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Do you think this show will hold up well in reruns?

posted 9 years ago by madonnagaga
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I've been watching reruns of the show myself. They are funny, but there is something about it that I can't quite put my finger on that makes me feel this show will not hold up well over time like other sitcoms. It is in syndication now which is great, but it seems in most markets it comes on weekly around 1 AM in the morning. TV Land also is not rerunning it at all. It's like TV Land is totally canceling all of there multi camera comedies, forgetting about them and focusing solely on single camera comedies. The Exes has been announced that it will be canceled as well as Soul Man which was there last remaining multi camera sitcoms - both of these shows will end well below 100 episodes so I doubt they will get picked up into syndication.

I am one of the biggest Betty White fans out there, and I think the initial nostalgia of the show kind of being like "Oh wow, it's legendary Betty White at almost 90 doing another show with similarities to Golden Girls" has now definitely worn off now that the show has ended, and now that the nostalgia is over - does it have anything to keep it rerunning well? Wendie Malick was great in this show as well and I would say between her comedic talents and Betty White, this is what pretty much carried the show. Jane Leeves and Valerie Bertinelli are good actresses, but I found that I could take or leave these characters. I always perked up when either Betty or Wendie were on screen. Not to compare it to a humongous classic like The Golden Girls (which I like to call The Beatles of television), but I get excited about every single character on that show. They all had this magical chemistry and the characters were all so different and played so well, yet gelled together so well. I don't know that I can completely say that about these characters on screen though, although it was very apparent that these women all loved working together. I guess time will tell if this show holds up, but now just almost 3 months since the show has ended it seems like there has been not a peep about it at all.

[–] brandon-caplan 8 years ago

How badly are the episodes edited for syndication? Is anything cut?

[–] brandon-caplan 8 years ago

Because I know I might be more willing to watch it in syndication if it isn't hacked up :)

[–] happipuppi13 8 years ago

As far as I can tell ,from the few I've seen on local TV ,they look like they haven't been edited but...maybe you could get one of the DVD's and compare a same episode ,to one that airs the same night.

In other words, whatever airs locally that
night ,watch it on DVD right after and see what's missing.

Except for this final season, I've watched the whole series on DVD's from my local library. This & the classic series "Hazel", are the only 2 sitcoms I've ever watched that way. Kind of weird for me.

Go for it or just be a gopher!
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[–] madonnagaga 8 years ago

They are likely not edited at all for syndication because half hour shows nowadays only run 20-21 minutes max without commercials in the initial airings. The half hour shows in the 80's and 90's initially aired 23-25 minutes. Since nowadays the major networks and cable networks need more commercial time, they cut those older episodes down to 20-21 minutes.

[–] susanramsey919 8 years ago

i think so. look how long charmed been on tnt for years and that showed ended what 8 or so years ago. and same thing goes with south park on comedy central.

[–] jr130 8 years ago

Good writing always holds up.

[–] Bilwick1 8 years ago

I've watched it in its syndicated rerun form, and the local network that shows it seems to have gone through several cycles of the entire run. I watched it mainly because I have a "thing" for Wendie Malick, but I found the show mildly amusing. Not enough, however, for repeated viewings; unlike, say, a really great show such as SEINFELD, the entire run of which I've seen so often I can pretty much repeat whole bunches of dialogue; and yet I never tire of it. I can't think of a single episode of HOT IN CLEVELAND where I've seen the opening and tho0ught, "Oh, wow--THAT episode! Gotta see THAT again!"

[–] istara 7 years ago

I'm rewatching it now, and so far it holds up better than I expected.

Wendie Malik absolutely carries the show, she's just timelessly brilliant. In fairness the other two aren't supposed to be funny - Melanie is the straight one after all - but I get the sense they didn't really know what to do with Joy. Ending her up with Simon would have been way better than with Bob. In fact putting Bob and Melanie together would have been perfect (both soft and funny but kind of irritating).

Stand out best episode and best moment for me is the moment Joy's actor double walks on in Elka's play.