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[Matlock]

I was watching a rerun from 2001 (stopped watching the show in 2000 or so), and Drew married Kate and Nikki.

What's more, I heard that Kate was written out of the show about a season or so before it ended.

WTF!

 

[border]

When Drew's brother arrived and Mimi became a principal character was when I thought it got really tiresome.

I have no idea what the hell went on in the show's final years. I've caught a few of the episodes and don't really get it. At some point, he had to get married (not sure why, I think it was to inheirit something).....Kate left after he got married to her and that other girl at the same time. The series finale involved him and the girl he was with having a baby together.

 

[Tenacious-V]

I never really watched the show, just didn't peak my interest at all.

 

[Tazznum1]

When mimi married his brother. Never watched it again.

 

[heavy liquid]

I thought the show was pretty funny for the first few years. But it died out around 1998 for me. When Shirley Jones and Kathie Lee Gifford start showing up as guests, it's time to throw in the towel.

 

[Orange]

When the unfunny Wayne Brady from the improv show started making appearances.

 

[MrAngryFace]

Kate was hot! Thats really all I remember.

 

[bonesquad]

Yeah I can't believe I used to like this show. I think it went downhill when Drew hooked up with Kate. It ruined a lot of things. And then when his archnemesis Mimi moved in with him and his brother... WTF? Then Kate left the show (replaced by that girl from Titus), Drew's job changed, Mr. Wick was no longer his boss (and I still can't believe he has his own talk show now...)...

It snowballed to aweful so fast I haven't watched it at least 3 years.

 

[Spike Spiegel]

When did the Drew Carey Show cross the line between "silly" and "fucking stupid?"

When Drew got to drive the Batmobile around, and they did that MiB spoof episode?

 

[Tedesco!]

What's more, I heard that Kate was written out of the show about a season or so before it ended.!

Her real life husband produces Scrubs. She jumped to work on that show.

 

[border]

She isn't even in more than 1 out of 4 Scrubs episodes, and even then she plays a mostly peripheral role. I'm not sure why she couldn't do both shows.

Of course, with the way Drew Carrey Show was dragging on, I don't think it would have taken much to get me to leave either...

 

[LakeEarth]

When the unfunny Wayne Brady from the improv show started making appearances.

BREAK YO' SELF FOOL!

 

[D'ultimate]

A long ass time ago!

 

[Grizzlyjin]

I found it really funny how people didn't know if the show was cancelled or not. Everybody thought it got booted off the air, then some new episode would pop up five months later. :lol

I did notice how they just took the show too far. It pretty much turned into a live action cartoon by the end...

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

the best part of the Drew Carey show was watching the live episodes.

 

[Dujour]

My favorite was The Sims ep. He's dilbert.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

I found it really funny how people didn't know if the show was cancelled or not. Everybody thought it got booted off the air, then some new episode would pop up five months later. :lol

I did notice how they just took the show too far. It pretty much turned into a live action cartoon by the end...

some idiot at ABC got the bright idea to put it on AFTER monday night football. It was on like at 10:30 over here on the west coast.

anyway, i pretty much stopped watching around the same time everyone else did. When Drew's brother became a main character and married Mimi. Shit started getting all outlandish then, with Drew going into a coma, Mimi trying to kill him, Drew becoming Mimi's baby, and those lame "Whose Line?" style improv episodes.

 

[Mike Works]

I can actually explain what happened. ABC signed on the show for at least another 3 years (might have been 5) just before the show drastically plummeted in popularity and ratings. They can't contractually kill it off, so for the past 2 years at least, they've just shuffled it around and put it in completely garbage timeslots (and airing new episodes back to back just to get them out and over with) as they wait it out. This caused the production to completely slack off, making the show even worse. I'm fairly certain this is they're on the last year now.

 

[Dan]

Mike Works is correct, and ABC aired the final episode in September, so it's officially gone.

And yeah, a 5 year contract sounds familiar. I know it was something ridiculously stupid for the network to do.

 

[border]

And yeah, a 5 year contract sounds familiar. I know it was something ridiculously stupid for the network to do.

It's just a gamble either way. The long-term contract can be a good deal if a show rockets to popularity. The Friends and Seinfeld people were re-negotiating huge salaries every year, but if the network had locked them in at a low price to start with then they could have saved a lot of money. The bad news is that if you bet wrong, then you are stuck with a dog of a show for years on end.

If anybody cares how it ended:
"Kellie finally agrees to marry Drew, but their wedding plans are thrown into disarray when she goes into labor."

They couldn't even get Kate to come back for the last episode...

 

[mightynine]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Kate the first Maxim cover girl way back when?

 

[Saki]

Thread: When did the Drew Carey Show cross the line between "silly" and "fucking stupid?" Reply to Thread

Answer: The pilot

 

[Blackace]

BREAK YO' SELF FOOL!

hahahaha

"OH shit! It's Wayne Brady!!"

 

[spliced]

I seem to remember liking it a bit in the first year or 2 but it just would keep getting worse, when his cross dressing brothing came on the show I called it quits.

 

[Kon Tiki]

12 minutes into the pilot.

 

[Kintaro]

When the unfunny Wayne Brady from the improv show started making appearances.

Is Wayne Brady gonna have to choke this bitch?

 

[Hollywood]

Yeah I can't believe I used to like this show. I think it went downhill when Drew hooked up with Kate. It ruined a lot of things. And then when his archnemesis Mimi moved in with him and his brother... WTF? Then Kate left the show (replaced by that girl from Titus), Drew's job changed, Mr. Wick was no longer his boss (and I still can't believe he has his own talk show now...)...

It snowballed to aweful so fast I haven't watched it at least 3 years.

Anyone else think that chick is fucking hot? That used to be on Titus. I thought the show was funny too though. Whoever played the dad on that show was pretty funny.

 

[demi]

When did the Drew Carey Show cross the line between "silly" and "fucking stupid?"

When they danced practically nude in the courtroom Full Monty style. EWWWW?

 

[Ninja Scooter]

When they danced practically nude in the courtroom Full Monty style. EWWWW?

that episode was funny though. "You wanna see what i bring to the table?"

 

[Kabuki Waq]

Titus was a Great show.


Fucking fox cancels all the best shows.