"Rachel Gunn, RN" - 13 Week Theatre
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We're back! And looking at "Rachel Gunn, RN," a show developed for CBS starring K.T. Oslin, and wound up on Fox with Christine Ebersole. Oh, and Kevin Conroy and Megan Mullally.
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"It was something Fox would air."
"That was NOT a complement!" -Dick Smothers
How this channel doesn't have at least 50K subscribers is beyond me. One of the better vintage TV channels on RUclips. Thanks for the great content, Pab!
Just keep liking and sharing. The audience will find its way.
I tell everyone who might be interested in it about it!
RIP K.T. and Kevin 🙏🙏
Nice to see you coming back! The podcast "It Was A Thing On TV" also had a episode about this TV show. One odd thing about this TV show is that when it aired, it marked a rare instance where onscreen graphics from one TV network (CBS) made an appearance on another TV network (Fox) due to the TV show being originally produced for CBS.
i wish I could get into that podcast, but one guy's voice just rattles my nerves. He's too loud.
Wow! Thank you. This was truly a short lived forgotten sitcom. As a staffer on MWC, we attended Rachel Gunn RN tapings @ Sunset Gower Studios. ☆
It’s so weird to hear the definitive voice of Batman talk like a store brand Jerry Seinfeld.
I don't know if Kevin Conroy was directed to act like that for comedic effect that or that was merely his interpretation of what a pompous, ass-hat should talk and behave like.
One thing I love about this channel is I love finding out about failed projects from actors that I enjoy. Never in a million years would I ever have known that Christine Ebersole or as I know her The Voice of White Diamond from Steven Universe starred in a crappy sitcom with Kevin Conroy AKA Batman. You learn something new everyday
Kevin Conroy was also in another short-lived workplace sitcom in the '90s called "The Office". Of course, we all know about the two other shows called "The Office" (the British one with Ricky Gervais and the subsequent, NBC one with Steve Carell). The "Office" that Kevin Conroy was a part of aired on CBS from March to April of 1995. It also starred Valerie Harper and a pre-That '70s Show Debra Jo Rupp.
The Office looking at the scheduling didn't have strong competition either.
The main competition was America's Most Wanted, the Cicely Tyson drama Sweet Justice and the ABC Saturday Night movie.
I gather The Office couldn't hold the lead in from the popular Dr Quinn Medicine Woman, which lead into it.
@@TMC1982Part2 Prior to The Office (1995), Kevin Conroy was also seen in the pilot for a science fiction tv series called Island City (1994) which sadly never came about. I recall watching Island City and really enjoyed it for what it was since I am a big science fiction fan and I was curious to see Kevin Conroy act in live action since I only knew him as the voice of Batman on Batman: The Animated Series.
Sometimes, when I watch your videos, I'll think, "That show deserved better." (That Omen show looked amazing, for instance.) But I can't say that this time. I think the show was just fundamentally misguided in its approach to nurses, doctors, and hospitals. Take the theme song: "Working for a Living." See, that's a song for people who work in offices, factories, stores, etc. It's about people just trudging through their days for a paycheck. But when people work at a hospital -- in the medical profession -- you hope that they're doing it because they WANT to be there and feel they NEED to be there. If Rachel Gunn is so irritated and uncaring, she should be doing something else. All these people should be doing something else. Even the nun. Terrible, terrible idea for a show.
Random memory when you said 'lowbrow and punching down.' I feel like the official death of this descriptor for a network sitcom was The Help, the short-lived 2004 WB series with Antonio Sabato Jr. Haven't thought of that show in years.
Great to have you back! Glad you have a sponsor as well. I have zero memory of this show, but I guess it's just as well.
Great episode! I liked Rachel Gunn, R.N. It was one of the many series that tried to follow (literally & figuratively) Married...with Children & failed miserably. It does make me wish Kevin Conroy had done more sitcoms, he's really good w/ awful material. Thankfully, Conroy went on to find much better success as the iconic voice of Batman, a role that he stayed on for 30 years right up until his death last year at age 67. Truly the BEST Batman in my humble opinion. May he rest in peace. Thanks for sharing & I hope you have a safe & wonderful weekend! 👍🏻 I have a super interesting suggestion for you. Would you please consider covering Cavemen, the infamous 2007 ABC sitcom adaptation of the Geico commercials w/ a pre-Big Mouth Nick Kroll, in a future episode?
RIP Kevin Conroy.
More recently, Christine Ebersole did get a role on another series, but a supporting one. Since 2019, she's appeared as Dottie Wheeler, the mother of Billy Gardell's character, on the CBS sitcom "Bob Hearts Abishola".
Christine Ebersole is on Bob Heart Abishola.
Pab at the 6:50 mark argued that a big reason why "Rachel Gunn, RN" didn't work is because the characters, especially the ones as portrayed by Christine Ebersole and Kevin Conroy were too unlikable. I've been reading on r/television recently and I now want to believe that a show where the lead character is a jerk or if you want to put it, an unrepentant a-hole can work.
But it needs to work within certain special conditions or rules. The first one is that if the character happens to be a jerk, that they'll eventually get their comeuppance. The second one is the character in question is surrounded by people who will regularly call them out on their behavior and will bring them down a peg. The third is that if the lead character is admittedly an out and out jerk, then the people for whom they're antagonizing are actually bigger jerks than they could possibly be on even their best day. The fourth is that the jerk protagonist will actually occasionally show that they have some good qualities under their gruff exteriors to keep them from being too irredeemably unlikable.
You have an excellent channel. i can think of so many shows id love to see you do.
This looks like a program that would have likely been sold in first-run syndication (like "Small Wonder" or "She's The Sheriff") had Fox declined it.
BTW, any chance we could get an episode covering the Andy Griffith vehicle "Headmaster"? Funny how that show, like a phoenix from the ashes, was reborn as "The New Andy Griffith Show"...
Headmaster would be great, but there's not a single episode of it available on RUclips, just the theme sung by Linda Ronstadt. It seemed like an interesting show, but Griffith disliked it and The Partridge Family and The Name of The Game beat it in the ratings. It got canceled on New Year's Day 1971 to be replaced ONE WEEK LATER (Hmmm, leading two failed shows in the same season. Eat your heart out, Nancy Walker!) by The "New" Andy Griffith Show...which was pretty much a veiled copycat of the OLD Andy Griffith Show! It got canceled for similarly low ratings and as part of CBS' Rural Purge of the early '70s in which, to quote Pat Buttram from Green Acres: "CBS canceled everything with a tree in it - including Lassie." There is one episode of that show available if Pab ever wants to review it.
I look forward to your content Pab. Great work as always!
Some more of thoese 90's sitcoms need to be covered on 13 week theatre:
The Man in the Family - it was a short-lived sitcom that aired in 1991 on ABC as a midseason summer replacement show from June 13 to July 31, 1991 from the producers of Baby Talk and produced by The Ed Weinberger Co. and Columbia Pictures Television. The black sheep of the family takes over the family-owned grocery store in Brooklyn following his father's death. No episodes hasn't been posted on RUclips yet.
Home Fires - it was a short-lived NBC sitcom that aired in 1992 as a midseason summer replacement show from June 24 to July 18, 1992. It was produced by The Paltrow Group and Columbia Pictures Television. The lack of a traditional generation gap plays havoc with a family living among conformists. No episodes hasn't been posted on RUclips yet.
I would love to see an episode about another show about nurses called Nightingales. It was about nighttime soap from the early 90's about nursing students. I remember hearing that the ratings were not that bad, but that there was a lot of politics behind the scenes that lead to it's cancellation. There were several nursing organizations that were protesting the show. I remember it being pretty trashy. I think it would make a fascinating look at how it's not always ratings that cause a show to fail.
I remember this show, and you are correct. It was produced by Aaron Spelling (No shock there!) and the American Nurses Association started a letter writing campaign that caused sponsors to drop the show. I just recall the show spent lots and lots AND LOTS of time showing the nursing students undressing. Too controversial at the time, NBC yanked it after 13 weeks. Square Pegs from 1982-83 was another show not canceled by ratings but by shady stuff going on during filming.
BTW, thanks for requesting something different. It gets tiring seeing the same requests for Homeboys in Outer Space all the time, nice to see some new ideas.
@@Quartzquiz333how long did square pegs last? I hope it can be a future 13wt episode.
@Kari Harper Square Pegs was on for 20 episodes, but it can be a future episode since it was only on a season or less (Gidget has been talked about and that lasted 32 episodes.) Pab did tell me that Square Pegs was definitely on the list, so look out for it sometime in the future.
@@Quartzquiz333 thank you!
@@Quartzquiz333 I remember watching Square Pegs at the time and really enjoying it. It was just my age group at the time. I had just assumed at the time that the show was cancelled because it was too weird and niche, and had low ratings. I only found out recently that is all the stuff going on behind the scenes.
And I loved Suzanne Pleshette in everything she did, and I remember her going on the Tonight Show and begging them not to cancel the show. That was so sad and I really miss her!
Weird coincidence. I was just watching SNL season 7, the only one with Christine Ebersole. Rumor is she complained too much about how shitty the women were being treated and they fired her.
Im glad you're back
He's back 😃
I couldn't help but think that Kevin Conroy sounded like Jerry Seinfeld on this show.
Kevin Conroy sounds exactly like Jerry Seinfeld in this show. It’s uncanny.
“ I am vengeance,I am the night , I am…a doctor on a low rated sitcom!”
This show was so bad I even had to fast forward through the short snippets of it included in this critique.
I remember watching the show (well, a few episodes of it anyway) and I thought it had potential but I agree the characters were largely unlikeable and Nurse Gunn was too mean. They really had something with the potential but potential just isn't enough.
Funny that they left the cbs stereosound logo in.
I’m just going to assume that Kevin Conroy was working on this show and Batman the animated series at the same time. Gosh, he is a legend in the Batman universe.
@kevins8071. I would imagine so, since Batman: The Animated Series aired its first episode the very next day after Rachel Gunn was canceled. Prior to getting the part of Batman, he was a familiar face to television audiences thanks to his work thanks to his work on the Soap Operas, Another World, Search For Tomorrow, and Dynasty. Additionally, he was part of the cast of the detective series Ohara (1987-1988) starring Pat Morita on ABC and then the Vietnam War series Tour Of Duty (1987-1990) for CBS. Sadly, both of his characters on Ohara and Tour Of Duty got written out quickly. He also appeared in guest spots on tv shows across the various networks, prior to being selected as the voice of Batman.
@@user-si9fx4xb6v It appears that Kevin Conroy was something of a journeyman actor prior to his career defining role as Batman. Other than that, it seems like he never really landed that role (at least live-action wise) that could take his career to the next level. I hate to say this, but I do sometimes wonder how much did the fact that he was at the time, closeted, limited his chances as a leading man.
@@TMC1982Part2 : Yeah, looking back at his career pre-Batman it does seem like he had some difficulty pinning down a recurring live action acting job. That said, he almost got the role of Joe Hackett on Wings (1990-1997). It came down to him and Tim Daly, and Daly got the part.
@@user-si9fx4xb6v I can't help but get a kick out of the fact that the voice of Superman (Tim Daly) once competed with the voice of Batman (Kevin Conroy) for the same live-action acting role.
OMG I remember this
This show makes 2 Broke Girls seem really sophisticated.
Dr. Batman
Creator Katherine Green called her company Foul Tempered Woman Productions... I can see why.
I don't know how I didn't see this, given the era and timeslot, but I don't remember ever seeing this.
Another problem with Rachel Gunn is that timeslot of 8.30pm put it against Angela Lansbury's Murder She Wrote, a show which was still popular, as well as America's Funniest People.
True. But this was still relatively early days for Fox. The NFL deal was a year away and the affiliate swaps that gave it an increased presence another year or two after that depending on markets.
Rachel Gunn was a summer replacement for “Roc” which was still a dominant show for Fox. It was against that show that its numbers were judged, not ABC and CBS. The problem was that its audience started out respectable but started abandoning it almost immediately.
@@PabSungenis Also to add, the show was created and executive produced by Katherine Green, who had been a producer on Married With Children. (It was her production company A Foul Tempered Woman who co - produced the show with Columbia)
So guess Fox were thinking that with a Married With Children alumni producing, Rachel Gunn would just be as successful for Fox as that show (which put high expectations on Rachel Gunn before it started, similar to Sibs a year earlier and Eldorado in the UK, which launched around the time Rachel Gunn aired) . Heck, even Columbia Pictures Television were behind both shows.
I knew that voice.The minutes I heard it
ive seen a bunch of conroy's live action stuff and he never delivered lines like this...who told him to do this
and i dont believe kevin was out at this time
If you take requests, I would like you to set your sights on Wonderfalls (2004) starring Caroline Dhavernas, which Fox dropped after getting complaints from the religious far right over the depiction of talking wax statues. 🦁 I really liked the show for its inventiveness and sly humor, but unfortunately it couldn't escape the axe from Fox.
Didn't help Fox messed with the timeslots for Wonderfalls by moving it from Friday to Thursday without promoting the move (so no one knew it moved), and put it at one point against CSI, then the top rated show at the time.
@@andrewbarton2590 The moment they cancelled it, they scrubbed it from their website completely. I really think it was because the religious right complained about the 'demonic' talking animal figures.
This show makes “Blansky’s Beauties” look like Shakespeare…..
Blansky at least had THE BEAUTIES.
Rachel Gunn only had THE UGLIES.
I do wonder if, they wanted to go with a country star, how Reba McEntire would've fared in the role? She does as I guess, evident from her later WB sitcom, have a folksy charm about her as an actress. Christine Ebersole with all due respect, gives me "Karen" vibes in the lead role.
Some more early '90s era medical sitcoms that could be covered on 13 Week Theatre:
*Laurie Hill - It was a short-lived ABC sitcom from the creators of The Wonder Years that came and went in the fall of 1992. Ironically, despite its short run (five episodes with five more left unaired) and ABC's apparent apathy over it, Laurie Hill actually made it into the Top 40 of the Nielsen ratings. It was DeLane Matthews' fourth shot at sitcom stardom, following Joe Bash, Eisenhower and Lutz, and FM, before finally landing a hit with Dave's World the following year. It also provided an early appearance from Ellen DeGeneres.
*13 East - This show aired on NBC during the 1989-90 season. This would be a very challenging video to do since there actually isn't a whole lot of readily available information about it online. There isn't as of this moment, a Wikipedia page for 13 East and like with Laurie Hill, only scant footage (but as far as I can tell, know "full" episodes) is currently available online.
Ref Laurie Hill, Neal Marlens and Carol Black would later create a vehicle for Ellen DeGeneres, called Ellen, which was more successful.
That was the show where Ellen DeGeneres outed her character on screen like she had in real life. The fallout from that was some ABC affiliates would not air the episode, sponsors pulled out and ABC aired the final season with a parental advisory.
Ref 13 East, I'm surprised it wasn't successful considering the lack of competition.
The timeslot competitors were ABC's H.E.L.P, starring Frasier's John Mahoney and later Sunset Beat starring George Clooney.
Also it was against Paradise, the Lee Horsley\Sigrid Thornton Wild West drama created by David Jacobs, which although critically acclaimed, hadn't been a strong rater for CBS.
So 13 East had at least the ability to get the ratings.
Funny, I'm not sure if 13 East was meant to last longer. That and Me and Mrs. C had several things in common: They were both NBC summer replacement sitcoms, they both aired for two consecutive summers, they both aired on Saturday nights and they were both directed and produced by Match Game semi-regular Scoey Mitchell. I always thought that NBC purposely ordered them as temporary replacements for their hit shows. Oddly enough, neither one of them has a Wikipedia page.
Speaking of which, Eisenhower and Lutz, which aired for a single season on CBS in 1988 is another show that would be good fodder for "13 Week Theatre". Besides DeLane Matthews, it starred a pre-Quantum Leap Scott Bakula and a pre-Home Improvement Patricia Richardson. Granted, I don't know how much ground Pab could cover since Allison Pregler covered it pretty efficiently in her video "The Most Misogynistic Sitcom Ever Made (Eisenhower & Lutz) (Manic Episodes)" already.
Tony winner Christine Ebersole.
I never heard of this program. Color me intrigued 🧐
It came and went so fast in the summer of '92 you'd be excused if you'd never heard of it.
@@Quartzquiz333 Interestingly Megan Mullally was in this pre Will and Grace.
It was her success on Will and Grace that had NBCUniversal, who made W&G, produce and distribute a syndicated chat show for her, obviously to get the last drops out of W&G.
Sadly, despite the exposure from her role as Karen Walker, the audience wasn't interested (they weren't interested in Carnie or Gabrielle either despite both ladies having success with Wilson Phillips and 90210) and The Megan Mullally Show lasted just 4 months, not even completing a full season.
@@Quartzquiz333 in the summer of 1992 I didn’t have a 📺
A sitcom, bummer.
Me neither
You can tell it was a terrible series because they recited their lines like they were reading right off of a script rather than really acting. I could not believe Christine Ebersole who did tremendous work on Saturday night live could do it so badly in a TV series
This kind of reminds me of the "13 Week Theatre" episode on The Tammy Grimes Show and "bad TV sitcom acting". Rachel Gunn, RN based on the clips that I've seen here, also falls into that trap.
I saw some of these episodes on RUclips after Kevin Conroy’s death. Not a great watch but Kevin was easily the best imo
I agree, he was the best thing about this trashy show. Really glad that he went on to voice Batman in Batman: The Animated Series and other animated projects.
Then she embarrassed herself at the Olympics.
Christine Ebersole also starred in McDonald's-sponsored "E.T" ripoff "Mac And Me" . Oh dear.
I think this might have been less painful without the in-your-face laugh track. As it is, what I'm seeing is pretty awful. The one thing that did give me a good laugh was the early buffalo / late buffalo line (9:30). I was initially a little troubled by the Native American, who I thought might be an offensive stereotype (didn't see enough of him to know), but I did a little checking and the actor is authentic Native American (albeit evangelical Christian) and normally wears his hair that way. Having an authentic member of a group tends to reign in the offensive stereotypes so I'll call that OK. But yeah, what I'm seeing is just nasty and obnoxious and not in a fun way.
I haven't thought about this show in thirty years and there's good reason why: it SUUUUUCKED. But it is interesting to see that Fox aired some newer stuff over the summer when it was a younger network to gain more viewers even if most of them were enormous failures. Just wow for this one, just wow it is awful.
And will always be Batman.
Good for K.T. for having the dignity and clas not to set anywhere near this sitcom.
For what it's worth, in spite of six seasons (which she wouldn't have gotten if it had been anywhere but the WB network), Reba's sitcom wasn't much better. It wasn't mean spirited like Gunn, but the supporting characters, save her middle daughter, were so stupid that it was like nails on a chalkboard watching the show.
Reba ran that long? Wow!
This show looks hysterical. ANd i am a retired nurse. and trust, many nurse were worse then these on the show. WAY worse. I have stories
Look it's Batman.
I'm starting to think that in an alternate universe, Kevin Conroy ended up playing Jefferson D'arcy on MWC in tandem with voicing Batman.
Really don't know why, he just gives off a Ted McGinley vibe here.
Make the doctor gay, give Ebersole's lines to Mullaly and you are well on your way to a much better sitcom.
Are there any other shows that failed in no small part because the lead character was too irremediably unlikable? Dabney Coleman's various attempts at headlining a sitcom (Buffalo Bill, The Slap Maxwell Story, Drexell's Class, Madman of the People), is probably the first thing to come to my mind on that regard.
It took a bit of thinking, but I finally came up with one: Allen Gregory. Probably the most nauseating cartoon I saw since The Brothers Grunt. Thankfully it only lasted 7 episodes, although Fox later ordered 6 more scripts that never saw the light of day, thank your own personal diety!
The fundamental problem, maybe 9 out of 10, with sitcoms like Rachel Gunn, RN that have such a hateful, unlikable character front and center, is that they're really only funny in small doses. Especially, if said character doesn't have strong oppression from the supporting cast. But otherwise, you have to make them sympathetic of some sort.
@@Quartzquiz333 After viewing the recent video from Hats Off Entertainment, I have to add the 1990 adaptation of Ferris Bueller's Day Off starring Charlie Schlatter.
Ebersole is sitcom poison.
Well, she's been on Bob ❤️ Abishola since it started in 2019 and that show survived.
@@Quartzquiz333 And she just got fired, I believe.
@@Quartzquiz333 Yes, she was let go.
@Travis James Not quite true. Her and the rest of the cast besides the two leads were reduced to recurring characters, meaning they'll appear in five or less shows a year. Budget cuts. Still doesn't take away the fact that she was on the show for four years.
@@Quartzquiz333 She has never been able to carry a show on her own. This series was wretched.
Such Lousy writing, no wonder Conroy took the Batman job when it came up.
Ha, "wasn't up to CBS's standards". As if CBS hasn't had plenty of crappy sitcoms.
Outside of Fox sitcoms/sketch shows like Married with Children, Martin, Living Single, Roc, In Living Color, and The Simpsons, shows like this were unfunny rubbish that couldn't get laughs if it saved their lives.
For all the funny shows you listed we also forget that at the time Fox also gave us junk like Women in Prison, Stand By Your Man, Good Grief, The Edge, Woops, Babes, The New Adventures of Beans Baxter, Down and Out in Beverly Hills and many others. There was a reason many people thought Fox was a joke until football came along.
There was also Karen's Song.
Not that no one was watching that show because the timeslot it faced was against Amen.
Stand By Your Man was the American version of Birds of A Feather.
Executive produced by Allan McKeown (executive producer on the original British version) and with Sam McMurray in a main role, alongside Melissa Gilbert and Rosie O'Donnell.
The Melissa and Rosie characters were modelled on Linda Robson and Pauline Quirke from the original. Miriam Flynn's character was based on Lesley Joseph's Dorien, while the husbands, played by Rick Hall and Sam, were based on the characters played by David Cardy\Peter Polycarpou and Alun Lewis\Douglas McFerran from the original.
Unfortunately it was never successful.
@@Quartzquiz333 I'm kind of surprised that Woops! hasn't been covered yet. Rowdy C on TV Trash, though recently did a video on it. I wouldn't mind to see a video on Down and Out in Beverly Hills since it has the dubious distinction of being the first ever show to be canceled by the Fox network. The only problem is that I don't know if there's a lot of video of it online.
@@TMC1982Part2 Woops! will be covered eventually, I know a lot of people have requested it.
The pilot episode of Down and Out in Beverly Hills is on RUclips. Just another classic example of a movie adaptation watered down for television.
Movies on Mystery Science Theater 3000 look like Citizen Kane compared to this awful sitcom, and I’ve only seen just a couple of minutes of it.
4:52 is this your side hustle now, Pab?
Nope. Just a sponsor for this episode.
This is just dreadfully unfunny
Dreadful.
I never heard of this show before, but I suppose this could be another example of the Basil Fawlty trope of having a ... shall we say, less than lovable character as the lead of a TV series. But none of the characters seemed all that interesting, especially Rachel Gunn, and I certainly can understand why KT Oslin bailed. Wish Christine Ebersol had, and maybe this damn program wouldn't have aired. Considering the characterizations, at least the Native American and black characters weren't stereotypical injun and black (sorta). But Kevin Conroy's character was, so ... progress?
And I think this was mentioned already, but Conroy didn't come out of the closet until around 2013. Shame, but even if we knew in 1992, I hope we wouldn't have cared. Because HE. WAS. BATMAN!!!!
For some reason, with the knowledge now of Kevin Conroy's true sexual orientation, hearing his character make lewd, perverted comments about the nurses' outfits and bodies makes the whole thing a lot funnier in a surreal, ironic kind of way. I suppose that it's sort of like Neil Patrick Harris' character on How I Met Your Mother after being given the knowledge that he too, is a gay man in real life.
Yikes...the collection of characters and visual style looks awful.
It looks and feels like a sketch hat tries to parody sitcoms.
The dialog is not funny. It's cringe.
This is no "punching down" in comedy. That's a new conceit that has ruined comedy. Comedy is meant to be irreverent.
Reverence implies respect for those above you, be it an aristocrat or a god. Irreverence is the epitome of punching up.
@@PabSungenis No, it means that nothing is sacred.
@@PabSungenis Sometimes comedy can be mean spirited, I'll concede that point, but punching down implied there are places you can't go in comedy, and that's very selective and thus, ridiculous.
“Sacred” implies elevation.
Don’t get me wrong. I believe that humor can be found in anything, but punching down is dangerous because it’s very easy to cross the line between humor and bullying. And before you ask where that line is, it’s wherever each observer thinks it is.
@@PabSungenis I wouldn't say that Rachel Gunn RN was an example of bullying. It was just trying to be edgy. Whether it succeeded or not, that's something else. But dark, black comedy isn't bullying. It's pushing boundaries of what's acceptable to joke about or not. National Lampoon magazine was one of the greatest satirical magazines, and it made fun of EVERYTHING. It was pitch black in tone, daring you to be offended. Nothing was sacrosanct. Now there are people who think ANIMAL HOUSE should be disappeared because it's "problematic". That's where the concept of "punching down" gets you--one of the best and most influential comedies of all time becomes a subject of hang-wringing reassessment and condemnation.
Funny how CBS's attitude has changed from the early 90s. A show like 2 Broke Girls would have never been greenlit by them back then.
The show must have turned off even the audience of the Fox Network since it failed at the plum Sunday night at 8:30PM time slot between Parker Lewis Can't Lose and Married...With Children. At least the very talented Christine Ebersole would have the last laugh on Broadway, winning two Best Leading Actress in a Musical Tony Awards. She even sang the theme to this show! Currently she's on Bob ❤ Abishola with Billy Gardell.
Overall, lots of talent in this cast, too bad the writing in this show made the characters so repulsive.
It also had a Married With Children alumni creating and producing it (Katherine Green through her Foul Tempered Woman Productions in conjunction with Columbia PicturesTelevision, the latter also responsible for MWC) , so Fox were hoping it would be just as successful as that show.
Obviously they had not seen the failure of Sibs a year earlier (coming from the team behind The Tracey Ullman Show, so expectations were high) and interestingly at the time Rachel Gunn was airing, Eldorado launched in the UK, coming from a successful creative team (expectations were high), and no prizes what happened to that.
Kevin Conroy survived the failure of this show to be the voice of Bruce Wayne/Batman, a role he did until his death.
WHAT A TERRIBLE SHOW?