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JTS DAY 1. The only bright spot on this show was Constance Marie, the woman who played Gaby. She is sooooo HOT. Now she plays George Lopez' wife on The George Lopez Show. As for the rest of the cast of Union Square..UNFORGETTABLE.

Proving that merely putting a show in the best timeslot on TV won't guarantee success, Union Square provided people with time to spend with their families, do chores, use the bathroom, anything rather than be subjected to this indescribably awful dreck. From the garishly ugly diner to the lame writing to the cast who learned to act from the back of cereal boxes, Union Square should be a charter member of Jump The Shark's new section The Hall Of Shame. No matter how much you hated the Single Guy (which I thought was really good) you'd be writing letters begging for it to come back after sitting through a show Carrot Top would consider inane

I remember having to put up with this horror of a show while waiting for Seinfeld to come on Thursday nights. It may be the the most uncreative, lifeless sitcom ever made. The writing was just so terrible and predictable it made me want to weep gently in a corner. Awful!

"Okay, I thought that was just for emergencies!" Some dimwitted ass wipe said this in the great preview for this show when it was new, as he tried to grab a slice of pie while the rotating display kept moving. Naturally he makes an "I love Lucy" caliber mess until a girl comes over and turns of the spinning part. Similarly , when this show first aired, and the writer of this half baked time waste was called at home as he watched something else, to be informed by the network executives that the show they put in the most important timeslot in the world was tanking, he explained why he had, during a long bout of the runs sat on the toilet and whipped up a whole season of this show, "I thought it was just for emergencies!", such as everything in the network vault being lost, and the live feed being lost, and something needed to be stuck in the machine to keep "dead air" from being broadcast. (Which actually likely would have beaten this shit in the ratings anyway.)

The thing that killed this show was not the cast, but the writers. This show had a really talented cast and a good time slot (Between heavy-hitters Seinfeld and Friends in 1997). It was just that the jokes were lame as well as predictable. Bazooka Joe could've written better jokes than these writers. Also, the premise of the show resembled Cheers and Wings, both NBC shows, and had the writers stopped chewing Bazooka Joe gum and getting their jokes from their, this show would have lasted at least five seasons.

This show was was a "Cheers" or "Wings" wannabe. People working and hanging around a diner. This show was poorly written and the acting was uniformly bad except for the always terrific Harriet Samson Harris.

It was just crap, plain and simple.

Yes, this show *totally sucked.* What were they thinking??? And this is coming from someone who liked "Jesse", and tolerated the first few seasons of "Veronica's Closet."

Ok I remember this suck pot of a show. I knew it was crap the first day. Why? So glad you asked! You see, the main character, who was written off after like four shows, meets some cute girl. The girl asks if he knows some other guy. The "hero" of the show gives her a sarcastic response. The problem? Well it wasn't common knowledge. It wasn't something as well known as "where is 512 Oaksteet?" from Boston Common. See that bit was funny because the sassy black woman told him to look for the building with 512 written on the side. Its funny because he should have known better. No, not on this crappy show. One this show he bitches about the questioned girl was his ex and left him. See the cute girl who asked didn't HAVE to know this. It WASN'T funny! And that canned laughter came roaring. I sat there looking at my tv. It was just bad. Just shows you, you don't need talent or skill to write some sitcoms.