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According to Jim
Dennis Burger
09/01/2005
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Produced by: Touchstone Television
Network: ABC
Scheduled: Tuesday, 9 p.m.
Reviewed on: WNCF-DT, Montgomery
Channel: 32 (51 Digital)
 Here’s the premise: A stout shlub of a husband with a hot temper and a
never-ending stream of lame blue-collar one-liners deals with such
earth-shattering dilemmas as being forced to sit in the Packers section of a
Bears home game. His wife, of course a total babe, not to mention the brains of
the family, stands by her man through thick and thicker. Vary the patriarch’s
vocation and the wife’s level of subservience, and you have a multiple-choice
template for every nine out of ten sitcoms made since The Honeymooners.
According to Jim neither adds to nor subtracts anything from the tired
formula. It has no message, no real wit, and nothing resembling plausibility. It
is a show for people who think that Red Lobster constitutes fine seafood. Other
than the enjoyable soundtrack, which does nothing with its 5.1-channel palette
but manages to deliver a healthy dose of bass, there are exactly two reasons to
watch the show: Courtney Thorne-Smith’s mammary reaction to what is apparently a
chilly set and ABC’s gorgeous 720p presentation—the latter of which serves to
reinforce ones enjoyment of the
former.
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