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I think Molly is cute.

"You're not fat! You're just big boned!"
"Ma, bones don't jiggle!"

I think that was a "fat joke" from this show. I heard it a commercial for it on the radio. It's not that funny and, in fact, I find the juxtaposition of the words "bones" and "jiggle" to be kind of gross.

I missed this show. I watched parts of "Chase" during halftime of the Monday Night game. Despite a slight oddly shaped face, I find the blonde lead of that show attractive. Overall, it was pretty stupid. Some horrible dialogue. For the short time it's on, I will likely only be flipping to it during MNF commercials to see the pretty, tough-talking blonde lady.

Mrcreosote:
Roseanne house- that's what I was thinking, too. Possibly the Married With Children house, too.

Overweights Anonymous? Seriously? Is it online or something? Because let me tell you, as someone who has The Chubbies, I can be invisible, but if you said "That big girl at your office" to my boss, he wouldn't have to think about who you meant.

Damn. Sookie's in this piece of shit, Luke is in that other soon-to-be-canceled thing, Rory is like, dead I think, and Lane and Paris were eaten by grues. It hasn't been good for the cast of Gilmore Girls, has it.

Fat = funny!

Y'know if you're real simple.

Too bad I don't watch True Blood, I miss me some Zack. And Lane. And Brian with his deviated septum.

Everytime I see Kirk in a KGB phone commercial I want to cry.

By the way, those of you who don't live in Chicago would be forgiven for thinking that our recent epidemic of shootings is perfectly understandable if that's the caliber of cop we have on the streets.

Ooh you're RIGHT, bees! I remember I actually gasped when I realized it was him. Took me way too long.

Dustin has the right feel of it with:

Not a single one of these jokes are funny.

However,

Posted by: PaddyDog at September 21, 2010 5:08 PM
Posted by: PaddyDog at September 21, 2010 5:10 PM

Paddy, I love reading what you write around here, but the fact that the first bemoans the stereotype of "the fat chick" in the sitcom (which I hate as well), followed immediately by the second taking the low-hanging fruit potshot at "the fat guy" stereotype used by the exact same medium? Can't we leave at it's disappointing that BOTH of the starring actors here are forced to make unfunny jokes about their bodies?

i've actually known any number of fat people, who find away to talk about being fat pretty much non-stop. usually self-depracating comments. it gets really uncomfortable after a while.

I have this DVR'd. I was hoping against hope that maybe, just this once, fat people could be, you know, just PEOPLE. On a crappy sitcom.

Well, I'll just watch reruns of BBC shows that have Caroline Quentin as a larger woman who has a job and relationships and solves murders and has wacky misadventures while solving gruesome crimes. Sometimes all at once!

McCarthy's WAY too good for this shit. Embarrassing to admit but I watched an episode of Lipstick Jungle once....kay maybe more than once (Fuck off, I love Brooke Shields)...and on this one episode McCarthy was a bride to be getting her wedding dress designed by the CRAP fashion designer one, and it was all OMG I assumed she'd be sample size but shock horror she's fat, how are we to handle this terrible situation?!! PATHETIC.

"Chuck Lorre (“Two and a Half Men...)"

Ummm... that pretty much guarantees the show will be insufferably stupid.

But when I've just been mugged at gunpoint and I run around the corner to the patrol cop who looks like the guy in the sitcom and he's having trouble breathing just walking down the street, I reserve the right to mock.

Understandably so. I'm just for everyone being fair game, including McCarthy (whom I like) and there being no sacred cows (I'll have to come back with a different allusion for this instance).

I wonder what it might be like if "The Cosby Show" was nothing but self-depreciating black jokes, or if "Life Goes On" was just a series of lame jokes about handicapped people or AIDS one-liners. How about if "Will & Grace" was nothing but a show about mean-spirited gay jokes, or "Golden Girls" about how worthless older people are?

The point is even if someone out there thought these jokes were in fact funny, the people who are the subject of them are unlikely to agree. And nobody really wants to watch a show that does little else than to take constant cheap potshots at them. And quite frankly, nobody want to watch a show that goes after the types of people they know and care about either. One errant joke can be accepted or even ignored. An entire episode's worth, and you generally get tired of it really fast and change the channel. We get it. They're fat. Anything else to add? No? *CLICK!

To my knowledge the only show that successfully had a character who was openly ignorant and hurtful on people based on their ethnicity, faith, beliefs or appearance was Archie Bunker. Everyone else in the cast made the point of pointing out the error of his ways. The show might have made jokes on some of the things he said, but never did it suggest it was ever acceptable. And even then he never sat around making jokes about what a pathetic, fat, bigoted, blue-collared Irish Catholic he was. He had a little more self-worth than that.

@PaddyDog

The scariest part is that Will & Grace didn't necessarily start out that way, but gradually got worse as the show sank into self-parody. Given Dustin's review, one wonders how this show will manage to get worse. Not that I don't think they are up to the challenge. You know one of the characters is going to be shown waking up covered in Cheetohs. Maybe we could start a list of expected jokes. I'll start:

Someone tries to hide that they are eating and turns around with chocolate smeared on their face.

@alphawhiskey if Peter Lorre was in this show I'd watch the shit out of it.

Here's a thought: What if Mike and Molly benefit from their Overeaters Anonymous connection and actually lose appreciable weight over the course of the season? That would be different and maybe uplifting, no?

Okay. Can't do that on TV. Sorry I mentioned it.