By all means I should be very mixed on this show. I am, but there's just something about it being that incredibly stupid that made me laugh. I can't tell why, I can't put my finger on it... sometimes it has to take something really stupid to get me to laugh. I mean, the other day I saw the uncut version of the Simpsons episode "Duffless" for the first time and laughed for a good 10 minutes on Selma sticking her head in a Tupperware container. There's something about this show that's too goofy for me not to laugh at.
But quality wise, I feel this show can go either way. It's clearly a stupid cartoon, and with cartoons having so much depth and drama lately (by no means a bad thing, but the right night on CN, you can become an emotional wreck), it's actually refreshing to see something a little more throwbacky. I could easily see this as a Nick show from the late 90's, just before they went all "slice of life-y." But in the episode and a half I've seen I can clearly say it's much more fun and playful in its stupidity than My Gym Partner's a Monkey (extremely forced and easy jokes), yet not quite as transcendent that it comes all the way around and becomes brilliant like Cow and Chicken (and moreso Baboon and Weasel). Seems that if it pushes itself just the right way it can become transcendent, but at the same time it can get lazy and obvious if they're not careful.
But there are a couple things I do find the show has going for it. Obviously, the voice cast is excellent, though it seems that 2 of the characters almost come off as expies due to the choices made. Pig seems kinda Hectory because they share a voice actor and some personality traits, and Cricket is Paul Rugg doing something similar to his Gweelok voice, which might be a little intentional. Candi Milo is excellent as usual. And obviously, I've nothing but high praise for the art style. Shows seem to have an Adventure Time or Regular Show look about them now, so it's nice to see something more Illustrator-y and vaguely underground Comix-like. Even if I didn't like this show at all, I'd LOVE to have a print of it hanging on the wall. It's like Baseman meets Everett Peck somehow. I love it. But the most subtle thing I enjoyed is that it feels like it's a full episode made of short vignettes about the subjects and less like the obvious A and B stories. And they all seem to start off together at the beginning, split up in the middle, and come back together at the end. Almost Pulp Fiction/Inglorious Basterds style. That seems to be the show's biggest strength.
So all and all I enjoyed it, but feel mixed about it. It's no Sanjay and Craig or Harvey Beaks. But at the same time, I've always said the worst Nicktoons of all time were Fanboy and Chum-Chum and Rocket Power. Nothing as terrible as either of those. Plus, I find it far more engaging than most of the slice of life shows they had in the late 90's/early 00's. I can dig "As Told by Ginger" and I found some enjoyable moments in the All Grown Up series (not many, and I still find it was a stupid idea), but I'm not going to actively seek out watching them ever again.