Watching this show has made me cringe. Doug, Carrie, and Author all seem to have Cluster B personalities and treat their friends with such poor regard that I had to stop watching the show. What an awkward and disgusting program!
shareDoug can be very selfish and act like a small child when something doesn't go his way and that is usually what triggers Carrie to act out. I don't think their bad people just horribly mismatched as a couple. On the other hand Arthur is a very selfish person.
share I've been getting into this show lately. I only watched it sporadically when it was on the air. Doug and Carrie are really flawed. But they are so funny. Perfect people are boring. On the first season of Newhart when he ran the inn in Vermont, the housekeeper was such a wonderfully sweet, perfect girl. They ditched her in the next season for her cousin Stephanie, the flawed, self involved brat. Bob Newhart said that the first character was just not funny, too perfect.
Doug is such a child in so may ways. I just watched the episode when he was upset that the new guy at work didn't invite him to his barbecue. He had Deacon ask the guy if he liked Doug. It drove him crazy when they guy said that he could take him or leave him. Doug acts like an adolescent.
He said that Carrie isn't liked at work but it doesn't bother her. She set out to become popular by forcing a makeover on a drab co-worker. Carrie is so self involved and tart tongued. Doug was enjoying the time when she'd come home after having apple-tinis with a co-worker. She was mellow. Very funny episode!
The way Doug and Carrie are is what the show is about, and why it is funny. Some people won't get it or won't like it even if they do get it. Oh well, too bad, so sad.
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