…there were “The Papdits,” an entire family of immigrants unfamiliar with American customs.
Once doomed to obscurity when their TV pilot (not-so-coincidentally written by Anthony Hine, who partnered with Sacha Baron Cohen on the “outline” for the largely improvised “Borat” film) was rejected by CBS, the wacky family from Kashmir has been hastily exhumed so that the network can cash in on the public’s current appetite for fumbling foreigners inadvertently placing Americans in uncomfortable situations.
You can view the full pilot for “The Papdits” online at CBS’s Innertube site…and you know what? It’s not bad. The Papdit papa confuses quartz crystal with crystal meth, and demonstrates a disturbing level of interest in how his mother-in-law might “accidentally” drown on a houseboat. His son aspires to be “important scientist like Doctor Doolittle.” And his wife — she from a region notorious for female infanticide — lets loose with this doozy:
“Our daughter is very strong swimmer. When she was a baby, she was falling from a bridge into the river, and she swam all the way back to shore. We don’t know how she got out of the sack.”
Now that’s comedy.
