The first Baxter family is my favorite also. But not just because George Baxter was a more entertaining, enjoyable and believable character and Dorothy was such a hot number who I never tire of drooling over. In addition to those 2 reasons, one reason I don't like the new Baxter's shows is that Hazel got really dumbed down by the time she moved in with the Steve Baxter's. The Hazel of the first few seasons would have run circles around the half-witted Hazel of the Steve Baxter days.
The worst example of this is when the Dope Hazel signs up for exercise lessons. This show is almost painful for me to watch, Hazel is such a pitiful mess in this program. She is completely bamboozled by a fast talking Lee Merriweather, the exerciase guru, the old Hazel would have just laughed at the sales spiel she was getting. Then after one lesson Dope Hazel slowly walks all the way back from the exercise session and falls into an easy chair and actually starts wailing at her own stupidity. Real stupid balling over her own moron decisions. Now you know the old Hazel, would #1 never have signed up, # 2, if she did sign up she would have gotten Mr. B to throw his lawyerly skills around to get her out of the "contract" and # 3 would have figured out how to get her money back from Lee without resorting to sticking someone else with her problem, which is what the new Sap Hazel did in the actual episode when she passed on the crooked excercise program onto another hapless fat woman. This show is the absolute worst of the series. I actually do get used to the Steve Baxter family after a while and I don't really mind them so much, but what I do mind is how they made Hazel into a dim-witted moron that could barely function.
