Redundant?

[Dennis]

Am I the only one that thinks the show is EXTREMELY redundant. I mean you'd have to be mildly ******** to not notice some repetetiveness, but I mean does anyone think its redundant to the EXTREME?

EXAMPLE:

look at three descriptions of three separate episodes.

Missing Links
Doug and Carrie get free tickets to her firm's annual golf outing at a private club. They have four tickets and usually bring Deacon and Kelly, but with their recent separation, things have changed. Not wanting to lose out on the opportunity, Deacon meets an available gal, Leslie, who he brings along to complete the foursome. Doug and Deacon are having a great time, but unfortunately, Carrie is not feeling the connection with Leslie and makes an attempt to set Deacon up with another co-worker while at the golf course that she thinks she'd have a better time with. In the meantime, Deacon asks Holly to watch his kids over the weekend while he's gone but doesn't realize that Holly may be pining away for him.

Connect Four
Carrie wins four company seats to New York Knicks games for a month, and she refuses to take Danny, Spence, or Deacon. She wants to take another couple, so she'll have a woman to talk to during the games. She decides on Elly, a girl from her spinning class and her husband, who turns out to be an old man. Doug refuses to go with them anymore, and they decide to take Doug's co-worker Eddie and his girlfriend. This time Doug has fun, but Carrie is bored with Eddie's problematic girlfriend. They can't agree on which couple to ask, and because of other engagements, they get Eddie and Elly to go. After seeing them together, Doug and Carrie start to wish they were a real couple. At spinning class, Carrie finds out Elly and her husband are having trouble, and ends up breaking up the marriage. She tells Doug, who is horrified, although he breaks up Eddie's relationship too. They set them up, although the fight this causes between Doug and Carrie leads to them entertaining a similar idea of breaking them up. Meanwhile Arthur, who overheard Deacon talking about a parking ticket he got, offers to have his friend Smitty take care of it. When he goes to the parking bureau, he finds out Smitty hasn't worked there in five years. The new guy refuses to take care of the ticket for Arthur, so he ends up having to pay it. Deacon tells everyone that Arthur can fix tickets, and Danny and Spence want in on it too. Arthur can't resist the attention he's getting, so he agrees. As a result, they accumulate a number of parking tickets thinking that Arthur will get rid of them. After tabulating the tickets, Arthur realizes he can't pay them. He tries to sell his blood, but after realizing blood banks no longer pay for blood, he throws the tickets out. He tries to break the news that he can't get rid of the tickets, but he can't bring himself to do it, and their cars eventually come under harsher punishments of getting booted or towed.

Awed Couple
When a fight causes a rift in the Palmer/Heffernan relationship, Doug and Carrie attempt to get back at the Palmers by getting a new couple as friends. When their search yields noting, they resort to two friends they really don't enjoy. But while dining with them, they meet another couple who are in a book club with their increasingly annoying friends. Now Doug and Carrie love them ... at least until they finish the search to find the new couples phone number.

Your eyes do not deceive you. They all have the same plot.