For those who were not close or do not remember what the world was like after 11/9There seemed to be a universal feeling of union and camaraderie, unless you were Muslim. Then, many people looked at you with suspicion, even if you wave the stars and stripes and had a bumple bumper/Cheney sticker in your car. Ramy Youssef was a ten -year -old who lived in New Jersey at that time, and his experiences are part of a new animated series that he created with Pam Brady (South Park).
Opening shot: After a “representation warning” seems to tell the spectators not to take these characters as representations of “Muslims, Arabs, people of New Jersey”, and gives a “H” rating for “Haram”, we see closures or “Hussein’s Hussein de Hussein”.
The yeast: The car is parked in a house in the suburbs of New Jersey. Then we see the teenager Rumi Hussein (Ramy Youssef) putting a mass garbage shirt that says “balls” instead of “bulls.” He reduces to breakfast with his father Hussein (Youssef), Mother Sharia (Salma Hindy) and older sister Mona (Alia Shawkat); His grandmother who leads Burqa, a television lover (Randa Jarrar), and his super traditional super traditional cigarette (Azhar Usman). The date is September 10, 2001.
Hussein was never going to buy Rumi as a real bull t -shirt because it is too exensive. As things are, Hussein tells the expenses of each household member, to the electricity and the amount of toilet paper they use. Rumi is also the last in the “cousin classification plate”.
Rumi carries the shirt because she is in love with her teacher, Malcolm (Mandy Moore), who talks to her class about an adventure she had with Michael Jordan, probably, because she can’t say it due to a nda. However, it is not an unrequited falling in love, and hopes to influence her presentation on the country of origin of her family, Egypt, the next day 9/11.
Hussein shows his brother, Ahmed (Paul Elia), who moves with the family, his halal car, parked right in front of the News Corp headquarters. The business is good, and Hussein has great plans to expand. As I appreciate for letting him move, Ahmed brings Hussein a lamb that can kill. Ahmed, on the other hand, kills some street pigeons for dinner in New Jersey.
At dinner, Mona tries to get on the nerve that is in love with her best friend Gina (Megan Stalter), but the grandfather has a heart attack and dies before she has the opportunity. Grandma insists that the grandfather be buried in Cairo, but Hussein feels that it is too exensive, and it seems that all tasks take care of a Pakistani mosque in Freehold. All the next morning, he thought, is left aside when the planes fly to the twin towers. After that, Hussein’s goal is to make his family the most similar family.
What programs will you remember? Created by Ramy Yussef and Pam Brady, #1 Happy Family USA It is a cross between Ramado and anyone South Park ORPÍN Type of family.
OUR TOMA: In the first minutes of #1 Happy Family USAThe impression is that it will be just another animated adult series in second place that dedicates the offensive line. But as the episode progresses, and you know what the Hussein family will have to deal with the morning after meeting them for the first time, the program becomes a bit more bittersweet.
Of course, there is a musical number at the end of the episode, with Hussein and his family projecting aloud to their neighbors who are the “#1 Happy Family USA!” But that certainly talks about the Muslim-American experience after the September 11 attacks. It did not matter if you used the stars and stripes in your manga; If you were Muslim, it was considered suspicious, or worse. Youssef was a child in 2001, and must be baffled on the legs for him at that time. We are sure that confusion will also be something we see from Rumi.
Brady, who worked in South ParkBrings that show the anarchic dynamics to #1 Happy Family USA. But even when the show is at its darker point, there will be that underground current that indicates quantive Islamophobic society we were at the time (it is not that we are now much better, but it was quite intense in the months and years).
Sex and skin: None.
Separation shot: Just when they sing on being “#1 Happy Family USA!”, The FBI stops and takes out their weapons. “Please do not disparate,” Hussein pray while holding Rumi. “Take the child.”
Star Star: We will give this to Randa Supreme as a grandmother, if only because her character is so comically linked to her television, she covers him to the family since when he carries her husband’s body to take Delta to Cairo (what is given the probability condoms?
The majority of the pilot line: One of Rumi’s classmates warns that if you are not careful, it will be caught in the “student zone” with Malcom. “That is like the ‘Friends Zone’, but with the task.”
Our call: Transmit it. #1 Happy Family USA It is a bit unequal in the comedy department, but we forgive that due to any humor that comes out of the Hussein family attempts to mix with American society should be more fun than only the unique jaws.
Joel Keller (@joelkeller) Write about food, entertainment, parenting and technology, but he is not necessary: he is a television addict. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Salon, Rollingstone.com” Vanityfair.comFast Company and other places.
