Talking About Remakes: 'The Odd Couple' Has Been Redone About A Billion Times! - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Brian Damage · 08-12-2011, 09:49 AM

Remaking classic tv shows seem to be the latest craze in Hollywood, but that is nothing new to The Odd Couple. Felix Unger & Oscar Madison have been "rebooted" hundreds of times, directly and even not so directly.

Let's see, you had The "New" Odd Couple, The Oddball Couple, Laverne & Shirley, Perfect Strangers, My Two Dads, Two & A Half Men etc...

My point being, no need to bother remaking this television classic, because it has already been done over & over & over again.

old grouch · 08-12-2011, 10:01 AM

There was also a female version of the play.

JR1 · 08-14-2011, 03:21 PM

True, but some of those did not feature extreme neat vs. sloppy characters.

gilligan fanatic · 08-18-2011, 07:38 AM

FWIW the New Odd Couple was pretty good even though they reused scripts from the original version of the show. I wasn't that impressed with the Odd Ball Couple from the one episode I saw, very weird.

08-12-2011, 09:49 AM	#1
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08-12-2011, 10:01 AM	#2
old grouch Member Senior Member Join Date: May 13, 2010 Location: montana Posts: 1,877	There was also a female version of the play.

08-14-2011, 03:21 PM	#3
JR1 Member Forum Regular Join Date: Mar 07, 2009 Location: USA Posts: 742	True, but some of those did not feature extreme neat vs. sloppy characters.