TMC
11-11-2025, 01:57 AM
https://jacksonupperco.com/2025/11/05/short-lived-sitcom-potpourri-pop-out-committed/
Thoughts: Committed (https://web.archive.org/web/20140331135444/http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/topic/3121120-committed-dharma-greg-electric-boogaloo/?view=getnewpost) is a couple-centric multi-camera rom-com about a pair of oddballs. They’re not nerds like Big Bang’s Sheldon and Amy, and they’re not explicitly dysfunctional like the folks on The Trouble With Normal. But they’re weird — walking collections of eccentricities that are generally off-putting to other potential paramours. She’s a fast-talking squeaky-voiced neurotic who lives with a “dying clown” in her closet. He’s an awkward over-thinking hoarder whose mother is in an institution. But together they click, and in the vein of Marty (or MTM’s We’ve Got Each Other), Committed (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125247/http://www.jumptheshark.com/c/committed.htm) follows the romance between people who normally wouldn’t exist in a romantic comedy. They’re also unusual leads for a network sitcom — they’d usually be the wacky peripheral players. Here, their two pals are the grounded sensible forces, balancing their “crazy” in a role reversal. This isn’t totally novel, but it does help the series stand out within this overcrowded rom-com subgenre. And Tom Poston as the “dying clown” is a bonus, embodying the show’s basic premised weirdness.
Thoughts: Committed (https://web.archive.org/web/20140331135444/http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/topic/3121120-committed-dharma-greg-electric-boogaloo/?view=getnewpost) is a couple-centric multi-camera rom-com about a pair of oddballs. They’re not nerds like Big Bang’s Sheldon and Amy, and they’re not explicitly dysfunctional like the folks on The Trouble With Normal. But they’re weird — walking collections of eccentricities that are generally off-putting to other potential paramours. She’s a fast-talking squeaky-voiced neurotic who lives with a “dying clown” in her closet. He’s an awkward over-thinking hoarder whose mother is in an institution. But together they click, and in the vein of Marty (or MTM’s We’ve Got Each Other), Committed (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125247/http://www.jumptheshark.com/c/committed.htm) follows the romance between people who normally wouldn’t exist in a romantic comedy. They’re also unusual leads for a network sitcom — they’d usually be the wacky peripheral players. Here, their two pals are the grounded sensible forces, balancing their “crazy” in a role reversal. This isn’t totally novel, but it does help the series stand out within this overcrowded rom-com subgenre. And Tom Poston as the “dying clown” is a bonus, embodying the show’s basic premised weirdness.