Oh, and Miles Siverberg has not aged well!
But hey… you gotta respect any sitcom that doesn’t use a laugh track.
I thought Grant Shaud was pretty good. I’ll give it another shot.
I saw the promos for this, and I thought, “Why don’t they just go ahead and call it 'That ‘60’s Show’?”
Looks like I didn’t miss much.
I stopped watching after the balcony scene in the beginning.
I’m confused.
Attractive older woman wants to make a boy into a man and teach him things his contemporaries won’t learn for a decade.
And this is a bad thing?
Eve, your thread title nailed it exactly. It’s a cheap knockoff without any real charm of its own.
I watched it with two friends who were looking forward to it like it was premiere night for a new Star Terk movie. They were pretty much giving up on it after the balcony scene.
BTW, I’ve just been introduced to The Osbornes over the last month or so, and it’s much better familiy comedy.
Thats as far as I got, too. What was the deal with the sexy broad in the catsuit?
Fagjunk Theology: Not just for sodomite propagandists anymore.
I made it seven minutes. It broke my heart. They advertised this, but Firefly could go hang?
It wasn’t the lack of originality. They combined two formulas that worked well. They just did a lousy job at it, that’s all. I gave them credit for at least doing a show about the working class, but I wondered why they could afford to go to this Club Capris. Now I see that apparently they were middle class after all.
It fails to be The Wonder Years, or more to the point, it fails to be a good parody of The Wonder Years. In order to parody something you have to understand what made it compelling to begin with.
It fails to be Malcolm in the Middle, because even as silly as Malcolm gets, it is still features the most realistic behavior I’ve ever seen in a family sitcom. Oliver Beene features sibling abuse, but not the kind that real siblings practice. You don’t hit your brother with a bat while your parents are around. Clearly, the writers didn’t understand what made Malcolm seem so genuine.
Furthermore, those fuckers cancelled Firefly, and they give us this shit? I’m renting a Ryder van.
I think it’s because she was a wrinkled leathery old drunk lady. She didn’t exactly have the same look as when she played Nina. I hope that was make up because that actress normally looks good.
"FOR THOSE WHO THINK THE MOM IS HOT!"
Wendy Makkena is mine… I called first dibbs here on the SDMB.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=154623
Beene was Ok not great. I think Firefly would have done MUCH better had it that Elusive Sunday slot.
I also think it would have been much more enjoyable had they not used every single bit as part of their advertisement.
I was turned off of this show by the radio promos. A little girl says something about someone being “so manly…like Rock Hudson.”
Nope, sorry.
So what happens last night? My VCR hiccuped and I got the last 20 minutes of the Simpsons, all of this drek, part of MitM, and none of the Futurama I clearly programmed into the machine. Blast.
I have to resurrect this thread (and so close to Easter, too) to tie up this loose end. This wasn’t a girl. It’s a boy who’s supposed to be gay.