PhillipJarodNelson As a hardcore gamer geek, this show really speaks to me. I've been gaming for twenty-some years and counting, and this wonderful show is riddled with game-related jokes from start to finish. I don't expect non-gamers to appreciate it too well, but anybody that's spend a decade or two with a game controller in hand should find the show entertaining enough.It has the silly absurdity of South Park, not to mention the vulgarity, but the cast of characters are adults working at a fictitious game development studio. The art direction is interesting because it's obviously intended to appear like a classic 8-bit video game, on a system like the NES, complete with overly-pixilated character sprites. Each episode is intended to appear as if playing some sort of weird video game, with each show beginning with a start screen and ending with a "game over" screen, and typical in-game stuff like a score or health meter appears at the top of the screen, though sometimes swapped out with other gaming oddities like items collected. The show pauses for commercial breaks.I wouldn't recommend this show to non-gamers, but to the hundreds of millions of gamers out there, this show comes highly recommended.

Nick Zbu The works of Adam De La Pena--excusing the dreadful Jackass-style 'I'm With Busey'--seem to be one of toilet humor and a unique style of artistic rendering. While 'Minoriteam' had some serious conceptual issues that were easily overcome with the Jack Kirby style, 'Code Monkeys' at least does the '80s 8-bit mockery effectively. Not to damn with faint praise, but Adam De La Pena does seem to have a grasp on how to market his brand of humor effectively and towards a genre audience in a faithful manner.Unfortunately, De La Pena's sense of humor seems too jaded. While humor is an art that relies on subtlety to an excessive manner (especially in these sensitive times) and the opposite of this can be used effectively as humor--Reno 911 being an adequate example--De La Pena seems not to care about the humor as much as the shock of his video game creations just being dirty. While this works, there seems to be nothing else to it. Video game characters are dirty, and there's nothing else besides that. Considering De La Pena's other creations having a short lifespan, this indeed comes off as a flaw that he hasn't been able to overcome. He starts well, but cannot maintain it.Besides that, it's a funny show for what it is. Let's hope it breaks the problem of only lasting a season.

killadamvol14 As Adam De La Pena shows go, there a no go for me. But This Is a fresh, funny, original, and referenced nerds paradise. Its concept is really neat and the jokes are very funny and strangely compelling. Honestly, after surviving such bad programming on G4 its so surprising that this show is actually good. Give it a chance and also count how many references it makes and whats more amazing is how many i catch. My only slight grief is that the writing isn't so fresh at times and some may not like the weird pacing and pay off at the jokes. Aside from that the show is ingenious. This is a def for anyone watching G4 or looking for a new fresh and funny animated comedy.

ShmilboSmaggins It's nice to see something on G4, that actually remotely resembles a video game. Now we have Cops, Cheaters, Jamie Kennedy Experiment, and Arrested Development. Now it's refreshing to have a show that, not only is about video game designers, it's format is made to look like video games back in there early days. I originally thought that this was going to be mediocre at best, and I was pleasantly surprised that I could put my fears to rest. It was filled with hilarity and randomness(the good kind)Let me say that this show is not for everyone, it's has some adult humor on it. It features characters which I have come to love, such as, Dave, Tod, and black Steve. Overall, I think this is going to be one of my favorite shows on G4...next to X-play