The series drew the ire of Aaron Spelling over their parody of his popular series *Beverly Hills, 90210*. The spoof depicted his daughter (and 90210 star) Tori as a spoiled and bratty snob who butts into a scene she's not even in - supposedly because it's her father's show, which means she can do whatever she wants. That, and other scenes of characters engaging in incest, led to Aaron threatening creator/producer David Mirkin with a lawsuit regarding Tori's alleged defamation. One headline covering the story read, "EDGE cuts Spelling to the quick." Mirkin stood by the show's writers and was quoted in the Los Angeles Times saying, "What's upsetting to me is it shows absolutely that Mr. Spelling has no sense of humor."
Almost every single one of its sketches ended in death or violence. Buckets of blood were spilled and guns were frequently fired; one of the show's more notable segments was "Armed Family," a sitcom spoof wherein every character was disastrously trigger happy. In one of the cast-killing opening sequences, the comedians were shot up with arrows. In another, the cast was run down by a truck. In another still, an enormous blade decapitated them all in one grand swing.
Julie Brown featured multiple send-ups of the way women's bodies were objectified by the media, and a running gag featured models in bikinis leaping on camera at the end of a sketch, accompanied by the on-screen caption "SWEEPS WEEK."
In the 1992 fall preview issue of TV Guide, the show is described as "It's no Saturday Night Live. It's no SCTV. It's no In Living Color. It's no hit."
Low ratings, a lawsuit by an angry Aaron Spelling, and a weird, weird tone led to the demise of the series after only 18 episodes.