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Painful
redemption-825 March 2009
Warning: Spoilers
This was probably the worse TV show that I have ever seen. Basically the show was... these two guys, went around to small towns and cast locals in a short movie spoof. Which you might be saying to yourself, 'it has potential", but trust me, it just did not work at all. Although the camera-work was adequate and the lighting on the spoofs was excellent, the two main talent were just not funny.

Matt had some one line zingers once in awhile that made me smile. But Chris Cox's performance was sort of like a dirty kindergarten student in a Christmas pageant. I don't understand how someone so talentless and not funny could be on TV. Every time he was on screen the energy and comedy was just sucked right out of the show. It was sort of like someone stepping on a beach ball that has a pencil sized hole in it. I am telling you it was painful, watching Chris Cox was the equivalent of running a marathon with a sharp rock in your left shoe!! Spoiler alert!! There was only one time in the whole series where Chris was funny. In the episode when they go to Bigsby Arizona look closely during the scene when they are in the gym doing rehearsals. Chris has something really small in his pants. I can't tell what it is but it is really really small. My wife and her girlfriend were laughing so hard I thought they were going to pass out. It was sort of like a button on a fur coat.

So save yourself some time and do not watch this show. You would be better off scraping rust off an old swing set.
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Original and Funny
Lightman4215 November 2005
Small Shots caught my attention while I was attending film school in Chicago. It used to air after Star Trek on TNN. Chris and Matt travel across country, going to small towns casting the locals for short movie spoofs. Each week Cox and Sloan would arrive in a new town, recruiting "actors" with a casting session that never failed to provide laughs. Basically the show makes fun of reality TV shows, then makes fun of movies... and pretty much rips on the entire American pop culture with wit and cleverness. Throughout the show, their are numerous obstacles and challenges that pose one threat after another to the production of the short film. The conflicts were usually absurd and hilarious. The pay off is watching the short film at the end of the episode. I remember the one entitled "Jurassic Dog" being so dumb. This show was great. I hope it gets released to DVD one day.
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