Dave from Ottawa Casual viewers are warned that this show will stoop to any level to get a cheap laugh. Be ready for some of the rudest double entendres that ever (barely) sneaked past TV censors. Played deadpan straight, this spoof of Baywatch features heroic lifeguards going undercover, and solving crimes such as smashing sex slave rings... basically doing anything but actually watching the beach. Thin-limbed, soft-bellied Timothy Stack is a sight gag as Notch Johnson, the world's greatest lifeguard. The rest of the cast look better in swimsuits, but have no more grasp of the ridiculousness of the show's goings on than Notch. As the show went on, changes were evident in the cast dynamic. The season three opener was a clever spoof of reality shows that also introduced the manipulative Porcelain Bidet, a new foil for Kimberley, the only character with a sense of irony. The tension between these two provided a novel cast dynamic previously not present within the almost too chummy group. The 'professor' character - an obvious nod to Stephen hawking - went from a one-episode bad guy to become the show's one-man forensic lab. The character of the antagonistic mayor was written out - she appears on a milk carton a few episodes into the final season. Also, star Jaime Bergman became pregnant, and this was written cleverly into the show - she went to Washington D.C. to be a congressional intern, and came back pregnant! The continuation of this storyline forms the three episode finale of the series as the team runs afoul of secret conspirators seeking to grab power in Malibu Adjacent.Verbally inventive and clever, if rude, and very funny.

Larry-115 Howard can be funny, but they made a huge mistake giving him so much creative input on this show. Most of the schtick on this show was painfully unfunny, the kind of stuff a 12-year-old would roll his eyes over. It's Howard at his most annoyingly infantile, and it's embarrassing to watch. Stern can pull it off himself, and has in fact parlayed that into a hugely-prominent career, but having him put it in the mouths of other people, universally terrible actors, is a disaster on wheels.The problem with parodying "Baywatch" is that it's already a parody of itself. It's too obvious a target, and already something that shouldn't be taken seriously. Parody is meant to make something serious into something silly, and of course "Baywatch" is already silly.This show is strictly for Stern fanatics, the kind of people who undiscriminatingly like everything he does whether it's any good or not. You know the type.

MovieLuvaMatt I just bought Volume 1 of the "Son of the Beach" DVDs, which contains the first 21 episodes, and I was quite impressed. I pretty much got what I expected: gorgeous women gratuitously roaming around in skimpy bathing suits and a nonstop barrage of cheap sex jokes. But since the show doesn't aspire to be any more than what it is, it works. I can't doubt that the double entendres get repetitive at times, but most of the time I can't help but laugh. Both Jaime Bergman and Leila Arcieri are extremely hot. Timothy Stack, who I've been a fan of since his talk show parody "Night Shift," is great at playing a dim-witted takeoff on David Hasselhoff's character in "Baywatch." His name is Notch, which is somewhat similar to Hasselhoff's character "Mitch." And since his last name's Johnson, that purposely opens up many opportunities for cheap sex jokes. I don't usually like dumb blonde characters, since they're way overused in movies and TV shows, but most of Bergman's airhead one-liners are quite funny. There are gratuitous montages which feature the beautiful female characters strutting their stuff wearing next to nothing, but in a show like this it's pretty much appropriate. Plus, it also works as a sendup of "Baywatch," a show that uses those montages very often, but still tries to pass itself off is tasteful. "Son of the Beach" is in the poorest of taste, and isn't afraid to show it. But if you buy the DVD set, don't watch all the shows consecutively, because like video games this stuff could rot your brain.My score: 7 (out of 10)

sugaraspa If anyone would care to check, this is my first review/comment on any movie or show since I began using IMDB (religiously for about 4 years now).The reason why this show deserves this somewhat dubious honor, is that I simply cannot believe that a show like this is actually having money spent on it and, pray that it's not so, but that it might actually be making money.When making a comedy series with the premise of a satire (Baywatch of course), you'd expect the script writing to be even halfway intelligent. Boy! Not this one! When you compare a series like this which is (currently) under active production, and then you compare it to an absolute treat like Futurama which has been canceled - you've got to wonder just who the producers are actually making these series for - people as brainless as the "satired" idiot's of this show?Come on people! Let's start upping the quality of Television, before we give any more credence to the old adage "Boob tube"!