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I remember in high school "we Got It Made" was supposed to be one of the better shows of the fall offering, and I watched the first episode with some friends and beer. What immediately turned me off was that Micki the maid's voice was about 3 octaves higher than it should've been--it bordered on a screech, and her personality matched. I remember one of the guys on the show said something along the lines of "Let's have some fun by playing the music loud and putting bags over our heads." That was probably the only remotely funny line said in the show. I'd watch as the weeks went on (Micki turns blue when she applies suntan in a can when Claudia was trying to sell the idea to her snooty boss, Micki impulsively marries a foreign millionaire, Micki's overly sexy mom visits.....you get the idea). Well, the show died, and sadly, when I become nostalgic to watch this pouffy show again, I'll only have my memories to rely on because I don't think a copy of this show exists anywhere, save for NBC's vaults. Didn't Terri Copeley eventually find God in real life and become a minister?

Who would've ever guessed something existed that would make Three's Company look good?

I remember the other guy, Tom Villard (how I remember his name and not my own Moms birthday is beyond me). He lived in this house across the street from my OLD apartment in LA. One day he pulled up to me and my lil punk friends and rolled down his window and said he was in a new show called "We got it Made" and to check it out, ahaha.

I used to live next door to Tony Danza and he used to bang Teri Copley VERY loudly every night. All the boys (and men) were very bitter.

Hi. What ever happened to the Video of the theme song of "WE GOT IT MADE"? Do y'all still have it?

The title of the show was, "We Got It Made," with "Made" crossed out and "Maid" written in over it -- it was a pun! Sadly, that was about the funniest part of that show.

The correct spelling IS "We Got It Made." This is exactly WHY the show jumped from day one. The producers were TOO stupid to catch on to the play on words.

One of the great embarrassments of NBC, WE GOT IT MADE was a mercifully, short-lived sitcom about two "swinging bachelors" who hire a stacked, blonde bimbo to be their housekeeper, despite the disapproval of their girlfriends. This show jumped from day one. It was another attempt to cash in on the "jiggle" craze initiated by THREE'S COMPANY and was a dismal failure. Teri Copley may have been the worst actress on the planet and thankfully, was never seen again after this disaster. Man, this one really stunk up the place.

The theme song to this atrocity just came back to me, and I can't get it out of my head. The guys in this show were so bland I don't even remember them, and the girl was just another dumb blonde, though she's hardly memorable either. I remember watching it because it replaced a better show that had been cancelled, and even at my young and impressionable age, I remember thinking it was the stupidest show on TV. All shameless, mindless T&A.

When this show debuted, it was paired up with Cheers. The writers of TV Turkeys said that it "did neither show a favor." This show was mentioned as being a rip-off of Three's Company only with another guy and another gal. To think that Stephanie Cramer and Matt McCoy both got their starts on this show was pretty weird. As if that wasn't bad enough, they later syndicated this show in the late 1980s. Unlike Mama's Family, this one did not survive the cast changes and other switches.

It didn't take a genius to see that this show borrowed heavily from Three's Company. Fred Silverman, who was running NBC in those days, never thought twice about ripping off other shows for concepts. Matlock, which Silverman produced, was a blatant ripoff of Perry Mason. Similarly, We Got it Maid was a ripoff of Three's Company. However, instead of two women living with one man, it was two men living with one woman who was supposed to be their maid. To the poster who said he thought Amanda Bearse of Married: With Children played one of the girlfriends, you're incorrect. The girlfriends were played by Bonnie Urseth and Stephanie Cramer. Cramer of course went on to Hunter after WGIM was cancelled. Although this show jumped the shark on day one as far as I was concerned, the reason was not so much that it ripped off Three's Company as it was that it just happened to be poorly written and performed.

I saw a few episodes of it, god only knows why, and I spent my time wondering who Teri Copley slept with to get this on the air in the first place.

Yes this show sucked, and Terri Copley was hot, but remember the brunette girlfriend? Her name was Claudia I think; she was the hottest by far. Remember when her and one of the idiot main characters made that videotape which everyone later saw because they accidentally put in the VCR? Where they were dressed up as a sultan and belly dancer? Come on wasn't Claudia in the belly dancer outfit the hottest thing you ever saw? Later that guy and Terri Copley got together and he dumped the girlfriend, what was he thinking. That just shows how lame the show was.

Just a note: one of the guys was played by Matt McCoy, who went on to play the wimpy husband opposite Annabella Sciorra in the film "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle." He's an alumnus of a theatre group I spent a few years in, Wildwood Summer Theatre, in Bethesda, MD. He was a few years ahead of me tho, so I didn't know him personally. Local boy makes good!

Fred Silverman tried to imitate the success of ABC's more popular Three's Company and was shot down again!! Ridiculous plots [one of the guys accidentally seeing Mickey nude in the shower,a tanning product that turns Mickey's skin blue,an episode that revolved around a musical toilet],worse characters [an uptight lawyer,wacky guy,braindead maid,uptight girlfriend,braindead girlfriend],and did so poorly in the ratings NBC moved it to Saturday nights where it was promptly cancelled in only 6 months! It ran another year in first run syndication that replaced the uptight lawyer character with another actor!! What,the original actor [Matt McCoy]wasn't available? Teri Copley's career went in the toilet after doing this show,she posed nude in Playboy in 1990 and it didn't help much because where is she now??