Andy Richter Controls the Universe

The cult sitcom Andy Richter Controls The Universe posited its protagonist as both a loveably doughy everyman and a Walter Mitty-esque dreamer whose overactive imagination plays out in a machine-gun barrage of goofy fantasy detours. It’s like Run Lola Run re-imagined as a workplace comedy. The show takes place on two planes: a fantasy realm of infinite possibilities (the show’s original title was Anything Can Happen) and the real world, where Andy Richter barely controls his own life, let alone the universe. These fantasy sequences demand an endless stream of comic invention; they inhabit a Hellzapoppin’ comic universe ...

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The cult sitcom Andy Richter Controls The Universe posited its protagonist as both a loveably doughy everyman and a Walter Mitty-esque dreamer whose overactive imagination plays out in a machine-gun barrage of goofy fantasy detours. It’s like Run Lola Run re-imagined as a workplace comedy. The show takes place on two planes: a fantasy realm of infinite possibilities (the show’s original title was Anything Can Happen) and the real world, where Andy Richter barely controls his own life, let alone the universe. These fantasy sequences demand an endless stream of comic invention; they inhabit a Hellzapoppin’ comic universe ...

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Andy Richter Controls the Universe is a series from the mind of Andy Richter and Victor Fresco. The show made its debut on the Fox television network and was promptly cancelled after the second season, but the for the life of my I don’t really know why. I have to say that my initial reviews of the show were terrible. The plot was bleh, and the cast seemed like they had guns to their heads to be funny. The slightest move one way or the other would end it all. But the more that I watch the show the more I realize, “Aw cripes! This is the type of show I would write.” Well, then, I guess I have to give it a good review, don’t I? Yes, yes I do. The show centers around Richter’s fairly boring office lifestyle as a writer of instruction manuals for

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