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Well I thought it was HILARIOUS. I think it's just the American humour, they played it in the UK on Paramount and it made me cry with laughter. It's light-hearted, some people take things waay too seriously. I think she's amazing, and she may not be the best actress but she's naturally funny, mostly when she doesn't try.

One of my all time best TV shows. I wish I could get all 17 episodes on DVD. Gutted!
Inception. Jenny McCarthy is - I think - a wonderfully gifted comedienne whose chance at a great career was sunk with this turkey and it has never fully recovered which is a shame since she can, in the right project, be a joy to watch. I truly hope she fired her agent and manager for guiding her into this abomination.
This show jumped the shark by not having Jenny showing her best assets, pun intended. I mean what did the producers think, her popularity was based on her looks, not her acting talent. By having her walk around in anything more than a thong and see-through blouse guaranteed the shows failure
JTS DAY 1. Jenny McCarthy. She parlayed a nude pictorial into a flash-in-the-pan 15 minute career. Good for her. What was NBC thinking? This show was HORRIBLE. Jenny was bad...Her supporting cast was bad. At least NBC pulled the plug in time. Hey Jenny...You got famous for being NAKED. Stop trying to be an actress. Nobody will watch a show that you are on unless you are NAKED. Give it up, cupcake.
Jenny never jumped. I think that you people take these shows way too seriously and fail to see that for the most part sitcoms are just sappy fun. I live in Australia and never got to see very many episodes, but I taped everyone I saw and I still watch them and laugh. Jenny McCarthy is a talented comedian, and that should be what is seen from her show and not just that she would never have been given the opportunity to make it had she not posed nude. At least she went out there and made something of herself. That makes her talented regardless of her past.
I thought the main place where this show went wrong was where someone decided to have the woman who played Jenny's friend act just like Jenny. It was so fake and forced. They should have gone with her strengths as an actress, and created a character that had a DIFFERENT personality from Jenny's...If someone on that show had done even some slight studying of successful sitcoms, they would see that the characters are often different from each other. That's where a lot of comedy comes from. I guess someone thought two Jenny McCarthy's were better than one.
I want to say this show jumped from Day One, but that would be ignoring that awful promo ad NBC aired in the summer of '97. All I remember from it was Jenny dancing and "singing": "My name is Jenn-NEEEE and I'm coming in the fall" (or something like that) and George Hamilton singing, "I'll be playing Jenny's father, whose name is Father!" The silliness of the promo doomed JENNY from the start. I will say this for Jenny as a person, though--in this day and age of actresses thinking they have to starve themselves, it was cool when Jenny admitted (in her book and on LENO) that she dines frequently at Mickey D's, Burger King, etc. and that she wasn't into the whole "no sugar, no salt, no red meat, no sweets" BS agenda that everyone in Hollywood thinks they have to follow. Hopefully, Jenny can enjoy the rest of her life with the money she made during her brief fling with TV fame. PEACE!
Jenny McCarthy is a witless, fake-blond-fake-boob bimbo. She sucks the pus out of dead rats. Everything she's done has been a laughable failure. I read a few years back she "regrets" posing naked in Playboy and wouldn't do it again. Wanna bet? I give it two years.
I liked this show for the same reasons as any other red-blooded man (Jenny McCarthy AND Heather Paige Kent), but being that this show was on a Sunday, there was a reason NBC was hoping for a Game 7 of the Indians-Marlins World Series. They got it, and this show was never on again. The fact that the network brass would rather have a who-cares World Series game involving teams with no big TV market than a show with 2 hot chicks that they were promoting for months in advance shows (from an objective viewpoint) what a turkey this was!
the idea was that she was from Utica,NY and now living in LA. Nice idea but, lets have someone do a little research about the area first. I live here in utica and all the stuff she said about NY made sure that neither her or her boobs are welcome in this state. who ever thought that this show was a good idea should get their head out of their ass and go back to the night shift at the quickie-mart.
This show jumped the shark the first time they played that stupid advertisement for it with the singing and the glamour. She's not a sitcom actress.
NBC chickened out on this show. They didn't emphasize enough of McCarthy's "dirty pillows." Apparently, she wanted to really tart it up, with pillow fights, grotto swimming contests, steam room exercise videos, secret cheerleader rituals. Instead, we got George Hamilton.
The show JTS B4 it even started when Jenny thought the boobs would like be cool and she caught the hairpees disease. that is the end of many a woo-woo girl.
With this show, Jenny McCarthy wanted to prove to the world that she's more than just huge breasts. Um, turned out she was wrong.
The first time an NBC exec said, "We should give Jenny McCarthy her own show!!" Too bad her boobs couldn't talk.
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Jenny
First Show 1997
Slot Time 8:30 pm
Last Show 1998
Slot Day Sunday
Genre Comedy
Network NBC
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