digitalbeachbum
This show was awesome. It was quirky and off center. The main story is a family from New Jersey which moves to the suburbs only to find out that the entire sub division they moved in to is filled with aliens who are studying Earth for invasion.Filled with a wide range of characters I found it extremely funny as the aliens learn more and more about humans, but how the humans learned more about their own lives through the aliens.The fact that this show was canceled, along with Firefly as another example, it shows execs in production companies are out of touch with the common person. This show shouldn't have been canceled and it is sad there are only three seasons.
Ui'Neil Sandidge
The Neighbors is a premise people need. The cast is very funny cast. All of them. The writers though very talented met their limits at how to create such an amazing and different take on concepts we are all somehow familiar with in a fresh view. (Mork & Mindy, Perfect Strangers, ALF, Third Rock, Thirty Rock, My Teacher is an Alien adventure books, an aisle of movies, plus Kyle XY.)1. The Fastfood & Coffee Shop jobs should only be a few episodes. ~ When I left an office job to make a sudden move to a major city, the work I wanted did not happen in the first month, so at the end of that month I started 3 Jobs at the same time. Local Aliens aren't lazy. They are hard working. McDonalds (Breakfast shift), Applebee's (Lunch and Dinner, Serving/Trucking/Prep/Dishes, but only for no-shows and with dinner), and at a Movie Theater (Every Thursday, from 10am-12pm). ~ I then became a traveling Apprentice Plumber, then an Electrician, and Went back to College after that. Two previous times in my life I have worked 80- 90Hours a week, once for a Month (2Bookstores, one on campus, the other BooksAMillion; and the third job at a Fish place) and another for 6 Months waiting for medical benefits to activate at the new job before quitting the first. Model Aliens after Foreign Nationals and our own American people who know how to work when they don't have money. Asia is filled with people who borrow money and because of Yakuza or Loan Sharks work hard to pay it back rather than go bankrupt because real physical harm might happen.2. Celestial ordained love should win. ~ Don't conform enjoy arranged marriage, it is a hell of a lot less taxing on both the emotions and the wallet, with a much lower divorce rate! They are aliens, so quit selling the American myth of struggling for love and being single as you roam the earth to find your other half. Study Census.gov sometime. The Bible states who ban getting married until after 18, and shun arranged marriages, are also the US States with the highest teen 15-19 pregnancy rates. Except for Utah. The Mormons are doing something right. http://www.livescience.com/5728-teen-birth-rates-higher-highly- religious-states.html3. If you can't follow others, and have personality strength, you should find a way to lead yourself.4. Being your own boss is the most surprising adventure life has to offer.Here is what I wrote to ABC. ~ http://abc.go.com/feedbackThe Neighbors should be saved and get some advertising. This Show can really grow. The lyrics to the theme song need to be changed. Some really funny ideas or insightful ideas get written into every show. But there needs to be writers with a social view where smart people don't get stuck doing fast food jobs for more than college. The Aliens residents should be more capable and insightful like international student aliens. Even if the show were riffing the yuppy think they know it all people in the service industry, those people still have some amazing conversations. And this show totally misses the political and social order angle of the lifestyle it mocks.The writers should revisit the entrepreneurial aspect and place the family on a track of success, relating to running your own business where they learn about how to be successful as business owners. People who work for themselves are a little nutty and desperate to succeed. So the writers will never run out of material.
roxann99567
I absolutely love The Neighbors, so of course that means they're doomed for cancellation. Never fails. A show comes along that's funny and sharp and it doesn't last. I thought it REALLY interesting that the Challoweenukah episode was right up there with a story in the New York Times and published in my local paper, about the Manischewitz company combining Hanukkah and Thanksgiving; hmmmmm..... wonder how they got that idea..... so, I plan on ordering Season One of The Neighbors and will continue watching the fresh and funny episodes of the new season until the show gets the ax. I don't recall seeing the actors who portray Jackie and Larry in anything else, but the casting is perfect. I read in one of the other reviews that the girl portraying the human teenager was "annoying" - hey, guess what, that's what teenagers are!! Anyone who doesn't realize that apparently doesn't have one. So hang in there and keep the shows coming as long as possible - maybe even (what an idea!!!) put it back to its original day of the week airing!!
