Can anyone think of another sitcom with a similar premise?
Somewhere at the back of my head I seem to remember that I've seen something similar on some other show.
But I can't remember what it was. With my memory, it's likely it wasn't a series at all but just a TV movie...
"I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me."
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Way back in the early 1960s, there was a short-lived sitcom called "Occasional Wife".
A young exec on the way up will not be promoted unless he's married, and the pretty upstairs neighbor girl agrees to help him out. (It seems that bosses were ALWAYS getting invited to elaborate home-cooked dinners on those shows, and the wives were always flawed in some way, being witches or pretend wives or crazy redheads or something.) Confusion reigns, and hilarity (?) ensues.
I'm old enough to remember actually watching this, and yes, even at the tender age of 6 or 7, I thought it was pretty dumb. It didn't last very long, so we never got to find out if any romantic sparks (the old-school term for sexual tension) panned out.
Now I understand there is a new movie coming out called "Accidental Wife", a romantic comedy based on the premise that by hacking a computer database, you can force two people to be legally married to each other, and even if they despise each other, they will eventually fall in love. It's been over 40 years since I was that 6 or 7-year-old, but it STILL sounds dumb.
"Shake me up, Judy!"
It's kinda like Dharma and Greg. They hardly knew each other when they got married too.
shareThe show "Spaced," although it probably has more in common with the movies Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz than most sitcoms, even though it is technically a sitcom.
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