1600 Penn Episode 8

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When done well, of course, stupid sells. The not-quite-bright but well-meaning naïf has long been a comedy staple, from Red Skelton's movies to NBC's own Parks and Recreation. The trick is to find an actor who can infuse the sometimes bumbling main character with enough charm, and the performance with enough control, to carry the audience past behavior that, in real life, would quickly become annoying.

It's a tightrope walk Amy Poehler pulls off with weekly aplomb on Parks, and one Josh Gad matched on Broadway in The Book of Mormon and in the first episode of NBC's 1600 Penn (* * out of four, Thursday, 9:30 p.m. ET/PT) which got a sneak peek in December.

Unfortunately, somewhere in between Episodes 1 and 2, he's tipped over — and he's taken his show with him. So what a returning audience will find tonight, in Penn's "official" premiere, is a sitcom that has moved from agreeably silly to disagreeably dumb, a regression no network should want to see.

Gad, who also serves as one of the show's executive producers, stars here as Skip Gilchrist, the wayward son of the president of the United States (Bill Pullman). Having been thrown out of college, Skip is now living in the White House, where he'll cause no end of trouble until his innate sweetness leads to a happy ending. Or at least that's the idea.