# One Big Happy (Elisha Cuthbert sitcom)

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**Created:** [March 18, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-big-happy-elisha-cuthbert-sitcom/715322 "2015-03-18T20:11:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-big-happy-elisha-cuthbert-sitcom/715322/1 "2015-03-18T20:11:42Z")

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So, I watched the first episode, which I take to be the pilot, more or less, of \*\*One Big Happy \*\*on NBC.

It was all right. Elisha Cuthbert plays a very Elisha Cuthbert character, I would say. Or at least it reminds me of her role on **Happy Endings.** This one’s less of a space cadet, more uptight and more a responsible adult, but there’s a sort of cheerful asexuality of characterization again. At least in the pilot.

Nick Zano (who was also on **Happy Endings,** as it happens) plays her roommate/platonic life partner, who is kind of spacy. Kelly Brook plays his new wife. Hijinks ensue.

It remains to be seen how it all goes. Only 6 episodes were ordered to start. I laughed a lot at the pilot, but it is after all a pilot, and shows can go downhill from there.

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-big-happy-elisha-cuthbert-sitcom/715322/2 "2015-03-18T20:29:37Z")

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I refuse to watch unless at least one episode revolves around her being lost in the woods and stalked by mountain lions.

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**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-big-happy-elisha-cuthbert-sitcom/715322/3 "2015-03-18T22:01:28Z")

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She’ll never live that down, will she?

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**Author:** ![Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hershele_Ostropoler)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-big-happy-elisha-cuthbert-sitcom/715322/4 "2015-03-18T22:16:50Z")

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So not a TV version of the newspaper comic, then.

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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-big-happy-elisha-cuthbert-sitcom/715322/5 "2015-03-27T04:58:38Z")

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Apparently not.

Two episodes in, and…it doesn’t suck. I like how they’re playing the uptight not!Ellen character against her very physical new roommate.