TMC
09-26-2013, 05:42 PM
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The show begins when Marcy Bradford, played by Emma Sams in flashbacks, the mother of Nicole Bradford (Keanan), dies. The two men who had competed for the woman's affections Michael Taylor (Reiser) and Joey Harris (Evigan) before Nicole was born had been awarded joint custody. The mix-ups of two single straight men raising a teen-aged daughter provided the story each week. Judge Margaret W. Wilbur (Florance Stanley), a family court judge, would frequently visit the new family and served as Nicole's mentor.
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Other Thoughts:
Lets team Paul Reiser with Greg Evigan as two dads!
When the girl didn't sleep with Zach.
Two dads, but no brains.
What an awful show. Can you believe Brandon Tartikoff would actually cancel "Gimme a Break" instead of trying to improve it, while putting this crap on after "Family Ties" where they know people would watch. Appalling. If I were him, I would recommend they get some of the writers from Gimme a Break's glorious first two seasons to help the show, and put it on after Family Ties instead of giving the green light to this garbage.
Hey, I've got a great idea for a prime time sitcom! There's this woman who has sex with these two guys who are friends and gets knocked up! Then she doesn't tell them she's pregnant! Then she has the kid, dies, and the little bastard tries to find out who her biological father is! So the two guys take a test, but the results are inconclusive, so they decided to room together and raise the bastard jointly! Wacky fun for the whole family!
This show was just terrible. Remember their hideous landlady? Didn't she also play Fish's wife?
What's the point of a show about a girl with two dads if they aren't gay!
She dumped Giovanni Ribisi for Chad Allen. Sure, Chad represented the quintessential "hunk" of the late 80's, but Ribisi's CORY was a laugh riot. Let's us not forget that Greg Evigan sang the theme song. That was a definite plus. Hey... "You Can Count On Me."
Giovonni Ribisi was the only reason to watch this show but Dick Butkus? Jeez! If only he could have been half as convincing as other former NFL stars-turned actors like Fred Dryer and Alex Karras. (Sarcasm, heavy sarcasm).
Davy Jones with a mullet... did this happen, or did I dream it?
Davy Jones and Greg Evigan singing the theme from the show--during the show itself! And then the daughter has a crush on Davy Jones. So terrible.
I can't believe all the bad comments about this show! My Two Dads was sublimely brilliant. It made Paul Reiser a TV superstar, made Greg Evigan, well, temporarily off welfare, and brought the beautiful and talented Staci Keanan into our homes every week for three wonderful years. It was like The Cosby Show on crack, with white people saying funny things instead of black people making funny faces. Ten times as funny as Family Ties! God bless My Two Dads, and praise USA Network, which has it on in reruns!
This show (albeit one that I enjoyed) JTS during the writing process. Didn't anyone realize that this show would have been called "My One Dad" if they had just taken a DNA test?
The cool 80s hair was everywhere. Stacy Keenan was a hottie even then. You just knew she was going to be hot - kind of like Alyssa Milano on Who's the Boss? I think the networks put those little hotties on so guys will tune in to watch them evolve into babes.
Is it not clear to anyone that this show was supposed to be about two gay guys raising a kid, and that at the last minute, the network panicked, and they came up with the indeterminate paternity storyline? Paul and the other guy looked gay as hell. The show might have been good if the network had just had a little guts.
I don't remember much about this show but I do remember this seriously pathetic episode that had the two dads trying to teach "their" daughter a lesson about drinking. The old lady from FISH sets up this ridiculous situation where the two fools have some sort of drinking contest where they drink play some video game about driving, drink some more drive so their coordination becomes slurred. Anyway as the debauchery hits it zenith one of the jackasses says to the other one forget this game "Let's do some REAL driving!!" Fish's wife is appalled as the two fools rush out of the apartment. The daughter now thoroughly disgusted at the display turns to Mrs. Fish and says something to the effect of "OK enough is enough you made your point." SHARK JUMP MOMENT: Whatever her name is doesn't respond looking concerned. The daughter says "this is part of the game isn't it?" Fish looks very nervous, quivering, biting her lower lip, shaking her head back and forth and in a low hushed dramatic voice says No. PATHETIC
Never! I saw a few episodes again a year or so ago, and I thought it was surprisingly good. Also, it wasn't that they didn't take a paternity test, they got the results back, but neither dad was willing to take the chance of finding out he WASN'T the dad, so they agreed not to look.
I thought this show was hilarious. Greg Evigan and Paul Reiser were both excellent in their roles. And Davy Jones' guest appearances as that rock star, "Malcolm...??" were great! I remember that song he sang to the girl, "Oh Nicole" or something. We taped it and watched it a gillion times just to lust over Davy Jones and his mullet haircut. He was my fantasy man in the the 80's. Whew baby!
Everyone has forgot the best part about the "Fish" landlady. She was actually the judge who decided that they should all be together in the first episode or so. Then, when they all get moved in, she shows up and tells them that she just bought the building. I think that is one of the most unbelievable premises of all with this show. If it didn't jump then, it would never be able to jump. Also, I loved the episode where the daughter realizes she can't draw and that upsets her because she thinks that means she can't be Greg, the artist's, daughter. Oh, and didn't the girl use "Love" in her name back then?
This is one of those shows that starts out with a hopeless premise and only goes downhill from there. Didn't anyone find it strange that whenever the girl wanted to address both guys at the same time, she'd say "Hey, Dads"??" Luckily, Paul Reiser went on to greater sitcom glory in Mad About You, but that poor girl went from bad to worse, co-starring in that awful "family" sitcom Step by Step (another shark-jumper from Day One).
I enjoyed this show, but yes, there were a few things that didn't make sense. I can see the biological mother sleeping with both guys, and admittedly Greg Evigan has always been a stud, but why all of the sudden did the guys become monks and never sleep with anyone else? I mean that pull out bed that Joey had in the living room, yeah, like that was to conserve floor space. (wink, wink) There was a show where the mom came back, I think it was Emma Samms playing the character, and they tore up the paternity results. But come on, with Michael's neurotic personality, you know he would have called to get another copy. That whole downstairs cafe thing didn't work much for me, but I kinda liked the judge, the teenage girl really did need a female figure to bond to. I also liked Cory's (boyfriend #1) big brother. I always had the feeling Michael might have been a closet gay, and this situation was a good cover for a family in his work. All in all a funny show, with great eye candy in Greg Evigan.
Okay, hold on. The characters of the two dads are NOT gay?? No...seriously? Really? Right there is where they jumped the shark. No one in their right mind would believe two straight men would live together and raise a daughter. As a side note, the one dad, not Paul Reiser but the other guy, ..George Michael look-alike, anyone? And everyone thought he was straight too...
I don't understand the fuss about the two dads not being gay. I thought that was the point of the series. It was about two single straight men who were suddenly forced to live together and look after their ex-girlfriend's daughter. The humour was based on the different personalities of the two men, they were an odd couple. The fact that they were not gay allowed them to have other relationships.
What a premise! "Hey kid, your mom's dead....and she was a slut!!!" Great family entertainment. Really uplifting stuff
To my thinking, the premise of this show was completely unbelievable. What self-respecting woman would have let either Paul Reiser or Greg Evigan impregnate her in the first place?
Greg Evigan AND Stacy Keenan! Aside from the no talent lost-Gibb brother that defines Evigan, should not little Stacy have a place at Teds right hand for slaughtering TV series. Granted, I don't think people recall her body count because the shows themselves were prime time sterile pap, but when a junkie gets murdered in an alley, it's still murder, no matter what you think of the victim.
does anyone remember their stupid apartment that looked like a milk bar or something?!! And Greg Evigan's beard. Hey, cool guy!! That poor girl had plenty to be embarrassed about. And I remember Greg's non-charting theme tune...."You Can Count On Me.....no matter where you are " What!! Yeah right, with a beard like THAT!! In the milk bar!! This show was shown really briefly in England and has disappeared from our lives!!! I would love to see it again because it seems like a dream now. Was this show successful in America?? They just don't make them like they used to eh?
This show, which I loved, had two shark jumps: In the first episode, Nicole was twelve years old, and several episodes later Judge Wilbur revealed that she had never been married. But in the third (and final) season, the viewers met Judge Wilbur's ex-husband, and Nicole celebrated her sixteenth birthday! (And Staci Keanan, who played Nicole, hadn't even turned fifteen yet!)
The show begins when Marcy Bradford, played by Emma Sams in flashbacks, the mother of Nicole Bradford (Keanan), dies. The two men who had competed for the woman's affections Michael Taylor (Reiser) and Joey Harris (Evigan) before Nicole was born had been awarded joint custody. The mix-ups of two single straight men raising a teen-aged daughter provided the story each week. Judge Margaret W. Wilbur (Florance Stanley), a family court judge, would frequently visit the new family and served as Nicole's mentor.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070225141752/http://jumptheshark.com/
Other Thoughts:
Lets team Paul Reiser with Greg Evigan as two dads!
When the girl didn't sleep with Zach.
Two dads, but no brains.
What an awful show. Can you believe Brandon Tartikoff would actually cancel "Gimme a Break" instead of trying to improve it, while putting this crap on after "Family Ties" where they know people would watch. Appalling. If I were him, I would recommend they get some of the writers from Gimme a Break's glorious first two seasons to help the show, and put it on after Family Ties instead of giving the green light to this garbage.
Hey, I've got a great idea for a prime time sitcom! There's this woman who has sex with these two guys who are friends and gets knocked up! Then she doesn't tell them she's pregnant! Then she has the kid, dies, and the little bastard tries to find out who her biological father is! So the two guys take a test, but the results are inconclusive, so they decided to room together and raise the bastard jointly! Wacky fun for the whole family!
This show was just terrible. Remember their hideous landlady? Didn't she also play Fish's wife?
What's the point of a show about a girl with two dads if they aren't gay!
She dumped Giovanni Ribisi for Chad Allen. Sure, Chad represented the quintessential "hunk" of the late 80's, but Ribisi's CORY was a laugh riot. Let's us not forget that Greg Evigan sang the theme song. That was a definite plus. Hey... "You Can Count On Me."
Giovonni Ribisi was the only reason to watch this show but Dick Butkus? Jeez! If only he could have been half as convincing as other former NFL stars-turned actors like Fred Dryer and Alex Karras. (Sarcasm, heavy sarcasm).
Davy Jones with a mullet... did this happen, or did I dream it?
Davy Jones and Greg Evigan singing the theme from the show--during the show itself! And then the daughter has a crush on Davy Jones. So terrible.
I can't believe all the bad comments about this show! My Two Dads was sublimely brilliant. It made Paul Reiser a TV superstar, made Greg Evigan, well, temporarily off welfare, and brought the beautiful and talented Staci Keanan into our homes every week for three wonderful years. It was like The Cosby Show on crack, with white people saying funny things instead of black people making funny faces. Ten times as funny as Family Ties! God bless My Two Dads, and praise USA Network, which has it on in reruns!
This show (albeit one that I enjoyed) JTS during the writing process. Didn't anyone realize that this show would have been called "My One Dad" if they had just taken a DNA test?
The cool 80s hair was everywhere. Stacy Keenan was a hottie even then. You just knew she was going to be hot - kind of like Alyssa Milano on Who's the Boss? I think the networks put those little hotties on so guys will tune in to watch them evolve into babes.
Is it not clear to anyone that this show was supposed to be about two gay guys raising a kid, and that at the last minute, the network panicked, and they came up with the indeterminate paternity storyline? Paul and the other guy looked gay as hell. The show might have been good if the network had just had a little guts.
I don't remember much about this show but I do remember this seriously pathetic episode that had the two dads trying to teach "their" daughter a lesson about drinking. The old lady from FISH sets up this ridiculous situation where the two fools have some sort of drinking contest where they drink play some video game about driving, drink some more drive so their coordination becomes slurred. Anyway as the debauchery hits it zenith one of the jackasses says to the other one forget this game "Let's do some REAL driving!!" Fish's wife is appalled as the two fools rush out of the apartment. The daughter now thoroughly disgusted at the display turns to Mrs. Fish and says something to the effect of "OK enough is enough you made your point." SHARK JUMP MOMENT: Whatever her name is doesn't respond looking concerned. The daughter says "this is part of the game isn't it?" Fish looks very nervous, quivering, biting her lower lip, shaking her head back and forth and in a low hushed dramatic voice says No. PATHETIC
Never! I saw a few episodes again a year or so ago, and I thought it was surprisingly good. Also, it wasn't that they didn't take a paternity test, they got the results back, but neither dad was willing to take the chance of finding out he WASN'T the dad, so they agreed not to look.
I thought this show was hilarious. Greg Evigan and Paul Reiser were both excellent in their roles. And Davy Jones' guest appearances as that rock star, "Malcolm...??" were great! I remember that song he sang to the girl, "Oh Nicole" or something. We taped it and watched it a gillion times just to lust over Davy Jones and his mullet haircut. He was my fantasy man in the the 80's. Whew baby!
Everyone has forgot the best part about the "Fish" landlady. She was actually the judge who decided that they should all be together in the first episode or so. Then, when they all get moved in, she shows up and tells them that she just bought the building. I think that is one of the most unbelievable premises of all with this show. If it didn't jump then, it would never be able to jump. Also, I loved the episode where the daughter realizes she can't draw and that upsets her because she thinks that means she can't be Greg, the artist's, daughter. Oh, and didn't the girl use "Love" in her name back then?
This is one of those shows that starts out with a hopeless premise and only goes downhill from there. Didn't anyone find it strange that whenever the girl wanted to address both guys at the same time, she'd say "Hey, Dads"??" Luckily, Paul Reiser went on to greater sitcom glory in Mad About You, but that poor girl went from bad to worse, co-starring in that awful "family" sitcom Step by Step (another shark-jumper from Day One).
I enjoyed this show, but yes, there were a few things that didn't make sense. I can see the biological mother sleeping with both guys, and admittedly Greg Evigan has always been a stud, but why all of the sudden did the guys become monks and never sleep with anyone else? I mean that pull out bed that Joey had in the living room, yeah, like that was to conserve floor space. (wink, wink) There was a show where the mom came back, I think it was Emma Samms playing the character, and they tore up the paternity results. But come on, with Michael's neurotic personality, you know he would have called to get another copy. That whole downstairs cafe thing didn't work much for me, but I kinda liked the judge, the teenage girl really did need a female figure to bond to. I also liked Cory's (boyfriend #1) big brother. I always had the feeling Michael might have been a closet gay, and this situation was a good cover for a family in his work. All in all a funny show, with great eye candy in Greg Evigan.
Okay, hold on. The characters of the two dads are NOT gay?? No...seriously? Really? Right there is where they jumped the shark. No one in their right mind would believe two straight men would live together and raise a daughter. As a side note, the one dad, not Paul Reiser but the other guy, ..George Michael look-alike, anyone? And everyone thought he was straight too...
I don't understand the fuss about the two dads not being gay. I thought that was the point of the series. It was about two single straight men who were suddenly forced to live together and look after their ex-girlfriend's daughter. The humour was based on the different personalities of the two men, they were an odd couple. The fact that they were not gay allowed them to have other relationships.
What a premise! "Hey kid, your mom's dead....and she was a slut!!!" Great family entertainment. Really uplifting stuff
To my thinking, the premise of this show was completely unbelievable. What self-respecting woman would have let either Paul Reiser or Greg Evigan impregnate her in the first place?
Greg Evigan AND Stacy Keenan! Aside from the no talent lost-Gibb brother that defines Evigan, should not little Stacy have a place at Teds right hand for slaughtering TV series. Granted, I don't think people recall her body count because the shows themselves were prime time sterile pap, but when a junkie gets murdered in an alley, it's still murder, no matter what you think of the victim.
does anyone remember their stupid apartment that looked like a milk bar or something?!! And Greg Evigan's beard. Hey, cool guy!! That poor girl had plenty to be embarrassed about. And I remember Greg's non-charting theme tune...."You Can Count On Me.....no matter where you are " What!! Yeah right, with a beard like THAT!! In the milk bar!! This show was shown really briefly in England and has disappeared from our lives!!! I would love to see it again because it seems like a dream now. Was this show successful in America?? They just don't make them like they used to eh?
This show, which I loved, had two shark jumps: In the first episode, Nicole was twelve years old, and several episodes later Judge Wilbur revealed that she had never been married. But in the third (and final) season, the viewers met Judge Wilbur's ex-husband, and Nicole celebrated her sixteenth birthday! (And Staci Keanan, who played Nicole, hadn't even turned fifteen yet!)