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Nikki was a great show until Rygar. The wrestling thing was stupid to begin with since Las Vegas, NV is not exactly known for having pro wrestling to begin with!

I actually really watched this show for awhile, because Nikki cox is extremely hot. But Rygar the lumberjack wrestler was just too much. The whole bit about him defeating foes with foul smelling flatulance was just poor taste.

If you're a writer on this show, you have to say to yourself, "If we just filmed Nikki Cox bouncing on a trampolene for half-an-hour in slo-mo, that would be at least reasonably entertaining. My job is to ensure that this show is more entertaining than that."

You would then later have to admit to yourself, after having worked on Nikki, that you failed to perform your job.

Dude, what is wrong with you people? Yeah, I too was dubious about a sitcom on the WB, but I had to watch at least the first episode because my mom's coworker's son starred (as "the crybaby" hehehe.) and it surprised me. It's NOT just about Nikki Cox and T&A (I'm a straight female), it really does have some great characters and material! How could anyone not love those outrageous dance sequences at the beginning of the episodes? And Dwight's and Nikki's bosses were both awesome! Long live Jupiter! And Mary! Oh my god... never before has a cold-hearted sadist seemed so charming to me... (except maybe Mrs. Raven from the British comedy "My Hero"...which isn't on this page... stupid...) Unfortunately, the show probably wasn't expected to last a whole season and they ran out of ideas and yes, it SUCKED ASS the second season. The only redeeming moment was the married with children and roseanne spin-off dream sequences... but other than taht, yeah, I watched a couple more episodes in hopes that everything would be cool again, but gave up pretty soon. I wish I had recorded the first season, but I didn't, so it's lost in limbo forever...

Could there have been a more derivative television show than this one? It was as if the WB had fed the scripts for thousands of situation comedies into a computer and then put together "Nikki" from the most frequently used elements in other shows. O.K. -- we'll give the heroine a best fried and make that friend hilariously slutty (oh, dear God, didn't this one die with the screeching horror that was Kathy Griffin on "Suddenly Susan"?). And we'll give the heroine a boss and make him comically incompetent and mocked by his subordinates (the alternative cliche would have been to make him crusty but loveable, in the manner of Lou Grant). And we'll give the heroine a mother-in-law and make her -- wow, here's a daringly original comic concept -- an interfering battle-axe who is always disapproving and criticizing her daughter-in-law (I know that Doris Roberts keeps on winning Emmys for playing an even more recent version of this character on "Everybody Loves Raymond", and I must be in the minority in thinking the role a waste of her talent). We'll give the newlyweds lots of cute sex banter and no real problems, and we'll take an actress who has been pre-tested in another WB situation comedy (does any other network recycle actors as often as the WB?) in which she paraded around in skimpy outfits, and we'll dress her in revealing showgirl costumes. Take all of these hackneyed concepts and throw them in with the usual limp direction that plagues WB half-hour comedies (with some notable exceptions, like "Grosse Pointe"), and you had a sure-fire recipe for a forgettable mediocrity of a show.

The first season was quite good. Light sitcom, good characters. The production numbers at the top of each show were excellent. Nikki Cox is one of the most beautiful women on television, if not the most beautiful. The problems came in the second season. For some reason, "Dwight" came back minus maybe 80 pounds, and actually looked good. For the series that's bad. He's no longer the cute teddy bear for women, and no longer the "great white hope" for men. The casino closed, and Nikki was out of work as a dancer, ending the production numbers, the best part of the show. The wrestling league shut down. Now, instead of a show featuring hopefuls working their way up, both main characters were out of work. That's depressing, as were their snoopy neighbors. I might believe that situation with their neighbor/supers in some places, but not in Las Vegas. I think the snoopy moralizing was over the top in that town. I understand WB has five episodes that never aired. Add them to the six NBC has of The Jake Effect, which Nikki taped this year. For the record, Nikki Cox (now on NBC's Las Vegas) and Bobcat Goldthwaite are not married. They have been engaged since 2000. Something tells me there's no marriage in the works, and engaged for them means going steady. Heck, maybe I have a chance! If Dwight could do it, maybe I can.

I think it's pretty much universally agreed that Nikki Cox is a major biscuit. This show jumped the shark with the casting of her husband. He was sweet and cute enough, but he was LARGE. He just didn't look like someone who was supposed to be a professional wrestler and he didn't look like someone married to Nikki Cox (I know, neither does Bobcat Goldthwait, but a casting director didn't make that decision). He just wasn't physically believable in those roles. They should have cast someone built like The Rock.

I remember very little about the show but one episode I taped I was watching the other day. I must say Rygar is the worst character in network tv history. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Now that the shows canceled and never made it to nor will it ever make it to syndication I will cherish my piece of tv history...RYGAR!!!The strongest man in SO. Nevada

I think the very first showed that aired had the dancers doing a number where they (at least Nikki von Hooter was) dressed up like dinosours and prancing around to Blue Oyster Cult's awesome "Godzilla". The tail of Ms. Rackenstein's Godzilla suit swept across the table of some customers, destroying all in it's path. Of course, the customers are all Japanese tourists. Thus, the joke was complete, it was funny, and that was the only non-breast-oriented thing I ever liked on Mrs. Bobcat's show. I wanted to like it and I was an avid Unhappily Ever After watcher (not just for her), but even those abfab headlights of hers couldn't keep me from forgetting to tune in to watch it, whenever the hell it was on.

Let's be honest. It was an infantile show with infantile humor. It jumped the shark from day one when it wasn't on HBO and Nikki wasn't naked for 30 minutes. If you gave this hottie a show on HBO where, each episode, she takes off her top at least once, it would be a ratings smash...no matter what the plotline.

I thought the show was fuuny and just because the lead was hot with big boobs, people didn't give it a chance. It JTS when Rygar the wrestler was the topic of an entire episode, that was for sure the moment. That said I still wish it were on!~

Where do I start? First episode of this show I ever had the misfortune of watching, they put on a Vegas-style show with guillotines, and Nikki and two of her dancers get beheaded. They then toss around their severed heads for the remainder of the performance. What in the heck was going on with this show????

never because it's entire ploy to get ratings was Nikki Cox's presence on the screen and I think they achieved their goal.

I am not a comedian so I will cut straight to the point, Rygar the lumberjack wrestler guy was really, REALLY bad. It made this show jump and damn near the network!

Is the guy who called Nikki Cox ugly insane? Okay, the triangle of moles on her cheek is disconcerting, but she's a cute skinny girl with beautiful hair and a porn-starlet rack. Coming off the success of "Unhappily" the WB needed a "Nikki Cox Project" and this is what they hammered together. The choreographer and the wrestling promoter were good, the mother-in-law awful, but Susan Egan as Mary was magnificent. Yes it's "hot babe/fat guy" syndrome, ala King of Queens, Family Guy, Honeymooners, Simpsons etc. So? It's called fantasy. (Or, to be vulgar, maybe "fat jock" is a double entendre.) Those full-dress singing/dancing musical numbers at the top of each first season episode were usually the best five minutes of TV in any given week. Second season they cut costs and dropped the musicals. That and the introduction of the prudish "wacky neighbors" turned this sexy star vehicle into sit-com chum. (By the way, Nikki was even better on Norm - but Norm was total crap without her.)