
There is this sitcom that airs after my daily Frasier repeats (my new obsession - I never got involved during its 35 year run so imagine my glee when I realized I'm in love and have 300,000 episodes to watch in outdated bliss!) called Still Standing. This show is the WOR-st. It has that now-accepted setup of Fat Husband and Hot Wife, which I find ridiculous and offensive and also sort of personally frightening. He's always bumbling around, yelling at the game and doublefisting beers while she gives him stale sass, and covers up his domestic blunders. Not exactly the shoot-for-the-stars message I'm looking for whilst eating a Butterfinger and job hunting in my underwear.
Who watches, much less enjoys, this nonsense? There was actually an episode on today (I caught the beginning - just the beginning!) about the Fat Husband not wanting the Cool Teenager to go to therapy because that was "admitting your problems to a stranger." I think this was supposed to be touching in a blue collar sort of way, but again - following Frasier? Who is in charge of programming at this station?
In a related note, but noted with a much kinder keyboard, there's a current contestant on American Idol who is...husky and teetering on cartoonish, but has (to his surprise as much as ours) snagged a hot blond wife. For some reason, this warms my black heart instead of making me crumble my Butterfinger in rage. Go figure.