Pepper Anne The Pitts never got its fair shake as a FOX sitcom because it had one very severe count against it -- it was clean humor. (This partly explains some of the problems of the survival of Oliver Beane, which aired around the same time, but was given a little more opportunity to find an audience and reformat to be more appealing--although the idiot executives didn't happen to notice the ridiculous time slot).The Pitts was a great show if you ever were a fan of sarcastic, witty horror comedy humor like you might find in 'My Best Friends Vampire' or 'My Boyfriend's Back.' Jokes and punks that were obvious, but intended as a state of normalcy. Hell, the story line involved a family who had a sort of supernatural touch. It was dumb humor, but you knew it was dumb humor when you watched it. That's what made it funny, that the situations were so outrageous. That's hard to pull off in a sitcom, too, because that is often skit quality material, something that need only be done sporadically as opposed to regular, half-hour weekly episodes. It's also better material for a movie.Unfortunately, the dweebs at FOX axed it pretty quickly. I think it only survived about five or six episodes, but nonetheless. It was about the closest thing I had seen to stupid humor, but clean humor, since the Kelsey Grammar variety hour which aired earlier this year, and almost as quickly as The Pitts, was dumped as well. The Networks don't want this. They may say, this sort of thing belongs on an obscure family channel somewhere, meanwhile we need the most violent, most erotic thing the FCC will allow us to run at this point.

Christopher Cook I don't find it just that this show didn't last very long. It was only on for a few weeks, and this was a great show. Dylan Baker as the father of the family was an excellent choice of casting and so was David Henrie as Petey, who was hilariously mischievous. The Pitts is about a dysfunctional family who can't be like other families. This isn't because they choose not to, but because of their outrageously bad luck. Everything they attempt to do normally ends in disaster and grave misfortune. This isn't like other shows on Fox that portray an unfortunate family in a realistic and usual way. This family's bad luck is unnatural and non-realistic. As an example, in one episode, the parents turn into werewolves. Man, this show was a classic!My favorite episode aired was the one where Faith got a new car which could think for itself and even talk. The end of the episode was a smile evoking conclusion where the family went to Vegas, along with the strange car, of course.Whatever happened to this show? Why does Fox have to be so ridiculously unreasonable and keep dumb shows of bore fest such as King of the Hill and The Simpsons for years but immediately take good shows such as this off the air? It's unjust, and I wish so badly that they would bring this back. A classic! 5/5!

thetornado this show is so stupid the acting the setting and they say that there family has the worst huh huh huh and the episode last week was stupid when they bought the daughter a talking car and they went to las vegas to get marred its not the actors fault its the person who made the shows fault thankfully it will be cancelled june 2003

reaper1800 Okay, maybe I'm just not smart enough or maybe nobody has let me in on the joke yet. I understand that they are purposefully making a bad t.v. show; it's that stupid on purpose. I get that. But why?Remember Yes, Dear? Did you love that one? Did you love Small Wonder? The Pitts is much similar to both in the fact that they all three are incredibly, mind-boggingly stupid. What a great premise that doesn't need the gimmick of being purposefully stupid. But it just doesn't work. The shame of it is, they could be reaching a far greater demographic by keeping the quirkiness and doing away with the moronic, vaudvillesque humor.With such a talented cast and crew it's obvious that this has the potential for being a hilarious, groundbreaking comedy show. Instead I believe some poor decisions were made in the writing department. Also, it maintains that it was filmed with a live studio audience; that leads me to wonder whether or not the audience is in the studio but watching something funny like Andy Richter Rules the Universe(which The Pitts replaced). It seems the only thing The Pitts has achieved in doing is dared some poor reviewer out there to look like an idiot by saying, "The Pitts is The Pitts." Then again, maybe somebody at Fox lost a bet. Either way, The Pitts is............................crap.