well i really liked the show i think it would have been a big hit it only giving a chance i grew up on that music and i still listen to it today at least you can understant the words the sing insread of having a mouth full of gritts, or mashed potatoes ,something . welll i am sorry to see it gone....

Another thing about Viva Laughing is that the main guy couldn't hold a tune with a pitch fork, it was just bad.

What is more amazing than Viva Laughlin being taken off the air so quickly is the fact that Cavemen has survived 4 episodes so far.

The critics say that 'Viva Laughlin' is the worst show ever. I think Caveman is a close second.

Maybe Fish Police wasn't Steve's. I thought it was. Still horrible, though.

It wasn't as horrible as people make it out to be. Bochco's Fish Police cartoon was much much worse.
Thing is, the seargent has already finished with the rundown THEN he starts to sing, what is another rundown. It's redundant so it doesn't move the story along. It stalls it. In a music, the music should gently push the story along. But someone was beholden to opening with the words, "Lets be careful out there" and that is the END of the sarge's speech, so that's where they put it.
The whole scene is surreal and a bit awkward, but I imagine had they thought of things like this a little more carefully it might have had a better shot.

I must have lost my mind, because I thought that was kind of cool. Of course, most of that cool went away when the podium piano came out of nowhere.

The problem with Viva.. Was that the songs werent orginalt songs.. im not saying that the show would have survived with that, but at least it would have had a chance with its "orginall" and "edgy" ways

Before my time, so maybe I just don't "get it", but it boggles the mind that both ABC and Steven Bochco thought this was going to be a hit. I mean, I can see pushing the envelope and such and such, but it's far fetched to see this becoming huge and sinking millions into it.

Also, this clip was the most amazing thing ever. I'm so gonna find the rest of the episodes now.

Viva Laughlin had terrible music, singing, and dancing?! They should have showed it on The Disnet Channel! People there love High School Musical so why not another badly done musical?

Say whatever you want about "Cop Rock", at least the songs were original and sung by the actors. In "Viva Laughlin" I always had the sense that the actors were barely contributing their voices at best to songs done by other artists. The music in "Viva Laughlin" was badly done Karaoke; "Cop Rock" was a true, original, musical.