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Day One
Never Jumped
Special Guest Star (Dolly Parton)
Shark Bytes
The replacement for Babe Carey is not up to parr, I sorry your choice is not good enough to follow the first Babe. Should have never recast, should have sent her away and brought her back later or at lease till the audience forgot how great the first Babe was.
Ok, as a huge Dolly fan, I have to say I can't imagine her guest starring on a show being the cause of it's jumping the shark. There are shows I've never wanted to watch where I sat through a whole episode for the amazing Miss Dolly!
Clearly, BABES jumped from day one. A ridiculous idea for a sitcom that in this day and age of political correctness, would probably never get a pilot greenlighted. A sitcom based on three "weight-challenged" characters laughing at themselves in hopes that we would laugh was just pathetic. The saddest thing about this sitcom, however, was that it was a complete waste of the richly gifted Wendie Jo Sperber, who was so much better than crap like this. RIP, Wendie Jo.
I found "Babes" to be humorous and light-hearted. The women had real, everyday problems, but always had a sense of humor about their problems. I wish FOX would re-air it and cancel some of these other shows, which lack comedic and real value.
This show was unique, and it wasn't given time to jump. I could relate to the humour, and the women were beautiful, confident and livin' life large. Way too ahead of its time, sadly, as there hasn't been a show with such a viewpoint since.
I liked this show mainly because i've always liked Wendy Jo Sperber. I still remember her in "1941".Wendy stole the show, she was funny!Babes could have been better if they got out of the studio and the jokes didn't obsess about their weight. Wendy Jo is great!
Leslie Boone was a 350-pound hotty! She's still cute, but when she was really fat, during "Babes," she was the bomb!
you gotta give fox a lot of credit for doing this show. it took big gals and made em sexy. to us out there that love our ladies on the bigger side, this was a shot in the arm for that. not every body likes their women a size0. this really hit the mark with us "chubby chasers"
Never jumped. It should have been called "Babe" not "Babes." This is because Leslie Boone really was a babe and deserved the title. I'd have gone out with her in a second. The other two...Wendy Jo Sperber and Susan Peretz...ECCHH!! They were hard to look at.
Y'know since this was on Fox at the same time as Married...With Children, they should've done some crossover episodes with both shows. Oh, the outrageous chaos that would ensue with Al and those, "Babes."
this was a fantastic show for guys like me who love to make fun of stupid shows. and what's with all this crap about not being able to make fun of fat girls nowadays? the movie Shallow Hal got blasted because all the fat girls complained it was unfair to portray a guy imagining his fat girlfriend is skinny. there're comedies making fun of blind people, deaf people, and crippled people, and that's okay, but it isn't okay to make fun of fat people? if you're fat you can loose weight, but if you're blind, deaf or crippled what you have is permanent. it just doesn't make sense. but back on track - Babes ruled and that's that!!!!!!!
When Dolly Parton appeared and they all sang "Why'd You Come Here Looking Like That"...All that weight on one stage...and incidentally the day that episode was tape there was this huge earthquake in Japan that rated a 6.0 on the richter scale!
The Hell with you guys lambasting this show for having fat women on! Us folks who lust for Big Girls need some Eye Candy too, y'know! OKAY, so the show SUCKED (I THINK I saw 1/4 of an episode), still, it was brave enough to take supposedly "unpopular body types" and splash them all over the screen. It shoulda been given another chance and some GOOD scripts that didn't pull out Shecky Green-style Fat Jokes, BUT all *I* had to do was turn the sound off to LOVE this show!!
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