CBS Lets Me Down In New Ways

Without question, Worst Week on CBS is obviously Meet the Parents: The Rip-off. Now, this show(like every show) is a remake of a vastly superior British version(not you, The Office. You're fine), but even that show started in 2004 and I know they'd seen the movie. He res the plot, A man visits his girlfriends parents house and hopes to ask their permission to marry her.

Ground breaking, I know. But there's more.

The father is a hard ass! That's incredible. They should get Robert DeNiro to play him!

But they wound up with a very worthy second choice, Kurtwood Smith, who is still just playing Red Forman. There is a bit of a twist here in that Sam Briggs'(Kyle Bornheimer) girlfriend Melanie(played by Erinn Hayes) is pregnant. This doesn't really make that big of a difference in the grand scale of things.

But here is the disappointing thing, despite the tired formula the show is remarkably tolerable. I'm not going to keep watching it, but if someone were to say it was their favorite show I wouldn't immediately discount every opinion they've ever had, like if they say they love Yes, Dear.

CBS specializes in lowest common denominator trash like Two and A Half Men so its refreshing to see something reasonable. I know that Two and A Half Men has been the number one comedy on TV since Everybody Loves Raymond went off air but I don't care. I hate that show and more importantly I hate post-1994 Charlie Sheen.

So Sadly we've had three straight posts with decent or better shows. I can only spew so much vitriol when I don't hate something with every fiber of my being. But don't worry, I'm watching Real Housewives of Atlanta next...