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Dream On is an American adult-themed situation comedy about single New Yorker Martin Tupper. The show used a gimmick where old black and white clips were used to punctuate the main character's feelings or thoughts. It was created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, the team who would later create the TV show Friends, and ran for six seasons on HBO between 1990 and 1996.

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  According to me this show never jumped, in fact it got better from season to season. the idea of the movies inserts was just great and so were all the characters (especially martin and the outspoken toby).
  just a great show. the sex, the movie clips, the schvartza, just phenomenal.
  This show never jumped. The cast and writers were outstanding. I miss Brian Benben, and would love to see him return to network TV. Also, the writing team of Don Woodard and Tom Maxwell -- they are brilliant. Glad to see they've found some new work on "Just Shoot Me."
  This show was a classic! Never jumped, I say. Martin Tupper was a great character. I love the episode when he becomes a scriptwriter for porno movies and simply copies the plotlines from great literary works. "Eat a Puss Rex" and "Catch Her in the Rear" were great titles.
  This show never jumped. It was great!!! I used to watch it all the time!!!
  This show was always great - especially when Dorien Wilson took over as the best friend "Eddie". He was always funny, and the whole cast was great. I really miss this show.
  Never Jumped! It survived Puberty, Special Guest Star and A Very Special.... It was great censored or uncensored.
  This show never truly JTS, but it hopped when Little Richard was born. The shows got slightly absurd at that point, and the humor was less subtle. Changing the actor that played Eddie didn't mess up anything; the new guy was funnier than the first Eddie. It could've jumped when Martin almost did it with his secretary because she was still a virgin--it was a close call, and a bad episode. If only the guy who plays Eddie and Brian Benben were doing as well as Wendie Malick! The cast was great, and the show was great, particularly early in its run.
  THEY DID IT AGAIN. Martin got back together with his ex.
  When Martin's dad came out of the closet and announced he was gay, it had jumped the shark.
  never jumped...this was one of the best sitcoms of all time and probably the best show HBO ever had (except maybe s&tc)....i would love to see it on tv again, even if it had to be edited. i miss it
  I thought this show never really jumped, even though the last season when Martin moved into judith's and had to deal with the killer, revenge seeking Stone Home Security system was a definite signal that the show was going to limp to the finish line... however, that episode aside, they finished out quite nicely.
  This show brought me back to watching HBO and sitcoms in general. Martin Tupper sexual misadventures allowed Dream On to beat the Shark indefinitely. Judith, Jeremy, Toby, Eddie, and Martin's mother and gay dad- ALL contributed immensely to making this series enduringly memorable as it has come to be.
  when Eddie Charles got replaced...they kept switching between new actors. like we wouldn't notice it was a different guy.
  Dream On episode titled "Long Distance Runaround". Guest Star: Ted McGinley. Need I say more?
  When they replaced Eddie with that guy who looked like his face was made of plastic.
  Suddenly Martin Tuppers best friend was a different actor.
  This show is one of the greatest made by HBO. It was not only great because of the acting and writing, but the black and white flashbacks of Martin were always soooo well placed! I mean how long did it take the directors or writers of teh show to find the perfect clip. really!!! I was impressed. But if I could pick a time when things went bad, I wouldn't pick Ted McGinley or when Lenny from Laverne and Shirley was martin's Boss, I would say the show jumped once the HOTTEST of Martin's girlfriends (NINA...MMMMM) Left the show. She was in a few episode and in each one her sexuality just overwhelmed the TV screen. Form the first minute I saw her, It was like the show had ascended to the Sexual peaks it aspired to before. I mean there was on episode where they're doing it on a Vietnamese swing chair. I mean talk about erotic and kinky. AND Not only was Nina gorgeous and seductive, she was smart and played a convincing role as a pro-peace, college educated and sexually liberated woman. For me she symbolizes what I would love to have as the best girlfriend!
  I thought it was one of the more intelligent and original shows on HBO and it really brought me back to HBO. What a true view of our society. I can remember times in my life when I wasn't sure if something happened to me or if I saw it on TV. I could really identify with Martin.
  Comedy Central ran a slightly cut version of this HBO show many times a day during their golden age. This show never jumped even in it's final season. It was running a bit on empty by the end but never quite jumped. I saw most of the episodes many, many times and never tired of watching the misadventures of Martin Tupper. This show was also my first exposure to the great Michael McKean. Also, I may be a bit biased since I saw middle episodes first but I definitely prefer the second Eddie. The first guy is the one who is the "fake" to me. Comedy Central always tried to push the sexual aspect of the show as if it were nothing more than a sex comedy but the show branched out and became much deeper than that. That channel really needs to bring back more great classics like this show rather than trying to create their own awful new ones like Prime Time Glick and their new "sports" show, "Let's Bowl". That show is so useless, obnoxious, and horrible looking it has already jumped the shark and hasn't even aired yet.
  Never jumped but probably benefited in this regard from a relatively short run. Edited re-runs on Comedy Central probably helped increase its audience but I think that integral parts of the show (nudity, language, sexual content) were lost in the editing process.
  Let's see....In this show Brian Benben is shtupping everyone from Salma Hayek to Adrienne Barbeau.....but he pines after WENDY MALICK? WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?
  Dream On was a pretty good show. I really got into it when it was on after Larry Sanders. I remember that a few years ago another network (FOX I think) started airing some old episodes but edited all the good stuff out. The reasons Dream On lasted as long as it did was --- 1.Nudity & 2.Cursing. It would have tanked on any other network besides HBO. HBO should replay some episodes. It was a hell of alot funnier than "Mind Of The Married Man".
  This was a great show. One that should have stayed around for a lot longer. There was great writing, a clever premise and some great cameos from actors like Selma Hayak to Matthew Perry. I really was upset when it went off the air and would love to see it again in re-runs. It's best seen , unedited, with all the cursing, nudity and and edgy stuff you can only do on Cable. To me, the show jumped when Dr. Richard Stone died. He was the best unseen character in TV since Charlie, of Charlie's Angels. He was a person for Martin's character to have such great TV jealousy and angst with. That he was this bigger than life perfect guy that was married to his true love keep the sexual tension at a pace that kept the show alive and fresh. I loved it when He appeared in the Bethlehem, Pa. farmhouse to deliver his son during birth and it was great that Martin's birthday ended up being the International Day of Sorrow to commemorate Dr. Stone. When he was gone as a character, the show went down. Too bad it has to go like that. I hope HBO considers bringing it back with , perhaps a new guy or a different format.
  This show never jumped! It is one of my favorite all-time shows. My favorite episode was when Martin & Eddie smoked the joint Martin found in his kid's room. Watching them order food from the restaurant over the phone still makes me laugh when I think about it. ( I still have this episode saved on tape.) I really wish HBO would put this back on one of their channels- like they did with The Larry Sanders Show.
  I think it was that one with David Bowie as the director for the biopic about Martin's ex's husband. To paraphrase Homer (Simpson), I never thought I'd say this about anything to do with David Bowie but that was kind of dumb. A show that was an expert at subtlety had to make unfunny "point-with-a-sledgehammer" humour to make fun of filmmaking. It wasn't that bad a show though, although I was about 10 when I first saw it, and that's when I thought it was REALLY funny.
  This was a great series. But all I can remember is that HBO did a countdown to the finale, which is a sign that the last season was forgettable. But what really prompted my post is my disbelief that of all the rave reviews posted here, Uncle Bouncy is not mentioned a single time. That may be one of the funniest hours of TV ever - Tom Poston asking Martin if he wants to make a quick $20, James Woods cross examination of Elizabeth Shue about her father's, um, sexual preferences. I'm laughing now. Is this series available on DVD yet?
  This show never jumped in my opinion; it just got better and better. The writers could so easily have been lazy and relied on the movie inserts to carry it along, but they didn't. Instead those same inserts just enhanced the already wonderful script. That, coupled with the judicious use of nudity and swearing made this a complete winner for me.
  The day I interviewed for a job there and the incredibly self-satisfied, incredibly obnoxious Executive Producer (who seemed to relish making me, the job candidate, squirm) started talking......and talking.........and talking. I was a marginal fan of the show who really just wanted the $ and TV credit but after leaving the interview, knew that if I got the job he'd make my life hell (I didn't get it thankfully). Sour grapes.....you betch'ya. But honestly....always thought it was overrated and overly smug.
  This show never jumped. It was my favorite TV show of all time. Not only were the use of old TV clips brilliant, but Crane and Kauffman started with a wonderful premise - Martin Tupper, newly divorced, goes back into the singles world. It came full circle when he and Judith got back together at the end - although I liked Nina best as well. Most touching episode - Gibby callously shelves plans for an autobiography of an author with AIDS, whom Martin has worked with and grown close to. Martin takes it to another editor and gets it published and has a touching farewell with the author's mother after his death. Amazingly, it was a tear-jerker, as good as or better than in their subsequent series "Friends" "The One Where Mr. Heckles Dies." Notably, Courtney Cox appeared in one episode in lingerie ( pre-anorexia )and was set to do a three-some with Martin and his best friend, Eddie Charles. I lived at an apartment complex while this show was on and we would have Dream On nights on Wednesdays when the new episodes would come out, and 6 to 8 people would show up just to watch this show. Brian Benben was, unfortunately, another casualty of a wretched George Lucas production, "RadioLand Murders," or some such drivel. Also directed by John Landis, who did "Animal House," and "The Blues Brothers." It would be difficult to name another recent series with this much talent under one roof.
  At least that's what I can remember I was young and probably shouldn't have been watching it but, even as a 10 or 111 year old i thought it was funny and i couldn't wait for the sex scenes Martin Tupper was always banging it made me think i should be an editor with all that sex going on, and the flashbacks to the old black & white TV were the show!!
  Never...the show was insanely funny. I will always remember the episode when Martin writes a play and Eddie pays to produce it, then takes over as director and changes the whole plot, leading to Eddies' line: "If there's some tension between our characters, it's because your grandfather called my grandfather a darkie. By the way, you're (Martin's character) a latent homosexual."
  Let's put it this way, if Dream On aired ten years after it did it would be considered up there with Sex in the City. It was just ten years too soon. Also I used "You can't suck your thumb and your dick at the same time" at my reenlistment speech, thanks Gibby.
  I loved this show, but due to the weird time it was screened in Britain and my own moving around I have only ever seen the first couple of series (I have them on DVD but the rest aren't out here). I love the old clips and Martin's neurotic behaviour, the frankness about sex, all of it. All the same, isn't it impressive the way Eddie's "cosmetic surgery" not only changes his face, but makes him suddenly a head taller than Martin?