After watching the premiere of the dreadful Fire Me ... The unscripted hour takes the MTV "Punk'd" concept, plunks it down in a retail establishment and stretches it to roughly six hours. [...] the show thinks so little of its own potential for genuine amusement that it attaches a disembodied laugh track, peculiar in that it has no studio audience from whom the guffaws are designed to emerge.

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