Remember at the turn of the millennium when reality television's popularity began to swell and cultural critics worried that the end of scripted programming was nigh? Well, get in a time machine, crank that bad boy to 2001, and tell those critics not to worry: Rob Schneider has saved the day. (You may also want to tell those critics that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction and to get another job before their newspapers and magazines go under.)

A twenty-second promo for Schneider's CBS show Rob hit the web, and it looks to be a sitcom in the All in the Family mold, as in it is recorded with cameras and shown on television:

CBS recently changed the name of the series from ¡Rob! to just plain Rob. Now, people won’t have to scour their keyboards to find “¡” in order to tweet, “Just saw Rob on CBS, who has some poison I can drink?”

Rob premiers on January 12. Is it a coincidence that Rob Schneider’s sitcom about clashing with a Spanish-speaking culture debuts 11 months and 9 days before the end of the Mayan calendar? Probably, but stock up on canned goods just to be safe.