks actually aren't witty and are not plausible or realistic. People just don't talk like this.

Chevy Chase is dressed like some kind of middle-aged hippy but the jokes mainly center around calling him an old person over and over. Is making fun of old people really that funny? Maybe the writers could throw in a couple fart jokes. I am reluctant to kid that they should show him drinking fiber, because that actually would be a better character angle than what they currently have.

Overall I would say this show is one of the most unoriginal and completely lame I have ever seen. I'm surprised I was actually duped into watching it. Apparently NBC has a better marketing division than a writing division.