# ABC Cancels "I'm with Her" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 2, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-cancels-im-with-her/248262 "2004-06-02T15:04:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-cancels-im-with-her/248262/1 "2004-06-02T15:04:02Z")
Dammit. Not surprising, the network had put no advertising or promotion bhind [the show](http://www.tvtome.com/ImWithHer/), and it had been hopping all over the schedule. But I’ll miss it—it wasn’t brilliant, in a _Mary Tyler Moore_ way, but it was a cute, pleasant, kid-free sitcom with a talented, attractive cast and writing that didn’t actually suck out loud. I actually can’t think of a single sitcom I’ll be watching now, unless _The Simpsons_ counts. ---
**Author:** ![Elret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Elret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elret)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-cancels-im-with-her/248262/2 "2004-06-02T15:16:24Z")
Aw. I’ll miss it too. I agree it wasn’t maybe the best show ever, but the two main characters were likable, which isn’t something I can say about many of the other shows I see on tv. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-cancels-im-with-her/248262/3 "2004-06-02T15:40:34Z")
Pleasant little show, although the season finale should win some kind of award for “Least Convincing Breakup” or something – “Oooh, I wonder if the two main characters in a show titled ‘I’m With Her’ are going to get back together again!” ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-cancels-im-with-her/248262/4 "2004-06-02T16:00:47Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > “Oooh, I wonder if the two main characters in a show titled ‘I’m With Her’ are going to get back together again!” Well, actually, _no_, now they’re not . . . ---
**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-cancels-im-with-her/248262/5 "2004-06-02T16:27:55Z")
The show is a piece of shit, and I’m glad to see it go. Now if they’ll just get cracking on “It’s all relative.” ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-cancels-im-with-her/248262/6 "2004-06-02T16:32:17Z")
> [@Freejooky](#): > > The show is a piece of shit, and I’m glad to see it go. Well, thank _you_, Pauline Kael! Mind telling us what brilliant, scintillating shows _you_ like, so I can insult them? ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-cancels-im-with-her/248262/7 "2004-06-02T16:37:08Z")
Jeez… I wonder whatever happened to keeping a show around to see if it gains an audience? I mean if Seinfeld and the X-Files were released today, they’d both get canceled in a season (if not less). And I’m not really a fan of “I’m with her”. ---
**Author:** ![Wasabee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@Wasabee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wasabee)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-cancels-im-with-her/248262/8 "2004-06-02T16:42:18Z")
The silver lining is… the dude on the show can go back to playing Christopher on Gilmore Girls. So maybe they can do something with Rory having a half-sister. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-cancels-im-with-her/248262/9 "2004-06-02T16:50:38Z")
Bummer. We could never remember the title, so we called it “that show we kinda like.” Not brilliant but every episode was very competantly done and we found there were some laugh out loud moments (the Sister, in particular made us laugh). When they had a good episode it was a really _good_ episode. We thought the show had a lot of potential. Far worse crap is being kept on the air. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-cancels-im-with-her/248262/10 "2004-06-02T16:58:32Z")
I have only the vaguest impression that I’ve ever even heard of this show, so I’ll agree that it wasn’t promoted very well. But now that you mention it, Eve, while brilliant sitcoms have always been few and far between, I can’t think of a single show that’s on now that even comes close to showing potential as a classic. Nothing on TV right now, really, in any genre, that I can think of: this is the first season in a long time that I’m not keeping up with any current shows. I’m mostly watching TCM, and Buffy/Angel reruns. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-cancels-im-with-her/248262/11 "2004-06-02T17:08:18Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > …but it was a cute, pleasant, **kid-free** sitcom… Thank you! I’m sick to death of another run-of-the-mill family sitcom, plus I’m also sick to death of tiresome “wacky” workplace sitcoms. This one didn’t qualify as either–it also had a small cast of regulars so you didn’t have a dozen faces jockeying for position, and it did make some effort to come up with some fairly original situations. Not “great” by any means, but it was cute and innocuously fun. ---
**Author:** ![Spurious\_George](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Spurious\_George](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spurious_George)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-cancels-im-with-her/248262/12 "2004-06-02T17:09:45Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > … and it had been hopping all over the schedule. 😕 It aired Tuesdays at 8:30 for every viewing I was ever aware of. It may have been yanked a couple of times for special events and whatnot, but it certainly wasn’t one of those “Now let’s try it on (dartboard sound effect) \*Fridays \*for a month!” shows. I guess nobody thought it was the be-all, end-all of the sitcom form, but it was charming, and it will be missed. I expect the snarky sister (actress Rhea Seehorn) to pop up on another sitcom soon. ---
**Author:** ![jeevmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@jeevmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeevmon)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-cancels-im-with-her/248262/13 "2004-06-02T19:55:16Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > Jeez… I wonder whatever happened to keeping a show around to see if it gains an audience? I mean if Seinfeld and the X-Files were released today, they’d both get canceled in a season (if not less). > > And I’m not really a fan of “I’m with her”. “Exploitative reality television” is the short answer. The question becomes “why should we produce 22 episodes of a scripted series that requires us to hire actors and writers when we can produce 3 10-episode runs of ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘The Bachelorette’ that cost peanuts and generate higher average ratings”? And the X-Files would be particularly vulnerable, since it’s one of those expensive sci-fi shows that, to the producers’ minds, only really appeals to kids living in their parents’ basement. I never saw an episode of “I’m With Her,” nor had any interest in doing so. But ABC is, IIRC, well behind NBC and CBS (and maybe FOX too) in ratings, so beefing up its schedule with cheaper unscripteds would be more attractive. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-cancels-im-with-her/248262/14 "2004-06-02T21:07:37Z")
The show did earn extra bonus points for using Joe Jackson’s “Is She Really Going Out With Him?” as its theme song (although it lost a few of those bonus points by having Sugar Ray perform it). ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-cancels-im-with-her/248262/15 "2004-06-02T21:16:38Z")
Shame…that wasn’t a bad show. My wife and I watched the first four or five episodes, rather enjoyed them, and then inexplicably stopped watching. Not quite sure why – it was _certainly_ far above most ABC shows. Hmmm…now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure that was the _only_ ABC show that I watched beyond one episode. Anyway, before they cancelled it, they should have at least tried adding a precocious child to the cast. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-cancels-im-with-her/248262/16 "2004-06-02T21:21:25Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > I actually can’t think of a single sitcom I’ll be watching now, unless _The Simpsons_ counts. Aren’t you a fan of “Arrested Development”? That was renewed. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-cancels-im-with-her/248262/17 "2004-06-02T21:32:38Z")
I kind of liked the show (boy, this board is an overwhelming consensus of lukewarm!) but the snarky sister and the slacker best friend were starting to get out of hand by the last few episodes. If it had run another season I’m convinced they would have turned into Jack and Karen from Will and Grace. ---
**Author:** ![unwashed\_brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9adbd/32.png) [@unwashed\_brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unwashed_brain)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-cancels-im-with-her/248262/18 "2004-06-02T23:07:15Z")
I’m glad it’s off the air, if only for the reason that it increases the odds Teri Polo will do a nude scene in a movie before she’s 40. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-cancels-im-with-her/248262/19 "2004-06-03T00:17:01Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > I have only the vaguest impression that I’ve ever even heard of this show, so I’ll agree that it wasn’t promoted very well. But now that you mention it, Eve, while brilliant sitcoms have always been few and far between, I can’t think of a single show that’s on now that even comes close to showing potential as a classic. I think **Scrubs** would have to pull a serious Darryl Strawberry to fall off it’s Hall of Fame track. ---
**Author:** ![jeevmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@jeevmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeevmon)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-cancels-im-with-her/248262/20 "2004-06-03T14:01:58Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > I think **Scrubs** would have to pull a serious Darryl Strawberry to fall off it’s Hall of Fame track. **Scrubs** is this decade’s “Dream On” or “Northern Exposure.” I say this as a fan of all of those shows, but none are mainstream hits. They will be remembered very fondly by a cluster of ardent devotees, but essentially forgotten by everyone else because all three shows refuse to play to the lowest common denominator. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-cancels-im-with-her/248262.md?page=2)