Trust me, I know what I'm doing when I recomend this show to you as the funniest show probably ever.
Yes, there I said it. It's the funniest ever! Yes POLICE SQUAD was fantastic, but this was, is better.
Unfortunately, to maintain such high standard of writing isn't easy. So there aren't too many episodes to watch, but whatever there are are pure gems with a laugh every few seconds. Also the visual gags are a feast, you have a very serious scene happening in the foreground, but in the background is a strange, funny incident taking place that takes all the focus from the serious scene and makes you laugh. So, in a way there is nothing serious in this show, even the violence is funny!
What is it about? Well, there's this cop called Sledge Hammer who talks to his big gun (and I mean his Magnum, not the you know what!) and sleeps with it too. He treats his Magnum like it's a living thing, and treats living beings like vermins, and criminals like they don't deserve to live.
Sledge, you see, is a brutally, violent man and wrecks havoc (and laughs) wherever he goes, whatever he does and says. For instance, there is this running gag in most episodes that whenever Sledge takes out his gun people all around him hide for cover, so lethal he is! But the violence here is all funny, visual gags, crazy situations and all, and not the Saw, or the Hostel kind of gore.
All this is hilarious but funnier still are the dialogues, they really are. The punchlines come thick and fast and if you aren't listening carefully you will miss a few which is some viewers may be left behind trying to understand the jokes. Truly, the writing is as best it can possibly be.
Now comes the biggest draw of the stow. The star attraction here is the actor who plays Sledge Hammer (David Rasche), he says and does the funniest things with such a straight face, such seriousness that adds to the craziness of the entire situation. He just doesn't know he is funny. He is totally serious and that makes him even funnier.
The best of the best. The number one comedy show in my book (and it's really a thick book, let me tell you, which I will be sharing with you one page at a time at this blog).
This is Sledge Hammer for you. It's doesn't get any better.
You can watch the an episode here. But try and watch a few more to really get the hang of it. Some of them are there on youtube.
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