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Willard Deutschebog on "Sit Down, Shut Up" Sue Sezno on "Sit Down, Shut Up"
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From Emmy Award-winning writer Mitchell Hurwitz ("Arrested Development") and Eric and Kim Tannenbaum ("Two and a Half Men") comes FOX's "Sit Down, Shut Up" (working title), an animated comedy that focuses on the lives of eight staff members at a high school in a small northeastern fishing town (Go Baiters!) who never lose sight of the fact that the children must ALWAYS come second. We watch them grapple with their own egos, needs and personal agendas, their petty insecurities and prejudices, unrequited loves, and ruthless battles for power and that's just at the staff meeting.

On "Sit Down, Shut Up," Sue Sezno (Kenan Thompson, "Saturday Night Live"), a woman who frequently says "no," is the acting principal of the school (the actual principal is recovering from a series of unfortunate accidents that might be seen as escape attempts). Then there's Vice Principal Stuart Prozackian (Will Forte, "Saturday Night Live") who has a terrifically positive and upbeat attitude... possibly from the performance-enhancing medication he's been secretly put on by the other teachers.

There is one educator on "Sit Down, Shut Up" who feels the focus should be on academics, but despite the old adage, at this school, those who can teach, teach gym and that's where Larry Slimp (Jason Bateman, "Juno," "Arrested Development") has been exiled to. Immensely frustrated, Larry nurses a crush on science teacher Miracle Grohe (Maria Bamford, "Stuart Little 2"), a woman whose superficial grasp on science is balanced by her superficial grasp on spirituality.

Rounding out the staff on "Sit Down, Shut Up" is the aging German teacher Willard Deutschebog (Henry Winkler, "Arrested Development," "Happy Days"), a deeply defeated man whose yearbook quotation reads "If I believed in reincarnation, I'd kill myself tonight." Uptight Helen Klench (Cheri Oteri, "Saturday Night Live") is a librarian whose life's work in research and archiving can now be surpassed by the average Google search from the average cell phone.

Proud Andrew Sapien (Nick Kroll, "Best Week Ever," "Cavemen") is the flamboyant drama teacher on "Sit Down, Shut Up." Ennis Hofftard (Will Arnett, "Arrested Development") is a fellow teacher and a self-obsessed body builder who yearns to be thought of as a "cool dude" by his students. And finally there's Happy (Tom Kenny, "SpongeBob SquarePants"), the plotting secretive custodian who's assumed to be Hispanic despite the fact that his real name is Muhannad Sabeeh Fa'ach Nuaba.

With a distinctive new look a combination of animation against a live-action backdrop"Sit Down, Shut Up" is a series for the young and old at heart. It lampoons modern society while exposing the dreams, flaws and struggling humanity of our first and most formative authority figures: teachers.

"Sit Down, Shut Up" is produced by Sony Pictures Television, 20th Century Fox Television, Granada America, and Tantamount. Mitchell Hurwitz, Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum, Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein serves as executive producers on "Sit Down, Shut Up." The voice cast of "Sit Down, Shut Up" includes Will Arnett as Ennis, Maria Bamford as Miracle, Jason Bateman as Larry, Will Forte as Stuart, Tom Kenny as Happy, Nick Kroll as Andrew, Cheri Oteri as Helen, Kenan Thompson as Sue, and Henry Winkler as Willard.






SIT DOWN, SHUT UP: FACTS

Network: FOX
Genre: Animation
Runtime: 30 mins.
Premiere Date: April 19, 2009
Seasons: 1
Production Company: Sony Pictures Television
20th Century Fox Television
Granada America
Tantamount




SIT DOWN, SHUT UP: NEWS


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SIT DOWN, SHUT UP: TWEETS

sit down, shut up #4wordsonObamashand
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Dear #Chuck fans: sit down, shut up, and let the writers write. & Dear writers: great job inventing characters folks care so much about. :-)
less than an hour ago
Lean to the left, Lean to the right, shut up, sit down, fight, conservatives, fight!
less than an hour ago
#4WordsOnObamasHand: Sit Down, Shut Up
less than an hour ago
I promise I shut up now but *why* do I always judge what I'm wearing based on standing up peering in mirror? Then sit down w/ belly issues.
1 hour ago
When you' ve made your point,shut up and sit down. When you' ve tried and faiLed to make your point, shut up and sit down #random
1 hour ago
RT @JonLukeL: Parents spend the first part of our lives teaching us to walk and talk, and the rest of it telling us to sit down and shut up.
1 hour ago
Kids: U spend the 1st 2 years of their life teaching them to walk & talk. Then u spend the next 16 telling them to sit down & shut up. #fun
1 hour ago
@SarahInTx Yes, KSM in NY. As POTUS always LECTURES, "Sit down & shut up".
2 hours ago
Parents spend the first part of our lives teaching us to walk and talk, and the rest of it telling us to sit down and shut up.
2 hours ago
RT @joekiddone: America is a CENTER-RIGHT nation. Unfortunately, Obama thinks we're a DOWN-UP-and-IN nation...as in sit DOWN, shut UP and give IN!
2 hours ago
America is a CENTER-RIGHT nation. Unfortunately, Obama thinks we're a DOWN-UP-and-IN nation...as in sit DOWN, shut UP and give IN!
2 hours ago
Parents spend the first part of our lives teaching us to walk and talk, and the rest of it telling us to sit down and shut up.
2 hours ago
Saw underrated "Sit Down, Shut Up" pilot. Not laughing-out-loud funny, but sporadically "lol" funny. If that makes sense. Which it doesn't.
3 hours ago
@HoneyMagazine Joe needs to sit down & shut up
3 hours ago