Sure, the Kids in the Hall reboot will please a handful of people. There are also folks clamoring for the return of that dumb Orbitz drink and PB Crisps. It doesn’t mean these things should come back. After all, they disappeared for a reason and it wasn’t being too delicious or, in the case of the Canadian sketch comedy show, too funny.
As a 17-year-old, I thought Kids in the Hall was somewhat amusing. But that is because I, like all 17-year-olds, was freaking stupid. Every time my non-teenage self has gone back to watch an episode, I’ve been left decidedly underwhelmed. In fact, I wish I never revisited them because it took away my ability to wax nostalgic about running home after school and turning on Comedy Central to see what Cabbage Head and the gang were doing.
It’s not that the TV show hasn’t aged well. It just wasn’t very good to begin with. Which brings us back to the Kids in the Hall reboot. The comedy is far better enjoyed as a memory than anything else. This logic also applies to mid-1990s basketball and relationships.
No one wins digging up old shows. Especially questionable or flawed ones. We saw how utterly ridiculous this was with the Crank Yankers reboot which now has to stage calls these days since no one actually picks up the phone. That is laughable and yet painfully unfunny.
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Look, I don’t fault the Kids in the Hall cast for doing a reboot. If anything, it probably saved Kevin McDonald’s life. Seriously, go watch some of the Cameos he was doing. It literally seemed like he was in the midst of a nervous breakdown. I’m not even trying to be mean or funny. These were worrisome.
Anyway, another issue with the Kids in the Hall reboot is that it’s target audience is one of two groups. The first are people who went to high school during the 1990s and never grew up. The second is the hipster fringe that just likes stuff because it’s different. These are not good target audiences.
This is evident when viewing the Kids in the Hall reboot sketches. It is a fresh coat of paint on an old, past its sell by date product. No effort has been made to update the content itself. Instead, premises were modernized. This is the equivalent of putting a backwards baseball cap on Bob Newhart and have him call people dawg.
And with that, I will end this article like most Kids in the Hall bits past or present…with no real conclusion or payoff.
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