I Just Want My Pants Back

2011
I Just Want My Pants Back

Seasons & Episodes

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EP1 Pilot Aug 28, 2011

A slacker and his friends during their post-collegiate years.

EP2 Baby Monkeys Feb 02, 2012

Jason, egged on by his friends (and several beers), posts an ad looking for Jane on missed connections. Tina loses her license to mock him, when, while anxiously awaiting a text from Brett, she de-virginizes an intern. Stacey and Eric have new mattress sex on a mattress that turns out to be anything but new.

EP3 Never Trust a Moonblower Feb 09, 2012

Jason quits his job and hopes to network at a party hosted by James Franco; Tina questions whether she's ready to date Brett; Stacey and Eric find themselves in a foursome.

EP4 Pecker Necklace Feb 16, 2012

Jason and Tina plan a wild night out, hoping it will end their string of bad luck, but Stacey’s bachelorette party and a needy drug dealer get in the way.

EP5 Something's Wrong Down There Feb 23, 2012

Tina has a problem…down there. After being diagnosed in a cringe-worthy scene by almost-doctor friend Eric, she must visit her ex-boyfriends to tell them the burning news. Worst of all, she’ll have to go see Brett, which will permanently “off” their on-again, off-again, relationship. Jason finally finds work as a cleaning person, but when he starts hooking up with his sexy, older boss, he starts to wonder if he’s getting paid for more than just his housekeeping.

EP6 Safety Nets Feb 23, 2012

Jason still can’t find a job and is getting desperate for cash; Tina has a job, but is also broke due to irresponsible purchases, i.e., high-waisted skinny jeans. So broke in fact, she’s evicted from her apartment. Desperate for money, the pair makes a pact that they will not turn to their respective “safety nets” for help. Sticking to the promise, Tina enlists Stacey to play lawyer, but she’s disappointed when Jason punts entirely and instead chases a cute French girl who promises, “a different way to live.”

EP7 A Piece Of Cake Mar 01, 2012

Jason gets a job that requires him to dress up as a piece of cake and hand out flyers; Tina decides to confess her true feelings to Brett.

EP8 The Blackout Mar 08, 2012

The crew heads to a party with Tina’s new friend, Ness, who has a crush Jason. On the way there, a citywide blackout occurs.

EP9 Love Equation Mar 15, 2012

Tina dates a nice guy for a change; Jason gives Ness a questionable birthday gift; Eric and Stacey are a little too honest with each other.

EP10 Sextipated Mar 22, 2012

Ness is visited by a former flame, prompting Jason to have doubts about their relationship. Meanwhile, Tina clashes with a photographer at work, and a lovelorn Bobby interrupts Stacey and Eric’s studious “lockdown mode.”

EP11 Quid No Quo Mar 29, 2012

Jason tries to impress his high-school crush; Tina goes on a romantic date with Paul; a tough semester has Eric questioning his future.

EP12 Jerk or Dork Apr 05, 2012

Tina and Jason's big night out doesn't go as planned. Jason has a run-in with Jane and tries to find out what happened between them, while Tina worries that things are moving too quickly with Paul.
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Released: 28 August 2011 Canceled
Producted By: Hypnotic
Country: United States of America
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I Just Want My Pants Back is an American comedy-drama that premiered with a special sneak peek on August 28, 2011 on MTV, with the series airing the new episodes beginning on February 2, 2012. The series is based on David J. Rosen's 2007 novel of the same name. On May 16, 2012, MTV cancelled the series.

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SnoopyStyle Peter Vack is the weak manchild hipster lead in an MTV series about a bunch of aimless 20something slackers. One night he had incredible sex with an amazing girl, but she steals his pants and disappears. But unlike the title 'I Just Want My Pants Back', he actually wants more than just his pants back. He wants her back, too.Kim Shaw plays a great sassy best friend. She has great chemistry as the best friend. Elisabeth Hower and Jordan Carlos play their more responsible friends. They're the most stable couple they know. It lasted 12 episodes. They made great group chemistry. That's their biggest asset.
PaulVilla If you turn off the audio, this show looks like it accurately depicts the modern generation of twenty-somethings. The settings, fashions, hair-styles & accessories all look relevant.But once you turn the audio back on, this show sounds like it was made back in the 80's or 90's. The lead characters have one-dimensional pursuits, retro dialogue & totally cynical natures...which all lead you to believe there's a generation gap.If you're in your mid-late twenties (as I am), then you're part of the most curious & engaged generation North America has ever produced. Those who live it know it, and those who don't are welcome to check academic & public opinion studies on the subject.This generation has melded sharing & consumption, vanity & morals, & the personal & the civic. They're harnessing their purchasing power to affect the way companies design & produce their products. They're harnessing the very act of being fashionable to make statements. They're harnessing their bodies to fill the ranks of NGO's & social movements like #OccupyWallStreet. And they're harnessing their online presence to push both individuals & society towards pursuing higher standards of quality.This is not the generation the show depicts.The problem seems to be the characters of Jason & Tina. Since they receive the most individual & paired screen-time, the problems surrounding their characterizations end up dragging the show down.The most obvious problem is the bizarre dialogue. Jason & Tina sound like a pair of mid-90's stand-up comics who watched way too many Woody Allen movies. They motor-mouth ridiculously long commentaries, in tones fit for staged theatre rather than naturalistic television. They also blurt out dated pop-culture references (seriously, few people my age even know who Steve Buscemi is...much less bond over him in public parks). None of this is the fault of the actors because it's impossible to deliver that sort of dialogue in any realistic manner.A bigger problem however is the one-dimensional nature of Jason and Tina. It's impossible to believe they actually grew up in the era of the internet & global awareness. Sometimes, it's even hard to believe they've lost their virginity's. They have no interest in anything...except for mating. It seems like their every word & deed is structured to remind the audience of this shallow fact.The biggest problem though, IMO, is that the writers might actually despise the very generation they're depicting. Why is it that every twenty-something character Jason & Tina come into contact with is depicted as annoying or stupid? Especially when these characters are reflective of certain mass cultural groups like hipsters, immigrants, environmentalists, & even recently lower class black kids. As Bill Maher said, these people aren't the fringe or counter-culture...they are the culture. If you don't respect them, then you don't respect us.It's sad, because the actors look good & are definitely talented. But the writers seem to be ignorant about the people they're trying to depict.
kaszabmate First of all, I started to watch this show without any expectations, only for easy entertainment. I liked the basic idea of the show, and all the simplicity of the sentence "I just want my pants back" sounded good to me. Maybe it's way too similar to How I Met Your Mother, but I still like it. The story had potential, but in the first some episodes, they've ruined it. The acting was poor, the hand recorded footage were too unfocused and so... I didn't really see the future in the show, but I gave it another go. And so I was right. The actors got way better, they started to build their own characters, and so the story got back to the main topic, with short side-stories. I think that's all I want from this show, to be simple and entertaining. So I Just Want My Pants Back is good for a teenage easy entertainment TV show, and if they'll put in the effort, and get all the potential out of the story, then it can be a very good production, that we will remember in the future.
AMichaelL This show isn't ALL that bad, but it has been done before. There are 4 friends...2 are the couple, and the other 2 are good friends who are opposite sexes and will likely end up together, and then there are all sorts of random hookups and talking about them with each other, vividly, after. Big surprise, right? Another show about mostly selfish people in their 20s, who have some seemingly charming traits masking their lack of direction (e.g., "I'm going to look for her on craigslist missed connections"). EDIT: The last few episodes have improved and the characters are acting like real, young adult, human beings. It is very watchable at this point, although it has still been done before.