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06-07-2004, 01:51 AM
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The Drew Carey Show, in Fact, Wasn't Cancelled Two Years Ago By Billy Green and Johnny Dangerous
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I was pretty surprised to hear that The Drew Carey Show had recently taped its final episode. It was surprising, because I thought the show was cancelled two years ago. Actually, I wasn't quite sure what had happened to the show; I just remember that ABC moved it around to different time slots, so I lost track off it, and then couldn't find the show for the longest time in any TV listings. But the show was still listed on the ABC website, which made me completely confused as to whether it had been cancelled or not.
In fact, this question arose one night when I had a dream in which I was in the movie Dawn of the Dead. The zombies would only appear at night, but were still able to eat up most of humanity. My family took refuge in a mall, like in the movie, and I was able to repeal the zombies using crazy Star Trek technology from the future such as laser guns and teleporters. But it was not enough to defend ourselves, and the mall no longer became secure, since almost everyone on Earth had been turned into zombies. So we were forced to leave the mall. We had to constantly flee from the zombies, because even while they only came out at night, and we made sure to turn off all the lights and hide, this guy that looked like Raffi kept giving away are position by looking outside to see the zombies. I think we would have killed him because he was annoying, but come on, the guy wrote "Baby Beluga."
Luckily, Drew Carey offered my family refuge in the last outpost of humanity, which was a settlement in Cleveland centered around his house from the show where Oswald, Lewis and the rest of the gang lived with him. That evening, we even went bowling in his living room.
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Now I finally had my chance to ask Drew if his show had been cancelled. He was just about to answer, but night suddenly fell and we had to turn off the lights and be quiet so the zombies would pass by us and not attack. Unfortunately, that dumbass Raffi had to open a window to watch the zombies, and they came after us. The end.
So, it turns out that ABC gave the show a three year contract. The executives that signed the deal were later fired and some new management came in. The new suits couldn't cancel the show, so they just resorted to pretending that it did not exist. What a concept to completely ignore a show you already paid for lots of money for. I bet these new executives were brought in from the FOX network.
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In all honesty, The Drew Carey Show hasn't actually been funny in a while, but it got to the point where I would watch it out of principle, just hoping that the writers would add in a joke that didn't have to do with the fact that Mimi dresses funny and she and Drew do not get along, and they are both fat, and also Oswald and Lewis are crazy drunks who can never get women and may be in a gay relationship.
Well, even though the show continued to use the same jokes in every episode, they still could come up with some of the most outrageous and creative plot lines on TV. I think the last original episode I saw was one where Drew, as a result of happenstance, had married two women (Nikki and Kate) in different states and had to decide which one to stick with while trying to hide the fact that he had two wives from each wife. Surprisingly, neither girl found this situation appealing once Drew's cover was blown. Among other great plotlines were the episode where Drew wins the batmobile in a contest, the crazy April Fools day episode that had a bunch of errors in it, the one where Lewis tries to hide his relationship with a midget which leads Oswald to think he is a pedophile, and several more weird ass episodes I can't think of at the moment or possibly be able to describe in words.
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Then the show went down hill. At some point Kate left the series to pursue a career in something that people would still be able to watch and Winfred-Louder ended up becoming a dot com business or something. There were too many Whose Line is It Anyway random episodes, which can be good only if you don't do it 28 times a season. There were also too many damn singing and dancing shows. At least 5000 episodes of the show were devoted to being musicals. And that is a conservative estimate. Not that every musical episode was annoying, but it got to be more than a straight person should reasonably be allowed to put up with.
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Even with how bad Drew Carey got, I don't know why the hell ABC opted to stop airing it, especially since ABC doesn't actually have anything on TV that anybody watches anymore. Any network that is forced to give Jimmy Kimmel a show to fill airtime really isn't in a position to be picky about its lineup.
At any rate, the show airs in reruns on TBS all the time between Friends or something. The last season will finally see the light of day on June 2, so mark your calendars.
Right now, I'm going to turn this article over to Johnny Dangerous for his thoughts on The Drew Carey Show. Take it away.
- Billy Green
Season 7, episode 155, "Drew Carey's Back to School Rock n Roll Comedy Hour Part 2" this is the exact episode where The Drew Carey Show began to suck. The show went from being about working man Drew and his friends, to about singing and dancing and unfunny jokes. However, just because the show stopped being funny, is that a reason to stop airing it? Let's take a quick look at ABC's other hit shows: 20/20, and Nightline. Man that was quick. Those aren't even comedies, or even shows that are on before 10 pm. In fact, as far as I know, Nightline isn't even real. I have never watched it, but I am pretty sure it is real. However here is what I'm getting at, ABC has nothing. So what is it hurting that if they keep The Drew Carey Show? If anything, at least all those actors know there way around the studio. It is a fact of life, if you hire new actors for new shows you have to take time out of your schedule to show them around.
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Maybe I am a little partial. I was at one point the biggest fan of The Drew Carey Show ever. I watched the reruns on TBS, I read his book, and then on Wednesdays I would make sure to catch the new episodes. There were some days where I would watch up to two hours of The Drew Carey Show, and I have never regretted wasting so much of my life. However I started missing the show when ABC started changing its time slot every week. I think this was a ploy to get people to watch other shows by them because the only way to make sure you saw Drew Carey that week would be to put ABC on at 8 and leave it there until 10. Then if you're lucky, maybe that would be the day they decided to show it. However more then likely you ended up watching something bad, like that ****ing show with Andy Dick, why don't they cancel that god damn show? Instead they are canceling one of television's greatest comedies. Why ABC? Why do you hate us so much, first Clerks, and now this?
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Maybe there is more to this then meets the eye. Maybe this has nothing to do with the show no longer being funny. As the rest of the lineup shows, ABC isn't concerned with its comedies being funny. It could be that Drew Carey just pissed off a bunch of people at ABC with his crazy antics. Perhaps the regime, upset after a particularly raunchy episode of Whose Line is it Anyway? where Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles did one too many jokes about kissing each other and upset the audience, which was filled with nuns and young orphans, who threatened to sue ABC. To extract revenge, the board decided to get rid of every show which featured those actors. Luckily for ABC that happened to only be The Drew Carey Show and Whose Line is it Anyway?, so they only had to cancel two shows. However this still sent shock waves to Drew Carey's bank account.
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So what will he do? I suggest that Drew Carey get together with Norm McDonald and John Lovitz and start a show. The premise would be the three of them live together in the same house and discuss how they all had good shows which were cancelled by ABC. Then they would go out and try to get work, but end up failing. Then for sweeps, Brian O'Halloran, Jason Mewes, and Jeff Anderson will have a guest appearance on the show where they talk about how they can no longer get any work now that Kevin Smith decided to stop casting them in movies. Then the season finale would be a cliff hanger, where we have to wait until the next season to see if Drew Carey hangs himself or not.
I once had a dream about The Drew Carey Show. It ranks among my best dreams ever. In this dream I was playing a video game, the greatest video game ever. This game was part of the Resident Evil series. In this game Cleveland is under siege by zombies, and its up to Drew to get rid of them. As the dream begins I have just beaten a giant plant monster, and am unsure where to go. I run down a hall where zombies throw stones at Drew. I get worried because the combination of small rocks and the fight with the plant monster has depleted my health. Luckily I find a first aid kit. I wonder around for a while, when suddenly I find out the king of all zombies is attacking. I go at him with a grenade launcher which shoots acid grenades and am barely able to kill him. After killing him, I realize that all the zombies are dead. I head back to the Warsaw where Oswald and Louise are hiding. I enter and the game shows a movie where Drew is excited and runs into the room yelling about how he killed all the zombies. Oswald and Lewis are laying on top of each other and appear to be asleep. Drew tells them to wake up and rushes out of the room to find everybody else. Then Oswald and Lewis turn into zombies! Turns out there was one zombie who wasn't dead and it turned all the major characters from the show into zombies. The game then shows a scene where Drew is in his office and everybody he knows is a zombie and is slowly walking towards him. Drew is pointing his grenade launcher at them but is shaking his head and saying, "No I can't do it". Mimi zombie then makes a joke about him being too big of a sissie to shoot them, and Drew makes a joke about only killing her. Then the movie ended and I was given control, the zombie horde attacked and I was killed off. I then took a break from playing the game and the dream ended. That is by far my favorite Drew Carey dream, except for the one where the two of us were polishing cannons and got very greasy, and decided to have a wresting match, but that is a story for another time.
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- Johnny Dangerous
The Drew Carey Show, in Fact, Wasn't Cancelled Two Years Ago By Billy Green and Johnny Dangerous
http://people.albion.edu/rrr11/j/a/i/057a.jpg
I was pretty surprised to hear that The Drew Carey Show had recently taped its final episode. It was surprising, because I thought the show was cancelled two years ago. Actually, I wasn't quite sure what had happened to the show; I just remember that ABC moved it around to different time slots, so I lost track off it, and then couldn't find the show for the longest time in any TV listings. But the show was still listed on the ABC website, which made me completely confused as to whether it had been cancelled or not.
In fact, this question arose one night when I had a dream in which I was in the movie Dawn of the Dead. The zombies would only appear at night, but were still able to eat up most of humanity. My family took refuge in a mall, like in the movie, and I was able to repeal the zombies using crazy Star Trek technology from the future such as laser guns and teleporters. But it was not enough to defend ourselves, and the mall no longer became secure, since almost everyone on Earth had been turned into zombies. So we were forced to leave the mall. We had to constantly flee from the zombies, because even while they only came out at night, and we made sure to turn off all the lights and hide, this guy that looked like Raffi kept giving away are position by looking outside to see the zombies. I think we would have killed him because he was annoying, but come on, the guy wrote "Baby Beluga."
Luckily, Drew Carey offered my family refuge in the last outpost of humanity, which was a settlement in Cleveland centered around his house from the show where Oswald, Lewis and the rest of the gang lived with him. That evening, we even went bowling in his living room.
http://people.albion.edu/rrr11/j/a/i/057b.jpg
Now I finally had my chance to ask Drew if his show had been cancelled. He was just about to answer, but night suddenly fell and we had to turn off the lights and be quiet so the zombies would pass by us and not attack. Unfortunately, that dumbass Raffi had to open a window to watch the zombies, and they came after us. The end.
So, it turns out that ABC gave the show a three year contract. The executives that signed the deal were later fired and some new management came in. The new suits couldn't cancel the show, so they just resorted to pretending that it did not exist. What a concept to completely ignore a show you already paid for lots of money for. I bet these new executives were brought in from the FOX network.
http://people.albion.edu/rrr11/j/a/i/057c.jpg
In all honesty, The Drew Carey Show hasn't actually been funny in a while, but it got to the point where I would watch it out of principle, just hoping that the writers would add in a joke that didn't have to do with the fact that Mimi dresses funny and she and Drew do not get along, and they are both fat, and also Oswald and Lewis are crazy drunks who can never get women and may be in a gay relationship.
Well, even though the show continued to use the same jokes in every episode, they still could come up with some of the most outrageous and creative plot lines on TV. I think the last original episode I saw was one where Drew, as a result of happenstance, had married two women (Nikki and Kate) in different states and had to decide which one to stick with while trying to hide the fact that he had two wives from each wife. Surprisingly, neither girl found this situation appealing once Drew's cover was blown. Among other great plotlines were the episode where Drew wins the batmobile in a contest, the crazy April Fools day episode that had a bunch of errors in it, the one where Lewis tries to hide his relationship with a midget which leads Oswald to think he is a pedophile, and several more weird ass episodes I can't think of at the moment or possibly be able to describe in words.
http://people.albion.edu/rrr11/j/a/i/057d.jpg
Then the show went down hill. At some point Kate left the series to pursue a career in something that people would still be able to watch and Winfred-Louder ended up becoming a dot com business or something. There were too many Whose Line is It Anyway random episodes, which can be good only if you don't do it 28 times a season. There were also too many damn singing and dancing shows. At least 5000 episodes of the show were devoted to being musicals. And that is a conservative estimate. Not that every musical episode was annoying, but it got to be more than a straight person should reasonably be allowed to put up with.
http://people.albion.edu/rrr11/j/a/i/057e.jpg
Even with how bad Drew Carey got, I don't know why the hell ABC opted to stop airing it, especially since ABC doesn't actually have anything on TV that anybody watches anymore. Any network that is forced to give Jimmy Kimmel a show to fill airtime really isn't in a position to be picky about its lineup.
At any rate, the show airs in reruns on TBS all the time between Friends or something. The last season will finally see the light of day on June 2, so mark your calendars.
Right now, I'm going to turn this article over to Johnny Dangerous for his thoughts on The Drew Carey Show. Take it away.
- Billy Green
Season 7, episode 155, "Drew Carey's Back to School Rock n Roll Comedy Hour Part 2" this is the exact episode where The Drew Carey Show began to suck. The show went from being about working man Drew and his friends, to about singing and dancing and unfunny jokes. However, just because the show stopped being funny, is that a reason to stop airing it? Let's take a quick look at ABC's other hit shows: 20/20, and Nightline. Man that was quick. Those aren't even comedies, or even shows that are on before 10 pm. In fact, as far as I know, Nightline isn't even real. I have never watched it, but I am pretty sure it is real. However here is what I'm getting at, ABC has nothing. So what is it hurting that if they keep The Drew Carey Show? If anything, at least all those actors know there way around the studio. It is a fact of life, if you hire new actors for new shows you have to take time out of your schedule to show them around.
http://people.albion.edu/rrr11/j/a/i/057i.jpg
Maybe I am a little partial. I was at one point the biggest fan of The Drew Carey Show ever. I watched the reruns on TBS, I read his book, and then on Wednesdays I would make sure to catch the new episodes. There were some days where I would watch up to two hours of The Drew Carey Show, and I have never regretted wasting so much of my life. However I started missing the show when ABC started changing its time slot every week. I think this was a ploy to get people to watch other shows by them because the only way to make sure you saw Drew Carey that week would be to put ABC on at 8 and leave it there until 10. Then if you're lucky, maybe that would be the day they decided to show it. However more then likely you ended up watching something bad, like that ****ing show with Andy Dick, why don't they cancel that god damn show? Instead they are canceling one of television's greatest comedies. Why ABC? Why do you hate us so much, first Clerks, and now this?
http://people.albion.edu/rrr11/j/a/i/057j.jpg
Maybe there is more to this then meets the eye. Maybe this has nothing to do with the show no longer being funny. As the rest of the lineup shows, ABC isn't concerned with its comedies being funny. It could be that Drew Carey just pissed off a bunch of people at ABC with his crazy antics. Perhaps the regime, upset after a particularly raunchy episode of Whose Line is it Anyway? where Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles did one too many jokes about kissing each other and upset the audience, which was filled with nuns and young orphans, who threatened to sue ABC. To extract revenge, the board decided to get rid of every show which featured those actors. Luckily for ABC that happened to only be The Drew Carey Show and Whose Line is it Anyway?, so they only had to cancel two shows. However this still sent shock waves to Drew Carey's bank account.
http://people.albion.edu/rrr11/j/a/i/057k.jpg
So what will he do? I suggest that Drew Carey get together with Norm McDonald and John Lovitz and start a show. The premise would be the three of them live together in the same house and discuss how they all had good shows which were cancelled by ABC. Then they would go out and try to get work, but end up failing. Then for sweeps, Brian O'Halloran, Jason Mewes, and Jeff Anderson will have a guest appearance on the show where they talk about how they can no longer get any work now that Kevin Smith decided to stop casting them in movies. Then the season finale would be a cliff hanger, where we have to wait until the next season to see if Drew Carey hangs himself or not.
I once had a dream about The Drew Carey Show. It ranks among my best dreams ever. In this dream I was playing a video game, the greatest video game ever. This game was part of the Resident Evil series. In this game Cleveland is under siege by zombies, and its up to Drew to get rid of them. As the dream begins I have just beaten a giant plant monster, and am unsure where to go. I run down a hall where zombies throw stones at Drew. I get worried because the combination of small rocks and the fight with the plant monster has depleted my health. Luckily I find a first aid kit. I wonder around for a while, when suddenly I find out the king of all zombies is attacking. I go at him with a grenade launcher which shoots acid grenades and am barely able to kill him. After killing him, I realize that all the zombies are dead. I head back to the Warsaw where Oswald and Louise are hiding. I enter and the game shows a movie where Drew is excited and runs into the room yelling about how he killed all the zombies. Oswald and Lewis are laying on top of each other and appear to be asleep. Drew tells them to wake up and rushes out of the room to find everybody else. Then Oswald and Lewis turn into zombies! Turns out there was one zombie who wasn't dead and it turned all the major characters from the show into zombies. The game then shows a scene where Drew is in his office and everybody he knows is a zombie and is slowly walking towards him. Drew is pointing his grenade launcher at them but is shaking his head and saying, "No I can't do it". Mimi zombie then makes a joke about him being too big of a sissie to shoot them, and Drew makes a joke about only killing her. Then the movie ended and I was given control, the zombie horde attacked and I was killed off. I then took a break from playing the game and the dream ended. That is by far my favorite Drew Carey dream, except for the one where the two of us were polishing cannons and got very greasy, and decided to have a wresting match, but that is a story for another time.
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- Johnny Dangerous