While not quite the weird showcase of random kid talent I was led to believe it’d be (like I care, lol: the less random kid vids, the more Miranda :D), the first three episodes of this have been far from a disappointment. The Dan Schneiderness (he also created Drake and Josh) really shows through in the safe juvenile edginess of some of the gags (pointy boobs, “pee on carl”, sports bra vs. potato) and the stupid mock product names etc; Miranda Cosgrove is of course excellent; and the girl who plays her partner Sam, Jennette McCurdy, is also really funny, she reminds me of the girl who played Mindy in D & J.

I just think this show is such a great idea to start with – I was calling it a favourite show even before I’d seen a second of it, lol – it has every bit as much potential as Drake and Josh had (and, incidentally, delivered on) and it can only get better. The energy reminds me of days of children’s TV I thought long-past, even outlawed lol, the days of slime and gunge and just basically exactly the way kids are lol, like, a whole scene in episode 2 is dedicated to the question “can you drink spaghetti and meatballs?” lol, it almost even takes me as far back as the embarrassingly cheap British show “Why Don’t You?” The dream sequence(s) in episode 3 had me in fits. I hope this one runs as long if not longer than its predecessor.

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