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One of the worst movies I've ever seen

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Where Can I Find this on DVD?? Don't you just love the Clayton family? This show has been given a worldwide 'cult following' status. Like all American comedies (good & bad) there's just this air of magic about this one. Andrew Clay and Cathy Moriarty do it justice and I believe their parts could not have been played by anyone else because for me, they're truly peanut butter and jelly. Only 16 episodes? I think it was because people thought Andrew Dice Clay stinks (which I never understood) being British and all. Many of us craved for a second season..alas it was not to be. All I can do is patiently wait for the UK's Channel 4 re-runs.

This was a pleasantly surprisingly funny sitcom that came out in 1995. The Honeymooners feel of this show worked. I thought the chemistry between Dice and Cathy Moriarty was the perfect Ralph & Alice. And Andrew Clay wasn't Dice in this show. He reminded me of plenty of the Jewish/Italian dads I knew growing up in New York City. They worked hard, seemed annoyed with life at times, but truly loved their wife and kids. And Lenny & Phyllis were Trudy & Ed Norton.Unfortunately, before this show even premiered, people were boycotting it because "Dice" was in it. So stupid people were not to give this a chance. It was funny and real. Problem was we were in the middle of a politcally correct time. People complained, CBS buckled, and the show was no more. What a shame...it was one of the few new shows in 1995 that I loved.Incidentally, one of the few people who actually gave Dice a chance was my Dad. HE HATED DICE!!! But he watched the pilot and enjoyed it greatly. He was as upset as I was when the show was cancelled prematurely.

I believe that Andrew Dice Clay has the potential to be a good actor, but this so-so sitcom was not the place to display his talents. This was a 1990's version of The Honeymooners, with Clay and Cathy Moriarty as a working class couple trying to get ahead. This wasn't a totally horrible show, but it wasn't all that good, either. Clay's talents are better than what was shown in this bland sitcom.

When I say what I saidc in that one-line-summary, I don't mean what happened to Dice in the sense that his comedy is gone and is now a full blown dramatic actor that makes Marlon Brando look like Jerry Lewis. I know he is still the cool man that smokes and makes fun of ladies. I mean, where has his name gone? For this show, he has dropped his name and is now Andrew Clay. Andrew became famous by being known as Dice, not as Andrew Clay or Andtrew Silverstein. He shouldn't change. He's been known as dice since 1984's Making the Grade. Still, the show he acts in here is good, and Clay makes sure he gets his acting down pat by doing this, and it works, but Andrew shouldn't forget where his came from. DICE! A-