Disney Channel used to produce alot of shows in the past and while the network is kind of gone now thanks to Disney+ alot of there shows are on there for us all to watch and hopefully enjoy. With this also hopefully bringing in newer viewers that those shows didn't get the first time out and given that alot of those shows now have big names starring in them it will also get alot of the older fans to remember about those stars as well with this one being the long list of forgotten shows that also happen to have a now big name star starring in it and so then join me as I review the episode that tries and fails to do sketch comedy but just can;t with the episode in question being called simply just "Sketchy Beginnings" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is when new girl Sonny Munroe gets a job on her favorite sketch comedy she discovers that the show has a queen bee who she must content with on her first show. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad but at the same time tho the plot of this wasn't all that good either with the plot of the episode being a very predictable plot line where the solution is also something that can seen a mile away which does make the plot of this seem like a very formulaic plot and not something that's all that new , creative and different but I really will admit that the plot of this really very entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode Camp Rock franchise star Demi Lovato as Sonny Munroe and Tiffany Thornton as Tawni Hart. Also starring in this episode is Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles star Brandon Mychal Smith as Nico Harris , Doug Brochu as Grady Mitchell , Jake And The Never Land Pirates Allisyn Ashley Arm as Zora Lancaster , Nancy McKeon as Connie Munroe and Michael Kostroff as Marshall Pike.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. However at the same time tho the acting in this episode is just the stereotypical Disney Channel type of acting and nothing all the more then that this is of course of no fault of the episodes cast as there really being told to act a certain but there should have been alot more effort to make the acting in this debut episode alot better as this is first chance that people are really getting to see this show and yet the acting in this episode really just isn't that good with the acting in this episode not really being helped by the fact that the episodes script is just so bad as it doesn't give alot of the episodes cast much to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities even are in the first place as this episode script is just that average at best.
To give this episode some credit it does get across what all of the characters are like just in this first episode alone. However the characters remain the exact same all throughout the show which granted isn't a fault with this episode but it is something that started with this episode as both Sonny and Tawni don't grow as characters by the end of this episode infact Sonny ends up winning this is despite her knowing that she hurt Tawni and made her feel insecure and it's the same thing all throughout the show as the characters never learn anything and never grow as characters but at the same time tho not all shows need to have deep character development as sometimes just being a dumb show is more then enough and that's exactly what this show is and that's something that works well for this show and it's something that this show excels in being as it knows fully what it is and isn't afraid to be a dumb kids show.
Not only did this episode gets alot of the characters down perfectly in this episode but it also got down alot of the characters dynamics down as well. With the all of the character dynamics that you see later on in the show being set up and started in this episode and while the character dynamics in Disney Channel shows don'y usually change just due to the stand alone format that Disney Channel shows had at the time it still would have been nice to see those dynamics grow and change over the course of the series as that would show that the characters are evolving and are going from workmates to friends instead of just keeping them in this one place where this one character has to act this way around this one person every single episode which is something that could have gotten old very quickly in this series.
This show really doesn't get the whole TV show format down at all let alone a sketch comedy TV show as according to this show each sketch comedy is broadcast live which if you know any show you'd know that that isn't the case. With this being an issue as one of this shows executive producers Brian Robbins created All That which is perhaps the most successful kids sketch comedy TV show of all time and yet this one episode gets it all wrong as the shows would have been filmed weeks or months in advance and not done the day of as was strongly implied in this episode with this show slightly getting right how they choose what sketches go into the final episode but at the same time these sketch comedy don't have the cast come up with idea during the week of rehearsals as they have a writers room coming up with ideas all of the time and while yes it is understandable that this episode cut that out to make it easier for the kid audience as it's Hollywood basically telling us how a show is made it's also not how a show is actually made at the same time.
For some reason this episode ditches an actually funny sketch with the Bumbling Bee sketch with the awful One Bad Bee sketch.Which isn't even funny as all it is just the characters barring Tawni doing a bad rap song that isn't even funny where as the Bumbling Bee sketch was not only funny it also could have been used to resolve the plot line between Sonny and Tawni as Tawni cold have realized that while yes she was insecure for alot of the episode but Sonny's sketch was actually funny and Sonny could have realized how Tawni was feeling and the two could have worked together to create something that is not only funny which is the point of a sketch comedy show but it also could have made Tawni feel alot better about herself whereas the One Bad Bee which hints at Tawni several times in a negative light just does none of that and is there just so that the episode can have a really bad rap song in it's opening episode and really nothing all the more then that.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty two minuets and fifty seven seconds. Which is the perfect running time for this episode to have and is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for this show to have as well as this opening first really doesn't have a whole lot there interms plot as the plot is paper thin at best but at the same time tho if this episode was longer it could have been used to fully develop all of it's main characters which would have only worked well enough in the episodes favor as it would have allowed for us the audience to form a connection with the characters but on the flip side of that is the fact that this episodes plot is wafer thin and that by making the episode longer it would be stretching an already thin plot even thinner but I will admit that this episode really does gave some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As the actors do get away with having some really facial expressions which do make alot of the episodes really lame jokes seem funny as what's funny isn't what's being said it's rather how the characters are reacting to it which is what makes the joke funny but on the flip side of that is the fact that alot of this episodes just aren't this funny and while yes this shows target audience might find this funny if your really not apart of this shows target audience then there's not really a whole lot that's really all that funny to be found in this very episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall it's not hard to see why this show has largely been forgotten about as aside from the fact that Demi Lovato is starring in this show there's nothing that's all that memorable about this episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Sonny With A Chance fandom wiki page , the official Disney fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the great and legendary Google Images simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not all of the images that are really from this episode and are of course on Google Images are really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.