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tvje · 03-21-2004, 05:44 PM

Has anyone ever seen the short lived Steve Harvey ABC sitcom "Me and the Boys?" I remember that show, and it was a pretty good show.

isiahthomas · 03-22-2004, 12:28 PM

I used to watch it. It was a good show.

marvin g · 03-22-2004, 10:30 PM

It was a good show! The middle child was the funniest! The oldest did a guess shot as a student on the Steve Harvey Show I think in the first season.

tvje · 03-22-2004, 10:37 PM

Yeah, it was a good show ABC should not have canceled it. However, I guess things happen for a reason. If the show was not canceled, then there would not be a "Steve Harvey show".

Mr. Television · 03-23-2004, 12:36 AM

Yea I watched it. It was a good show.

isiahthomas · 03-23-2004, 11:02 AM

MarvinG the oldest son on Me & The Boys was on a episode of Steve Harvey Show once. He was on the football team & i think he was the star quarterback. He asked Sarah to go to the prom with him & she said yes. So when they were at the prom, he wanted all the attention to be on him & he wasn't paying Sarah any attention. So she got mad at him & he left the prom. She ended up dancing with Bullethead.

tvje · 03-29-2004, 02:16 PM

I saw that episode last Friday. And it will air on TBS tommorow. Anyway, I think they should have written a joke, or somehow refrenced "Me and the Boys" in that episode. During the dance, Steve should have said that Dexter reminds him of the way he was in high school and say people could mistake him for his son.

After hearing people talk possitively about the show, and the success Steve Harvey is having today. "Me and the Boys" should be released on video/DVD, and get the same treatment other short lived sitcoms such as "Get a Life" and "Freeks and Geeks" get. (Go to www.jumptheshark.com and hear all of the positive things people say about this show), Did you know Steve Harvey won a People's choice award for this show?

I wish I could go back in time, when the show was first on the air and tape all of the episodes. Who knew ABC was going to cancel it? (that type of decision making is one of the reasons why ABC went from 1st to 3rd back then) Steve is releasing a box set of his work including his 1995 HBO special, he should release this sitcoms on DVD.

But I don't think that will ever happen. And deffently will not happen until the entire first season of "The Steve Harvey show" is released on DVD, which might never happen either.

Maybe "Me and the Boys" will one day air on Trio (which I don't have on my cable system), which airs short lived tv shows.

jamesanthony · 03-30-2004, 06:26 PM

Hi y'all. If any of you are in the NYC area the Museum of TV and Radio has the first 2 episodes of this show in their library which is open to the public. I must say that Me and the Boys was WAY better than The Steve Harvey Show. Madge Sinclair was a very classy supporting player and the kids in this show were much more realistic and less cartoonish than the ones in Steve Harvey Show. Also, the very presence of someone like Cedric means that a show is going to lack a certain level of sophistication.

ABC threw away a perfectly good show that was actually as far as I know the last black series to rank in the national top 20.

By the way, the actress who played Regina in Steve Harvey appeared as Steve's date in Me and the Boy's pilot and she appeared again in a couple of other episodes. He also had almost the same name in both shows and even had an old r'b group in the ABC series.

tvje · 03-30-2004, 06:52 PM

The first two epsiodes are in the Museum of Television and Radio? What more do you need? Release this series on DVD already.

The Steve Harvey character on "Me and the Boys" was named Steve Tower, and the character on "The Steve Harvey show" was called Steve High Tower. So their last names did sound similar.

"Me and the Boys" had more serious story lines than "The Steve Harvey show".

But this show was great, and should be released on DVD.

marvin g · 03-30-2004, 11:03 PM

What made the Steve Harvey show so cartoonish is the fact that it's set in a school where the students nevr graduate season after season! IMO schools really don't make good sitcom setting. A Different World is the only exception. And it was done right!

jamesanthony · 03-30-2004, 11:41 PM

Hey Marvin:

You have a point about schools not being a great setting for sitcoms. If the show catches on the student characters become idiots so that they will be in the school as students for 7 years. A Different World worked because they were in a university not a high school.

Steve Harvey was better in year one before Lovita and when Traci Vilar and the other girl were in it. Romeo was more restrained in year one and Lydia Liza Guttman, a HORRIBLE character, was nowhere in sight.

Quite frankly another thing that contributes to this show not being as good as ME AND THE BOYS is that it was on the WB, a network that caters to young viewers so they go for easier less sophisticated humor and broader jokes. I was really struck by how good ME AND THE BOYS was in comparison. Ms Madge Sinclair was a real treat to watch in the episodes I saw. She seemed to be having a wonderful time being in a comedy for a change rather than some searing melodrama and the kid actors were credible. In one scene in the pilot Steve says a funny line of dialogue, the audience breaks up and the oldest kid actor breaks character and has to keep himself from busting out laughing. Yet Harvey stays with a straight face. I have a friend who met Harvey in real life and he said he is funnier than he is on TV.

He must really be in deep financial debt though to be hosting that awful amateur talent show thing on the WB.

jamesanthony · 03-30-2004, 11:51 PM

There was an old show called room 222 that was more like a melodrama with light comedic touches. There's a board for it on here. Anyway, what detracted from it was that for 5 years you saw the same students in the show and after a while they looked like college students or young adults. It detracted from what was supposed to be a serious portrayal of a high school. In some shows there seems to be a kind of time warp where the characters stay the same age for more than one year. Come to think of it that must be what happened on this show because Lydia is not supposed to be academically challenged and yet she was on it for a good while along with Romeo and Bullethead. I didn't watch it that closely, but how many years passed within the storyline of this show? I know there is an episode where Steve turns 40, but Steve Harvey is about 50 by now.

isiahthomas · 03-31-2004, 11:43 AM

LOL@Steve Harvey must be in financial debt to host that garbage Big Time show hahahahahahahahahaha. I don't see how that show got on the air. Me & The Boys ain't hardly better than Steve Harvey Show.

jamesanthony · 03-31-2004, 11:58 AM

Steve Harvey must really owe someone much money because there is no excuse for him being associated with anything as bizarre as that talent show. He seems to really need to keep working because he's in so many different projects and movies and things. I find him a bit overexposed. He should just refinance his debts or let his kids get summer jobs to pay for their own college educations.

isiahthomas · 03-31-2004, 04:01 PM

Steve Harvey has kids? I haven't seen his kids. He has his own radio show in LA & he's doing movies so i don't know why he's doing that Big Time show. Plus i know he's gettin paid from his old reruns cause they show his show all the time on WB at 6:30 & 7:30 pm. Actors get paid everytime a show that they've been on is showing reruns on tv. Steve should take a break & stop trying to do so much stuff. I don't know why he wasted his time with that wack Nick Cannon & Christina Millan movie Love Don't Cost A Thing & he was in B2K's U Got Served movie. I would never play in wack films like that.

03-21-2004, 05:44 PM	#1
tvje Member Senior Member Join Date: Feb 26, 2002 Posts: 1,402	Who saw the sitcom "Me and the Boys" Has anyone ever seen the short lived Steve Harvey ABC sitcom "Me and the Boys?" I remember that show, and it was a pretty good show.
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03-23-2004, 12:36 AM	#5
Mr. Television 22 Years at Sitcoms Online Forum Icon Join Date: Jun 06, 2003 Location: Somewhere you're Not Posts: 62,125	Yea I watched it. It was a good show.
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03-30-2004, 06:52 PM	#9
tvje Member Senior Member Join Date: Feb 26, 2002 Posts: 1,402	The first two epsiodes are in the Museum of Television and Radio? What more do you need? Release this series on DVD already. The Steve Harvey character on "Me and the Boys" was named Steve Tower, and the character on "The Steve Harvey show" was called Steve High Tower. So their last names did sound similar. "Me and the Boys" had more serious story lines than "The Steve Harvey show". But this show was great, and should be released on DVD.
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03-22-2004, 12:28 PM	#2
isiahthomas Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Aug 20, 2002 Location: Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 10,701	I used to watch it. It was a good show.

03-22-2004, 10:30 PM	#3
marvin g Member Senior Member Join Date: Jul 30, 2003 Location: Chicago,IL Posts: 1,217	It was a good show! The middle child was the funniest! The oldest did a guess shot as a student on the Steve Harvey Show I think in the first season.

03-22-2004, 10:37 PM	#4
tvje Member Senior Member Join Date: Feb 26, 2002 Posts: 1,402	Yeah, it was a good show ABC should not have canceled it. However, I guess things happen for a reason. If the show was not canceled, then there would not be a "Steve Harvey show".

03-23-2004, 11:02 AM	#6
isiahthomas Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Aug 20, 2002 Location: Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 10,701	MarvinG the oldest son on Me & The Boys was on a episode of Steve Harvey Show once. He was on the football team & i think he was the star quarterback. He asked Sarah to go to the prom with him & she said yes. So when they were at the prom, he wanted all the attention to be on him & he wasn't paying Sarah any attention. So she got mad at him & he left the prom. She ended up dancing with Bullethead.

03-29-2004, 02:16 PM	#7
tvje Member Senior Member Join Date: Feb 26, 2002 Posts: 1,402	I saw that episode last Friday. And it will air on TBS tommorow. Anyway, I think they should have written a joke, or somehow refrenced "Me and the Boys" in that episode. During the dance, Steve should have said that Dexter reminds him of the way he was in high school and say people could mistake him for his son. After hearing people talk possitively about the show, and the success Steve Harvey is having today. "Me and the Boys" should be released on video/DVD, and get the same treatment other short lived sitcoms such as "Get a Life" and "Freeks and Geeks" get. (Go to www.jumptheshark.com and hear all of the positive things people say about this show), Did you know Steve Harvey won a People's choice award for this show? I wish I could go back in time, when the show was first on the air and tape all of the episodes. Who knew ABC was going to cancel it? (that type of decision making is one of the reasons why ABC went from 1st to 3rd back then) Steve is releasing a box set of his work including his 1995 HBO special, he should release this sitcoms on DVD. But I don't think that will ever happen. And deffently will not happen until the entire first season of "The Steve Harvey show" is released on DVD, which might never happen either. Maybe "Me and the Boys" will one day air on Trio (which I don't have on my cable system), which airs short lived tv shows.

03-30-2004, 06:26 PM	#8
jamesanthony Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 30, 2004 Posts: 2,180	Hi y'all. If any of you are in the NYC area the Museum of TV and Radio has the first 2 episodes of this show in their library which is open to the public. I must say that Me and the Boys was WAY better than The Steve Harvey Show. Madge Sinclair was a very classy supporting player and the kids in this show were much more realistic and less cartoonish than the ones in Steve Harvey Show. Also, the very presence of someone like Cedric means that a show is going to lack a certain level of sophistication. ABC threw away a perfectly good show that was actually as far as I know the last black series to rank in the national top 20. By the way, the actress who played Regina in Steve Harvey appeared as Steve's date in Me and the Boy's pilot and she appeared again in a couple of other episodes. He also had almost the same name in both shows and even had an old r'b group in the ABC series.

03-30-2004, 11:03 PM	#10
marvin g Member Senior Member Join Date: Jul 30, 2003 Location: Chicago,IL Posts: 1,217	What made the Steve Harvey show so cartoonish is the fact that it's set in a school where the students nevr graduate season after season! IMO schools really don't make good sitcom setting. A Different World is the only exception. And it was done right!

03-30-2004, 11:41 PM	#11
jamesanthony Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 30, 2004 Posts: 2,180	Hey Marvin: You have a point about schools not being a great setting for sitcoms. If the show catches on the student characters become idiots so that they will be in the school as students for 7 years. A Different World worked because they were in a university not a high school. Steve Harvey was better in year one before Lovita and when Traci Vilar and the other girl were in it. Romeo was more restrained in year one and Lydia Liza Guttman, a HORRIBLE character, was nowhere in sight. Quite frankly another thing that contributes to this show not being as good as ME AND THE BOYS is that it was on the WB, a network that caters to young viewers so they go for easier less sophisticated humor and broader jokes. I was really struck by how good ME AND THE BOYS was in comparison. Ms Madge Sinclair was a real treat to watch in the episodes I saw. She seemed to be having a wonderful time being in a comedy for a change rather than some searing melodrama and the kid actors were credible. In one scene in the pilot Steve says a funny line of dialogue, the audience breaks up and the oldest kid actor breaks character and has to keep himself from busting out laughing. Yet Harvey stays with a straight face. I have a friend who met Harvey in real life and he said he is funnier than he is on TV. He must really be in deep financial debt though to be hosting that awful amateur talent show thing on the WB.

03-30-2004, 11:51 PM	#12
jamesanthony Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 30, 2004 Posts: 2,180	There was an old show called room 222 that was more like a melodrama with light comedic touches. There's a board for it on here. Anyway, what detracted from it was that for 5 years you saw the same students in the show and after a while they looked like college students or young adults. It detracted from what was supposed to be a serious portrayal of a high school. In some shows there seems to be a kind of time warp where the characters stay the same age for more than one year. Come to think of it that must be what happened on this show because Lydia is not supposed to be academically challenged and yet she was on it for a good while along with Romeo and Bullethead. I didn't watch it that closely, but how many years passed within the storyline of this show? I know there is an episode where Steve turns 40, but Steve Harvey is about 50 by now.

03-31-2004, 11:43 AM	#13
isiahthomas Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Aug 20, 2002 Location: Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 10,701	LOL@Steve Harvey must be in financial debt to host that garbage Big Time show hahahahahahahahahaha. I don't see how that show got on the air. Me & The Boys ain't hardly better than Steve Harvey Show.

03-31-2004, 11:58 AM	#14
jamesanthony Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 30, 2004 Posts: 2,180	Steve Harvey must really owe someone much money because there is no excuse for him being associated with anything as bizarre as that talent show. He seems to really need to keep working because he's in so many different projects and movies and things. I find him a bit overexposed. He should just refinance his debts or let his kids get summer jobs to pay for their own college educations.

03-31-2004, 04:01 PM	#15
isiahthomas Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Aug 20, 2002 Location: Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 10,701	Steve Harvey has kids? I haven't seen his kids. He has his own radio show in LA & he's doing movies so i don't know why he's doing that Big Time show. Plus i know he's gettin paid from his old reruns cause they show his show all the time on WB at 6:30 & 7:30 pm. Actors get paid everytime a show that they've been on is showing reruns on tv. Steve should take a break & stop trying to do so much stuff. I don't know why he wasted his time with that wack Nick Cannon & Christina Millan movie Love Don't Cost A Thing & he was in B2K's U Got Served movie. I would never play in wack films like that.