Shark Bytes

This show was one of the funniest productions ever and It's a terrible shame that it isn't more highly regarded. Most people I mention it to can't even remember it. It's plots and dialogue were just perfect subversive/alternative humour, never pulling punches or pandering to left-wing pc conformity. They only aired sesons 1-2 in the UK so I can't comment on any thing after though. I fully intend to buy the whole bunch in a DVD box set one day though.

Ths is the ultimate Jump the Shark show for me. I treasured this show and it was consistently great right up until the moment that Martin opened his door and Wendy Mallick told him "I'm in." Never would a show have had a more perfect ending if they left the air then. But instead they did one more season that had absolutely no point and they pretty much raced to do everythign you can do to ruin a show. None of it worked and I was left with a bad taste in my mouth. Brain Benben, you deserved better.

Great show, but everything about Dr. Richard Stone was waaaaaaaaay behond annoying. And when he died (I rejoiced too soon) then they do that crap with his "genius" infant? CHOMP!!!

When I realized that there was no way in real life a guy like Martin Tupper could have slept with all of those beautiful women. Eddie Charles, yes. Martin Tupper, no!

I'd have to agree with the last guest. This show never jumped, but it did come close a couple of times. Fortunately, it never quite got up the ramp.

Never Jumped - funny right till the end, great actors, and great use of old black and white clips (plus all the sex didnt hurt)!

I loved this show, but due to the weird time it was screened in Britain and my own moving around I have only ever seen the first couple of series (I have them on DVD but the rest aren't out here). I love the old clips and Martin's neurotic behaviour, the frankness about sex, all of it. All the same, isn't it impressive the way Eddie's "cosmetic surgery" not only changes his face, but makes him suddenly a head taller than Martin?

Let's put it this way, if Dream On aired ten years after it did it would be considered up there with Sex in the City. It was just ten years too soon. Also I used "You can't suck your thumb and your dick at the same time" at my reenlistment speech, thanks Gibby.

Never...the show was insanely funny. I will always remember the episode when Martin writes a play and Eddie pays to produce it, then takes over as director and changes the whole plot, leading to Eddies' line: "If there's some tension between our characters, it's because your grandfather called my grandfather a darkie. By the way, you're (Martin's character) a latent homosexual."

At least that's what I can remember I was young and probably shouldn't have been watching it but, even as a 10 or 111 year old i thought it was funny and i couldn't wait for the sex scenes Martin Tupper was always banging it made me think i should be an editor with all that sex going on, and the flashbacks to the old black & white TV were the show!!

This show never jumped. It was my favorite TV show of all time. Not only were the use of old TV clips brilliant, but Crane and Kauffman started with a wonderful premise - Martin Tupper, newly divorced, goes back into the singles world. It came full circle when he and Judith got back together at the end - although I liked Nina best as well. Most touching episode - Gibby callously shelves plans for an autobiography of an author with AIDS, whom Martin has worked with and grown close to. Martin takes it to another editor and gets it published and has a touching farewell with the author's mother after his death. Amazingly, it was a tear-jerker, as good as or better than in their subsequent series "Friends" "The One Where Mr. Heckles Dies." Notably, Courtney Cox appeared in one episode in lingerie ( pre-anorexia )and was set to do a three-some with Martin and his best friend, Eddie Charles. I lived at an apartment complex while this show was on and we would have Dream On nights on Wednesdays when the new episodes would come out, and 6 to 8 people would show up just to watch this show. Brian Benben was, unfortunately, another casualty of a wretched George Lucas production, "RadioLand Murders," or some such drivel. Also directed by John Landis, who did "Animal House," and "The Blues Brothers." It would be difficult to name another recent series with this much talent under one roof.

The day I interviewed for a job there and the incredibly self-satisfied, incredibly obnoxious Executive Producer (who seemed to relish making me, the job candidate, squirm) started talking......and talking.........and talking. I was a marginal fan of the show who really just wanted the $ and TV credit but after leaving the interview, knew that if I got the job he'd make my life hell (I didn't get it thankfully). Sour grapes.....you betch'ya. But honestly....always thought it was overrated and overly smug.

This show never jumped in my opinion; it just got better and better. The writers could so easily have been lazy and relied on the movie inserts to carry it along, but they didn't. Instead those same inserts just enhanced the already wonderful script. That, coupled with the judicious use of nudity and swearing made this a complete winner for me.

This was a great series. But all I can remember is that HBO did a countdown to the finale, which is a sign that the last season was forgettable. But what really prompted my post is my disbelief that of all the rave reviews posted here, Uncle Bouncy is not mentioned a single time. That may be one of the funniest hours of TV ever - Tom Poston asking Martin if he wants to make a quick $20, James Woods cross examination of Elizabeth Shue about her father's, um, sexual preferences. I'm laughing now. Is this series available on DVD yet?

I think it was that one with David Bowie as the director for the biopic about Martin's ex's husband. To paraphrase Homer (Simpson), I never thought I'd say this about anything to do with David Bowie but that was kind of dumb. A show that was an expert at subtlety had to make unfunny "point-with-a-sledgehammer" humour to make fun of filmmaking. It wasn't that bad a show though, although I was about 10 when I first saw it, and that's when I thought it was REALLY funny.