The Trouble With Larry aired from August until September 1993 on CBS.
Sally ( Shanna Reed) was living a quiet life in Syracuse, New York, with her very sensible, very predictable, very reliable, and very boring second husband, Boyd ( Perry King), along with Lindsay ( Alex McKenna), her nine-year-old daughter from her first marriage. Sally's world was seriously disrupted when her first husband, Larry ( Bronson Pinchot), who had been carried off by baboons during their African honeymoon and presumed dead , showed up in Syracuse after returning to America on a tramp steamer. Larry was everything Boyd was not-childlike, spontaneous, entertaining, adventuresome, and fun. After helping Sally save the lease on an art gallery she ran with her sexy younger sister, Gabriella ( Courtney Cox), Larry talked his way into living temporarily with his ex-wife and her family. Boyd was uncomfortable with the manic Larry, Lindsay loved him, Gabriella hated him and Sally wasn't sure how she felt about him.
CBS gave this series a head start on the 1993-1994 season by premiering it in late August. Unfortunately the head start didn't help much. After scathing reviews and three weeks of low ratings, The Trouble With Larry left the air before the season of which it was supposed to be a part had even begun.
A Review from Variety
The Trouble with Larry the Homecoming
((Wed. (25), 8-8:30 p.m., CBS-TV))
By TONY SCOTT
Filmed in Burbank by Highest Common Denominator Prods., Meleager Prods. and Warner Bros. TV. Exec producers-creators-writers, Andrew Nicholls, Darrell Vickers; producers, Jim Herzfeld, Jan Siegelman; supervising producer, Lisa Rosenthal; director, Joel Zwick.
Cast: Bronson Pinchot, Courteney Cox, Alex McKenna, Shanna Reed, Perry King, Marianne Muellerleile, Michael Leopard.
Bronson Pinchot stars in this new series as Larry Burton, a manic funny man lost in Africa 10 years ago who unexpectedly comes home to his re-
married wife. The actor and the sharp script should grab audiences quickly: The sitcom has humor, good characters -- and Pinchot.
Larry's slashing fat jokes aboard a freighter home from Africa are painful;but once he's in Syracuse, where his wife Sally (Shanna Reed) lives with second husband Boyd (Perry King) and daughter Lindsay (Alex McKenna), he discovers his true comedy turf.
Learning of his blurry marital status, he rediscovers Sally's sister, Gabriella (Courteney Cox), who has grown into a beautiful, challenging adult. Gabriella, who uses not-so-funny sexual innuendoes as part of her defense arsenal, dismisses Larry as the clown he is.
First episode uses an art gallery operated by Gabriella and Sally as a plot gimmick in which Larry can flash his versatility -- it works. Pinchot's a comic whirling dervish, and as long as the producers can keep him in such high-flown material, "Larry" will be a draw. The trouble with Larry, of course, will be if he ever runs low on shtick.
Cox shows a hearty spirit as well as beauty, and Reed displays a warm side, explaining why Larry took to her a decade ago. King, does what he can with a one-note role, while youngster McKenna avoids the cutes.
A Review from Entertainment Weekly
TV Review
Dead on Arrival
Bronson Pinchot returns to TV life, but his show's a stiff
--By Ken Tucker
The troubling The Trouble With Larry (CBS, Sept. 8, 8-8:30 p.m.) attempts to showcase the wiggy comic talent of its star, Perfect Strangers' Bronson Pinchot, but the series leaves him stranded without much help from the writers or costars. The result is an uglier viewing experience than might have been necessary. The show's premise is pleasingly peculiar: Pinchot's Larry, presumed dead for 10 years, suddenly returns to his wife, Sally, played by Major Dad's Shanna Reed. The problem is, Sally is remarried to a stuffy fellow played by Perry King (Riptide, Almost Home). Improbably, Larry moves into the house, bantering with the new couple and making risque comments to Sally's sister, played by Family Ties' Courteney Cox in the season's most superfluous supporting role-what on earth possessed the charming Cox to take a part that requires her to do nothing more than stand around fetchingly and be the object of Larry's (and, by extension, our) leers? Watching Pinchot flail through lousy punch lines and Cox endure ogling, you may find The Trouble With Larry not just not-funny, but actively depressing. D+
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