The Rosey and Buddy Show

NEW YORK--If it comes to a choice between channel hopping and "The Rosey and Buddy Show," put the old thumb on the remote and hang on. There's likely to be something better on the horizon.

NEW YORK–If it comes to a choice between channel hopping and “The Rosey and Buddy Show,” put the old thumb on the remote and hang on. There’s likely to be something better on the horizon.

A running joke throughout this animated half-hour is that because the characters are just cartoons, anything can happen to them; yet the plot, about the lead characters coming up against stubborn network executives, carries an eerie ring of truth.

Rosey (Roseanne Arnold) and her buddy (Tom Arnold) pull their motor home into Cartoonland, where they set out to put on “The Rosey and Buddy Show,” starring the duo.

In Cartoonland, Rosey and Buddy quickly find out that the TV network is run by a bunch of folks who all have last name of Powers. They’re the Powers that be in TV, and all they care about is profits and commercial availability. As one might imagine, this animated show misses few chances to take a stab at the business of television.

There are ways to do things in Cartoonland, say the exex, who want to know if the program has socially redeeming aspects and if it’s designed to sell commercials when kids are glued to the set.

“Beautiful, inspiring and, not to mention, profitable,” says one of the Powers that be.

Well, the Powers don’t like “The Rosey and Buddy Show” and put the two into the Betty & Veronica asylum, where they find a host of other familiar cartoon characters in a padded room.

A few takeoffs on commercials and current television programs are added to fill the half-hour. (Ideas include Rosey playing a sensitive lawyer and Buddy doing “60 Cels,” a”60 Minutes” for the animated set.)

However, when all is said and done, viewers are left with a huge question: Who cares? The writing is built around the jabs at network executives and the remaining lines are uninspiring. As the Powers that be might ask for, there is no socially redeeming value to this.

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