Comedy Central's latest attempt at a baton-pass from "South Park" to a new animated series trips on its own slime trail. This isn't to say that "Drawn Together" is without a few crude charms ...

Billed as "the first animated reality series", Drawn Together immediately went after the same raw comedic nerve that has been exploited by the boys over at South Park for nearly 10 years.

The pilot for Drawn Together was thought to be lost as only a few seconds of the original animated pitch had been available up to now. As Silverstein describes with the upload, this original pitch ...