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Animal Control (TV show) on Fox. Any fans?

Posted on 9/20/26 at 5:28 pm
Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
Member since Feb 2004
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Posted on 9/20/26 at 5:28 pm
Somehow this show was completely off my radar. I never even knew it existed until I stumbled across it on Netflix a few weeks ago. I figured I’d give it a shot since I like Joel McHale well enough.

Well I actually ended up really liking it for whatever reason. I mowed through all four seasons on NF in about two weeks. What’s weird is I didn’t even know it was a Fox show; I thought it was a NF show. But apparently it’s Fox, and the new season (5) starts back up next Sunday.

Any fans of this one? I searched and found one or two threads about it from here but neither one had any traction and thoughts about the show were mixed.

It’s not a particularly awesome show or anything, but I find myself laughing and giggling throughout. It just hits me right I guess. JM is the main character for the most part, and the character is basically Jeff Winger (from Community) as an animal control officer. And it’s about an AC office in the northeast (Seattle I think). There are some good characters (and some bad ones too), and a lot of times the animals on the show are very badly CGI’d. But thats also sort of part of its charm for me I think. But all in all it’s pretty solid and I will be watching next week when it starts up the new season.

Side note: I did initially start it assuming it was a complete show. So I was a little disappointed to now have to go from watching several episodes a night to waiting a week between new ones. But ultimately I was pumped that new episodes are coming.
Posted by 9rocket
Member since Sep 2020
1837 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 7:59 pm to
I’m watching it now. Not great, but good for a couple laughs about every episode. Looks like im about halfway through season 2.
Posted by KingofthePoint
Member since Feb 2009
11259 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 9:04 pm to
They’ve tried to replicate the show Sirens (USA), but it’s not as good. It’s not bad though.
Posted by carrguitar
Member since Oct 2014
1021 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 9:35 pm to
It’s my lunch time eat and watch show when a new season drops on Netflix. Nothing amazing, and suspension of belief is heavy, but it’s a nice easy watch. I enjoy it for what it is.
Posted by Flats
Member since Jul 2019
28968 posts
Posted on 9/21/26 at 8:21 am to
quote:

I figured I’d give it a shot since I like Joel McHale well enough.



Since Community and this are both Joel McHale playing Joel McHale it's good thing you like him. It's a decent sitcom, but as you said it's not particularly great.
Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
Member since Feb 2004
157601 posts
Posted on 9/21/26 at 9:41 am to
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Since Community and this are both Joel McHale playing Joel McHale it's good thing you like him.

Correct. If you aren’t a JM fan then I’d imagine you would hate this show.

But his character (Frank) isn’t even the best one. Frank is okay and good for some laughs. But I found as the show progressed they leaned more and more into the “vain douchebag” trait, which was not for the better.

But I love Shred. He’s great. And Templeton is great too. Victoria is good at times but then also eye rollingly bad at times (I guess when your main trait is being pretty much the biggest sloot on the planet, it gets old after a while). Patel is solid though. Emily is okay at times, but profoundly unprofessional (especially considering her falling for a literal underline employee is one of the main plot points of the whole show).

I can’t stand Daisy and thought they didn’t need another sassy black chick character added after Bettany (who I hated at first but she’s okay since they toned her way down). Not a Parker fan either.

Frank’s dad and brother are also solid.
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