GotZoom
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Sunday night at Midnight (probably Eastern time).
I'm waiting for the riots.
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Beware, guardians of political correctness, there's a new threat in the TV universe and they've marshalled the momentum of racial and ethnic inequality.
They're the "Minoriteam," a gang of superheroes who use racial stereotypes to fight bigotry. The animated series - created by Adam de la Peña, Todd James and Peter Girardi - premieres Sunday at midnight on the Cartoon Network.
The show, said de la Peña, 29, "is about all the little, stupid things that divide us."
The Minoriteam is led by the gifted Doctor Wang, who has a gigantic head and is confined to a wheelchair. His team includes Neil Horvitz, aka Jewcano. Corporate grunt by day, he morphs into a yarmulke-wearing bearded superhero who, a voiceover tells us, "possesses all the power of the Jewish faith and a volcano!" Landon K. Dutton evolves from an emasculated women's studies professor into the jive-talkin' Fasto, who channels his rage to run fast. And oil billionaire Richard Escartin shape shifts into El Jefe, a sombrero wearing Mexican who fights with a tricked-out weed whacker. The teams' arch nemesis is White Shadow, the one-eyed CEO of a nefarious corporation whose cadre of baddies includes Racist Frankenstein, Standardized Test and the Corporate Ladder.
"Minoriteam" aims to unite with unabashedly un-PC humor.
"It's got to be funny," said de la Peña. "I'm not about preaching to anybody."
Like all successful satire, "Minoriteam" is an equal opportunity basher.
"We realized that this could not just be the slam whitey hour," said James.
The absurd mores of corporate culture is a big repository for mockery. And, James pointed out, "the team themselves don't get off scot-free."
For instance, "they have issues with women."
Indeed, everyone's got their kryptonite and Fasto's is women - lots of them. In one episode, Jewcano becomes sexually aroused by a nickel and El Jefe goes gaga at the sight of a low-rider Cadillac.
The creators are prepared for the inevitable finger-wagging.
"We don't go into it trying to offend people," said de la Peña."People get mad at everything," joked Girardi. "They'll say, 'Hey, wait a minute, how come White Shadow has one eye? My son only has one eye!'"
And besides, said de la Peña, they have an ironclad justification for every single scenario. "These things are based on actual events."
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/400291p-339125c.html
I'm waiting for the riots.
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Beware, guardians of political correctness, there's a new threat in the TV universe and they've marshalled the momentum of racial and ethnic inequality.
They're the "Minoriteam," a gang of superheroes who use racial stereotypes to fight bigotry. The animated series - created by Adam de la Peña, Todd James and Peter Girardi - premieres Sunday at midnight on the Cartoon Network.
The show, said de la Peña, 29, "is about all the little, stupid things that divide us."
The Minoriteam is led by the gifted Doctor Wang, who has a gigantic head and is confined to a wheelchair. His team includes Neil Horvitz, aka Jewcano. Corporate grunt by day, he morphs into a yarmulke-wearing bearded superhero who, a voiceover tells us, "possesses all the power of the Jewish faith and a volcano!" Landon K. Dutton evolves from an emasculated women's studies professor into the jive-talkin' Fasto, who channels his rage to run fast. And oil billionaire Richard Escartin shape shifts into El Jefe, a sombrero wearing Mexican who fights with a tricked-out weed whacker. The teams' arch nemesis is White Shadow, the one-eyed CEO of a nefarious corporation whose cadre of baddies includes Racist Frankenstein, Standardized Test and the Corporate Ladder.
"Minoriteam" aims to unite with unabashedly un-PC humor.
"It's got to be funny," said de la Peña. "I'm not about preaching to anybody."
Like all successful satire, "Minoriteam" is an equal opportunity basher.
"We realized that this could not just be the slam whitey hour," said James.
The absurd mores of corporate culture is a big repository for mockery. And, James pointed out, "the team themselves don't get off scot-free."
For instance, "they have issues with women."
Indeed, everyone's got their kryptonite and Fasto's is women - lots of them. In one episode, Jewcano becomes sexually aroused by a nickel and El Jefe goes gaga at the sight of a low-rider Cadillac.
The creators are prepared for the inevitable finger-wagging.
"We don't go into it trying to offend people," said de la Peña."People get mad at everything," joked Girardi. "They'll say, 'Hey, wait a minute, how come White Shadow has one eye? My son only has one eye!'"
And besides, said de la Peña, they have an ironclad justification for every single scenario. "These things are based on actual events."
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/400291p-339125c.html
