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It's bad enough that famed "Three's Company" star John Ritter passed away while doing 8 Simple Rules. (Rest in peace, John...we miss you.) But when ABC decided to hire the p***k from the Capital One commercials (David Spade), the show lost whatever humor was left. It would have been a h*** of a lot funnier if Juan Valdez replaced John Ritter and ABC renamed the show "8 Simple Rules For Growing a Coffee Plantation".
Jumped with Ritter's death.
(Ya gotta know ABC was twisted up over that. Here the network finally got a hit show among the dregs of the season and the lead actor keels over. My suggestion would be to not cast any person for Ritter's role but keep placing in different people every week. First week: Chris Rock. Second week: Drew Carey Third week: Xena in full Warrior Princess garb. Fourth week: All the guys from "Reservoir Dogs". Fifth week: Eric Cartman. Now that would be entertaining.)
(Ya gotta know ABC was twisted up over that. Here the network finally got a hit show among the dregs of the season and the lead actor keels over. My suggestion would be to not cast any person for Ritter's role but keep placing in different people every week. First week: Chris Rock. Second week: Drew Carey Third week: Xena in full Warrior Princess garb. Fourth week: All the guys from "Reservoir Dogs". Fifth week: Eric Cartman. Now that would be entertaining.)
I wish 8 simple rules was still on. billy aaron brown, the guy in a few MK&A movies/shows is a great addition to the show as bridget's boyfriend, then later kerry's. they should have made jonathan taylor thomas a regular as bridget's boyfriend, i loved him too! principal ed gibb was ok as cate's former flame. grandpa jim is the way i would want my grandpa to be, and C.J is just cool. john ritter is hilarious.
8 simple rules is my FAVORITE show. I loved every episode. the episodes after John Ritter has helped me too, i lost my mom, and i feel especially feel comforted when katey or grandpa speak and C.J makes me laugh with his nice guy-always happy-speak his mind (in a good way, definately not annoying) attitude that he has.
8 simple rules was a terrific show! katey sagal is great, john ritter is great, grandpa and the kids are great, and i myself love david spade. he's a kid at heart and i bet he'd be one fun dad if he had kids. great cast of characters and i bet they felt that from day one.
I'm with Sunshine that the show's premise was flawed from the beginning and that War At Home was far superior. I pretty much watched 8SR only for Kaley. I've never thought Ritter was funny and everything he did on 8SR was predictable and stale. I would physically cringe when the set moved to his work because it was guaranteed to suck there without even having some boobies to distract you. I've never been a big fan of physical comedy but Scrubs carries it off much better than Ritter ever did.
Jumped from day one. The whole show was a throwback to the family sitcoms of the 80s and 90s. It was at least 15 years out of date. Compare it to The War at Home, and you’ll see what I mean. The tired premise of near-flawless parents trying to reign in their teenagers is just too old to be any good. The family itself is just one great big cliché:
Middle class white suburban family? Check.
Parents met at college and/or high school? Check – it’s the “correct” thing to do.
(In reality only about 15-20% of people meet their future spouses in this way)
Both had wild pasts? Check – well the mom did at least.
Dad love sports? Check.
Mom love housework? Check
Both are amazingly insightful? Check.
2.4 kids? Check.
At least one of them blonde and popular? Check.
At least one of them smart yet needy? Check.
All full of untapped potential? Check.
All attractive? Check.
(Seriously where are all the dumb/fat/spotty/ugly/weird/shy/lonely/aggressive kids?)
Annoying neighbors? Check.
Low crime area? Check.
Fully equipped and progressive American high school? Check.
Complete with stereotypical nerds/jocks/cliques ect? Check.
Some people think the show went wrong with the many changes it endured. Personally I think it was wrong from day one and just got progressively worse. John Ritter’s death was hardly a blow to its quality. I don’t like to speak Ill of the dead, but I never considered him to be a good actor, and his character was wholly annoying in this show. The appearance of CJ and Grandpa was just the icing on a rancid cake. Bridget’s attempts to get into Harvard (or Yale or something) were just ludicrous. I’m sure that are plenty of hot blondes who are smart, but they are few and far between and her character up until this point had shown nothing indicative of Ivy League material. Rory seemed to increasingly be batting well above his average with girls who looked decidedly older than 15. And the other one seemed to get moodier rather than more mature. The final straw was the Freaky Friday episode which just smacked of desperation.
However, the worse thing about this show was the inclusion of Katy Sagal. She is and has always been an amazing actress, but her presence just reminded me of the vastly superior Married… with Children. Although that show was just one long gag fest, it effectively inverted (and perverted) the whole American family sitcom. A working class family, parents married because daddy knocked up mommy, neither went to college. He works in a dead end job, she’s lazy and abusive, their daughter’s a dumb slut and their son’s an oily little looser. This was a truly amazing show, and marked what I hoped would be the end to the cozy and unimaginative family sitcom of the past. Sadly I was wrong.
Middle class white suburban family? Check.
Parents met at college and/or high school? Check – it’s the “correct” thing to do.
(In reality only about 15-20% of people meet their future spouses in this way)
Both had wild pasts? Check – well the mom did at least.
Dad love sports? Check.
Mom love housework? Check
Both are amazingly insightful? Check.
2.4 kids? Check.
At least one of them blonde and popular? Check.
At least one of them smart yet needy? Check.
All full of untapped potential? Check.
All attractive? Check.
(Seriously where are all the dumb/fat/spotty/ugly/weird/shy/lonely/aggressive kids?)
Annoying neighbors? Check.
Low crime area? Check.
Fully equipped and progressive American high school? Check.
Complete with stereotypical nerds/jocks/cliques ect? Check.
Some people think the show went wrong with the many changes it endured. Personally I think it was wrong from day one and just got progressively worse. John Ritter’s death was hardly a blow to its quality. I don’t like to speak Ill of the dead, but I never considered him to be a good actor, and his character was wholly annoying in this show. The appearance of CJ and Grandpa was just the icing on a rancid cake. Bridget’s attempts to get into Harvard (or Yale or something) were just ludicrous. I’m sure that are plenty of hot blondes who are smart, but they are few and far between and her character up until this point had shown nothing indicative of Ivy League material. Rory seemed to increasingly be batting well above his average with girls who looked decidedly older than 15. And the other one seemed to get moodier rather than more mature. The final straw was the Freaky Friday episode which just smacked of desperation.
However, the worse thing about this show was the inclusion of Katy Sagal. She is and has always been an amazing actress, but her presence just reminded me of the vastly superior Married… with Children. Although that show was just one long gag fest, it effectively inverted (and perverted) the whole American family sitcom. A working class family, parents married because daddy knocked up mommy, neither went to college. He works in a dead end job, she’s lazy and abusive, their daughter’s a dumb slut and their son’s an oily little looser. This was a truly amazing show, and marked what I hoped would be the end to the cozy and unimaginative family sitcom of the past. Sadly I was wrong.
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