Leads Justin Kirk and JoAnna Garcia Swisher charm. [10 Aug 2012, p.70]

It's too cringe-worthy for overempathizing animal lovers, but general audiences might tune in for lighthearted, escapist fun.

If you enjoy animal sight gags, Animal Practice will provide at least a few laughs.

There are some funny set pieces in the pilot, and enough fruitful interactions with the patients and their troublesome owners that I could see this show developing into a kind of Scrubs with rabies shots, if the characters can develop beyond the familiar menagerie we start out with.

It's hard to imagine Practice ever being more than tolerable, much less making perfect.

Animal Practice is a forgettable show sloppily built from comedy cliches, but it can be fixed by firing most of the cast and rebuilding the show around the monkey.

It's hard to see this show lasting too far beyond the initial taste.

I thought the show had a couple humorous moments, but it is not something that will last. The show almost seems gearded for kids, but doesn't quite hit the target either.

If a monkey is one of the funniest characters in a show, that usually means trouble. The humour is mostly juvenile, kind of like taken from "Scrubs" without the really funny stuff. I have nothing against juvenile humour therefore my 3 Points, but the show needs better writting and from what I've seen, I doubt that the writers are up for the task. They actually managed to make Tyler Labine's character boring. I think that says enough. In the first episode, the bright sides of the show were the monkey and Betsy Sodaro. And Joanna Garcia Swisher is such a cutie, I must admit. But that's just not enough for a good show.

I had to turn it off after 5 minutes as I could no longer bear the extremely humourless antics going on. Too bad; I was looking forward to a comedy about an animal practice. It could have been fun.

I felt the show was not much of an comedy. The real vet. Dr. Po on the cable channels has funnier moments. Unless they come up with some better story lines, this show will be a waste of time.

First of all, to echo many reviewers, a monkey is never a good choice for a comedy unless your goal is to insult the intelligence of your **** to pander to children. Secondly, a veterinary clinic would never allow a monkey to run free throughout the clinic especially where food is being served (hospital cafeteria scene). Third, the concept of the show had such promise that missed the mark. Unfortunately, this is another show that takes society as whole backwards in regard to humour and more concerning in the way it portrays the world of actual Veterinary medicine. It's quite simply an un-intelligent mockery that will reduce the field to a "freak show circus" where animals are not intricate, living beings, but rather objects of stupid human entertainment. Good job NBC! Keep feeding stupid people what they want to see. Meanwhile, the people who were hoping for an intelligent comedy regarding what REALLY goes on in veterinary hospitals will sigh with disbelief and sadness. As a veterinary professional, I can already see it now: a wave of idiots will think that its OK to have a monkey roaming around and will think that its OK to feed meat to their Guinea Pig. Awesome!