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Aargh! Make the fat lady stop dancing!
if the show goes back to it's original concept, it may survive a few more seasons. If not, it won't make it past next season
When Drew's girlfriend suddenly gain about 100 pounds. Then left him. The four episodes before the producers started to make her look a little heavy, a sign that the show was running out of ideas, but on the last episode she gained like 100 lbs in one week.
As soon as Drew got a steady girlfriend, the show began to die. Even though she's gone, it hasn't jumped back.
This whole new season has basically sucked. It was slipping last year, but this year the writers seem to think that getting "bizarre" with the plot is the same as being humorous. (Witness the demise of "Soap", "Mork and Mindy", etc.) Drew gets a goatee. Drew becomes a rock star. Drew has a groupie! Enough already! And there is no follow-up whatsoever with the Kate/Oswald relationship. Are they friends, enemies, sometime lovers? What the hell is going on with them? What the hell is happening to this show? Thank God for Mimi.
The show started its horrendous downslide when they had Drew's girlfriend start wearing 100 pounds of padding. That extended storyline with the horrible make-up effects signalled that the writers had nothing left. The show went from a necessary weekly viewing to a continued dissapointment every week.
It jumped last week. SHIRLEY JONES??????????????
The show when Speedy the dog goes to DrugCo and the gang goes to save him. Bug on toilet, ape/hippo really strange writting.....
Drew definitely jumped the shark with the episode where you got to count the errors. Since then they have jumped the shark so often they have more air time than Amelia Earhart.
This year when Drew was sent to China as a prank. Many shows have tried to "jump the shark" by having the characters go on vacation to Paris, London, Hawaii, etc. This was simply a different take on an old theme. I still enjoy the Drew Carey Show but I thought this was a lame attempt. I am suprised this isn't one of your categories already.
well, it did jump when drew & his "fat" girlfriend were going to get married...but it quickly redeemed itself!
This season the Drew Carey how has jumped ... the whole appeal was that Drew was this loveable loser, but now with the new goatee and beautiful girlfriends, the show has lost its quirky appeal. Drew is just too cool now! Oh, and the transvestite brother introduction didn't hurt.
The 1998 season, Lewis used to be stupid and befuddled, and Oswald was pretty wily (relatively speaking) and everyone made fun of Lewis. Then this season Oswald becomes a complete Idiot, while Lewis becomes smarter. I think the writers traded jobs and forgot to keep the characters consistent. This is the 4th sign of the apocolypse.
1999 Season Finale. Some Swiss guy planning to blow up the store and all employees would lose their jobs. The show turned into this ridiculously smarmy dance number that was nothing more than "puke" material. I don't think I'll ever look at this show the same way again. BAD MOVE DREW!!!
The Drew Carey show never jumped. The dance numbers, including this year's, were hilarious and gutsy, and the subplot with his girlfriend gaining weight was sad and beautiful.
Shirley Jones????AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH
That 1999 season closer was possibly the worst half hour of TV I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of television. Totally wretched. I will not waste another SECOND of my life watching the Drew Carey Show ever again. I hope the producers watch this site and put this show out of its misery.
It jumped for Me when Drew Carey (The comic) opened his mouth one too many times and did a 180 degree turn from the guy I identified with. He hates l.A., carries a gun, attempted suicide, and got his nipple pierced. Then I hear about the Goatee and blond hair, and I have to think the Guy is indulging no one but Himself.
Cleveland Rocks!?! What the f**k is that?
WARNING!!! Shark approaching!! Drew & Kate?? AHHH!!! Don't do it. You might as well get Ted McGinley a guest starring role, marry Mimi, have a baby, and then make a movie based on the series.
When they dumped "Five O' Clock World" in favor of that Presidents of the USA abomination.
Last night's "night at the Improv" episode absolutely sucked. If I wanted to watch "Whose Line is it Anyway" (which by the way is not nearly as funny as the original Brit version) I would tune in to that show. The Live! idea is obviously a proven shark-jumper, but this went above and beyond. The bell ringing/line changing alone may have been okay, but the rest of the improv games were worse than high school drama club. Poor Drew - you may have been hoping for a ratings boost, but you lost big time on this one!
this show was sorta cool wwhen it first came out but last night live was so bad it was so stupid there was no solid part and the peeps from whose line is it anyway were on it interrupting all the time.
That was so lame, I want that 1/2 hour of my life back. I've been robbed.
The show ran out of inspiration after two seasons, but now it has descended into irrelevant gimmicks like live shows with improv segments, web shows, and so on that have little to do with any program ideas.
Now I don't watch the show, but I know somebody who does, and he told me that the first couple of seasons were "Pure Drew". But since then the jokes(especially the ones concerning body parts/functions) got old, and they relied too much on "high-tech crap".
This show jumped the shark the season Kate & Oswald started dating & decided to get married. It hasn't been as funny since.
Drew! Stay away from Kate! One day Oswald Harvey will remember that he used to date her and blow your brains out from the grassy knoll!
I"M FROM NORTHERN OHIO SO I DON"T WANT TO BEAT UP DREW, BUT I THINK HE MAY BE STRAPPING ON THE SKIS RIGHT NOW. HE SAID HE DOESN'T WANT HIS SHOW TO GET LAME. OK FINE I CAN DIG THAT. AS MUCH AS I WOULD LIKE HIM AND KATE DO THE HORIZONTAL MAMBO. IT SHOULD HAPPEN ON THE LAST EPISODE. MAYBE DC SHOULD CUT THE SHOW NOW & GO INTO MOVIES, HEY TIM ALLEN DID IT. HOME IMPROVEMENT JUMPED ON THE FIRST EPISODE FOR GODS SAKE. DREW IS MY HERO I HOPE HE HAS ENOUGH SENSE TO BE A REGULAR GUY AND SAY THIS SHOW'S STARTING TO SUCK.
I gave up on Drew Carey when Rush Limbaugh appeared as a special guest. I watch television to be entertained and informed, not to have my stomach turned.
When Drew and the brunette female co-star started getting romantic.
its the best show.
I don't know if this was an epsiode from the end of last season or the beginning of this one, but anytime you bring in a star from a defunkt sitcom, you become shark food. Bringing in "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper" signifies a big jump.
This show was good when it started out as it wryly showed what millions of office workers have to deal with- being somewhat anonymous to execs and having kooky nemeses like Mimi but with Drew becoming a rock star/bleaching his brown hair and every performer having their *characters* downsized from three-dimentionsal to barely one-dimensional, it's become a flat, lifeless cartoon . In other words, the show that once showed how 'Dilbert' might have been viewed in Real Life became a comic strip itself- and IMO one less interesting than 'Nancy' during the last few Bushmiller years at that! It all started when the lights went out and they used Mimi's eyeliner as a flashlight! Lame! And it's only gotten LAMER ever since!
As a fellow Ohioian, I like the show, BUT when Drew started dating that old chick--boom, to the bottom the show hit. The idea of a young fat guy with an elderly fat lady just is not what I like to think about! Also, it seems that Drew knows the show is lame anymore by the slighest smirks on his face.
So, that's worse than him going out with a girl almost young enough to be his daughter? Remember the goth chick? She's five years older than me, and I'm not quite twenty-one yet. Drew's in his early forties!
laughably unfunny.
the episode where drew and kate haven't done anything yet but he is gaga over her and she is oblivious but they are "good friends". sounds familiar. they are dressed up in wedding clothes for a fashion shoot for charity or something and kate becomes allergic to the chemical in her dress (fameldohyde, i can't spell it, the chemical they use to preserve dead bodies.) she freaks because she finds out her dress was on a dead person?! this was completely unnecessary. the point is she had an allergic reaction and got hives and poor old not too bright here drew thought she was repelled at the idea of being his bride. who writes this garbage? they get reeeealy sappy in the back of a limo when this is finally discovered as the reason drew is so down in the dumps. kate tenderly assures him that she could never be repelled by him. sap sap. crap. i was so disgusted, even a kid could see through this lame plot. and could have written a better espisode.
since Mimi started trying to have a baby with Steve? (who no longer seems to be a cross-dresser!) the show has been really gross. The show is focussing too much on bodily functions. The audience is being treated to a little more information than I ever wanted to know. (eg: Mimi eating beans while Steve tries to impregnate her--EW!!!!!!)
This show jumped when Drew started dating the mom from the Partridge Family. Ewww! After her episode appearances, the show went downhill.
I have worked in Cleveland for the past year. Take it from me Cleveland does not rock!
I work in Human Resources, and let me tell you, I would have fired Mimi a long time ago. And Drew, for that matter. The moment this show jumped the shark for me? The very first dance number. And is Cleveland so small that Kate has to date her friends? I hadn't watched in a couple years, and the other night, Drew and Kate were involved! Wasn't she just sleeping with Oswald? I have plenty of close guy friends, and I haven't slept with any of them! They've remained friends. Which brings up your category, "They Did It." And here I was thinking of giving the show another chance.
It started out great on Day #1 and is still great now. The dance numbers are great. They should do more of them. Mimi's character is as good as ever and Lewis and Oswald are great too. I'm glad that the writers never made Lewis or Oswald have a girlfriend. It just wouldn't be the same if they did. I know that some people don't like the April Fools shows. I enjoy them. For some reason, people think that if they didn't like something, nobody liked it. But that is not true. A lot of the things that people have mentioned that they hate, I really like. Of course this is my opinion just like yours were your opinions.
The Drew Carey Show jumped the shark when his fat fiancée dumped him, and we have been bored with his depressing love life ever since.
Used to be funny --- now its just Drew acting stupid around Kate.
Alright, what sick f**k decided to have forty-year-old Drew (at the time, anyway) sleep with a 24 year old? This is one of my favorite shows, but when they had Sharon, barely an adult, sleeping with Drew, I honestly wanted to find the f**k who wrote that script and castrate the mother with a coke bottle! And yet, no one made any fuss about it! Oh no, we didn't hear complaint one! But if Mimi were to have a boyfriend that young (which isn't any more ridiculous than Drew), the public would have a ****fit! That's the old American hypocrisy, say one thing, do something different! I hope Sharon's stint on the show was short because they realized what hypocritical f**kers they'd been, and wanted to fix their mistake!
When the Drew Carey show began those annoying "pop-up-video-style" bubbles pointing out various flaws on the set, with the characters, and with the dialogue. Maybe it was some contest or something, I don't know, but I found the whole thing to be highly annoying and a fantastically desperate attempt to.... do..... something, I'm not sure.
I never started watching Drew until it went into syndication. Because I've been able to watch them all very quickly, it's very easy to see where this show lost its way. First of all, Drew may have a love of musicals, but I hate the absurdity of seeing people break out into song. The show has gone from a funny sort of dilbert rip-off to a show of unpredictability. Some might argue that the musical numbers or mistake episodes are innovative, but come on, they're simply not very funny and they're ultimately distracting. A prime example of unpredictability going bad, the recent "live" episode. Not only was it not the least bit funny, but I actually felt sorry for the cast. They were trying so hard with really weak material. Mimi used to be funny, but she's become increasingly revolting to look at, let alone imagining her having sex. Kate, who used to be super cute, has gotten fairly chubby and annoying. I think this show has run its course.
When Drew got a beard, blonde hair and got rid of his thick black glasses. I watched a show today, and all the people at the office, looked up to him and wanted his help. This is not the Drew Carey I've come to know and love. I like the geeky loser, who never quite gets what he deserves.
When Drew had computer sex with Meme or When they sold their beer Company then bought it back. Sad,Sad,Sad!
The dorky Thanksgiving-70's sitcom-reunion show! (with Shirley Jones, Danny Freakin' Bonnaducci, & Mrs. C from Happy Days). What the hell were they thinking? The thought of Drew and Shirley doin' it forced me to consume massive quantities of Pepto-Bismol. Not funny!
when meme and steve got married, yuk!!!!
This show never has and never will jump the shark. Drew is hilarious and no matter what anyone else says the plots are always funny.
THE DREW CAREY SHOW ROCKS!!!!!! It has never jumped and it never will. Sure, it's had it's bad episodes, but so does every television series. This show rocks. It has great humor and a varied plot. It's my favorite!
This show had a good start, but after the first season it tried too hard and made several errors in judgment: 1) Dropping Mr. Bell and bringing on Mr. Wyck 2) the romance between Oswald & Kate 3) the "find the error" episodes (distracting and downright annoying). Obviously, I have tried this show and have even wanted to like it because of the Mimi & Steve characters, but the sharks must have eaten it altogether.
I haven't seen all the seasons of the Drew Carey Show yet, but between this season's reruns on this summer and the assorted seasons Fox is rerunning, I'm seeing a lot of it. From what I've seen so far, I don't think it's jumped. Okay, so they do some weird stuff sometimes (find the errors, random song & dance numbers) but it's stuff that's over in one episode, and there doesn't seem to be much of it. I think it's kind of gutsy to do something just plain stupid now and then for a laugh, so long as it's not big enough to wreck the series. As far as the Drew and Kate thing goes, I think the biggest problem here was too much hype. We all knew before the episode started how it was going to end.
The show is still funny, which is what a sitcom is supposed to be, so it hasn't really jumped. But I have a few complaints: 1) All those stupid song and dance numbers, 2) the relationship between Drew and Kate almost seems incestuous, and 3) why are Drew's friends always hanging around his desk at work?
The show started losing it in the second season, but to sum up the obvious points: Drew's brother goes tranny, Singing, Dance numbers, live show, what's wrong with this show episode (one of the worst pieces of t.v. broadcasting in history), special guest stars, Oswald gets breasts (c'mon, seriously, which writer pitched this one?), Drew starts a band, Shirley Jones, etc. Anything needed to prove this show has jumped?
This is a shark jumping prophecy: Drew Carey is getting close to jumping the shark. Drew's romance(?) with Kate -- if it progresses -- will be the turning point in the show.
THE DREW CAREY SHOW HAS NEVER JUMPED!!! THIS IS A GREAT SHOW THAT HAS HAD MORE GOOD EPISODES THAN BAD EPISODES. SOME PEOPLE JUST DON'T KNOW HOW TO TAKE A JOKE OR DEAL WITH A CHANGE. IT'S ABOUT SOME OF THE STRANGE THINGS THAT REALLY DO HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE, BUT PEOPLE JUST DON'T KNOW HOW TO TAKE IT. THIS IS A FUNNY SHOW THAT HAS NOT, BUT ONE DAY PROBABLY WILL, JUMP. Some people just don't know what to do with their time, so they come on here and just rip shows apart. Didn't your parents teach you that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all???!!!! Some people probably just love to rip apart the show because it's set in Cleveland. Well, they don't know what it's like there unless they have experienced Cleveland themselves and they don't know when to keep their mouths shut. It makes me angry.
This show and Drew Carey jumped big time when they started putting him on five times a week and twice on his normal night. Then we all saw him on Who's line is it anyway?. If that wasn't enough, he starred in a tv movie (or two). I am sick-to-death of Drew Carey. He is not "all that." He is like some nasty rash or plague that has infested tv land.
This show has never been funny. It is painful to watch 30 seconds of it on TV. The worst part has to be that theme song, Cleveland rocks. I think Drew Carey must have grown up in the suburbs and never ventured into that pit of a city. All they have is a couple of statiums a museum and a bunch of slums. Cleveland sucks!!
Hate musicals. The show just got stupid all at once. At first Oswald was cute and then they made him dumb. Where is the sex object? Louis will always just look goofy. And what about when he dated a midget? I think it may have started with Mr. Wick doing drugs. Then Mr. Cooper came, and Steve, well he's just ridiculous. And then their marriage. And who wants to picture Mimi as a mother? The show was good but it somehow got totally STUPID. Probably when Drew became a rock star.
It has bounced on the fin a few times, but it never fully jumped....but they do need to renew the practical joke wars between Mimi and Drew...those battles have led to some of the funniest moments the show has had.
When everyone started going out with each other, and when Drew's fiance went from fairly healthy looking to real fat.
I used to enjoy this show, but now I don't like it that much anymore. Is it because they changed the theme song from "Moon Over Parma" to "Cleveland Rocks"? Jump # 1! Is it because Drew gets made fun of too much? Jump # 2 (Although that might end up qualifying this for a Day One vote)! The ultimate jump came when I decided never to drink! I don't like alcohol, and I've read about what it does to people, which is sad because practically every celebrity drinks (There are very few exceptions). Now I can't view "The Drew Carey Show" the way I once did. The entire show reeks of alcohol, and that makes me depressed, because I enjoyed it once! (Heavy Sigh)
What's wrong with you people? This is not a show that is supposed to be real!! It's supposed to be funny!! Why do you look so deep into it?? The show makes me laugh. I Love The Big Dance Numbers. They are funny and fun to watch. The Drew Carey Show has had many different types of shows like the times they break into song, the April Fools contests, the Emmy show, and the live show. I think it adds fun. I know that many of you don't like it. Because it's different? Different is good. It's not a soap opera. It's a sitcom. It is supposed to be unrealistic at times. The show has kept what it had in the past and just added more for the future. I think it's a great show.
Drew Carey jumped the shark in his latest season. His sudden relationship with longtime best friend Kate killed one of the best parts of the show, and when she died at the end of the season, she took with her the possibility of viewers ever seeing how far their relationship might've gone. Adding to this travesty was the fact the her death was orchestrated solely for a chance at a goddamn emmy, thereby dropping the show to the level of a soap opera.
I don't understand all the fuss!! The Drew Carey Show has NOT jumped!! The episodes in syndication are a relief from having to wait until each Wednesday. And they stand the test of time. Most re-runs get boring and you get sick of them, yet even during summer reruns I still watch Drew each week..no small task considering that I work nights and must time-shift it. To settle the debate, the show is the perfec mix of two types of humor....the first is the crude humor popularized in recent films(like Dumb & Dumber, ...Something about Mary, etc.)...the second kind is the intelligent and sometimes avant-garde. Like the intelligence on Frasier, where only about a third of the viewers get the jokes? Drew has humor like that floating all around it in the background, but has the crude humor in the forefront to keep the general populace happy...it is avant-garde in that it is willing to break with traditional sit-com formulas (like the musicals, the Emmy episode, the live episode/melded with Whose Line, etc.) Plus after all the times I have seen it, the episode where Kate puts fart noises on Drew's safety videos still cracks me up each and every time!!!
Drew never gets anything good and he never gets a break. I mean come on give it up already.
The pop-up video bubbles were pretty lame, no to mention annoying.
Three words: "Moon Over Parma..." Bleh.
i think it jumped the shark when Drew and the gang did that whole lame Rocky Horror picture show ****, it was really lame
When Drew and Kate slept together. the episodes from the first three, four seasons are the good ones. but in the 99-00 season, the show really started to get stupid. drew's the main character, he's really only supposed to be their friend, not their lover. it be different if they were together from the start, but the show, especially since december, has really gone down. its still funny, just not nearly as funny.
I love drew carey but someone needs to tell him (and kathy lee and cybil shepherd) that just because you LIKE to sing and dance does not mean that you should... to the person that mentioned that the Kate character got a little "chubby" this year--hello? she was PREGNANT in real life and thankfully, they did not try to write it into the show like every other TV show does!
Everyone Ohioan will resort to punches in defending that wasteland of a state and they all live in other states! Gees, if Ohio is so great, especially Cleveland, why do most of it natives live in California, North Carolina and Florida? Even Wilbur and Orville moved to North Carolina 100 years ago! Puh-leese, Cleveland is a burned out, closed factory wasteland. Drew should have set this show in the Southern retirement city to which his parents have relocated. It sure as heck would have been more realistic! They could have had episodes where Drew and the folks sit around a golf course bitching about their new homestate and how, illogically, Cleveland was the best place on earth; even though they left it.
I LOVED the Drew Carey Show! But then, somewhere late in the 98-99 season, and spectacularly so in the 99-00 season, the show simply fell apart. It all stems from Mr. Carey's increasing love of his own talents and his "owning" the show more and more in odder and less funny ways that are chosen to showcase him and turn everyone else into cartoons along with him. One of the very worst examples of what happens to many once-good shows: the star loses his/her way and becomes obnoxiously conceited and self-indulgent. Carey is a mess now.
This show is creative each week and isn't afraid to try new things. Although I don't like every concept, I do like the originality of the writers.
This show was hilarious. Does anybody remember the Kato on "Geraldo" sketch? When O.J. came out selling a video explaining how he did it I couldn't stop laughing for hours afterwards.
in most cases, the live episode is ALMOST compelling, but with the beautifully scripted interruptions from NONCAST members forcing them to do those ever so wacky improvisational bits, well, makes me feel the end is near for the cheap dilbert knock-off.
This show jumped the shark around the 2nd or 3rd season, when every other show started using a dumb, unbelievable story to try to gain ratings. It made the final jump in the episode when they had to use the casket for a table at the wedding.
When they stopped using "Moon Over Parma" as the theme show music. That was the bench mark, before they made the change the show was fresh and you had a great deal of empathy for the lovable loser Drew who suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune in quiet desperation. (Shakespeare and Thoreau in one quote!) Drew Carey very quickly degenerated into a self-indulgent mess. As a viewer I no longer have any empathy for the characters; the performers now engage in pointless one-upsmanship and trading lame one-liner after lame one-liner. The stories and situations are meaningless now that Drew Carey is a rich guy living out all his fantasies in real life. Drew banged it for a long, long time as a stand-up comic, and when his moment finally arrived, he squandered the opportunity to make a show that had a truly human and special quality about it, everything that Seinfeld wasn't. Unfortunately, he thinks he's a rock star now. What a pity.
When Drew's brother, the cross-dresser, decides he's in love with Mimi.
I know that it's a stereotype here (cute girls with cute guys and all that), but they still seem like "Just Friends" or worse SIBLINGS. When it comes down to it, he was one of the guys who didn't have sex with her way back when (brother) and he's the guy that she ran to for advice, opinions and approval (friend, brother). Generally speaking, I think most women have learned by now that the one person you can't discuss all of those things with (and have them give you an honest answer) is NOT your bed/life/mate/partner.... And Drew has just held her hand a little too long. Yech! I think Kate and Oswald were the way to go.
This show has never jumped the shark, the unpredictability to it is one of its strong points, I love it when they pull the weird stuff out. Actually think the new 'Whose Line is more predictable, less variety then the British version ,despite having most of the same people on it.
Drew and Kate dating!? You've got to be kidding. It was all right when Kate and Oswald hooked up, but the show lost me with this.
Day one. The show was going great until that no-talent hack of an actress who plays Drew's "one of the guys" friend spoke her first line. Somebody owed this dunce a favor for sure. She should be taken outside, shot and left for the buzzards.
Drew, his cast and the writers should be applauded for consistently reinventing comedy and not being ashamed to pull out all the stops. Always fresh and chock-full of zippy zingers -- gotta love 'im !!
Nobody has mentioned the most annoying character on TV - that idiot Mr. Wick! How I would love see Drew pick him up and hurdle him through a window. Most of the comments regarding when this show jumped are bang-on (especially the shows getting stranger and stranger - strange is okay, but these shows are just stupid), but that #$%@# Mr. Wick is the most annoying character created - I'd rather have used needles from a strung-out whore stuck into me than have to watch that guy.
I find it amusing when people preface their reply by 'I'm from Ohio so of course I love the show....' Firstly, I would be embarrassed by saying that I am from Ohio, but that is off the topic. Do Canadians have to like Celine Dion because she is from Canada? Do Bostonians like Extreme because they are from there? Do Tulsans like Hanson because they are from there? The answer, no, because a sophisticated group can tell what is a pile of cow dung when they see it, and it is apparent that the Ohioans can not tell their ass from their elbow so they love Drew Carey because he is Cleveland's own. The show is terrible and always has been terrible, and most people can see that. I guess one has a propensity to like cow poo when the only thing to do in a worthless state is cow tipping.
Drew Carey looks like the prototypical nerd boy from the "Far Side" cartoons. I could only watch a show where he wore a paper bag down to his knees.
First of all...for those of you who rip on Cleveland, you obviously have not been here recently, I've lived here all of my life and remember the ****hole it used to be, but nowadays downtown cleveland is one of the greatest places in the world to hang out. We may not be as stuck up as people in L.A., or as dirty as those from Detroit, or even "cool" as New Yorkers but Drew is exactly what Cleveland is about fun, beer, the Indians, and The Browns. The closest this show ever came to jumping the shark is when they changed the original theme song (moon over parma) to "Cleveland Rock" but I do have to say, even that is pretty good. Clevelanders...some people are just jealous of us.
This season - leaving Winford Lowder for the cafeteria...
WHAT HAPPENED? I loved this show, but then it just became this hugely depressing sitcom. How did he end up as a cafeteria worker from his desk job with no explanation. I hope this doesn't get any worse, or else I'll just tune in to West Wing.
I've been watching the show in syndication for over a year now and it's one of those rare shows (ala The Simpsons & Married...With Children) where the first season or so kind of falls flat but then it gets better as it goes on. As soon as The Drew Carey Show dropped the dead weight (the hick next door neighbors, Jay, Mr. Bell, etc.), it got better and better. They also found the secret of great comedy, bringing out the dim bulb in a main character (in this case, Oswald). Oswald & Lewis have some of the best on-screen chemistry on TV today. The show takes risks and they pay off and it keeps getting funnier. This past season, despite Drew & Kate getting together, was a riot. One of the best lines I have ever heard in a sitcom was last season, "I tripped over the dog and broke my penis!"
T.V. shows are meant to be fun but when you start taking them as seriously as some of these posters then it's stopped being fun and become another thing to pick to pieces. you guys are worse than high school english teachers. lighten up and stop the crud about the show robbing part of your life. no one forced your to watch. Get a hobby.
When Drew was fired from Winfred-Lauder, the show jumped. It may get back to being a good show if he ever gets his job back, but until then, it will be very difficult to get Mr. Wick (whom I consider a very cold stereotype of a smarmy Englishman--which is what makes the character so funny) into any scenes. They took care of the same problem with Mimi by having her marry into the Carey family and subsequently getting pregnant by Steve (though, I have to admit, I agree with the earlier comment that the writers gave us a bit too much information--eating beans while conceiving!!--for our good taste). I enjoy the reruns in syndication, but they show them just a few too many times (same goes with "Friends"). Oh well, just my humble spoutings.
For a while, the Drew Carey Show was one of the funniest programs on the tube. Drew was hilarious, Mimi was a riot, and I can't think of a group of friends that were as stupid as Lewis and Oswald. But on one sad, tragic day, the show jumped. No, it wasn't the Cleveland Rocks number in the opening credits (by the way, it is my favorite opening for a show), but it was when Drew's brother and Mimi tied the knot. If Drew's brother (forgive me, the name has slipped my mind) was a better character and actor, than the idea would work. However, the brother is stiff, very dull, and did the impossible, made Mimi seem annoying and boring. Every time the couple shows up, I start to cringe. They either talk about sex or Mimi says something rotten towards Drew and than her boy toy consoles her by offering more sex. WOW! What a great addition! I would also like to finish by saying, that Cleveland does ROCK! Just spend a couple a days in Downtown and visit Tower City, the Galleria, The Great Lakes Science Center and the Rock n' roll Hall of Fame. And this is coming from a guy whose spent all of his life living in the suburbs of Detroit, and believe me Cleveland does ROCK!
This was a great show. So funny. Then it started to lose it a little. Then came the live episode. They tried to do it like "Whose Line is it Anyway?" (used all the regulars from it too), but it failed miserably, especially the opening song thing. If you want a funny live episode, someone has to forget their line!
When they gave Drew the second show (The poorer cousin version of the excellent British version) It seemed as if he thought that this raised his value and he could apply a liberal dose of "creative" power. When Drew and the rest were poor working schlubs it was cool. Now it's "I Love Lucy" on acid. And a bad trip at that.
This show used to be fresh and entertaining but last year and this season it has become much more mean-spirited than funny. Sure there are lame episodes but there have been more funny ones than lame until now. The first two shows this year were so bad that we talked through them instead of watching the show. Bad sign! And I also have to say that if you don't like the Who's Line Is It Anyway type stuff in the show that you need to turn the channel. A lot of the humour in each appears in the other.
The Drew Carey Show is a sitcom I had to be talked into watching --- and now I am hooked. In fact it was the "Nikki Dumps Drew" episode, where his overweight fiancée leaves, that I peaked my interest to take a look at the show. This is the ONLY sitcom that continues to push the envelope on the traditional 30-minute format. It is the only sitcom that makes me laugh out loud.
Unfortunately it DIDN'T jump the shark, which it deserved to do when they started those musical sequences! Drew Carey seems to be under the influence of himself being a talented guy... he's always giving those smirks when he's acting because he's so bad at it. I wouldn't like to have him as a neighbor, he's creepy! But I guess that's straying from the JTS idea... okay, singing and his unlikely relationships. There.
Kate and Drew decided to be "just friends". Heaven forbid the show try to develop a story line that would healthy heterosexual relationship develop
This current season has jumped the shark and jumped the track. Is Drew getting insane? Especially with the idea of Drew marrying Mr. Wick for a green card. And dumping Kate? He is insane. Who knows what would have happened with that relationship. Kate might have changed her views on children if they'd let that relationship continue. Has Drew forgotten the episode when Kate was "Housewatching/babysitting". She didn't want the parents to return and loved having the "handyman" as her boyfriend. They were an instant family.
When Kate started dating the regulars, that was a sign of lost writing, no more imagination. I usually like this show, but it's getting tired and will hate to see it go, but if they dont find some original scripts, the end is near.
The show has never jumped. Has it had bad episodes? Yeah, what show hasn't? Has it occasionally been self-indulgent? Sure... But "The Drew Carey Show" continues to be one of the funniest, most original sitcoms out there. Always willing to experiment, usually on the edge, and consistently hilarious. Now that Kate and Drew are no longer doing the "star-crossed lovers" thing, the show has dropped the skis entirely.
I still love Drew!!! Hilarious! Love the wise cracks and spontaneous laughs. Drew never jumped!!! When Oswald and Lewis marry each other, then the shark will be a jumpin' fool.
This is one of the very best comedy shows I have ever seen. I work the evening shift and I am lucky to be able to watch Drew two times at night when I come home from a hard day in the ER. This is one of those rare shows that can actually make you laugh out loud!! This group makes you really want to be a part of their circle of friends...the laughs never stop and the characters just get better!! DREW ROCKS!!!
When Drew and Mr. Wyck got married so he could get job back I thought same-sex marriages may be legal in some states but I'm sure they are not recognized as such in Ohio....
What a great show. Could do without the dance numbers but Ill survive. As far as everyone making fun of Cleveland, its really not too bad (Just stay away from the CSU area unless you want to be shot), but the flats (Strips of bars on the river)is probably the best part of Cleveland (minus the flats homeless people, shootings, drownings, and the vomit covered streets)
Imagine the horror of thinking that Mrs. Partridge was having sex, let alone with Drew Carey! Its simply mind altering!
Oswald & Lewis try to prove that they're not so dumb by secretly getting a beer-drinking brown bear from Lewis' job to lure customers to the Buzz Beer booth at the monthly beer fest. Oh the wackiness trying to hide the bear from Drew in his own house! Oh the craziness when the bear drove off in Oswald's delivery truck! I then announced to my husband this once funny show had officially "jumped the shark" and turned off the TV - I couldn't "bear" to watch the rest!
Way way way too much Steve & Mimi! They are funny sideline characters, but that's it. It's the Seinfeld symptom (when they started making Kramer and Newman pivotal characters in episodes instead of funny sidebars). And Oswald and Lewis seem a little less lovable over the past couple seasons... I find Drew pretty constant, though.
I have to admit, I'm a pretty attractive person. And my boyfriend isn't the best-looking guy I know. But I would not even consider banging Drew. I mean, I'd be friends, but could you imagine being hot, blond, and weighing about 100 pounds (average DCS girlfriend) and having THAT on top of you? I shudder to think! And what was up with the girl who went from hottie to nasty in one day? That is a physical impossibility. They ate erotic food together ONCE and she turned into a cow. What the hell was that about? And let's just say one last word: KATE?!?!?
The first time they aired a musical bit. Drew, Mimi, and the entire crew sang and danced -- not cool. They double jumped the shark when they changed the opening from Drew singing Moon Over Parma to a singing/dancing number.
It never did....all you guys who say it did are complete idiots. The show is a sit-com, doesn't have to make sense, it was created for the sole purpose to amuse. And for that guy who said the British version of who's line was better, F*** off, limey. And furthermore Rush Limbaugh ROX.....all the theme songs have rocked, and you guys are just wasting your freakin' time trying to find something wrong with the show..nothing is wrong! It's not jumped the fence so just shut up and criticize Ally McBeal or that crap show on MTV.......any of those. Just leave the good stuff alone.
First of all, I'm from Northeast Ohio and I will not post in all caps so I won't look like an idiot. Drew Carey jumped the shark when Oswald and Kate got together. I think most sitcoms have at most three good years in them (in most cases, two) and when two of the main characters either 1) fall in love and "do it" or, even worse, get married, 2) an already married couple has a baby, 3) the characters become caricatures of themselves (become more obnoxious, stupid, smart-assed, whatever) and/or 4) new characters are introduced. Drew Carey jumped the shark several times. When Oswald and Kate began dating and Oswald became super pussywhipped, when Drew became a garage band rock star and got that groupie, when Mimi and Drew's brother got engaged (any transvestite would have better taste than to marry a woman that looks like a bad transvestite), the musical numbers (that ROCKY HORROR **** makes me ill), when Drew got a steady girlfriend (a very attractive one, too; how often in real life does THAT happen to a guy that looks like him?!), when she got fat (then lost all that tonnage, got married to another guy, and Drew became psychotic), when Mr. Wick became a coke whore, and finally and most fatally, when Drew and Kate got together. That was especially painful because the first season and a half or so was so damn funny.
I thought Drew and Kate dating was great. And I don't think the show's jumped. Yet. By the way, anyone who can't run to their bed/life/ mate/parter for advice, opinions and approval and expect an honest answer is in a seriously f*cked-up, shallow, unhealthy relationship that lacks respect and honesty. Most happy women I know have learned this and consider their bed/life/mate/partner their best friend. That's why I thought Drew and Kate were so good together.
First of all (not there fault but..) they totally over played the hell out of this show. Two shows a night, until you've seen all episodes like 3 times. Then you start hating them. The only hope this show has is Ryan Stiles & they don't use him to his comedy maximum. The show where Drew joined a stupid band & dyed his hair piss yellow and had a young "goth" like girlfriend was just ridiculous & the end. All though, I can think of so many episodes that are junk, it was hard to pin point jumping.
The show was at its peak when they started the "Five O' Clock World" openings. Then it jumped... It had jumped pretty far by the time the ugly fat guy was on his second or third pretty young skinny girlfriend. I stopped watching before he was in the peroxide-and-goatee phase. The show was on the TV recently in the workout room at the Y a few months ago, and while guest star Jamie Luner was quite decorative, the show wasn't funny.
Drew's coma/death sequence... What were they thinking?? Am I the only one to notice that this season is markedly worse than the rest?
This show hasn't jumped, it is still one of the more creative shows on the air. It also is up there with other greats (i.e. M*A*S*H) to survive prime time & syndication at the same time.
Kate & Drew together was the final straw, but you could see the shark building speed long before that. This show, once funny, has turned into an absolute suck-fest. Mimi has just gotten old, marrying her to the token "gay" guy (in this case the cross-dressing brother) is just an annoyance, and I agree, Drew became "too cool" (maybe it was the singing and dancing?). I wish they would just spin off Lewis and Oswald into their own show and leave the rest of these losers in Cleveland where they belong?
Like the live episode of ER, the live DCS episodes cheated by breaking the format and turning into Drew Carey Show-themed Whose Line Is It Anyway specials. If you're gonna do the show live, do the show live. Don't do a different show.
When Drew and Kate became a couple. Kate and Oswald were funny as a couple but the producers were right to stop their wedding. but to pair kate and drew together after that...well, that's when i stopped watching. and i miss it, especially lewis and oswald - one of the funniest combinations in tv history. Drew and Kate? BORING.
The China Show, when Mimi sends Drew to China as a prank. I think it was the season ender. Season enders, or beginners, are usually some sort of big show and this one was supposed to be. Seemed like more of an excuse to send Drew to date Chinese girls. Not funny and since then the show has not been consistent as it was
Drew Carey jumped the shark with their April Fool's special contest shows. I couldn't even stand the commercials for these stupid, stupid shows. I never want to watch a show that you need to count how many things are incorrect. Whoever came up with this idea has been spending too much time on those mind numbing puzzle books with the "What's wrong with this picture" games.
When Kathy Lee Gifford was a guest. She has to be the most annoying celebrity ever. I didn't even watch the episode and probably never will...
The episode when Drew was kidnapped and ended up in China was a week attempt at ratings.
AFTER THE 100TH GAY BROADWAY SONG AND DANCE ROUTINE. JUST LIKE SEINFELD, THE LEAD ACTOR IS NOTHING WITHOUT THE 3 SIDEKICKS. IT SHOULD BE CALLED THE OSWALD, KATE AND LEWIS SHOW.
This show is also one of those shows like Seinfeld that will always make you laugh because of the everyday plots and versatile characters. I don't care what they do, it will always be good, unless Mimi and Drew stop fighting, that will be a dark day. Even the addition of the Carey/Bobeck baby didn't make the it bad or the unwanted appearance of Kathy Lee Gifford.
The broadway show tunes was the smoke. Kate and Drew getting together was the fire.
All the juvenile pranks between Mimi and Drew were funny and acceptable, even the China episode. But this finale where Mimi drives Drew to a psych ward just crossed the line. How much more can one man take? Mimi went from a mischievous prankster to a criminal, and that just doesn't work for a comedy. It will be curious to see how this all pans out next season.
When Drew and Mr. Wick got married! One minute he's dating Kate and the next he's in a gay marriage. Would have rather seen Mr. Wick black mail Kate to marry him to save Drew's job and then try to still have a romance with Drew on the side and not get caught. By the way I like the musical numbers.
It is too hard to tell when Drew jumped. When I heard you on Howard Stern telling about all the different criteria that marks the jumping of the sharks, well this show has it all. From bad musical numbers and dancing, to different hair styles, changing of the casts hair styles and personalities, to dating and affairs of the casts, bad guest stars and theme shows, marriages, births, this show jumped the shark more times than any other. We're just missing Ted McGinley, Mimi's baby aging ten years in one season, then graduating high school
This show jumped the shark with the introduction of Steve, Drew's cross-dressing brother. It is really bad now because they have kept him on as a regular now.
When Drew's brother and Mimi got married, then Mimi had the baby..I can't watch it anymore...it just got bad..plus the Kate and Oswald, Kate and Drew..breaking up, etc.....
This is one of the few shows that guarentees a laugh. It has had it's ups and downs but all in all it's entertaining and very funny. Love Oswald and Lewis and real glad that Kate and Drew broke up. But I wish Steve would get a divorce and start cross dressing again.
I think The Drew Carey Show jumped the shark when Drew turned out to be Mimi's baby. It also jumped the shark when Drew and Kate broke up. And when Kate and Oswald were gonna get married.
When Drew died and came back for a short while as Mimi's baby.
That is soooo over done!! I am so tired of hearing her call him Pig=enough. And the song change...please. "Moom Over Parma"=great, and "5 o'clock World" even greater but what was it replaced with?????????? Garbage!! I can't even sing it!! Right then it stopped being about the comedy and started to be Drew's personal thing. Sort of like what happened to "Ellen".
As soon as Kate became Oswald's love interest, it ruined the entire chemistry of the show. Now she kind of gets passed around to each character for a season. Wonder when it's Mimi's turn with her. I also think that the so-called humor has become worse than tasteless and pretty much borders on grade school mentality.
First of all, before anyone can comment on the city of Cleveland, You had better know what you are talking about. Drew is from the urban part of Cleveland. Drew also went to Cleveland public schools. His pride and love for the city he is from is the sole reason he is successful. If you are going to talk about things and people you don't know about you can at least learn how to spell correctly. Can Cleveland be a better place? Most certainly. I am willing to wager that Cleveland is a lot better place to live then almost any major city in the country. The best way to put it is that CLEVELAND ROCKS and always will ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I enjoy Drew Carey. He is one of the few Libertarians on TV. But Drew, it's time to cash it in!!!!!! Let your boss leave the country in chains, please!!! This is the most far-fetched, ridiculous notion to come along in years, decades!!!!!!!!!! The forced gay union of Drew and his boss is one giant JTS.
I hate to say this, because I fell in love with this show from the first episode I watched, which was just to see Triple H guest starring. I watched it religiously from then on! However, the shark jump happened for me in the episode where Lewis became romantically involved with the midget who was Mini-Mimi. That in itself had nothing to do with it, but at that point I realized that the creative team were trying to inject Mimi into EVERY aspect of Drew's life. Okay, fine, they work in the same office. Drew himself said that without the conflict between the two of them, there'd be no Drew Carey Show. Watching the prank wars go back and forth are a good way to tie the show together. After the gag, get on with the plot. However--she marries Drew's brother? (Wouldn't the thought of getting involved with ANY Carey repulse Mimi?) They move into his backyard? Partners in Buzz Beer? Mimi gets the job meant for Drew? She has Drew's nephew? Drew takes her to the hospital out of the goodness of his heart when he should have told her to get bent? Drew's friend dating a Mimi clone? (These are not in order.) I think the whole feud has been carried way too far. Mimi should not be the focus of the show. This problem was even addressed in the season finale for this year, with Drew being institutionalized, obsessed with Mimi. Hopefully Drew and co. will wise up and back off on this conflict. This show has done some really creative things. Who else would dare have the April Fool's shows, the Emmy episode (Stoned little girl!), the musical numbers (come on, those are just fun! But I don't want to see Kathy Kinny wobbling around the set.) I'm watching it less and less though.
This show has jumped that shark pit soooo many times. But I think the worst one was when Mimi & Steve had the baby, and it ended up looking like Drew. BIG SURPRISE!!!! Did you NOT expect it to look like "The Pig"? And just an after thought.....the second worst show was when Oswald got boobs....Do you hear the Jaws music? Bring on Ted McGinley!!
Drew "jumped" when Mimi had the baby. A show killer for certain!
This show got stupid with the song and dance routines and gig episodes. I put in a vote for the LIVE episode because that one takes the cake, even the singing wasn't as bad, also very close to getting it is the Drew/Kate relationship, ITS NOT SUPPOSED TO EVER HAPPEN...idiot writers.
From the moment the Drew Carey Show went on T.V. it sucked. It was never funny. The characters and their banter was always extremely obvious and unfunny. Mimi was always way too obvious in both appearance and demeanor. Even the "star", Drew Carey was never funny. His chummy beer drinking scenes with his friends on the outdoor pool table: obvious and unfunny. Jumped the shark from day one.
I don't think it ever jumped, but am I the only one disturbed by the fact that there is a character named Oswald Harvey? Like in Lee Harvey Oswald? What kinda weirdo names their kid after an assassin?
I don't know the name of the characters (other than Mimi) but Drew jumped it big time when his cross dressing brother and his arch nemesis tied the knot! Now I think it's managed to jump the shark AGAIN with the birth of the baby! I say again because with the baby it makes it impossible for Drew to be at odds again with Mimi, there's that family connection. Whereas Mimi could have divorced his brother and it just would have been more ammo. Sure they could still do that but with the baby caught in the midst it wouldn't really be fun. Actually, I think you put me down for The Drew Carey Show jumping the shark in almost every category!
I could tolerate Drew's dail bull until that stupid episode airs where he gets in that comma and "dies." Come on, does he really think we are that dumb?!
It was fun with Drew and Mimi playing jokes on each other. Then Mimi was a partner in Buzz Beer, married Drew's Brother, got Drew fired, prevented him from getting another job, the final jump was when she got him committed to the looney bin. Drew has not been able to get back at all and that is getting BORING.
the fifth time drew screwed himself over by; being nice, ethics, helping mimi and any of the other things he does when he gets a break. how long can the guy keep getting that close and then throw it away. It became insulting after the fourth season. he should just leave and get a new job.
He was supposed to be a working stiff that we could relate to. Then he dyes his hair and starts a band. That is not my life.
Even though I like The Vogues' "Five O'Clock World," when they changed theme-songs, it seemed to be the beginning of the all-singing, all-dancing nadir of this once marginally funny show. Too many dumb-ass gimmick episodes. As for the "Cleveland Rocks," opening - yeah, yeah, we know you're from Cleveland and we know its reputation and we know the city has improved a bit over the past decade, etc. but come on! It still ain't Paris. Why the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (a stupid idea anyway for an aural art form) is in Cleveland and not some historically significant city like Memphis is beyond me. (Before you answer, the phrase "rock and roll" was used as early as the 1920's by Southern blues singers - so Alan Freed's ghost can cram it.) And could he not find anything in the city hipper than an ATM machine? Wow. What a way to boost tourism. "We can watch those perennial also-rans play at Jacobs Field, SEE the guitar that played 'Johnny B. Goode' AND get money from a machine on the street? What have we been waiting for? Call the airlines and book two tickets! One Way!" To sum up, too much Broadway for no good reason.
Drew Carey is up there with Andy Kaufman, Rodney Dangerfield, Freddy Prinze (senior) and Eddie Murphy. A raw talent who copied no one.
I used to watch Drew Carey with my girlfriend when it first started. it was okay Passable, now I'm embarrassed to say I have ever watched it. Drew Carey and the writers on that show are probably the most unoriginal in television history. Even the Love Boat waited about twelve seasons before they did a musical episode and that show was twice as long. i mean have they ever thought of actually sitting down and trying to write something original, instead of throwing these old hat gimmicks at us. Win prizes if you watch, that's sad and pathetic. Drew should be ashamed of himself, as a comedian he should of had the decency to put the ax to this show long ago. And what about all the movies and other T.V. show's he basically plagiarizes from, (full monte, rocky horror, train spotting. Drew Carey sucks. But once again it will keep airing so that the sodomites who are the consensus in the society can try to win prizes and be charmed by dance numbers, and fart jokes. Drew carey is lucky that here is a long line of idiots in this country who will keep his wallet full.
Drew's unrequited love for Kate was great, but when she finally decided to return the favor, that's when I fell away from watching. This show used to be like heroin; now it's like methadone.
The stupid april fools "Guess the Mistakes" episode sealed the deal!
As much as I liked this show when it first came on it has gone way down hill. Drew dies was an alright episode but him marrying Mr Wick to keep him in America was a new low. And the whole Kate and Drew thing has always been part of the show I mean we knew Drew really liked Kate. But this show is getting old and is nothing like the first 3 seasons. This show is going to jump the shark very soon unless they do something good for the next season. Is it me or do all the ABC comedys get worse I mean Spin City has gone down hill Dharma and Greg is just stupid now and Drew Carey has just started this past season. Weird considering these shows were mostly made around the same time of each other. I hope they go back to the old ways of the first 2 or 3 seasons.
Man, this show won't quit jumping! What once was a great show has become a self indulgent romp by Drew Carey. The live "improv" shows are terrible and the musicals suck too. And good grief, Kate and Drew? Is Lewis next (for Drew or Kate)?
When they had Drew MARRY Mr. Wick. I stopped watching on that very day. I still watch "Whose Line is It anyway" because drew and Ryan Stiles are great! What stupid idiot wrote the marriage episode, he needs to move to Cleveland!
I dont really like all the dancing and live shows, but all in all the show is pretty dang funny. Oswald is funny and Lewis is my favorite. I love the insults that go back and forth between Drew and Mimi, but they used to be a lot better in the beginning of the show.
Drew Carey's lovable-fat-guy-loser schtick is older than LaWanda Page's training bra and just as played out. And his Cleveland connection is beyond lame. Living in Akron, 35 miles south of Cleveland, the hype regarding Carey's local-boy-made-good image is relentless, but here's the straight dope: Zsa Zsa Gabor has a better claim to being from "the mean streets" of Cleveland than he does! Carey, despite his blue collar gimmick, is actually from Brooklyn, Ohio, a tony, lilly-white, upper middle class suburb southwest of the city but you'll never hear that as it would damage Carey's "street cred" with all the schlubs who buy into his carefully manufactured, Hollywood marketing focus group-approved image. So keep that in mind when you see Carey awe-shucksing his way through his crummy sitcom or, even worse, his insanely over-rated improv "comedy" program - and I use the term comedy lightly. A guy I know traveled the local comedy club circuit with Carey during the early 80s and can validate his witlessness with a variety of pathetic stories that would take its own Web site to fully detail.
it never did! I can't believe these people when they say its the dancing or April Fools. YOU KNEW this was not your ordinary sitcom. IT WAS MEANT from day one to be zany and crazy. Cleveland ROCKS!
It was all great till they started singing, that wasnt bad but not shark worthy. What IS entirely shark worthy is when Drew started to do the live shows with his cast and his whose line is it anyway cast? Stupid, not to mention a clear case of too much power for one guy.
You can only feel sorry for a guy for so long, then you wish the show would just go off the air and put him out of his misery.
KATHIE LEE!!!!! That was the absolute worst!!! Who ever told that woman she could sing, let alone act! I was embarrassed for the entire cast! I love the show, its suppose to be escapist fun, but please keep Kathie Lee, and Adrianne Barbeau off the set with barbed wire!!!
This show jumped around the time when the opening theme was changed from "Five O'Clock World" to "Cleveland Rocks". However, it was not the song itself that caused the jump - this just seems like the most appropriate point in time to mark the jump. It was just about everything else that happened on the show starting around that time period that really caused this show to go downhill (it's a shame, too, because this could have been one of the all-time classics). The humor degenerated into junior-high school level bathroom jokes and sexual innuendo. Then there are the "spot-the mistakes" shows: oh, gee...Drew and his friends are all puppets in this scene...ha,ha,ha.....now Mr. Wick is wearing a tutu....my, isn't that hilarious. Then there is his transvestite brother. Drew, I think it's time to pack it in. You coulda been a contender, but you took the easy way out by relying too much on vulgarity and cheap laughs. Spend some time watching episodes of "The Honeymooners", "The Dick Van Dyke Show", "The Odd Couple", "Newhart", and "Home Improvement" if you want to learn how to do a sitcom the right way.
I agree with the last responder, Cleveland Rocks may not be the exact moment of the jump, but it sure is close enough to use as a milestone. We used to watch this show weekly. We noticed that it started to deteriorate in terms of the humor. What had been a funny show suddenly started to rely on someone's junior high sense of potty mouth humor. Did Drew's head swell as the network did everything it could to make him a star? Did someone decide that Drew Carey needed to be one of those shows to be used to move our culture down the slippery slope (like Ellen, NYPD Blue, etc.)? I don't know. All I know is that a I stopped watching a once promising show, that had jumped big time. Hopefully Nick at Night or TV Land will never pick it up, relegating it to its deserved place in the heap of classic TV wannabes. Instead, we the viewing public would be better served by the return of a true classic like Green Acres or Dobie Gillis.
Cleveland Rocks! I hate that f***ing song! I really did like this show, it had some funny moments and even some good "musical numbers" In fact when they did "What is Hip" I thought it was the best, but whatever dick head thought that Cleveland Rocks was a good choice for the theme song must have been dipping into the buzz beer. It sucks! Drew, there are so many other cool songs from the 60's and 70's that are hip as well, please change the song.
The season opener for 2001. "Back to School". The bands were good, but the skits sucked. Extreme minimum on the humor scale.
"Back to School, Rock and Roll" special? Nah. It wasn't special. It wasn't funny. Unlike in seasons past, when the Drew Crew had their clever musicals, this "episode" brought on several bland bands. Boring, boring, boring. The skits in between musical acts were sophomoric, at best. They just weren't funny. No laughs. Actually, this show spent the last season-and-a-half rehearsing for this season's climatic shark jump. They covered all the big jumping categories: Drew and Kate did it; Mimi and Steve got married; Mimi had a baby; Drew died. No McGinley, though. Sorry, Drew, your syndicated reruns are funnier than your current stuff. There might be some good news, though -- maybe nobody watched this episode because everybody was tuned into "The West Wing". Drew should be so lucky.
As I sat down to watch the Drew Carey Show tonight, i couldn't believe the stupid skits they were doing. Are they trying to be SNL all of a sudden? That had to be the most mind numbing experience of my life. Even really cool bands like Sugar Ray couldn't save this episode. I used to like this show......
I agree with the other three that the whole musical and skits thing was lackluster, If the musical components dealt with Drew's escape from the mental hospital I could have taken it. I've watched "The Drew Carey Show" for the last five years, and believe me, there was a whole lot of shark jumping, but this is totally the suck point of the show right now. And it's been renewed till 2004, so there's still more shark jumping bound to happen. Yet I still watch...probably just to see what shark-jumping moment will come next.
The season premiere of 2001!! The skits weren't funny! It was just ridiculous! Who thought this would be a good idea????
The show jumped the shark when Drew had to submit to a gay green-card marriage with Mr. Wick to get his job at Winfred Louder at the start of the 2000-2001 season (sixth for the series). They had always been able to handle outlandish plot lines but that for me was just too far-fetched. I stopped watching around then.
when the plots became to stupid like drews dance scenes. marrying mr. wick , drew's brother marrying mimi, oswald&lewis are too ridiculous for words.the whole show sucks!
Okay. The show is not as good as when it first came on, but it's not bad. Seriously. The live shows suck. The spot the mistake ones are funny! (especially when they did a city shot and it was chicago instead of cleveland) I hate Mr. Wick. Drew and Mimi need to stop trying to kill each other. Fortunately, Drew carey has said they'll ease up a little this season. Let's hope so. Ps- guy from akron? I'm from Akron too. Have you been to brooklyn? Its about as blue collar as cleveland-if not worse.
Drew never jumped. And all you folks who knock Cleveland are idiots. That is one nice town. I LOVE visiting there. The Flats and Warehouse District ROCKS! Jacobs Field is the best in Baseball, and the Browns just beat the Baltimore Ratbirds! CLEVELAND ROCKS!!!
I mean, come on, marrying two women at the same time? Drew Carey has always been a good show, but when Drew married those two women, I knew it was a shark jumping moment.
The Drew Carey show really jumped the shark this season. From the Schoolhouse Rock opener on it just sucked!!!! The worst was the Oct. 24 show. Please, the band shakes the whole house and Kate beats up Drew in a Matrix like fight scene. Gimme a break! They need to take this off right now.
I haven't watched Drew Carey for over a year (it is simply too painful), but that Cleveland Rocks song is more than emblematic of JTS. (And I currently live in a run-down, former smoke stack industry, heavy manufacturing eastern city that rocks far more than Cleveland.) It seems the problem with the Drew Carey Show is that the premise has been completely explored "the loveable loser," as one writer above put it) and the writers have been doing whatever they can to save their jobs. The show has become a definition of how to jump the shark.
I like the singing at the beginning! It's the opening credits, so there's a license to be more Broadway-like. And Cleveland has been a national joke forever; let them have a theme song that says "Cleveland Rocks." Good for them. Drew is one funny bastard. Like a lot of comedians that get sitcoms, he's not allowed to really be himself, assuming that his stand-up act is him being himself.
People who have been best friends for that long barely ever get together. It just doesn't happen.
Drew Carey Show jumped at the start of the 2001-02 season. Suddenly, it wasn't funny anymore, and it's like the writers are trying to top themselves from earlier seasons' successes, and they're just falling flat. I mean, c'mon! Drew marries two people -- and doesn't get caught or arrested?
First, I think the show never jumped. It's funny, and Mr. Wick is a riot with better one liners than all the rest. However, I take offense at the girl who talked about Drew's girlfriends. I'm in good shape, but still pretty ugly. Yet, my wife is a former model. It ain't all about how shallow you can be, honey. Yes, women can like fat guys, and some guys like fat women. Get over yourself, honey. I think YOU jumped the shark.
The Drew Carey show jumped the shark when they started doing those damn broadway style shows and april fools shows. They are terrible and now the show is worst than ever. For the love of God ABC, please take this show off the network.
When Drew married his boss and then when it couldn't get much worse..he married two women at one time..I like Drew but it has gone too far.
I don't think the show has jumped, though at times it seems treacherously close, especially since Kate appears to be passed around more than a happy stick at a BTO concert. I just have to comment on the folks who find it "unrealistic" that someone who is Drews size could have an attractive girlfriend. I am just barely on the "good" side of 300 lbs, and don't have a huge income...I have dated women similar to my own size and Kate Moss/Winona Ryder waif model types. The reason, I am funny, classy and I listen to women. I'm not saying that I could saunter into a club and snap my fingers and every woman there would want to go out with me...but I have always done o.k. As far as the self described beauty who was disgusted at the prospect of having "that" on top of you...its the 00's...you could climb Mount Drew just as easily!
Didn't. You know what pisses me off? People who take apart the friggin' opening theme! You're splitting hairs here, people. You're expecting a formulatic sitcom to come out of DREW CAREY? The man who's been roasted and wrote a book about big dick jokes? What do you expect, Friends?
I'm sorry but I can't get past the behemoth in the clown makeup. If Mimi was actually funny it would be one thing. But obnoxious doesn't pass for funny where I come from.
Originally when they started the singing episodes, and replaced Moon Over Parma as the opening theme with Five O Clock World, it became obvious that they had done just about all they could with the show's format as it was. They had made all the Dilbert-esque jokes about bad co-workers and sub-Charlie-Brown shtick about Drew being a loser (actually, good acting, with Drew the multimillionaire TV star playing Drew the shlub who lives in Cleveland and works a crappy desk job), and they had to move on and do something else. But does that mean the show got worse by throwing in all this extraneous stuff, or got "more interesting"? Certainly a matter of opinion, but obviously the show changed big time with the new theme song, all the special episodes and the replacement of the unseen Mr. Bell with Mr. Wick, who actually I find hilarious. Come on, Craig Ferguson is really funny in this part. Howzabout when he fruitly offers microwave popcorn to Drew, who DECKS HIM, sending popcorn flying everywhere. I laughed for two weeks at that crap. So, to sum up, still a lot of funny stuff here and there, but definitely jumped after season two. But for some reason, I still feel compelled to watch, as I can't stand that stiflingly self-righteous pap on The West Wing (though I am aligned with their political views mostly). I will continue watching Drew fairly faithfully until it goes off the air. Having Drew and Kate sleep together also was a bad idea. I guess I'm all over the map here. Oh well.
If The Drew Carey Show stays on the track it's on now, which means, if they continue knowing their place -- a zany sitcom -- they'll never jump. They've mixed the best of the sitcom world with the best Saturday Night Live has to offer. The funniest moments on TV (and in life in general) are things that aren't planned. Things that just happen. Saturday Night Live, obviously, gets that from actors cracking up mid-skit or something like that. You can often find that on The Drew Carey Show, and I think that's why it's so successful. Too bad he's from Cleveland. (GO STEELERS!)
This show jumped when Drew (temporarily) quit his job at the department store and tried to form a band. What the hell was Joe Walsh doing on a sitcom, anyway???
Hey, "Cleveland Rocks" happens to be a local hit from the 70's by Ian Hunter. The rest of the country never heard it so I am not surprised that some people think it's weird.
Drew marries 2 women at the season onslaught. Lewis and Oswald are dumbing down more each episode. Drew’s interracial fling with his new boss. Mimi’s character is built up as a nemesis straight up out of the adolescent comic books of the 50’s-60’s. This is halfway through the season.
"The Drew Carey Show" Jumped The Shark right about the time those so-called "left-wing, liberal, Hollywood types" that have been said to ruin so many other shows put Rush Limbaugh on as a guest star. This series was hilarious in its early days, but Rush was a sure sign they were running out of ideas. I watched a few more episodes after that one and soon learned that indeed, they had.
why would they think this would work its stupid and not funny (a.b.c always brings someone of color in every other season etc: the neighbors, boss, new boss) they might be doing it for the sponsors or for the people that say there is not enough diversity of color on tv but this just makes crappy tv and writing. who in there right mind would believe that this woman would be interested in drew carey and also cary on the relationship in the office " get real " and so soon after she was given the job.
The show jumped when Drew went from lovable loser to pathetic wanna-be----be WHAT?, I'm not sure, but it sure isn't the character that was so funny in the first 2-3 seasons. I thought "Cleveland Rocks" was a big hit back in the day, so I was really suprised that only one of the voters seems to know about it. The album (don't know if there is a CD) is "You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic"--pretty good, check it out if you like old stuff, the Cleveland Rocks track isn't really very indicative of the rest of the songs. By the way, Cleveland is okay and can be pretty fun despite all the empty warehouses, but I've always noticed that for some reason Clevelanders tend to be particularly insufferable about their origins. Still, could we please quit trashing Cleveland and stick to the show? (Okay, like one voter said, "It ain't Paris"--but I've lived in Paris, and after a while it sucks too. It's all a matter of "relativity"--speaking of which, THERE's a show that never jumped!)
This just isn't funny! I mean, what's with that stupid, fat, grotesque Mimi effort? Everyone else looks [relatively] normal, and nobody comments on this freak? Come on ... and Mr Carey just ain't funny.
It jumped when Mimi married Drew's brother. I love Mr. Wick though, hes hot. And one more thing they should do BRING BACK JOE WALSH!!!! he was the funniest part of every episode he was in. Please someone give him a show!
I have always loved this show. Even the musicals and live episodes and quirky stuff like that. But this season is ridiculous. First, the rock and roll show SUCKED and was not funny. Drew marries to two beautiful women, when he used to be the loser who couldn't get a date? Puh-lease. As much as I've loved it, I think the show has jumped.
Someone PLEASE tell the man he can NOT sing or dance! Ewwwww... where to start where to start... OK first off who told Drew he can sing Ive seen better renditions at druken Karoke and sorry white fat men just shouldn't dance they look ridiculous not amusing just damn foolish. And all this "regular joe" **** is bull**** the guy is making more money per episode than most of us do in a year! OK there may be a few women who arent shallow and despite his hideous appearance and low income but jayzus a new super model almost every week, I mean aren't we supposed to feel sorry for this pathetic git? I have a hard time feeling sorry for someone regularly scoring hotties. Then he falls into a "very special" mode once an episode where Drew "gets serious" for a moment, HEY I KNOW SHE SCREWED US ALL BUT SHES OUR FRIEND DAMMIT AND WE SHOULD BUY HER DRINK. Dont get me started on the Whose Line is it Anywat crap, it was ****e in England Drew makes it even more appalling.
As far as I'm concerned the show jumped when Mr. Wick yelled something about the "one-eyed willie" or "monster" or something. I'm trying to forget.
When the writers for some reason decided to make Drew a living version of Homer Simpson. The 2001-02 season has more off the wall story lines that are not believable. From week to week it's more difficult to keep track of what type of character Drew Carey is portraying. The other cast members seem to be more props than anything else. The show is now really bad. If I want to watch a cartoon, I'll watch The Simpsons.
This show jumped when Drew had Rush Limbaugh make a guest appearance. I could no longer watch the show knowing that Drew probably held the same crazy right wing views as that gas bag. Just the thought of Drew hunched over the radio yelling "your right Rush" sickens me.
Never jumped, amazing show. Some of the stuff that happens may be a bit stupid, but the show is funny every time it comes on.
In the last season. The writing has been taken over by cynical gay males. They celebrate Mimi, who is now just evil and unfunny. Drew has been made the patsy and perennial loser instead of the average Joe American. Every show is now set up as a comedy of errors and everything fails, everyone loses, ala "Cheers" and "Frasier." This show used to make me laugh. Now it just peddles cheap cynicism, formula humor, and hateful vibes. RIP The Drew Carey Show.
What is up with Drew getting together with Kate, their romance falling apart and now she still hangs out like normal in his kitchen with his other buddies drinking beer? Is this normal? It's like it's the Drew Carey Existential Show. I like the Kate character but this is plot line is weak and unbelievable. It would have made an interesting finale but to have had it not work out and then keep on with just Drew complaining about how he lost "the girl of his dreams" but there being no other perceivable difference in his life is nothing other than strange.
drew's ok as an individual character but the theme song Cleveland Rocks is ONLY good when preformed by Ian Hunter.Dont expect you TV watchers to know who he is but his version is different and they ripped him off. P.S. Ian is the lead singer for Mott the Hoople, get a life.And a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame located in;yup Cleveland ..Ohio.
When Drew got hit by a car - the "coma" episode. Is this because the writers ran out of dumb ways to make episodes more interesting (live, whose line, etc). This is usually when they can't fit some crappy ideas into the (tenuous) story line.
I say "death" because the Drew Carey Show is playing the Mimi vs Drew thing to death! Their fighting and dirty tricks are getting very tiring! My husband would actually like to see them take Mimi off the show all together.
"Drew Carey" is a brave show that has come close to jumping the shark numerous times. The producers decided it would not be a convnetional sitcom early in its run. I'm not a real big fan of the show but it's been so absurd for so long the only way it can jump the shark is by poorly remaking the original Happy Days shark-jumping episode!
when they added his cross dressing brother, oh gee, that hasn't been done before. i saw maybe 3 episodes and have never watched it since. the idea behind this is your typical hollywood PC teaching us that it is very cool to have a sexual dysfunction. i feel SOOOOOOOO enlightened now. i wonder what kind of pressure was put on mr. carey to allow this idiocy.
Never has a show JTS more profoundly as when The Drew Carey Show added Mimi as a main character. I fully understand the effectiveness an antagonist such as Mimi can have on a show. Newman was a great villain for Seinfeld, and Diane was someone you loved to hate on Cheers. However, Mimi will go down, in my estimation, as the most worthless character to ever disgrace the television screen. Drew Carey went from a cutting-edge, insightful and refreshing comedy to a lame, retreaded, and utterly ridiculous show, and most of it had to do with the sub-plots surrounding the insufferable Mimi character. By the time Drew's "brother" entered the cast, the show had already lost any semblance of reality, and was/still is among the worst shows on TV. It is hard for me to believe that this used to be one of my Top 5 shows.
i've only seen a handful of episodes, but when oswald and the other one had all the neighborhood kids brewing beer...that was pretty cool.
Ok, I know Drew Carey had to lose weight in real life, and they try to make him look big with all that padding. But you can see it in his face and frankly, he's looking pretty doggone good. So I can't see him as the loser he once was. The premise of the whole show is gone now.
I used to love this show, but it's so tired now. And I always hated Mimi! She is one of the most annoying characters ever put on TV. Thank God for Lewis, Oswald, and Wick! It's lost all sense of what it set out to be. The Live show was just another version of Who's Line, which is a great show, but The Drew Carey Show isn't Who's Line!!! The singing can get annoying, but not as annoying as those damn April Fool's shows...they make me want to kill!!!!!
Although there's been a lot of singing episodes, last night Drew came home from the mental hospital and went into an "I Can Dance" reverie. A feeling of dread came over me...it's over, man.
This show has jumped the shark in so many ways, it's disgusting. I used to love this show (as a fellow NE Ohioan, especially) but this show is completely unwatchable now. I love how Clevelanders are portrayed as nothing but beer drinking idiots. Lovely. I also love how the people on this show are unable to ACT. They all start laughing after every other line (as if they were even funny in the first place). Drew's girlfriend ballooning up was disgusting, Drew dating Kate was ridiculous. The live episodes are pointless, and the Whose Line Is It... shtick is even worse. This show has degenerated into nothing but a gimmick show. It relies on gimmicky episodes to draw in viewers. Poor. Drew "dies"? Drew becomes a rock star? What? This show should have ended 4 years ago. I cannot believe it is still on (and worse - seems to get decent ratings).
When Mimi had Drew hospitalized. The show took a mean-spirited turn it didn't have before and ruined the fun for me.
King Gus? That's the most pathetic name for a TV baby since Roseanne named hers Jerry Garcia. This once great show has been going downhill for years, the baby being the latest example of how bad it's become. And yet it has been renewed for three more seasons. It's too bad the network insists on keeping this show on life support instead of letting it die with the ounce of dignity it has left.
The two-parter where Drew was in a coma, went to limbo, met his nephew and switched places with him for a day. I believe this was one last gasp for laughs. The talent (cast and writers) had been probably spread out over three new shows (Who's Line?, Norm, Nikki) and any new blood brought in hadn't done much in their place.
Good Lord this is a stupid show.I'm from Cleveland & most people here aren't that MORONIC as the cast on this show. Pitiful, just pitiful. The Cleveland Rocks opener is pathetic. I feel sorry for Ian Hunter every time I see it.
When Drew and Kate started having problems and he was married to another woman etc. I loved seeing them together and the writers think that adding plot twists help the show be unpredictable when actually what they did was very predictable.
Hey, you yahoos, Drew Carey is one of the few half-hour shows left that still HAS a theme song! Don't producers realize how important that is to people remembering a show? And I actually like the damn thing! The episode itself may jump the shark, but I'll live with it until the theme song's over, then tune out.
When Drew and Kate "did it," as the regressed-to-10th-grade category title says, it lost the last remnants of Drew's damn funny stand-up, and went to sappy sit-com land. It had an edge in the early days, and with that, the corners were shaved and the shark was jumped. Terrible tragedy. They realised what they did, but it was too late. Kind of like starting to ski down the black diamond and realising you're gonna break every single freaking bone in your body, but you've already got too much momentum.
so ABC ran The Drew Carey Show every night in an attempt to grab ratings from the winter olympics....sounded great to me, as how much snow and ice-related sport can one take? so, friday night, watching Drew....storyline is that Drew's mother cannot have an orgasm....are they kidding??? at the point at which Drew attempts to demonstrate technique using a POTATO, I changed the channel. "Disgusted" doesn't BEGIN to cover it! Goodbye, Drew Carey, methinks ye has JUMPED THE SHARK.......
They lost me when the "Five O'clock World" opening got axed for the "Cleveland Rocks" crap! Five O'clock world is about an average guy who can't wait to get home from a job he hates. Sound familiar. Even the original opener about bowling was easier to listen to. You know that when a show goes down hill after the opening credits are over that it's jumped the shark a long time ago. And, oh yeah: LOSE MIMI!
What do you do when you run out of ideas? Pack every episode with some kind of gimmick. Maybe some singing, maybe making entire episodes as nothing more than a 30 minute commercial for another show by the star. Maybe have Pop Up Videos, or count the errors. Well, Drew Carey has done them all and even come up with many more variations. Funny, time was a show managed to get ratings based on the content of the writing/acting.
Sadly I love this show but you can tell Its again fast.It won't survive past 2003 due to what most sitcoms learn after the 5th season. Jumped the moment Carey tried that Live Who's Line Is Improv show.But ya gotta say this for a show most thought wouldn't pull past 3 seasons 6 years is a long time. Carey wasn't afraid to take risks on his show. Remember the BAT Car episode or the Singin ones.ABC pretty much owes him a lot for being the only sitcom worth a good damn about now!
Where do I begin? The show has been devoured by the shark so many times it's teeth are growing dull... Drew goes to China,Drew marries the boss, Drew babysits the baby and is outsmarted,Drew get's put in a mental institution, Drew messes up his relationship with kate for the 34th time... Do I need to go on? Basically since Larry and Mrs Lauder left the show it's sucked, the big one....
When he let Lisa (Katy Selverstone) get away. He wouldn't give up a job he did nothing but bitch about to keep a major babe who A) as an actress did nothing but light up the screen when she was around, and B) as a character seemed to really care about and complement the DC character.
Its a good show but I cant stand that damn Cleveland Rocks song. Cleveland sucks, but does Drew know that?
What kind of sick pig would marry Mimi. She is the nastiest pig I've seen. You notice Carey is not allowed to make fun of her weight, but she calls him pig? Even though the tub of **** is about twice as fat. But when his brother married her, I totally lost the little interest I had in this show. He is a trasvestite married to a Hog.
This show has become so dark and depressing to watch. Mimi turned into a super-villian of sorts when she married steve and is left unchecked. Now she is free to ruin Drew's life and Steve is too gutless to give her the boot. Drew has turned from a likable charecter who fights back into a pathetic machocist who has to be kicked in the face by every character.
How many times can a show resort to singing and still stay fresh and original? Surprisingly, they have done it too often with Drew Carey. The producers were able to keep the show zany and original with both low-brow humor and innovative episodes. However, The Drew Carey Show prettymuch died when Drew and Kate did it. It went from being a crude and hillarious show to almost becoming one of those "dramatic sitcoms" like the insipid show "Friends."
You could tell that the cast wasn't performing the show for the audience anymore. They were there, performing live, just to amuse themselves. If they can do that and get paid for it, more power to 'em. But I didn't want to watch anymore after that.
I still watch this show every once in a while, but Kate and Drew doing it was the pinnacle, it dropped from there. The idiot screws it up, and the thing that he always wanted was gone. Now what? The show was left dangling after they broke up. Too bad cuz whoever plays Kate is really hot. I'd hope that they'd make new better episodes but they probably won't so I say they just cancel the show and put Whose Line in the spot. Whose Line, one of the few British shows that isn't gonna die as a fad like Millionaire and god I hope Weakest Link next.
Drew Carey Jumped The Shark when he admitted on The Howard Stern show that he is only doing it for the money. "Drew Carey" the guy in the cubicle use to be a fictional character encompassing many different personas, anyone of which all of us could easily be empathetic to. But too much of the real world has been allowed to creep into the program. It's no longer a smart, satire about office politics, but a 22 minute commercial for Drew Carey's pet peeves. Drew Carey has gained a very high opinion of himself, which is not shared by anybody else. Watch his guest appearance on King Of The Hill, that was classic Drew Carey.
When this show decided that they were out of ideas and recycled old storylines but set them into new places. The show started out funny, because I loved the banter between Drew and Mimi but even that got tiresome. It should finally put an end to the "Live" episodes and put this show to sleep.
That brother of Drew's is unbearable, i dunno how they let him in. He is just not funny to me.
When Drew and Kate finally got together..... then broke up. It's been all downhill from there. Never watched another episode again.
You Loser Necks that think Cleveland sucks, have obviously never been there. Cleveland is one of the coolest towns I have ever visited! The downtown is absolutely GORGEOUS, and the museums at University Circle are unsurpassed. The song is right CLEVELAND DOES ROCK! And so does Drew--I met him in Vegas, and he is the nicest, most down-to-earth person. He has no ego-problem whatsoever.
when that guy showed up who was supposed to be Oswald's son but he looked like Lewis. So they had a paternity test but decided not to read the results and both be his dad, and then we never heard from their "son" again anyway
Ok, once The Drew Carey Show got to its 9th season, it got too unrealistic. I mean, Drew marrying Kate and Nicki, then later Kate hates Drew after all the time they had together in the past. Honestly! This show used to be terrific and very funny, but now I only watch it sometimes when the episodes actually happen. A lot of the episodes are too unrealistic to happen. Then I didn't watch the whole episode, there was one episode where Drew was on the edge of the Winfred-Louders store outside, and he was about to fall over and die, and they ad birds attacking him. Is funny things supposed to happen to Drew Carey all the time? If Drew Carey is going to have some ax murderer killing him, is he still going to try to make a joke over it? The show is better when you can watch the reruns in syndication.
Any show that includes beer drinking in nearly every episode is all right with me. Drew Rules..and where can I find BUZZ BEER?
This show really did jump when Kate & Oswald started dating. You just knew this was the start of passing her around. Since THAT is the topic of this site, can someone tell me why a bunch of total SMEGHEADS that live in other states feel the need to bash Ohio???? I thought this was a SHOW site. I am proud of my city. Drew Carey is proud of his hometown. I would expect others to be proud of where they come from. Family Ties was set in Columbus Ohio & I don't see alot of nasty crap about that show being in Ohio on their site. So to all of you that are not from here: get a life!! Clearly you need one.
When Mimi's baby appeared with Drew's face, I gave up on the show. Also after such a long time I'm tired of the entire cast whining about how lousy their lives are. It's depressing!
Cleveland is gorgeous! All you Cleveland bashers out there are absolutely stupid. The COMEBACK CITY is a model for other cities trying to come back from the urban decay of the 1970's. The episode when Bernie Kosar was on, and Drew was having a beer party was great. It was right after the Browns moved to Crack-a-more. He came in the garage and said "sorry I'm late, I just stepped into a big pile of Modell." HILARIOUS! CLEVELAND DOES ROCK!!!
I've never been a regular viewer of big fan of this show but I've caught it quite a few times and I notice something. They use gimmicks like musical numbers and movie parodies regularly. The cast of characters is so wacky that the make wacky characters on other shows like Kramer look normal. They use wacky stunts like Drew waking up in China, a male character getting breast implants or Drew ending up in an insane asylum regularly. They do obvious stunts like live episodes, a spot the mistakes episode and supposedly killing Drew. Does this show do anything but gimmicks. Other sitcoms use these types of gimmicks maybe once or twice a year (and they can be fun when kept to a minimum) but this is all this show does. Shows like Buffy or That 70's Show have done musical episodes but those are one time things. Stop the gimmicks and the musical numbers are try actual clever writing for once!
Well, to be honest, I haven't watched the show in a while, but I felt Mimi and Steve getting hitched was the kicker. But like I said, I stopped watching when West Wing started. A much better written show.
What Drew Carey is doing now is the same thing that led to Roseanne's downfall. He is almost completely forgetting about the roots of his show (based on his "regular guy from Cleveland" stand up act). And now, as Drew became popular, he started getting chummy with the hollywood types and doing the hollywood things, and now he has gotten to a point where he is now established as a semi-big star. Now that he has this status, he can now his show to highlight his quirky ideas (the live/improv shows, the find the mistakes shows, and the crazy plots).
Holy ****! Is this show still on? For me, it JTS when they changed the theme song to a cast song and dance number. And it's only gotten worse...
This show jumped the shark so many times since the first year that I have lost count! But if I had to pick one episode, it would be the live broadcast. Since then, the show has jumped the shark so many times that I think the shark doesn't even watch the show anymore!
Cleveland rocks, just ask Jim Carrey. The only rocking things about Cleveland are the strip clubs. Two of the best I've ever been to: Pinky's out by the airport where you can get a handjob for a fin and the Circus which is half topless (beer served) and the other half is full on nude (no alcohol).
Drew Carey, from day one...from MINI ME to his idiot friends...set Cleveland back 55 years...with the beer...another 95.....but then again the show's service is right up there with Dillards...take that back...thanx Drew...just what I expected from a high scale store and in Texas, it's about as good as it gets next to the $500 shirts..
Drew gets chocolate roses & dog biscuits from Nikki,she shows up with a gun threatening to kill him, he doesn't call the police,& he wants her to live with him even after Steve & friends tell him not to, Drew & Mimi being nice to each other.????
I love Drew, actually got to shake his hand when he was king of Mardi Gras in NOLA. I can't believe the things that the ABC censors let slide, which of course make the show hilarious. I still watch it to this day, even though I hate ABC. Drew Rules!
Everybody loves Kate! First Oswald, then Drew, and Lewis left in the cold. I guess he's on deck. Auuugh! When the primary character incestathon began, this show leaped for the skiis!
This show jumped the shark when Steve and Mimi and Drew and Mr. Wick got married, and has continued its downward spiral at an increasing rate. Lewis and Oswald (the only two characters that haven't either gotten married or gone crazy) are the only ones keeping this on the air.
DREW and KATE??? That's just SICK! That's one of the many reasons I originally liked this show, that a guy and a woman could be real, true friends, without the romance factor. My bestest friend from high school is a guy, and we never EVER thought romantically about one another... he in fact had a girlfriend too. Eewwww, was bad enough with Kate and Oswald doing the horizontal mambo. And when did Lewis act like the idiot and Oswald the "smart" one as mentioned in a previous post? Oswald has always been a moron. Lewis is cool tho, as is Steve, Drew's brother. I lust after Mr. Wick tho, did you ever see his THIGHS in the "Full Monty" episode? Whew. I liked the "Rocky Horror vs. Priscilla" dance number, but sadly, they did NOT know how to do the Time warp again. Gag. Esp since Brad and Janet in the movie didn't even DANCE the time warp, they just watched in stunned amazement. Mimi MAKES that show, she's incredible. I love her to death; here she is as she is, yet displays the utmost confidence. Far out. Mimi's my hero, me being "undertall" as she is, altho I go around life sans makeup. As for the silliness like the overdose of dance numbers, songs, etc... and those stoopid episodes like pointing out all the errors and stuff, I find those segments utterly annoying and usually will change the channel. Drew Carey IS a funny guy, i must admit, but some of those episodes just get to be too much.
As soon as a transvestite becomes a regular on a show, you know something is wrong. Then Drew marries Mr. Wick. This show might as well be called Drew and Grace.
When the show started, I liked it because it was about some people who were odd, but nice and I could identify it. Not anymore. Now they being weird to be weird. U can't identify with them because there is no way anyone who didn't have a one-way ticket to the padded room would act that way.
After Katy Selverstone (aka Lisa Robbins) left the show it just wasnt the same. The few episodes with her and Drew trying to keep their relationship a secret were a lot more entertaining than when Drew and Kate were dating. Besides, Katy is one of the hottest women I have ever seen! And those legs...ooooh those legs!
It's impossible for this show to jump. It's just so insane and outside the box that it can't possibly JTS. With all the zany stuff they do, Drew could get a pet rhino and accidentaly wreck havoc on Cleveland and it would still be funny. I mean, unless it became a drama, which won't happen because it's too high up the comedy scale to come down.Its whole concept is wackiness, so if they do something wacky they're just following the premise of their show, not jumping.
The Drew Carey Show "jumped the shark" during its 7th season. The Drew Carey Show was a terrific, hilarious show that showed the live of an everyman [Drew Carey]and his loser friends. But during the 7th season, Drew Carey went out of character and the show got too unrealistic. The show really did it at the beginning when Drew married 2 women: Kate and Nicki. I mean, Drew would never do that to Kate. Drew has known Kate his whole life and to see Kate furious at him and not wanting to be his friend isn't enjoyable at all. Then Kate comes back and beats up Drew and throws him through a window, in a Matrix style fight. After I saw that, I stopped watching for a while. Then when I watched some more episodes, it got more unrealistic. In one episode, a bald eagle crashes through Drew's window and kidnaps his girlfriend's dog twice. In another episode, we have a group of neighborhood dogs guarding Drew's house with his friends locked inside it. The show is just getting unrealistic. As a fan of the show [who even has TDCS CD], I refuse to believe that the episodes where Drew was married to Kate or Nicki ever happened because that's not the way it should have happened. Then at the season finale of the show, we see Nicki wanting to kill Drew over the fact that he married her. So the show still wants to remember Drew doing that? To me, those episodes never happened! Next season, it's 8th, will be its last season, and hopefully they'll have good, funny episodes that are more realistic and won't go out of character, but it seems that the writers or the cast no longer really cares that much about the stories, and Drew Carey's Drew Carey character is no longer a everyman as the show was set to have his character be.
At the very beginning, when they decided to make Mimi a regular character. Calling Drew "pig" does not great comedy make.
As the millions of previous posters have noted (Whether they be for or against) this show is about Cleveland, Ohio. The obvious Cleveland references (Sports Team's logoed attire for example) make most non-Ohioans overly annoyed as to his over-hyping his hometown. The truth is, people from Cleveland are really like this. The show is not set in LA, or in NYC because television and movies have already created sterotypes too far from the truth for these places to stick to what actually exists there. I am not from Cleveland, I often visit Cleveland, Chicago, Toronto, and Pittsburgh, and must say that of these Large 'flyover cities' Cleveland does have the others beat in terms of value, good times, and generally 'rocking'. The thing those who have never been to Cleveland are made to suffer through (And there are about 100 other channels, and a million other websites you can turn to when Drew Carey is on, you know.) are the subtleties that he incorporates into his show. The topic I picked was 'hair care' and the 'real' reason that Drew Bleached his hair blonde, and grew a goatee, was that Mike Trivisano (Who?) the afternoon sportstalk guy on WTAM, the Cleveland Indian's radio flagship, not only did that to his hair (In tribute to Richie Sexon, a hot batting Idian's rookie during that season) But also offered free tickets to the game for the first fifty fans who would do likewise. As you may have noticed if you continued watching the show after that season, Sexon quit hitting and got traded, and both Trivisano, Drew, and a large number of Clevelanders, went back to how they actually looked. Also, there is a Parma, and a Solon, there is a good deal of bowling in both places, and for a city that had been a complete ****hole fifteen years ago, Cleveland deserves a program that shows that it has pulled itself out of the fire. rather than trashing the program, I'd like to see a followup post from someone who can name another show that so better exemplifies a city near their hometown and it's residents.
This show jumped the shark first when they got rid of that "up every morning just to keep a job I gotta find my way through the hussilin' mob" song and replaced it with that stupid cleveland rocks song. It also jumped when Drew went from being a loser to being cool. Don't these guys get it, the people like watching losers, it makes us laugh, and personally it makes me identify with someone. Im sick and tired of these actors getting big heads and suddenly having to write about how cool they are and how they get all the hot girls. Drew wouldnt know what to do with even a girl like Kate, (who is extremely hot).
The arrival of Steve marked the beginning of the end for this once-innovative and smart show. The whole cross-dressing thing was unfunny and seemed like they were fishing for ways to keep this character around for some reason. Having him fall for Mimi was even worse, as is his just plain embarrassing dialogue. And the actor just seems incapable of being funny: no timing, a total of two expressions, where did they get this guy?
Why is it that every single sitcom on television today is about a group of singles looking for love in all the wrong places and constantly bed swapping with one another? The whole thing just gets kind of gross after awhile. I've never been a fan of "Friends", but I can tell just from watching the previews that introducing one STD into this group would probably infect all of them within the space of a year. If this is some kind of attempt to hook viewers of my generation (X all the way to the bone), then they have failed in at least one instance. Let's have something about characters who are trying to do more than just get laid. If they have to get laid eventually, for god's sake please make it someone outside the inner circle. Considering how nasty some breakups can get I'm surprised half this cast hasn't shot, stabbed, drowned, or poisoned each other by now. Also, enough with the pining plot lines a'la Niles and Daphne/Drew and Kate/Sam and Diane/et. al. Watching two people walk a sexual tightrope is annoying at best and just plain frustrating at worst. Keep them out of each others pants and interested in something else. There should be a law that once two regular characters develop an attraction, then it should be resolved one way or another by season's end after which one or both of those characters should never be seen again.
About mid-season last year, when Drew was dating his boss who happens to be black, while pathetically trying to profess his love for Kate.
"Count the Errors." When a show trots out a gimmick episode like this - instead of relying on good writing - you'd swear the writers were on strike or the producers made a conscious decision to jump the shark and kill the show. Garbage like this insults the audience's intelligence.
This show was hilarious.BEFORE Mimi was in every portion of his life, BEFORE Mimi married Steve and it JTS, BEFORE Drew had his chance to fire the bitch. The guy loves punishment; it's like a game of cat and mouse: Itchy and Scratchy, Tom and Jerry. Drew likes the pain; he must b/c every time he gets a chance to stick a knife in her heart, he develops Severe *****-Ass Syndrome. What an *******. The show makes too much out of a severe dislike. She boxes him to China, sends him to an insane asylum. They should have balanced it so that see keeps her limits but still offends him.*******s.
I read the other day that after that horrible 2001-02 season (aka the seventh), the producers are going to retool the show. First of all, Kate will get married in episode two of 2002-03 and then jump town. Then, Steve and Mimi will divorce and Steve will jump town. And then, Winfred-Louder goes belly-up and Drew, Mimi, and Nigel Wick go to work for some e-commerce company. Oh yeah, and no more stunts n' slapstick. But the question is, will it jump the shark? In my opinion, it might jump back.
when drew and kate broke up. then, it got even worse when kate started despising drew
I can't believe nobody mentioned this. Last season when Kate cut her hair real short. I mean for me, she looked great with the other cuts she had from the beginning, but now she looks downright bad. I think alot of the other comments about last season are right too, but the moment I stopped watching was when her hair went short. Christa, please PLEASE grow it back and save this show!! (thank you).
The thing is people from Cleveland LOOK for stuff that Drew is going to incorporate into the show. Antonio's Pizza boxes, James Rhodes High School varsity jackets, Pierre's Ice Cream canisters, Agora t-shirts, and other authentic Cleveland paraphernalia is what makes the show real for us and demonstrative to non-Clevelanders. We don't have the ubiquitous skylike of New York or the lush locale of California to get our suspension of disbelief going. Cleveland viewers like to see our cultural iconography displayed in as many ways as possible so that people in other cities will get the flavor of life here. Trust me--Cleveland is NOT cosmopolitan--but it isn't a backwards sludgebucket either. We're very neighborhoody, very ethnic (a certain parish on the West Side is teasingly called "the Polish Embassy"), very much trying to lose our reputation as a city of urban discord (ie. Hough riots, King-Kennedy projects). I'm not saying that Drew should address big social issues on his show. What I am saying is that the surreal images he's been displaying of late are not a reflection of most people's lives here in Cleveland (or anywhere else, for that matter) and as a result we're all kind of scratching our heads trying to figure out where he's going with his program. He needs to strip it down, crack open a bottle of Great Lakes Brewing Co. Edmund Fitzgerald, and write about regular people who drive Monte Carlos and think they're the coolest thing on four wheels, who think Olive Garden is fine Italian dining, and who still believe the Indians can win the World Series.
When there was a tornado in Cleveland. The department store gets hit and Mr. Wick gets amnesia and Mimi takes advantage of it (if you know what I mean). Yuck!
The great theme song with the animated Drew was replaced, and Lisa left! Thus the downhill slide to Lametown begins. At least Ryan Stiles remained funny.
This show jumped when Drew awoke at the Great Wall of China. Okay, I looked past his transvestite brother, or the fact that the tranny brother fell in love with Drew's greatest enemy, or Drew screwing up one relationship after another, or being given responsibilities that no Asst. HR person would ever have to do, BUT to awake on the middle of the Great Wall? That just strains the bounds of credibility. And the fact that he didn't kill Mimi upon returning to Cleveland? After that episode, I just turned my back on it. I mean, a little bit of reality should be present within a sitcom
The show was about this poor sad sack that has worked his entire life in middle management at a department store. Not some freekin' lunch lady. Good god.
It was somewhere in the 3rd season that it took the big dive. Maybe it was the story lines but more likely as not it was the swelled head that Drew was getting with his big celebrity status and then when they went and did insane story lines, not only does Drew have a crossdressing brother, his biggest enemy, the Queen of Covergirl Excess, becomes involved with his weiner of a brother and they end up having a child. Mimi was better as a mostly dateless, living alone tormenter. The entire show was better when they were all single and interacting just as friends. Let's get back to the humor days when Mimi looked like a circus clown, Drew had his absurd dough-boy look., Oswald and what's his name were just plain goofy, Kate and the girl from season 1 were REALISTIC and thye were creating BuzzBeer and hanging out at the Warsaw. By the way, does anybody else have the feeling that Oswald and Lewis are gay? I mean these 2 are everywhere together it is more than a little weird.
This show served as the diving board for a massive shark-jump of Broadcast Row hypocrisy. At the beginning of Ellen, the network ran an advisory to warn people that they might be exposed to you-know-what. Yet Drew Carey could feature smirking jokes about subjects like masturbation and castration, and guess what -- there was no advisory at the beginning. Are the network suits' family values that out of whack?
This show died unofficially in Season Five, but no one has called the time of death, and it's beginning to attract flies (According to Jim, My Wife and Kids, George Lopez) and even flesh-eating rats (The Bachelor, MORE Whose Line?, Dinotopia). Please, someone, carry this dead horse down to the morgue of television with Spin City and Dharma and Greg!
It stopped being irreverent and making fun of itself. It sold out to laff tracks and politically correctness. Oh yeah. Drew and the girl getting together? Sucky idea!
This show jumped when they expected us to believe that Drew could actually get with Kate. Right!!!!! In real life, Drew would have been the loser guy friend who listened to all of Kate's problems, while the studs got a chance to plug her. Believe me, I know this formula all too well :-(
No more Winfred-Lowder? An internet company? this is a stretch, even for Drew. I've enjoyed the show, especially reruns, for quite awhile, but can't imagine that this is really going to work.
Attention, Drew! LOSE NIKKI!!! If anyone should know better than to tell fat jokes, it should be Drew. And Nikki isn't funny, she is pathetic. If a friend of mine bloated up like a whale and cried all the time, I would rush her to the doctor for some serious antidepressents. This woman needs help, not rude remarks and jokes made about her figure. In last night's season opener, it was a downer every time she appeared on screen. Also, I agree that without Winfred-Louder, this show is bound to tank.
I can't believe this show is still on. Since there was nothing on Monday night I watched to see what the characters are doing. The show looked like it was still as lame as it was when I quit watching 3 years ago but you know its jumped the shark when Mimi hugs Drew. Next thing you know the two are going to have some secret love affair.
When this show started Drew was a chick repellent, and as a fat guy with big glasses and a lousy job I could relate to that. Now that Drew Carey the Sitcom star is presumably swimming in chicks we're supposed to believe that Drew Carey the middle manager is too? I'm sorry but I need a show more firmly bound to reality, like when Homer Simpson became an astronaut.
When Kate marries the pilot. The show gets serious. A stupid comedy should never get serious
Whta the hell were the producers of Drew thinking when they decided to do the show live. When I tune into Drew I am there to see a comedy sit-com, not stupid improv. If I wanted stupid improv I would watch Whose Line....
As a life life long Clevelander I can tell you Cleveland does not rock. Cleveland has achieved a remarkable come back, but it is the overuse of the that ridiculous opening to the DCS that has and will continue to spawn new Cleveland jokes. There is a hell of alot more to Cleveland than the Flats, the Browns, and the dawg pound. Cleveland is one the most culturely rich cities in the country. Other than the stupid rock hall, there is the Cleve Orchestra and the Cleve Museum of Art, both internationally known as among the best. The Cleveland area also has one of the top metropolitan park systems in the country, as well as the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Why does everything on DCS revolve around stereotypical blue collar activies, which the rest of the country thinks Clevelanders are. Drew Carey should stop forcing his idea on what ALL Clevelanders are and just use the city as the setting for the characters.
I am SO sorry, but when Drew and Mimi did the face off with Rocky Horror Picture Show and Priscilla Queen of the Desert. I am still twitching. I'm sorry but that was one of the worst shows ever produced! They totally MUTILATED Rocky Horror!!!
The goofy Live shows were pretty bad...and the April fools find all the gags show/ But Drew jumped the shark when the old girlfriend nikki came back...he married her like he was in a wet dream...then he went and married his true love kate when she was in a downer.. All the shows that followed were pure crap as has everything since. Drew with a girlfriend was believable...drew with two attractive wives in the same town...not unless its hollywood and its Drew carey the multi-millionaire.....and not drew Carey department store assistant personnel manager....haven't watched it in over a year....
When Drew started doing "Who's Line..." the actors on the sitcom started "cracking-up" each other more and more. That might have been funny on "The Carol Burnett Show" but not here.
What the hell did they do to the Drew Carey Show? Kate O'Brien gone, and replaced by Titus's old finance. What's next? Drew and Mimi taken off the show?! Getting a horrible monday night slot (Against Boston Public and CSI-Miami?! Are you kidding me ABC?) They leave Windfred Louder, and Drew now owns his own bar? Mr. Wick is now a janitor, oh dear god no! What the hell is this crap, and where is the Drew Carey show?
This show hasnt jumped the shark. Yes kate is gone and the show is getting slow on plots, but it is still by far the funniest show on T.V. Drew Carey is the man.
Definitely the Live episode did it... it was just a bit too ridiculous, what with the improv stuff, and the whole hear-the-bell-and-redo-your-line bit.
The writers of the show now have the actors doing caricatures of their own characters. Not good. It seems like many successful comedy shows eventually dive into this pool of sharks. The show is precariously close to jumping.
The Drew Carey Show hasn't jumped quite yet.... But, it's not looking good now that Kate is getting married. The writers better come up with something quick.
Drew Carey show has jumped in many categories (Live, singing, they did it, special guest star, a very special, I do, birth) It's amazing Ted McGinley hasn't been on yet. The "Live" whose line is it tie-in really pushed me over the edge, although it may have jumped earlier.
When I lived in northern VA, I would mention being from Cleveland and people kept asking if I was a fan of the Drew Carey Show. So I watched to see what the big deal was--this show is PUTRID! Drew Carey you are not funny! There is a lot to like about Cleveland and Ohio but if you want a good Ohio sitcom take "WKRP Cincinnati"--the original, not the "new" one--over this any day. (also that camp classic "Ernest Angley" from Akron but that wasn't intended as comedy.)
When Drew was admitted to the looney bin. This show is no longer a comedy there's tooooo much negativity. A lot of the storylines (like his fat ex. trying to kill him) are comedy material. Last I knew comedy=laughter.
Steve and Mimi's wedding domesticated both of the characters, changing them from outrageous iconoclasts to Ward and June Cleaver. With no one to play off of, Drew and company became more and more idiotic.
Well, actually many times... the live show, the April Fool's episodes, the singing, and "no-script" show, but if all of that didn't make me think it had jumped the shark, this season REALLY makes me believe it!! Kate is gone, and Winfred-Lauder went out of business and is now an internet company!!! Not to mention this "new kid in town" who is supposed to replace Kate?! Oh brother!!!
The episode when Mimi becomes store manager and locks drew in a mental ward and all he sees is Mimi. Never watched another since then!
This show jumped, crawled out of the water, jumped back in, got eaten by the shark, etc.etc. When will this thing die? Drew Carey Show, reruns of Drew Carey show, Whose Line is it Anyway with Drew Carey show "stars", this guy is on TV more than George Bush. And to think they cancelled Wayne Brady's variety show or there would be even more! Sweet Jesus make it STOP! I don't think anyone aside from Tim Conway has outlasted his creative life on TV longer than Drew Carey. They are going to havethis bastard replacePeter Jennings on the news in another year, right after Ryan Stiles gets the Good Morning America gig.
When they got rid of Lisa. Although the whole sexual bantering was a bit overdone, it was at least pretty much honest- Drew's insecurity in having a beautiful woman be interested in a regular looking guy in a regular job, and Lisa's puzzlement over it too,was very interesting and fun to watch;added to THAT situation, was the whole situation of them having to sneak around while dating to hide it from Mimi(impossible) and Mr. Bell(who could not imagine a world beyond his own penis). Lewis and Oswald are still great! Kate is as fine as she can be...everybody likes to hang out at the Warsaw-a bar far more comfortable than Cheers could ever be...the show had Joe Walsh and Speedy in it...I hope the people responsible for these things get it together and get back to basics.
when steve and mimi got together (and of course went on to have a baby) the drew-mimi dynamic changed and the show started to slide. this season 2002-2003, with christa miller's departure and ABC moving it all over the place, it has fallen off a cliff. such a shame
Now it is on Friday nights (I think) and I have no clue what is going on; where they work, etc. The one thing I do know; it is NOT funny any longer; DREW:GIVE IT UP
The shark was probably jumped in between season when they decided to replace Kate with somebody else who doesn't fit in and on top of that change the scenery and the locations. Yikes. Basically, I'd said that the start of the 2002-2003 season is when Drew Carey (one of my all-time favorite shows) jumped the shark.
Drew Carey has jumped too many times. It's had uncountable special guests, it has had one "very special" episode parody, several real very special episodes, Christa Miller left, Cynthia Watros joined, Kate got married, Drew had blond hair, lots of singing, Mimi has a baby, Drew and Kate did it, and they even did a live show. Drew is such a frequent guest, he has a schedule with the shark.
ive always like drew carey and his show. the show has always been funny, but over the past few years, its only been funny if you try not to think about the plot lines, because if you do, you just wont have fun. last year i still watched it from time to time, but this season, i started to forget about it, and now that its moved to friday, it just doesnt seem worth it anymore. its still funny, but watered down and no sense of plot
When Kate left and they substituted a new female friend AND brought back his ex-wife Nickie in her very bad fat make-up AND toned down Mimi AND had Drew change jobs. It's pretty awful now, and I really miss the old show.
Drew, baby, you have investments, right? Residuals, right? That other show, right? It's time. This show is so far past jumping - it's out in the ocean somewhere gasping for air - and no one wants to give Drew mouth-to-mouth. Put it out of it's misery. Drew . . . swim towards the light.
When drew got fired from his job and later got it back by marrying Mr Wick, the show went downhill. Then he later got 2 wives, broke up with Kate, became a scout leader, and all these stupid unbelievebable plots. What was once a classic show went downhil due to poor writing and unrealistic plots.
Steve and Mimi dating would have been funny material for a few episodes or maybe half a season. When they became a long-term couple, the show turned downhill. Drew and Mimi's sniping was what made the show, and now it's been tempered by a family connection. It also doesn't work - I just can't picture anyone, let alone a guy like Steve, having a home life with Mimi the psycho bitch. And, I guess, Steve isn't a cross-dresser any more because his clown, er, wife thinks he's sexier as a man. Well, Steve the cross-dresser was funny. Steve the plain old middle-aged bald guy is bland and boring. The dance numbers are annoying, but I see them as an occasional distraction that's not part of the usual plot, so I wouldn't say they made the show jump the shark. If they became a regular part of the show, I'd stop watching. If Drew likes to dance and sing, let him start a song-and-dance show and see how long it lasts (I give it two weeks). He shouldn't capture an audience that tuned in for a comedy and waste their time. I did like Cleveland Rocks, but I noticed that it got the most shark votes. I guess it really is over when the fat lady sings...
It did when they changed to the new office and Drew became the guy without a job. He used to care about the people that worked with him now he doesn't give a ****. The new girl is sweet and I hope they can pull it out but it may be too far gone. Drew doesn't look like he enjoys it anymore.
The show has only gotten more progressively worse over time. The Gay marriage is what made me quit watching. Gimmicks like whats wrong with this episode, shirley jones, improv, Drew hooking up with kate, gay jokes Drew loses his job, gay jokes, Drew goes crazy, gay jokes, kat gets married, Gay jokes and even more gay jokes. DCS used to be my favorite show. But lately, he's made wayy too many gay jokes. Makes me wonder if Mr. Carey is in the closet himself. You used to identify with Drew the nice guy who finished last. You used to feel for him in his dead end job. But now his life is TOO Weird and TOO far-fetched for ANYONE to believe. Even the nicest guy would have kicked Mimi's ass and tosed that fat psycho Nikki out a LONG time ago. No one would EVER put up with this crap but for so long. Is this show about a working stiff or some gay man's fantasies onscreen. Can't wait for the Drew Rimjobs Mr. Wick series finale.
When Kate O'Brien left. Kate was the basis of the show. Plus, Winfred-Louder going bankrupt? THat was a great finale, but they didn't think out where it would go from there.
Drew's girlfriend Lisa. Tiring woman. She couldn't pay me to go out with her. Kate's boyfriend. This guy couldn't be my waiter, let alone get a gig on a sitcom.
In the beginning, "The Drew Carey Show" played like a real-life Dilbert cartoon: an average joe office jockey lost in the underdawg (how Browns fans spell "d-o-g") city of Cleveland. The show stayed true to form until around the time a massive storm hit NE Ohio. In the two-parter, Mimi nurses a catatonic Wick to health and creates the illusion of a perpetual storm to keep the Brit at her place indefinitely. After that, we see strange plots like Drew's tranny brother eventually marrying Mimi, Drew and Wick getting married in VT, Drew dating Kate, and all sorts of left-field stuff that can't really happen in northern Ohio. It was around when Drew's semi-biography "Dirty Jokes and Beer" came out, and we all learned how messed up this guy really was and how Hollywood corrupted him even more. Oh, well... I still have a great deal of respect for the man that made the great #19 Bernie Kosar a humorous guest star. WOOF! WOOF! WOOF!
When they changes the opening credits, and we no longer saw the woman in purple.
Don't get me wrong, I like Drew Carey and loved his show, but it took its trademark weirdness which served it very well and went off the deep end with it. While this is good for comedies nowadays with all the bland plots and typical sitcomish cliches still going around, it's hard when you really want to sit down and have a laugh. What made it worse is that since ABC signed up for it for about two-three more years, this means either Drew's going to close it down too late, ABC's is going to throw it around any timeslot and let run (making it go to pot so much faster), or eventually one of the two parties will cancel it. And to be honest, it's too late to make it end gracefully. Much like a beloved dog who is now legless and can't even get to his bowl much less outside to crap, Drew's show is dead. The only question now is how pathetic and off-the-wall it can get before it goes to TV heaven.
Around the time Drew and Mr. Wick tied the knot, the characters became self-parody; Drew's a loser, Oswald's dumb, Lewis is dumb and creepy, Kate's a slut, Mimi's obnoxious, Mr. Wick's effeminate. Lather, rinse, repeat. It seems like the show has been on autopilot since then.
The beginning of the Fall 2002 season marks, I think, the sharp decline of the Drew Carey Show. "Kate" left on the David Caruso Expressway - which was not crucial to the show and she can be supplanted by a series of temp girlfriends, but the Big Change, and the Big Mistake, was the supposed closing of the Department Store where Drew had been a personnel middle manager from the start, and its replacement by a very flaky Dot-Com enterprise, otherwise staffed by teenagers and 20-somethings, with Drew and a few other leftovers (like Mr. Wick). Presumably this Dot-Com is in the old department store building and supposedly Drew got a job there just because of that fact, instead of looking for another job that he could actually do. As it is, the running gag - and tension - is that he can't do his new job and the young bosses haven't yet found that out. This turns Drew from a hardworking straight arrow employee into a chronic swindler and deadwood, a change of character that probably rubs viewers the wrong way and interferes with the humor of the show. The entire plot now seems to revolve around Drew's lovelife or lack thereof, instead of mixing that in with his job experiences.
Now, I used to love "The Drew Carey Show" (or tDCS, to save space). I thought it was one of the best shows on. Unlike the rest of you, I was entertained by the gimmicks used on the show(though, let's face it, not everyone survived those live episodes intact) and the many plot turns (Oswald & Kate, Drew & Kate, Steve and Mimi, Drew becoming an astronaut - I'll explain this in a bit, but the Drew the musician plot bored me to tears) didn't bother me too much. However, I will say that the show jumped at the beginning of the sixth season when Wick fired Drew (that he worked in "Survivor" threw salt on the wound), and he ended up as a lunchlady. Despite the occasional good episode (the beer-drinking bear, Drew and Wick getting hitched, the live episode with the Blue Man Group), this was the season when the show headed in a downward spiral from out of which it was yet to pull itself...which is not to say that the first five years didn't have their share of duds, like the episode with the vibrator in Drew's luggage (I can't help but pity anyone who found that funny) and about half of season five. My guess is that the writers, knowing their (creative) end was near, marshaled their forces and produced the unspeakably funny "A Very Special Drew". Some other fave episodes include: "The Devil, You Say", "Buzz Beer", "New York and Queens" ("Rocky Horror" fans vs. "Priscilla" fans), "Cap-Beer-Cino" and the ones with David Cross as Earl (he was much funnier here than on "Just Shoot Me"). Now, I mentioned that I'd explain "Drew becomes an astronaut" and here it is: this comes from an episode of "That '70s Show". Kelso is reading about astronauts: "These guys must get all the girls. It says that astronauts get all the Tang they want!" (Get it?) It got pretty unbelievable seeing Drew land all these women: Illeana Douglas, Wanda Sykes, Jamie Luner, Jenny McCarthy and, perhaps most ludicrously, Shirley Jones (looking back, I can't help but think that her guest stint was nothing more than a build-up to an old but funny gag (the Christmas episode with Danny Bonaduce playing her son). Then again, there's hope for the rest of us, right? Also, I agree that (in the later episodes, mainly) they overdid the gay jokes, like with Oswald and Lewis; they can't find any women, so (and the implications are clear as crystal) they have to settle for each other. As Kate once remarked when seeing Drew and Lewis trying to feel up Oswald's man-boobs, very "pathetisad". Speaking of Kate, I'm glad that Christa Miller (Lawrence) got out while she could, even though her character on "Scrubs" is, to quote Cartman, an "ultra-mega beyotch". In summary, first five years (more or less): good. Following that: bad. Peace out.
When Mimi and Drew's brother start dating then get married, Mimi turned from a hilarious side-character to a boring, stupid-plotted, in-your-face character and practically got half the show. This most definitely was the point the shark was jumped.
The show slid towards jumping several times but it finally soared into the stratosphere in the episode when Drew tripped trying to get into bed with his "lady-friend" and sprained his penis! that was just too corny. talk about a contrived way to draw out the "finally getting each other in the sack" senario. They milked that for all it was worth and it really cheapened a show already on the slide.
Drew Carey jumped when Drew and most of the cast joined a start-up dot-com company this season. Well, I think the producers are about 3 to 4 years too late in coming up with this idea unless Cleveland just got the Internet in 2002!! The majority of start-ups by young, inexperienced 20-somethings are about as rare nowadays as Drew saying "no" to dessert.
I'm not sure exactly when this show jumped. I think rather than one exact moment, it just became a downward spiral where one thing led to another. Tragic, really. This started off as such a great show that it was a real shame to see it lose its way over the years. I can't think of an exact sample, but it started to go downhill when the show transformed from a show about an average, working-class stiff with real problems that real-life, actual working-class stiffs could relate to into a show about bizarre things that no real person encounters in their everyday life. The episode when Mimi drugs Drew and ships him to China, for example. I mean, maybe as a crappy Simpsons episode, sure, but for this show? Forget it. And the simplification of the supporting characters. Lewis and Oswald started off as a couple of guys who you could think of as the guys you used to hang out with in high school, and think, "I wonder whatever happened to those guys," and, predictably, one is a janitor with no career prospects and the other is working for UPS. And then, slowly, they evolved into Lenny and Squiggy, showing up only when the writers had some line they thought was funny but it wouldn't fit into the context of a scene, otherwise. It's a shame that a show that was so great for the its first few seasons became such a waste of time and now that it's only a few months away from a permanent vacation, nobody cares.
This started out to be a pretty good show. But over the years, it's jumped the shark so many times, I'm getting dizzy. Take your pick - the annoying "live" shows featuring "Whose Line Is it Anyway" regulars, the musical numbers, Kate's exit....... If this show is still on the air, it has GOT to be in its final year.
This was a great sitcom for about 5 years. ( See the roofing episode or the devil episode -- they're at their peak.) Unfortunately it just took two or three horribly wrong turns around 2000. One, Drew gets fired, mostly because Wick screwed up the budget. Two, Drew ends up proposing to Kate with a plate of high-school cafeteria spaghetti hanging off his head. Three, Drew makes this realization: "I'm a pity whore!" PITY WHORE?!? WTF? I think this all took place within the first four episodes of the 2000 season, which, incidentally, led to the following: Drew marries Mr. Wick. Drew goes into a coma. Drew switches places with King Gus. Kathie Lee Gifford ('nuff said). Drew goes nuts. Drew marries Nicki. Drew marries Kate. Kate leaves. Henry Winkler, the original shark-jumper himself, guest stars. The Blue Man Group guest stars. Lewis does an unintentional Frankenstein impression as a result of a botched dentistry job. They recreate "The Fast and the Furious" in Cleveland. IN CLEVELAND!!! They do the Back to School music special. I'll let the rest of the posters have the fun of including what I forgot. Anyone else find it strange that the 2002-2003 dot-com episodes would've fit in really well in 2000-2001?
If Drew Carey changes the theme song one more time, I'm chucking a brick at the screen! I didn't mind when they changed to Cleveland Rocks so long ago, but lately they've changed the theme about 30 times in two months! I've heard a reggae version of Moon Over Parma, a big band instrumental of Cleveland Rocks, some chick whining Five O' Clock World, and I think a country-and-western Moon Over Parma as well, but I'm not sure. Hell, maybe Weird Al should come in and do a polka version! "Lederhosen Rocks! Lederhosen Rocks!" To sum it up...PICK A SONG AND GO WITH IT! If Friends can do it, so can you!
It has definitely jumped now that ABC only has been showing it around once a month since dec. 2002
The reason DCS isn't being shown much anymore is because ABC is trying to get rid of it. I can't blame them, the show started sucking hard when Wick went nuts and the whole gay marriage thing. Why? Who knows. Maybe it was Drew OD from Whose Line and this show. Maybe it was because the show ran out of steam. But maybe it was because nobody cares anymore. I know I don't. I just have better things to do then watch Drew Carey make an ass out of himself nowadays. The show was inventive and fun but...well, it's over. They might as well just stop airing it and let it fall into obscurity. Ending it in any rational way just seems damn near impossible.
To answer the above posters, Drew Carey signed a two year deal with ABC beginning this year. It probably guarantees him money, so it would be stupid for ABC to cancell it as it would be a total loss. So they will show the episodes as fill ins on fridays. It is better than paying him to NOT make episodes. Though the run of hte Drew Carey show is ending, I salute him. It was funny, creative, down-to-earth, and daring. Even if he gets cancelled this year, it would have been an 8 year run, great by many standards. So whether they cancell it this year or next year, there is no shame in this show. Drew, Ryan, Diedrich, Krista, I salute you for a great show.
First off I want to respond to the person criticizing all the different theme songs this year. One, it's not "30"; it's about eight or nine. Secondly, they're doing it because "Cleveland Rocks" had outstayed its welcome (five seasons), and also the few clips they still showed from the original dance sequence were obsolete because Christa Miller had left. So this was their way of revamping the opening credits. Personally, seeing/hearing it as the "Dallas" theme is quite amusing. That being said, the show jumped when the writers lost interest in being funny, and are just going through the motions. Every year the producers say the show will rebound, and then an episode is either flat ("Drew Live III"), contrived (the whole Drew/Kellie thing), or repetitive (the condo episode scheduled for this month sounded the exact same as "The Vacation" from season 3, including Lewis and Oswald playing with all of Drew's stuff while he was away). Another answer I could have given was when the show went from poking fun at itself and at other shows, to when it tried to take itself seriously (starting somewhere around "Drew's in a Coma," which followed one of my favorite episodes (the one where Wick befriends Drew's pals due to Drew's underwear) -- I mean, they had JUST made fun of the coma ploys nine months earlier in "A Very Special Drew").
HAS ABC CANCELED THIS SHOW!!! I was a solid fan of The Drew Carey Show in the beginning. When I first started watching it I think the biggest attraction was that it didn’t have the feel of a cookie cutter comedy (that rival NBC is so infamous for pumping out), and the fact that the show was just really funny. But the past few seasons, the show has lost its edge with more contrived plots that makes it obvious that the shows writers and producers have lost any idea of what direction to take the show in. Yet my real question is, has ABC canceled this show? I haven’t seen a new episode in weeks and ABC seems to be desperately trying to resituate the show by moving its time slot around; and this seems to be the classic Network death knell, just putting off the inevitable. It seems that since the new year, there have only been one or two new shows. This show should have been canceled by now, but is ABC milking this show because they have no other alternative? Why won't ABC just put it (and us) out of its misery?
When Drew and Kate finally hook up. It seems the show lost it's chemistry when they became and item. The acting was flat and the writing uninspired. I do believe the show never recovered.
Like Happy Days and Fonzie Jumping the Shark, there was a clear moment this show went downhill: The 2001 season opener with the Rock and Roll Blowout Spectacular... or whatever that mess was called. After that, the plots got more outrageous but not funny. Need proof? ABC doesn't seem to know what to do with the show in early 2003. It has been off the air for weeks now, but it hasn't officially been cancelled. When it moved to Friday night, it lost a lot of its viewership.
Drew Carey could have jumped in the 2002-03 season, but I had no idea when it was on!
I can't beilive that Kate has only gotten one vote. It is without a doubt the true end of the show. This all new crap is completely wrong with the show. It is amazing that Drew Carey would agree to this sort of show. I think Drew and Kate should have made up got married end of show. It had a really good progression with their relationship first giving Drew and Kate there own couples then put Drew with Nikki and Kate with Oswald and finally together at last. It made sense but then when she left the show meant nothing.
The instant I knew this show was beyond salvaging was when I saw Drew and Mimi driving around in the Batmobile. He chose that over a million bucks?!
The first four seasons where good, for a sitcom. However around the 5th season or so everything got too silly for me and I left the show. The episode that turned me away from the show is the one where Drew tries to fix the street in front of his house. So sad to see this show fall so far, so fast. This show will be lucky to see the the 9th season.
I think the show has been excellent through the years. The great thing about it is it seemed like they've been daring the Shark for the last 5 years. Just when it seems like the stories get way out there, they level off, and then start climbing to crazier heights.
Don't get me wrong, I love this show...but...25% of it sucks! (And it usually happens when the writers seemingly get bored, had a little too much to drink, smoke, something) There's the lovable cast, wonderful story line...and then there's the baby riding the dog, or the singing numbers, ya know what I mean?
The Drew Carey Show has NOT been cancelled... at least not yet! After starting the year on Monday nights, ABC sentenced it to a slow death on Friday nights... then yanked it off the air until this summer (2003). Why? Because they want to move it back to Wednesday night, where the show actually had some success! The last episode to air was #199, so #200 will start off the summer episodes. While this season has been weak, Drew kept stating that he was going to get married on a specific date in May... sweeps, of course! I guess that's out the window and will never be mentioned again, huh?
This JTS from day one. Why do people think Drew Carey is so funny? He's lame. He parades around with all these women like he's some kind of ladies man. If he had no show, he'd have no ho.
I didn't mind the singing shows. I can never understand why writers/producers always think a show's plotline must "progress". Find a scenerio that viewers enjoy and write within it. Seems simple to me. But no...Jeannie had to marry whatzizname. Maybe kids grow up so plots must too but M.A.S.H. was the same until everyone went home (as we knew they would)...or got greedy.
The show just got too unrealistic. Sure, some shows jump back and forth between the real world and an edge of fantasy once in a while, but this show became less realistic than a poorly-written comic book.
In the beginning of the 2002-2003 season the show jumped so many times its not funny. First, they moved the show to a TV graveyard, Friday night. Then all of a sudden Winford-Lauder is no more. Worse of all, Kate leaves. This show needs to go just as a mercy killing. Drew should stick with Whose Line.
The show jumped the shark at the start of Season 7 when Drew got out of the insane asylum. The problem wasn't that he got out--that had to happen sooner rather than later--but that it led into the most idiotic story of the show's history, when he ended up marrying both Nicki and Kate, before they found out and dumped him. Where to begin with how awful this story was? First off, having two beautiful women both wanting to marry Drew at the same time--sorry, not buying it. One beautiful woman, OK, but not two. Second, and much worse, this story made Drew into a complete a**hole! It's one thing when a 2ndary chracter does something that's both stupid and not believable, but not the show's lead; Drew's actions here made him appear to be both unbelievably ******** and downright cruel to both women. I could have seen him doing that to Nicki (an irritating character IMHO who might have "had it coming" for her jilting Drew before their marriage) but not Kate and NEVER Kate. The friendship/relationship/friendship between Drew and Kate was the beating heart of the show. This plotline ruined that, even if they eventually became friends again. It was not the same, and then Christa Miller Lawrence left the show, and it completely collapsed. I can't even watch the Season 7 episodes in syndication. They're embarrassing, and if the show is truly done after a miserable Season 8, then this storyline is where it jumped the shark and got eaten.
As soon as Drew marries Kate and Nicki, the show was doomed. The real Drew Carey would never be that horrible to anyone, especially Kate. When the reruns get to season 7, I stop watching. It's May of 2003, and I don't even know if the show is still running.
How can a show so good jump so high and far in so short a period of time? With Kate leaving the cast, it just has been unwatchable, which the network also feels since they've buried the show in a horrid time slot and done ZERO promo for it. This will be the last season for Drew....a good run, but a sad end, like so many shows before it.
It jumped the shark when Kate and Drew got together. It's totally unrealistic. All throughout the show they had NO attraction or feelings for each other at all. Then out of no where BAM, they like each other. I'm so sick of these shows creating these "feelings" between so-called best friends. It seems to happen on EVERY show! Do these people no know anyone else they could get together with???
While many agree that Drew's show jumped due to changing the theme song and the cast singing in Broadway-style numbers, for me, the biggest annoyance on this show is the accordian background music. Everytime I hear an accordian music bed, I can't but help think of "The Drew Carey Show," and I don't mean in a good way. It makes me think that Lawrence Welk is on among other things.
Drew won’t have a chance to JTS. ABC has started playing the “hide the show till the ratings drop and we can justify canceling it” game. No show ever recovers once that starts.
Mostly when the gay marriage thing came into play the series was only looking for cheap laughs. Crappy writing and bad acting make this show total crap now.
For me, the show was over when Shirley Jones became Drew's love interest. She may have wanted Drew to "come on, get happy," but the mere thought of this twosome together makes me want to vomit!!!!! I haven't watched since the day Drew started dating her!
I loved the Drew Carey Show. This Funny and wonderful was a wednesday night staple during my teenage years. Drew was a hilarious nerd, a nerd that all could look up too. Nevermind the fact that I had several similiarites to Drew (same weight, same height, dimwitted and perverted friends,a megabitch I hated, a good friend who I secretly had affection for ETC.) I always tought Drew was the funniest show on TV, until....Mini-mimi. From that moment on, the quality of the show dropped.It was still good, but not the same, but the final straw was when they had Kate leave drew. The marriage of Kate and Drew would've made the perfect final episode. They make Kate marry a fighter pilot (what the ****) and replace her with the bimbo from Titus. And making Mimi being his sister-in-law was also infuriating. Having Drew marry Mr. Wick was ******** and annoyed me to no end. Such a shame that a great and innovative show end on the **** note that it did
Well ok the marriage never happened but The Drew Carey Show peaked when Drew and Kate started dating in the middle of the 1999-2000 season. Up until then, with some of the most cleverly written jokes of any sitcom (one could often tell it took the audience a few extra seconds to catch them), this was one of the most underrated shows on television. But the Drew and Kate dating episodes were just too corny. The show could have bounced back once this storyline ended but then there was Lewis and all those silly Drug Co. episodes, the closing of Winfred Lauder, and the departure of Kate and Mr. Wick. Its too bad this show couldn't have gone out on top.
THIS SHOW JUMPED when Mimi became too much a part of the show. In the early episodes of these show Mimi was just an annoyance in the office but then the producers in their infinite lack of wisdom put her everywhere, into the bar, and into Drew's family. The producers of "Cheers", and "Taxi" realized that Carla and Louis were funny characters but only in limited dozes. They were also characters that are somewhat pathetique and can even earn our sympathy. Mimi was a mean, nasty character with little redeeming value. Add to that the shallow characters and eqaully shallow performances with the possible exception of Christa Miller, this show was headed down the ramp for a long time. Interestingly, although ABC has paid for the 2003-2004 season it chose not to show it because the show is so dead. It also has died a quick death in syndication. RIP Drew Carey Show and good riddance Mimi.
The thing that has always bugged me is the fact that except in one instance, Drew has almost always had very skinny, tall girlfriends. Considering his build, it's just creepy.
The Drew Carey Show "Jumped The Shark" just after the homemade beer season. It just wasnt as funny. They need to give Oswald and... whatsisname there own show. It would be great!
The moment this bastard jumped is easy to pinpoint. It was when Drew spent an entire show mourning the "death" of his f**king refrigerator. It was stupid and absolutely devoid of humor. The guy likes to eat, we got that from the pilot. Around this time we also were subjected to the artifical fattening of the lovely Kate Walsh, who looks more than a little like a young Catherine Deneuve. Even after the debacle with the refrigerator, I kept watching, if for no other reason than to see Christa Miller's angelic face. Now she is gone. Drew will soon follow.
This show and the Simpsons continue to hang on long after the shark has digested it. The middle management everyman thing kept the show going for a few seasons, but the gimmicks really detracted from the previously somewhat realistic show. But when Kate and Drew started dating, the show became completly unrealistic. Its not so much that it couldn't happen, its that they should not bring the male and female lead together if theyre expecting the show to go on; the writers must not have taken Moonlighting 101. This show got progressively stupider and farther away from reality, with Drew dating hot model-like chicks and dumb ratings grabs like the "mistake episodes" and him dying. I tuned in recently, dumbfounded that it was still on the air, and found Mimi without makeup and Kate transformed into Erin from Titus, existing only so Drew can buy a few more yachts.
I caught a new show last night and I was shocked. So much has changed! I didn't know Christa Miller had left. The blonde girl is a sordid replacement.Lewis has lost so much hair, and what happened to Mr. Wick? Where is he?I will miss Drew's old cubicle, what's with the new office? Where did it come from? The new theme songs are strange. Mimi looks old and haggard, and I feel sorry for the actress who plays her. All that blue makeup has taken it's toll over the years. In fact, I feel sorry for the whole show and Mr. Carey. Nobody's watching anymore and the whole show has just taken an enormous dive. 
The Drew Carey Show began to jump the shark during the second season. In season 2(97-98) we saw the beginning of a long road downhill with the show slowly being retooled to fit Drew Carey’s twisted fantasies. First they change the theme song from “moon over Parma” to five o’clock world with a well-done musical dance number”. However, that change was the only change for the better as that song fit the show and its work-related theme. Unfortunately, the show itself began to focus more on Drew’s personal life instead of Winfred Louder where the biggest laughs were. During this season of retooling Drew’s girlfriend Lisa left the show. Lisa was the best of Drew’s girlfriends and shared chemistry with Carey that none of the future actresses who played the girlfriend ever did. Next came the replacement of Mr. Bell with Mr. Wick. Mr. Bell had a Dilbert boss flavor to him and his anonyminity made the workplace interactions more realistic. Mr. Wick was a babbling idiot who made threats and did not follow through on them. Also in this season Mimi a recurring character who was funny in small doses became a cast regular. Like the Fonz, the Mimi character would quietly begin taking over the show. This was followed up by the bizarre Kate/Oswald paring. This relationship made absolutely no sense and added nothing funny to the show. IMO they ran this storyline to kill time while the writers came up with something for the cast to do. While Kate/Oswald is going on, Drew decides to implement the first of many “gimmick” shows; the infamous spot all the errors contests. That was when TDCS hit the ramp and jumped over the shark. The show quickly started snowballing downhill when Mimi sent Drew to china in the season finale cliffhanger episode. This is when Drew Carey workplace everyman and nice guy who finished last started to become something akin George Costanza King of the Losers who did things so outrageous that it was unbelievable. Unfortunately, Drew isn’t Jason Alexander and he doesn’t have Larry David to write plausibly funny jokes and situations. Practical jokes in the workplace are funny but sending a guy to china in a crate crosses the line of believability. Season three (98-99) started with another run at the shark when the theme song was again changed to the infamously dreadful “Cleveland Rocks” sung by The Presidents of the United States of America. All episodes with this theme song should be avoided at all costs. In this season the show REALLY starts to get weird. Drew’s crossdessing brother Steve becomes a regular and stops being a crossdresser. Steve then starts his romance with Mimi whose character gets a lot more screen time. Drew begins several inadvertent affairs with married women, including one played by Caroline Rhea. After these women, he starts dating Nikki, the hot girl who turns fat after dating him. Strangely she gains 100 lbs in 3 weeks. The episode where she dumps him and blames him for making her fat is REALLY uncomfortable to watch. Right after this we get more gimmicks like errors show #2 and the first of the live shows. We also get another dance number “What is hip” but this time the musicals are getting boring. Soon after being dumped by Nikki drew quits his job and dyes his hair blond grows a goatee and joins a band and dates a Goth chick half his age. Also Mimi marries Steve. Drew goes psycho when he hears about Nikki’s wedding and crashes it. Strangely, Nikki loses 100 lbs faster than any TV character in history. During this season Lewis and Oswald goes from everymen to complete morons. Season four (99-00) was when the shark was taking a bite out of Drew’s fat ass and not enjoing what it was eating. In this season of bizarre events Drew started dating Shirley Jones, Mimi and Steve decide to have a baby. Winfred-Louder changes hands we get Mr. Cooper as a boss, Rocky Horror musical number and Drew starts dating HOT chicks. We get more gimmick shows including another live show and another April fools show in additon to an Emmy show. Mimi gets pregnant. Season five (00-01) was the end of the line for a lot of viewers, even this poster. This is when the shark craps out the rest of the show and shark feces land at the bottom of the sea. The Drew Carey show got really bizarre even for a sitcom. Drew goes into a coma and trades bodies with his nephew Gus. Next came Drew’s marriage to Mr. Wick. Worse, Drew begins dating Kate the biggest wrong move of all time. More bad episosdes follow including the sprained penis episode and Fat Nikki moving back in with Drew TWO YEARS AFTER SHE DUMPED HIM AND MARRIED SOMEONE ELSE.The season concludes with Drew being put in an asylum driven crazy by Mimi. Can’t mention season six, as it was so horrid that I forgot the show existed. Started watching “TITUS” instead. Season seven (01-02) starts with a rock’n roll showcase for FIVE episodes. Can you say Filler time? Drew Carey in real life has had lifesaving heart surgery and has lost weight. Unfortunately, the show is on life support. When the season finally starts, you start shaking your head. Drew is released from the mental hospital and proposes to both KATE and NIKKI and then MARRIES BOTH WOMEN. As a result of his bigamy, Kate and drew duke it out in a matrix style fight. Next Drew dates Wanda Sykes in an interracial romance. When this storyline is over Winfred-Louder goes out of business and Drew is out of a job AGAIN. Right about this time the ratings hit rock bottom. The once top ten rated Drew Carey show is barely in the 90s. ABC wants to desperately cancel it, but unfortunately they signed a long-term deal to keep this train wreck going until the 2004 season and the show costs too much to cancel. Season eight (02-03) of this show and Roseanne’s eighth season is the future reason network executives will probably use to not give long-term deals to TV shows and the reason why actors will never get 100% creative control on a program. This whole season is phoned in. Drew and Company clearly doesn’t want to do the show anymore but go on so they can collect the cash. Thankfully, Christa Miller leaves in the second episode and goes to Scrubs. Enter Cynthia Watros in a Ted McGinley role to replace Miller. Let’s hope Watros’ career can recover, she was great in Titus and deserves better than this being on this disaster area of a show. Drew starts working for a dot-com in TWO YEARS AFTER THE DOT COM CRASH! Worse, the dot com is in the old Winfred-Louder building and Mimi works there too. We get multiple theme song changes, no matter what band sings it the song “Cleveland rocks” sucks. The show is at the lowest ratings; even PAX shows are passing it by. ABC starts to mitigate its losses by shuffling the show around moving it to Fridays then taking it off the schedule. Now it runs on Wednesdays for a summer run. Next season will probably be on Saturday nights at 10. Like Happy Days and Roseanne before it The Drew Carey Show was once a potential comedy classic that slowly became one of the worst shows on television. Ironically, most of the shows in with definitive JTS categories (singing, exit stage left, they did it) got their start on ABC. It seems this network never learns.
This show is (was) funny because of the interaction between Kate, Lewis, and Oswald. Drew isn't that funny, but he had great support. Ryan Stiles is a comic genius.
This show jumped the shark when Mimi had her baby, but Drew was trapped in the baby... it was just to weird, and not funny. The show went downhill from there.
This show hasn't been offically canceled yet. ABC hasn't mad up their mind if they want to bring it back as a mid-season replacement. Its a shame how ABC has treated one of their Senior shows. Its still funny, even with the loss of Kate. Why they keep crap like George Lopez on and not this show is beyond me.
It hasn't jumped the shark, but where are Krista Miller and Mr. Wick? Why is Mr. Wick still in all the opening credits and still listed on ABC's web site when Krista isn't? Anyway, it's obvious the show is on it's way out and the cast and crew all know it and are just trying to have as much fun as possible while they can. It's still funny as hell and it's still the only sitcom about unmarried people over thirty without children and who actually have to work for a living, these two rare elements combined, that I can relate to. I will continue to watch until the bastards do to it what they eventually do to all good things, which is to rip out its heart and stomp on it and shred up the remains in a blender and put it out in the sun to dry for a few days and then put it in a pipe and smoke it, so they can get high on the fumes of the tragic results of their own soul-crushing mediocrity. Until then, Louis and Oswald will continue to rule my TV screen and Drew will continue to be my beacon of human decency. Thank you.
In the show's first four years this show was a great sitcom that used gimmicks and unconventional methods well. Then the whole Drew and Kate thing happened, how can Drew "suddenly" be in love with Kate after all these years and Kate fall in love with him just from hearing that? Then we had all these lame plots about them getting together, then Mimi and Steve got together, and from then until the end of the season there were some good episodes, but in the 6th season when they got engaged it stopped being so funny, and the live episodes were terrible, improv is only funny when the performers are good at it, then Drew went into a coma, and that was practically the death knell, it somewhat recovered in season 7 with a few good episodes (The bus ad, the porn list), and after finishing season 7 with series-low ratings along with fellow ABC comedies Spin City and Dharma & Greg (Both took nosedives, both comedically and in ratings) the other two were canned, Drew Carey would've also but ABC signed a deal with it through 2004, and ABC sent it to Mondays, then Fridays, where it bombed in both slots, and who could blame the viewers? Christa Miller (Kate) left, and her appearances on Scrubs are much better, but as bad as an actress she was on TDCS (Have you ever heard of actually showing some enthusiasm in your voice?), she had chemistry with the other three, and then they put Cynthia Watros (Erin from Titus, a show she was much better on) in there, and she fits in badly, when you put a talented actress in a group with three people who can't act, it doesn't look good, she never has any funny lines, she's just there as the filler female, Mimi has gotten uglier, she looks like she's wearing less makeup (She actually looks better with makeup), the show is now your average cookie cutter sitcom, it doesn't even have the themed episodes or song and dance numbers anymore, it is the average sitcom, and it's scraping the bottom of the barrel for laughs, going for repulsive material (Drew and a little girl singing "Do it to me one more time" in kareoke"), less of Mr. Wick, those two utterly idiotic bosses of him who are half his age, and now this southern chick moving in with him and dressing up as a dominatrix. It's scheduled for a midseason entry in ABC's 2003-2004 schedule, and thankfully it's the show's last.
I don't think The Drew Carey Show ever jumped the shark. Some episodes have been less than perfect, but I still enjoy the show as much as I did when I started watching it four years ago. It's one of my favorite shows and Lewis rocks.
The show should have ended in the spring of 2001. These past two seasons have totally reinvented the series for the worse. I cannot imagine how they can go on from now, even though Drew, Lewis, and Mimi are still funny. If ABC is smart, they'll kill it with whatever dignity it can retain by mid-season. And they should also bring back Kate and Mr. Wick for the finale.
I used to watch Drew Carey religiously. Loved it... his borderline ******** friends Oswald and Lewis, the lovely Kate, the snide Mr. Wyck... and some of the stories and situations were hillarious. Two of my favorite episodes were the band auditions for a guitarist and the "Full Monty" episode. I still laugh my ass off every time I see the reruns of those eps. I didn't even mind the Shirley Jones romance... hell, half the guys Drew's age (and my own - 30) would love the chance to nail Shirley Jones... either 30 years ago or present day. And bringing in Bonaduce as her son was MINT! Even when they started doing all the "gimmick" episodes like the musical in front of the Rocky Horror Show, dancing in the fridge, or the Daffy Duck job interview - I didn't mind. It was all good. What I DID have a problem with was Mimi. Every episode was the same goddammed thing. She calls Drew a pig, or some other names, plays practical jokes on him, and 99% of the time Drew just threw back a couple of insults and took the rest like a little bitch. I was SICK of Mimi. Instead of being a little comic relief, she was used to torture Drew every chance possible. I'd have beaten the **** out of her 5 episodes into the first season after all the nonsense she's pulled. It just got so tiring. Around the fourth season I finally got bored with the show and especially Mimi. I just stopped watching. I'll gladly watch the first couple of seasons, but after that I just don't care. I was kind of disappointed that Drew didn't continue his musical career... I was really enjoying that plotline, and his neo-goth girlfriend was SMOKING. Too bad the producers didn't realize that sometimes the underdog can rise to another level.
When "they" allowed Mimi to be so utterly disrespectful, nasty and just a true blue *B* to everybody period. All that makeup, geez! I would have fired her period once I found out about her unprofessionalism.
Y'know, I used to watch this show when it 1st aired when I was a sophomore in college in the start of the new tv season of '96. It was great then to me. I loved the short opening of the outline singing Moon Over Parma, which was simple, but yet nice. The insults and practical jokes between he and Mimi were hilarious and it just flowed well. The next season, they changed the opening, which I could deal with, and it still remained fresh and funny. I can't remember exactly when the 1st gimmick started, but I know it was before I graduated college in May '99. I saw the dancing/singing outside of the Rocky Horror Picture Show theater, and I thought it was pretty decent. No real complaints.... But, after that, I noticed that these "musical" numbers started popping up all over the place on this show. After a while, probably around '98 or '99, the show became completely unwatchable to me. Almost every time I saw an advertisement for the new episode, it was some gimmick to it. Either guess the errors, it's in 3D, Whose Line..., singing, dancing/stripping in court, etc. It definitely wasn't the show I used to like.. It's almost like they just stopped writing the show altogether to turn it into improv. That's all fine and dandy for MadTV or Saturday Night Live, or other variety shows. But this wasn't supposed to be. It just became more of a gimmicky show for me which just became annoying.
The Drew Carey Show jumped the shark when Drew and Kate became a couple. It's not really due to their relationship per se, because I actually enjoyed seeing Drew getting with the girl of his dreams. However I found that at this point the show plots became really, really bizzare. We have Drew marrying Mr Wyck in a gay marriage...and becoming the bisexual bigamist? At this point the show had completely lost it and become a farce. It's sad though because I really loved this show. It's concept was great...the life of an average working stiff and his boozer, slacker friends. This show had some of the funniest moments I've ever witnessed on television...I still watch the reruns because they are so funny. Who forget episodes like the one where that crazy employee Earl was stalking Drew and ended up copying his life. It had one of the funniest lines that I ever heard when Oswald said "Earl, I can prove mathematically that you cannot kill Drew Carey." LOL. Then there's that episode where Drew goes to the dating service. I remember when it first came out...the scene before the opening credits where Mr. Wyck is drunk off his ass and wants to crash at Lewis and Oswald's apartment above the bar. They show Drew sitting at the bar and all of a sudden Mr. Wyck falls through the ceiling into the bar and Drew's just looking at him. Mr Wyck says, "Lewis I think this there's something terribly wrong with your toilet." I almost peed my pants laughing when I saw that. Another great episode was the one when Drew's neighbor becomes the boss at Buzz beer after lending him money for a new beer tank. Anyway, this show was the funniest show on television when it was in its prime. Thanks for the memories Drew!
It was funny when Drew got locked up in the nut house but when Drew stayed in the nut house, it was over...dumb dumb dumb
I don't think anyone has mentioned all the celebrity mothers of the characters, not only Marion Ross as Drew's mother but also Tammy Fay Bakker Messner as Mimi's mother, Adrienne Barbeau as Oswald's mother, June Lockhart as Lewis's mother, Phyllis Diller as Mimi's grandmother and the most over the top of all, Richard Chamberlain in drag as Wick's mother.
I just read a comments that said this show IS Cleveland - and IT IS!!!!! I grew up in Cleveland and was mesmerized by the way they caught the essense of what it means to live there. The people, the attitudes and Joe Walsh!! What a flash to the past for me!! Sorry to see you go Drew and all!!
I watched this show for a while, my first shark is they start giving Mimi to much airtime Tv does not take a look at where other shows made mistakes.They love taking a small role that is just a bit part and then it takes over the show to the point that the shark is circling the tank.To make matters worse the addition of Drews brother was horrible this guy added NOTHING to the show his acting was so bad but then they have him and Mimi start taking over many episodes hello sharks. the kiss of death is in the cards.I want to recall a sad and absolutely painful moment on the show, past posters mention the rapid way Drews girl packed on the weight but the episode where Drew wants to video tape them having sex is sad. the girlfriend is disgusted and hurt by this behavior of Drews and really is distraught a bit of trash tv that should been left in the trash it was an embarassment. I would like to know the average episode number or years shows start to JTS, seems to be about the third season they must run out of ideas so they go the road most taken and make the mistakes that many made before. JTS readers and posters know those shark reasons and you cannot always blame Ted Mcginley. one more Drew thing I must have been long gone from the show I never knew Kate died that is a shame because the show was on its own death bed for long time before Kate died. Did Kate want out the show or was she canned.
This show never jumped the shark. Mimi,Lewis,and Oswald were always funny. Drew got old torward the end when he got too cool but the show never got on my nerves and I was sad when they decided that 2003 was the last year.
When Kate left the whole show fell apart. There went all the romantic tension and when there is no tension, there is no show.
When brother Steve stopped wearing a dress. He was too plain. He started dating Mimi and the dress went away, then all that Kate and Drew garbage happened. Nothing was fun anymore. Too whiny. I mean, who wouldn't miss lines like "Don't make me forget that I'm a lady!" coming from Steve (after beating up some guys trying to get with Drew and Steve's niece)
From Cleveland Rocks on, this show continued to make musical numbers that were boring!!! I hate musicals period, so I don't want to see a comedy with a ten minute musical intro!!! Also the episode were Drew fights the space aliens. This was another strange and overextend bit that was stupid more than anything, and with no humor at all it is just him shooting aliens. I think you were supposed to wear 3-D classes for this episode, but who cares!!! They were more interested in making something new or different rather than making comedy.
The show jumped when Kate left it. The show didn´t necesarily became bad (it had some very good episodes) but the Titus girl was never able to mash because of the stupid gimmick of Drew setting a date to get married. That stupid thing was too distracting and it took away from the stories. They just changed everything. They left Winston Lauder. Wick was uneployed. Steve cheated on Mimi and they split. It was a downward spiral. And the show kept being funny but it just wasn´t the same because of the bad stories. You could also see that they were rushing the thing between Drew and the Titus girl. Apparently they didn´t want to lose time and end up doing nothing as they did with Kate. They lost it big by not ending the series with Drew and Kate being together or when she left, ending the show another way. The good thing was the Lewis and Oswald never jumped and that the show kept being funny when not tied to the stupid new plots (especiallly the Super Bowl commercial), but the show still jumped and clearly.
The Drew Carey show jumped the shark when the writers ran out of good clean wholesome, but very funny lines to write. The show turned into a sex show. I'll admit it was not hardcore by any means, but it got to be to awkward and embarrising for me to watch while my three young children were also watching it.
This show use to be pretty funny, but as soon as Drew Carey became an Executive Producer, this show jumped the shark.
Depression. Gay Marriage? Losing his job? Fat Girl and Stripper? Losing Kate? It just kept getting more and more depressing.
The "Drew Can't Carey a Tune" episode. Honestly, I like most of the musical episodes, but this one was unfunny from beginning to end. I kept watching, but never felt the show had the quality it originally had up to that point. The lovable loser stuff got a little old, too. You'd think they could've let him win a little more often.
I think that the Drew Carey Show clearly jumped the shark when Drew & Kate began dating, and eventually did it. One of the biggest 'crash & burn' jumps of all times, at least in sit-com history. That event, somehow, totally shifted the momentum of this previously innovative and terrific comedy. It was much better when Drew was dating the full-figured woman, and Kate was just the confused, roaming slut without any sense of direction....now THAT was comedy!!!!
In the beginning of the 2nd season they brought in the "wacky british guy", to run Winfred Louder. Craig Ferguson is a brilliantly funny actor and it's no coincidence that the show became popular after his arrival. You could also consider the introduction of Mimi in the 2nd episode the first jump. Kathy Kinney played Lorna (I think) in the pilot as a 1 time gig. They hired her as a regular and put all that clown makeup and clothing on her. -Shows how well designed the pilot was. The 2 shark jumps were what made the show popular. More people know the show for Mimi's eye makeup than Drew's glasses. The best comedy came in the office scenes with the Monty Python rip-off rather than Ryan Stiles -one of the funniest men on the planet. A show that did well in spite of itself.
This show was just never the same after his "lifelong love" Kate left (which also coincided with the store's closing & it's move to the Monday night "death slot" with "Whose Line" - was the network TRYING to kill them?) Bouncing it around the schedule certainly didn't help either. I've watched it only once since. I was not at all impressed either with the neurotic bimbo they brought in to replace Kate as his love interest. (He was "in love with Kate his whole life" & then this one shows up & he had been "in love with her his whole life" too. Come on!)
Somewhere along the lines he lost his midwestern sensibilities and charm and when all Hollywood.
This show jumped several times before Kate left the show, but when she was replaced and Drew joined a dot.com startup, I stopped watching.
Hmm, I've lost count of which season this happened in, but the pinnacle of shark jumping for what was once my favorite show is when Mimi was suddenly everywhere in Drew's life. She would have done fine as a cameo role, mabye the occassional subplot (like the Mr. Wick held captive/storm thing), or when she and Drew would join forces (crashing the party, the bowling con), but when every episode included her, it was one of many signs that the ideas were running thin. Kind of like Urkel...good in small doses, but shouldn't carry the whole show just b/c viewers respond to them. I used to watch this show religiously and quote it all the time, but the last thing I remember was when he started dating Wanda Sykes and joined the street racing circuit. I missed the resurgence of Nikki, Kate's departure, Oswald as an EMT, and that teenage chick that owned the store...I lost a lot of faith in Drew when Mimi ordered him to rush her to the hospital to give birth...if someone sent me to Great Wall of China, gave me bad job references, whipped my transvestite brother, and made every day at the office a living hell, I'd have told her to go **** herself and call an ambulance. Even if she WAS my sister in law and lived in my backyard. See, that's what I'm talking about. Also, Mr Wick is fired, Drew ascends to manager, then goes back to Human Resources and Mr Wick becomes the boss again. YAWN. I liked the error episode contests, and even entered the Buzz Beer one--I dare another show to try that. I went online for the webcam one. Novel idea, but didn't really add much. I didn't like the live episodes...I already watched Whose Line and it was just more of that. I didn't like the way the corny live shows were used to further existing storylines. I mean, most of his life built up to asking Kate out, and he is finally convinced by Colin Mochrie and Wayne Brady to go after her? (KATE'S gone? She gave me many long, hard, sleepless nights--guess it was a mercy killing, in the end she made Courtney Cox look like Anna Nicole Smith.) Well, this show tried a lot of new stuff, it didn't all stick, but at least Drew TRIED. Please end it soon before it just gets sad.
Why on EARTH is this show still around?! Whoever was responsible for the deal that let this show last as long as it did should never be allowed to negotiate a contract again! the show stopped being funny a loooooong time ago, but watching ABC burn off the episodes that they were obligated to film is torture!
Today is June 9, 2004, and i got the shock of my life when i tuned past ABC at 9:05 pm, AND THIS SHOW WAS AIRING!! I THOUGHT 2003 WAS THEIR LAST SEASON!!! (Or at least it should have been). I THOUGHT ABC MADE THE DECISION TO LET IT DIE EVEN THOUGH 1 YEAR WAS LEFT ON THEIR CONTRACT!!!
It was good at first. It was different. A funny spin on life in an office. A great pair of main characters in Drew Carey and Kathy Kinney. (Hey she wasn't a skinny anorexic/bulimic girl!) She still got fat jokes, but she shot them right back. It was real! But then Drew started to change. He became "cool". He should never have married Kate. They were friends. Same with Oswald and Kate. It's not funny anymore. It's forced and stale. He's better off on Who's Line Is It Anyway? Ryan Styles is the best on that show.
The show jumped when Drew started working at the internet company. His unhip job is what made the show so funny. That said, ABC should be ashamed for making this show impossible to find in its last couple of years. It was one of the funniest shows ever in its prime and deserved a good send off. Do they really have that many other good shows that they can't find a time slot for it?
This show definitely jumped the shark when Kate left (can't remember the actress's name). It probably wasn't because she left, but the show just slowly started getting less and less funny.
When ABC moved this show to the point that I could no longer find it, I thought it was cancelled. It had gone downhill very fast when "the store" was closed. The new snobby cast is not an asset. I will enjoy the reruns forever. Great show, bad changes... tsk tsk
ABC, please put this show out of its misery. Pull the plug on any remaining episodes. The double episodes every Wed. night in the summer of 04 are like an accident on the highway: you know it's gruesome but you have to look anyway. Continuity has always been lacking on The Drew Carey Show but sheesh,it's ridiculous now. First Drew's girlfriend is pregnant, then she isn't. First Oswald owns the bar, then he doesn't. I could cite many more examples but for brevity's sake I won't. Even more troubling is the totally spineless weasel that Drew has become. Letting Mimi and Gus and Mimi's live-in boyfriends and most other characters walk all over him is just too much to take. This once great show is so pathetic now. One of the first rules of show business is always go out on a high note and leave them wanting more. Seinfeld did it. Frasier did it. Friends dit it. Drew, sorry but it's too late for you.
I loved the show and the ubsurdity was one of the reasons I watched, plus I'm a huge Ryan Stiles fan. But right around the time that "King Gus" was born, and Winford Lauder was bought out AGAIN I stopped watching. I recently saw a new episode and I hated it. Steve left Mimi, and she's living with Drew, plus she's hardly wearing any makeup. Kate is gone and the store looks too modern and ugly. I was happy to see that Lewis and Oswald were still comic releif, but the rest of the show sucked, Sorry Drew, You need a new gig.
The Drew Carey Show JTS when Kate left. It had been spiraling downward long before, ever since they started to run out of ideas (Drew married everyone). I noticed the other day that it was still on the air and I wondered why.
The Drew Carey show used to be hilarious and full of great lines and visual gags (remember when Mimi took over the store and replaced the mannequins with giant troll dolls? Or when Lewis and Oswald were drinking margaritas out of a kids swimming pool?) and it definately had a cartoonish quality to it. However, after watching most of the episodes in syndication, it's quite easy to see where it went downhill, and it has jumped, reverse-jumped, and then jumped again. Five times, exactly. 1. When Kate started sleeping with everybody. 2. When Lewis and Oswald reversed rolls (Oswald was the semi-intelligent one and Lewis was the dumb one) 3. When Kate left the show and Kellie joined the cast (Not only did I sense that coming, but that was a BIG, HUGE JUMP) 4. The musical season finales. I mean come on, did we have to be subjected to that all the f**king time? Once is ENOUGH! 5. When Mimi started dating Drew's cross-dressing brother Steve. Or when Drew did the gay marriage thing with Wick and then became a scout master. That was a sure sign that the writers were running out of ideas. It's sad that there's only three more episodes of this show, but after all the shark-jumping that it's done, I'm not surprised that it's going off the air.
Drew Carey used to have one of the funniest shows on television...it was hip, irreverent, and nobody took themselves too seriously. The dialogue was witty and the plots were comical, plus the show's actors seemed to have a lot of fun, and took the viewers went along for a very enjoyable ride. But sad to say that this show has jumped the shark numerous times in progressively bigger leaps, until this season it has finally been jet-propelled over a whole ocean full of the fearsome, finned creatures. And catapulting the show right over shark-infested waters for the final time was this season's addition of television's WORST ACTOR: Michael Gross. His theatrical, sweeping gestures and overly-mannered method of delivering lines make me wonder if he isn't really auditioning for the local senior center's presentation of Hamlet. The Drew Carey Show's only saving grace is the endearing dumbness of Lewis and Oswald. My hope is that Michael Gross is tossed to the sharks before the final episode and the show can leave us with a good memory or two before it shuffles off to the big syndicator in the sky.
i got into watching the drew carey show in early 2000 by watching old re-runs. it was a great show until the end of the 2002-2003 season. that shouldve been the last season. when kate left, things started falling apart. the episode where kate got married and left and drew just sat there dazed on the couch staring off into space at the end of the episode was one of the saddest moments in televison history. the 2002-2003 season wouldve ended the show nicely. cynthia watros falling in love with drew through the season. and drew slowy falling apart over not finding a wife. esp the last episode of that season where the girl abandoned him at their wedding. then drew and cythia dancing and kissing at the end. that shouldve been it. FIN. and i thought it was until this year. drew if you ever read this you are a comic genius but i think they shows time has come. i hope they release every season on dvd someday.
It is finally over . ABC killed the Drew Carey show off in two seperate summers. The workhorse for the network after Tim Allen and before the f'ing Bachelor was ceremoniously finished with a pool cue to the neck after one hour blocks that helped me get through a summer of a billion laughs.SIDENOTE the summer of a billion laughs abacus on kimmel was funnier than the entire summer season, sparing drew. END SIDENOTE. They did some cool stuff in the final season with single camera episodes and well pretty much just single camera episodes. I almost cried when Drew and Lewis had a get rich scheme two weeks before the shows finale. Sorry to anyone who read this, its a bit disjointed. I thinks its great that all he wanted was syndication and ended his TV show with a dick joke.
Chicago Sun-Times TV critic Phil Rosenthal had a funny comment on the last episode of TDCS: "This final episode answers the question on everyone's mind: Is that show still on?" :-D I think those episodes when Kate went into her "woman scorned" mode were the WORST. I hated seeing her be a total shrew toward Drew. The writers should never have gotten them together. Also, I really missed Mrs. Louder, Nan Martin was fantastic. I actually saw her live starring in a performance of Edward Albee's "Three Tall Women" and she was phenomenal! But I don't think her being gone was as bad a move as ruining Kate and Drew's friendship. He would have been better of in a love/hate relationship with Mimi!
When Drew Carey began to get more control over the creative content of his show. When he started using gimmicks and singing and all sorts of other ******** ideas.
Sure the show had this cartoonish appeal to it & in those early episodes the verbal sparring & prank playing between Drew & Mimi were pretty funny. But the show jumped when Drew Carey gained creative control over the show...he dyes his hair, grows a goat-tee, & later starts casting all these hot woman as his love interests on the show (WHAT?)...all those things kind of reek of vanity. I guess that was his attempt to show people that he really wasn't the fat, 40 something, glasses wearing loser he played on the show.
The "Special Guest Star" being the Batmobile. I wouldn't have minded that in itself, but for someone of Drew Carey's and my age, "Batman" and "Batmobile" mean the Adam West TV Show, not the Tim Burton movies. Even if you prefer the movie Batmobile, (Oy!) if someone of Drew Carey's generation says "Batmobile," someone else from the same generation would either assume it's the one from the TV show or at the very least say, "Which one?" -- and if the show was really cool they would have made a joke out of that -- but instead they just acted as if the TV show never existed, which is insulting. That's when I knew the show wasn't interested in me as a viewer, but in their corporate interests instead.
Mimi explodes. Aliens invade. Take your pick. The show just isn't enjoyable anymore when the cast starts doing unbelivable things. Save the supernatural for Roadrunner cartoons.
Drew just married everybody and his friends got dumber, then smart. THEN Kate left, somehow giving Mimi the right to be a total bitch. I really felt bad for Drew, though. He had to touch a breast for a gag. The show would have been better without that laughtrack, then ABC would have seen how laughless it had gotten after the 20th century, and cancelled it. For so,e reason, I kept watching, but coincidentally it was the season where Kate left where the show stopped becoming funny. I really don't know why the show is still running on TBS or ABC, but I'm glad to see some pre-2001 episodes on there. For the past two years, I've always wondered, "Is it STILL on?" and for the past 2 years, it sadly was. The 2002-2003 season would have been the perfect end.
The episode when Mimi becomes store manager and locks drew in a mental ward and all he sees is Mimi. Never watched another since then!
The Drew Carey Show was one of the funniest shows on TV. The characters were unique and outrageous, the jokes were a hoot, and the well-choreographed musical numbers were very entertaining. It even had great theme songs ("Moon Over Parma", "Cleveland Rocks", "5-O'Clock World".) However, the show's downfall was without a doubt when Christa Miller (Kate O'Brian) left the cast and was replaced by Kellie the neurotic barmaid. (I found her whimpering and whining to be SO annoying!) The departure of Mr. Wick and Mrs. Louder was also a great loss to the show. And Drew's deadline-driven obsession to find himself a wife might have drawn a few laughs as a single episode, but when it became the permanent focus of the show it traded humor for tedium and signaled the end was near.
I've always wanted to kick Drews ass for all his singing and dancing numbers, but I think the bowtie he started wearing, really put me over the edge.
I loved Drew, and I think the premise of the show is hilarious (lovable loser can't get a break), but the show jumped the shark when Kate left. It just was not the same.
The Drew Carey Show totally jumped the shark when Kate left the show.She was a main character,a very funny character at that,and when they replaced her with Kelly it was a huge mistake(and no affence but Kellys character was boaring and not half as funny as Kate.So to who ever at the Drew Carey Show who thought it be best that Crista Miller leave the show...WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!!!!!
I used to be a big fan, but this show jumped sometime close to the end of it's run. There was an episode which turned into a music video on a few different occasions. Not exactly sure which one this is but at least 5-10 minutes were a rock video for Drew. Totally lame.
When Drew "died" and passed his nephew and then came back to life. That made no sense. I loved this show because I grew up in Cleveland, but after that I lost interest. Too bad it was a great show up to that point.
As a regular watcher of the Drew Carey Show, I was ecstatic when they finally got Drew and Kate together. Boy gets the girl he wanted all his life. What else is there? Unfortunately, Drew signed a multiyear deal with ABC. So he and Kate broke up, then they got back together, then they broke up, and she left the show at the beginning of season 8.
TDCS was incredibly funny even at its most absurd...until Drew married two women. At that point, it was a downward spiral. The season was a mess. Kate's leaving and subsequent tightening up of the show the following season was actually very good for it, though it was just a shell of what it had been from 1995 to 2001 or so. Still, I'd love some DVD sets.
The Drew Carey Show was so strange at times that a lot of the typical shark jumping times do not apply. They did so many gimmick shows that the show itself was pretty much just one big gimmick. In anycase, I lost interest in the show once the relationship with Steve and Mimi started. Steve was the cross-dressing brother who'd show up from time to time and Mimi was the annoying secretary from work. They weren't interesting characters beyond those traits.
I loved The Drew Carey Show when it first came on, as many other posters did, too. That's why it's so sad, and yet so amazing, that the show fell as far as it did as quickly as it did. In the beginning, TDCS was so refreshingly funny because of its fairly bizarre dialogue and situations and the unrelenting nerdiness of Drew Carey (as played by Drew Carey). I loved the quirkiness of this show. Heck, I even liked a lot of the gimmick episodes, especially the ones with live improv, the "what's wrong with this episode?" contests, and (my very favorite) the pandering-for-an-Emmy episode, where they mocked the "very special" episodes that a lot of sitcoms are prone to have sometimes. Yes, they were silly gimmicks, but they were fairly original ideas that were executed in a funny way. And they weren't meant to affect the continuity of the show, much like the Treehouse of Horror episodes that they do on The Simpsons. They were just supposed to be fun little things that happened once in awhile. What really made this show tank was when the plotlines within the continuity of the show began to go way, way, waaay over the top, like when Drew was institutionalized or when Mimi's practical joke left him on the Great Wall of China. Around the same time, Drew became much less likeable as he tried to become cooler. I stopped watching the show regularly around the time that Drew married Kate and that other chick (drawing a blank on the name right now), and I stopped watching altogether when Kate left; she was such an integral part of the cast that it was very difficult to see the show go on without her. ABC finally put TDCS out of its misery without fanfare; I'd even dare to say without acknowledgement. By then, though, I suppose there wasn't much left to acknowledge. Sad, really, considering how great this show had been at one time.
When any comedy does a musical comedy number a la the Rocky Horror musical number, it just goes down hill. This one recovered but most don't, from I Love Lucy to, God forbid Lucky Louie.
This show is odd in that it had several catastrophic shark-jumping moments and managed to recover somewhat several times by returning to its usual formula after these tangents. But the first real sign of trouble came when they killed off the main character. Well, Drew didn't die permanently, just as long as Sweeps lasted. ABC has a terrific track record of running its best shows into the ground by pressuring the producers to do something big and event-television-y for sweeps (Just look at Happy Days, where Fonzie jumps a fish of some kind on a bike with some sort of motor for some reason), and this was no exception. It was sappy, frought, and melodramatic...in other words the diametric opposite of the fun and quirky approach the show usually had. Believe me, I don't think of The Drew Carey Show when I feel like watching something serious. But then, I wouldn't have thought of Roseanne, Home Improvement, and so forth, either. Way to go, ABC.
Drew dyes the hair and grows a beard. Along with the horndogs, and joe walsh and the james gang, thats where they jumped.
Cleveland ?????? Otherwise known as "the mistake by the lake". Ohioans love the typical provincial humor but it's lost on everybody else. A truly regretful waste of ensemble talent. I hope Drew has invested his money wisely as he will be unemployed the rest of his days as penance for the schlocky time sucking vortex formerly known as "TDCS", which for years occupied valuable space on the airwaves that would have been better suited as a test pattern. Good riddance.
Drew Carey Show started wonderfully and stayed good for several seasons. And then the star had one, or was it two, heart attacks that put the show on hiatus and when he returned he didn't go right back to his old persona but instead has his own version of the Carol Burnett Show. The final blow was multistep: (1) losing Kate, (2) losing the department store after having it change owners a few times, (3) marrying Mimi to his formerly transvestite brother and then losing the brother for no good reason and taking Mimi's side, and, by no means least, (4) having the department store vanish and giving Drew a job in a computer firm (evidently only because it occupied the building that used to be the store) -- a job he clearly didn't know how to do and didn't try to do. So Drew, who had been admirable as a hard-working personnel middle-manager in the store because a gold brick in a Dot Com, which made him seem less deserving of any good breaks and less entitled to criticize anyone else. If they couldn't keep Kate and the brother, they should still have kept Mimi a minor character and a sort of villain, and kept them both in the department store.
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Drew Carey Show Boned the Fish When...
This is like the king of shark jumping
