Gary Unmarried WTF? Why Is This On Air?!

[Australis]

I watched a couple of eps of this and eventually turned it off, bashing my head on the desk to get some feeling back into it.

I fucking hate this show. The main character is so intensely stupid and pig thick ignorant sexist that it should be impossible for him to move his eyes and breathe at the same time. I'm no PC guy, but his treatment of the women in his life really offends me, and any normal would have done a Bobbit on him by the end of ep 2.

Why is dreck like this allowed to be made, let alone find an audience? Seriously?

 

[startrekwatcher]

I have found pretty much all of the sitcoms that have come out over the last decade to be awful and not the least bit funny.

If I need a humor fix I'll watch an older sitcom like Roseanne, The Golden Girls, Married..With Children etc. About the only decent one these days that I've caught here and there is Modern Family--the rest can go away for all I care.

 

[Base_Delta_Zero]

Gary is great with his kids, still loves his ex despite their mutual cutthroat banter and does pretty well with the ladies. Have you watched more than the first few eps? The show's only gotten better since the pilot.

He's a guy who acts, like, well, a guy. Which is refreshing after the series of husband/doormats that have trundled across the tv screen over the last few years.

Oh, well. My entire family, mother and sister included, think Gary Unmarried is one of the funniest things on tv. Along with The New Adventures of Old Christine and Two and a Half Men, there's tons of funny for us to DVR.

 

[Pingfah]

Oh, well. My entire family, mother and sister included, think Gary Unmarried is one of the funniest things on tv.

Really? Well maybe i'll give it a go.

Along with The New Adventures of Old Christine and Two and a Half Men

Or then again, maybe not

 

[John Picard]

I have found pretty much all of the sitcoms that have come out over the last decade to be awful and not the least bit funny.

If I need a humor fix I'll watch an older sitcom like Roseanne, The Golden Girls, Married..With Children etc. About the only decent one these days that I've caught here and there is Modern Family--the rest can go away for all I care.

Roseanne? <<<runs from the room puking>>>

 

[startrekwatcher]

I have found pretty much all of the sitcoms that have come out over the last decade to be awful and not the least bit funny.

If I need a humor fix I'll watch an older sitcom like Roseanne, The Golden Girls, Married..With Children etc. About the only decent one these days that I've caught here and there is Modern Family--the rest can go away for all I care.

Roseanne? <<<runs from the room puking>>>

Your loss since it was a great dramedy that dealt with a lot of real issues in a way that only Roseanne could have with her trademark wit and humor never veering into lowbrow or puerile humor that a lot of sitcoms do these days. Sadly, like so many shows, it went off the rails at the very end but it had a solid 7 year run before its two poor seasons.

 

[John Picard]

I have found pretty much all of the sitcoms that have come out over the last decade to be awful and not the least bit funny.

If I need a humor fix I'll watch an older sitcom like Roseanne, The Golden Girls, Married..With Children etc. About the only decent one these days that I've caught here and there is Modern Family--the rest can go away for all I care.

Roseanne? <<<runs from the room puking>>>

Your loss since it was a great dramedy that dealt with a lot of real issues in a way that only Roseanne could have with her trademark wit and humor never veering into lowbrow or puerile humor that a lot of sitcoms do these days. Sadly, like so many shows, it went off the rails at the very end but it had a solid 7 year run before its two poor seasons.

Sorry, but "Roseanne ... and her trademark wit and humor" to me are like nails on a chalkboard.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Why is dreck like this allowed to be made

Who's going to stop it? Why should anyone try to stop it? Whose business is it to do that?

I have no issue with stupid stuff being made and allowed to find an audience or die. After all, I don't have to watch it. I've never seen one millisecond of this particular show, but given that there are hundreds of cable channels, it's not like it stopped something else from being made. A massive amount of stuff is always being made for TV, and even if 1% of it is worth watching, that's several hours of TV viewing per week, more than enough for my limited schedule.

The only comedies I like now are Chuck (which is only halfway a comedy anyhow) and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (which is not the kind of thing that's easy to replicate in one knockoff show after another).

 

[Australis]

It's just that this show sets comedy back ten years. The main character is so dumb and treats women whoi aren't his former wife as tits on legs.

Gaaaaahhhh. My werds, dey run owt.

 

[Hermiod]

It's just that this show sets comedy back ten years. The main character is so dumb and treats women whoi aren't his former wife as tits on legs.

As opposed to a recently successful "comedy" that got turned in to a hugely successful film that treated men who aren't gay like they were cocks on legs to be valued solely on the size of said appendage ?

 

[blaXXer]

You wanna be offended? Two words: Barney Stinson.

Legen-wait for it-dary!

 

[TheSeeker]

My wife and I really like this one. It's the only sitcom we actually watch. And you've have to give me an example of the horrible way he treats the women in his life, because I'm not seeing it.

 

[ALF]

Is it actually worse than 2 And a Half Men?

 

[Broccoli]

It's just that this show sets comedy back ten years. The main character is so dumb and treats women whoi aren't his former wife as tits on legs.

As opposed to a recently successful "comedy" that got turned in to a hugely successful film that treated men who aren't gay like they were cocks on legs to be valued solely on the size of said appendage ?

That's such a Samantha thing to say.

 

[Dusty Ayres]

FWIW, here's a review of the show from last year:

Two new sitcoms, Gary Unmarried and Worst Week, are both about good guys trying to do right and often screwing up, 'cause that's what guys do (shrug, smile!). With that formula, both comedies fit well on CBS, TV's official ''The Boy Can't Help It'' network, which has brought us such clueless-dude programming as Everybody Loves Raymond, The King of Queens, Still Standing, Rules of Engagement, and Two and a Half Men.
Gary is by far the more mold-fitting show, down to the mechanical laugh track and zoiks! reaction shots. Former SNL comic Jay Mohr, who once had an edgy rep with the satiric 1999 series Action, is crammed into the friendly-idiot role here. He's Gary, a newly divorced father of two, who has — get this — a strident, exasperated ex-wife (Paula Marshall) who must remind him which kid takes herbal supplements before bed. ''If I try to give you ginkgo tonight, don't take it,'' Gary warns his son (Ryan Malgarini), in a great throwaway line. Gary's at its sharpest in these quick, toss-off moments, probably because Mohr seems most comfortable in them: He has a nice, twitchy scene with Ed Begley Jr., who plays his former marriage counselor and new nemesis. But give him too long a setup, or too tender an emotion, and things get awkward, like when he says to a potential girlfriend (Kitchen Confidential's Jaime King), ''I reeeally like you, I doo-ooo,'' in a disturbing singsongy shot at earnestness. Gary's uneven because it doesn't feel like a sitcom working for Mohr, but Mohr working for a sitcom. He doesn't make or break the jokes — he only delivers them, the comedic equivalent of the phrase ''Hey, I just work here.''

Gary Unmarried Review From EW *


*The grade given this show was C+.

 

[Base_Delta_Zero]

Again, early episodes. They've done well to strip away aspects/characters on the show that just weren't quite right.

 

[Australis]

Maybe I'll give it a rewatch, if changes are ion play.

Though I don't hold out much hope, after seeing a commercial when he says to a woman, "Do you use your tits for good or for evil?"

 

[Jono]

It's a lot better to its competition on TEN, Accidentally on Purpose.

 

[Australis]

Mmm, one look at Jenna Elfman and I just want to run away. Especially when she treies to pull that cute shit.