Trial and Error with John Lithgow as the bisexual defenestrator was surprisingly hilarious. It looks like typical crap like The Office and Parks and Recreation, but they write actual comedy instead of trying to mimic the boring veneer of real people. (But the music is awful....)
It's a straight-up parody of those stuipd low-budget crime shows, created because John Lithgow just thought they were so goddamn stupid that they would make an awesome comedy. And it's actually shockingly funny for network television. I don't remember the last time I laughed at a primetime network sitcom. It really defies convention. It reminds me of Police Squad, the show that The Naked Gun movies were based on.
An example of one of the jokes:
The defense team for Lithgow hires a private DNA scientist to retest the crime scene and he comes back to report that he found traces of semen for three unknown men in the bed where Lithgow's wife was killed. Also, the scientist is a compulsive masturbator who has to jerk off when he feels under stress.
Defense team: "DNA samples of three other men in her bed? That means we have three other potential killers!"
Scientist: "Well... no, one of the samples was mine." (They stare at him.) "My father's been having some medical problems...."
