Disturbing yet enthralling

An Exercise In Nonsense

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Still Standing is one of the better sitcoms of its time. It has many laughs, good characters (except one, which I'll get to in a minute), good stories, and good heart. It needed at least ten seasons, there are many more adventures that could have been told.The only part I don't like about this show is Judy's worthless, annoying sister Linda. She's a character that's not needed, but the writers must have felt they needed three adults in the main cast so they wrote her in. Linda is a terrible character, always whining, sad, alone, bitching about men or what not. The only good part about her is she is usually the butt of Bill's jokes. This is a show with role reversal between parents and their kids. Lauren and Brian seem to have their act together, and their parents get to learn more from them than vice versa.This is probably one of the most underrated shows out there. It's not available commercially on DVD, but I found one online that a private seller recorded off the TV. Glad to have it in my collection.

What most people here who have written bad reviews about this show forget that this is after all JUST A SHOW!! It's meant to entertain and if you start comparing it to real life, you're being too biased. There are parents out there who are more concerned about their own lives, who act a little immature and in fact there is a child in each one of us. This show does take it to the extreme at times but doing it with humor makes it hilariously funny. I never get bored watching this show!! And you won't either. Judy and Bill have excellent chemistry on screen. And they really do not in any way build a bad impression on the viewers. Enjoy it!

We watch this show on reruns every afternoon. It should still be in production, making new episodes. A feature length movie would be possible -- delving into Bill and Judy's earlier years. I think there is much to be mined about their youth -- neither had a great childhood -- their alcohol consumption in future years. All with lots of humor. I am compiling a list about the show, e.g. -- "What the hell?" -- Judy's 3 little words words before she let Bill kiss her the first time. I would love to see a reunion show on TV -- seriously! It could go into Brian saving his parents from losing their home after Bill loses his job. Lauren could become a famous singer. Whatever happened to Tina? She seemed to be most like her Dad. Brian and Bill must have a great deal in common. Bill's dad didn't understand him, called him a sissy, just like Brian's dad calls him a sissy and girlie. In retrospect -- was Judy really the bad girl in school Bill seems to think she was? Maybe, maybe not. Was she really out of his league or did she just play him as she does in every episode?

Has anyone else noticed the resemblance between Bill the Dad in this show and Homer Simpson? Same cluelessness, same total subservience to his own appetites and whims, even similar jokes. Of course Jamie Gertz isn't Marge --- in addition to being much hotter, she doesn't have Marge's selflessness and old fashioned "family values". In fact, what we seem to have here is "The Simpsons" with two Homers and no Marge, which is kind of an interesting concept. And the oldest son is the brainy nerd, not the daughter. Okay, so it breaks down like this: Two Homers, a gangly teenage boy Lisa, a younger teenage daughter Bart, and Maggie has grown up enough to talk but still be the baby of the family.None of this, of course, is meant to be slamming the show, which I find very funny, well acted and entertaining. In my local area it's just replaced "Yes Dear", certainly one of the lamest sitcoms ever devised, so there's at least one bright spot in the ever gloomier wasteland of daytime TV. I plan to enjoy "Still Standing" while I can, before court TV and housewife talk shows take over forever.