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Reba--Please, not while I'm sick (Spoilers if you care)
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Posted by: doom1701

So I come into the bedroom last night to help my wife fold the laundery, and she's watching Live TV. Well, the Bedroom TiVo isn't upgraded, so I let that one slip. Then I found out what she was watching. Reba.

I made it through most of two episodes. I didn't really realize the "family" situation until the second ep (graduation--probably the season finale from last season). The setup for this show utterly disgusts me. But, before that...

Does she break into song in every episode? I nearly hurled--I finally had to ask my wife to find anything else when the lights dimmed in the hospital room and Reba started singing to her granddaughter.

Oh, yeah, the show also isn't in the slightest bit funny.

But, like I said, the family situation on the show infuriates me. Granted, my wife's parents just when through an ugly divorce, partly caused by (we found out later) him having someone on the side, so it's a situation that kinda hits close to home. But to show the "Father" happily leaving his kids to go be with his Bible-thumping (Grrr, but I don't want to do a religion debate) whore, and yet he's still allowed back into the house whenever he wants. Heck, bring the ******* child over with you--let's share the fun! After all, he did nothing wrong. They just decided it was "best" to separate. I guess they tried to make it work where he slept with different women every other night--maybe the logistics were too tough to work out.

And I'm not even going to get started on the high school kids, pregnant, probably not married, living with mom. In the first ep I saw, I figured they were in college, but high school? Hopefully they had a couple episodes where they bashed into both their heads the importance or responsible sex. But I doubt it.

Posted by: jasoncarr

Could've be worse: she mighta been watching "Mama's House".

Posted by: Dusty

Makes me glad I never watched it. I was going to when it started, but think it conflicted, so I never gave it a try.

Posted by: BeanMeScot

Actually the show is very funny. Right up there with Scrubs. Believe me, they take every opportunity for Reba and her best friend (played by Park Overall) to stick it to the ex-husband and his new wife for what they did. That's where most of the laughs come from because the ex and new wife are so clueless.

Reba never sings. That is the first show where she has and I think they overdid it. It should have been a live rather than lip sync version. Either accapella or with music lightly in the background.

The show is about a famliy is doing what most broken families do, trying to make the best out of a bad situation. Two in this case. Teenagers that got pregnant and a cheating husband. At least in this show, unlike what often happens in real life, the cheating ex doesn't ignore his other kids. Part of the situation of the show is how much he is over there picking up and advising his kids. And yes, the teenage kids are married and they are going to college next season.

Posted by: chloejackson

True, the kids are married in the show. However, in the first season, they were totally enabled by both set of parents to continue to have a fun high school life, free of any financial or family responsibilities. In an interview this week, Reba said that, the producers, actors, and writers realized how damaging this romantic unrealistic view of teenage pregnancy is. Next season, the writers are going to write more "realitisc edge" into the "kids'" marriage and parenthood so as not to give teenage viewers an unrealistic take on teenage pregnancy.

Posted by: Corey140

quote:
Originally posted by jasoncarr
Could've be worse: she mighta been watching "Mama's House".

That show is actually funny.....

Posted by: xyz

What the heck is Mama's House?

Posted by: Pan Chun

Mama's Family was a sitcom spin-off from The Carol Burnett Show with Vicki Lawrence, Ken Barry, Dorothy Lyman, and Rue McClanahan. Here's an info page.

http://www.labs.net/mfreier45/mf2.jpg

Posted by: xyz

Oh Ok, thanks Pan. I thought that was what they meant, but I wasn't sure.