"The Drew Carey Show" (1995) TV series 1995-2004

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Creators:

Drew Carey
Bruce Helford

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | unknown

Release Date:

13 September 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Tagline:

It's like real life. Just a whole lot funnier.

Plot:

Drew is an assistant director of personnel in a Cleveland department store and he has been stuck there for ten years...

Plot Keywords:

Beer | Good Versus Evil | Pig | Office | Glasses

Awards:

Nominated for 7 Primetime Emmys. Another 11 wins & 8 nominations

Cast

Drew Carey	...	Drew Carey / ... (204 episodes, 1995-2004)
Diedrich Bader	...	Oswald Lee Harvey / ... (202 episodes, 1995-2004)
Kathy Kinney	...	Mimi Bobeck Carey / ... (199 episodes, 1995-2004)
Ryan Stiles	...	Lewis Kiniski / ... (199 episodes, 1995-2004)
Craig Ferguson	...	Nigel Wick / ... (170 episodes, 1996-2004)
Christa Miller	...	Kate O'Brien / ... (168 episodes, 1995-2002)

Runtime:

30 min (233 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Company:

Mohawk Productions

Trivia:

Diedrich Bader's character, Oswald Lee Harvey, is (obviously) a mixed up version of Lee Harvey Oswald (the alleged killer of JFK).

Quotes:

Kate O'Brien: You're not still attached to Lisa, are you?
Drew Carey: No, I'm not attached to my Lisa at all.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Time Chasers (#9.21)" (1997)

Soundtrack:

Five O'Clock World

From best to worst

This show used to one of the best satires of office life, ironically being aired the same year The Kids In The Hall ended. But at some point I watched it and said to myself "what happened?". It was innovative as a comedy, especially the shows where they purposely had something wrong. It was by far the best sitcom I've ever seen, which is saying a lot because I'm not much of a fan of American comedy. But mixing it with Whose Line Is It Anyway ruined it for both shows a bit. Then it became all the things it was set out to make fun of in the first place. Drew accidentily became a bygamist which led to Kate leaving- which is irritatingly stupid of the writers because in the same episode she would not quite belly-aching because she knew Drew would do something foolish. What, she wasn't expecting that?? The worst was the total change in the company. Now that it is the new millenium, it is no longer a satire for office jobs in the nineties, but office jobs in the new millenium. So it changed to having teen owners and Drew having no idea what his job really is. This was where it became the worst sitcom, because it didn't have any good ideas anymore. It used plots which were used by most other sitcomes that didn't even last two seasons: Steve cheated on Mimi, the new owners were fresh out of college, Drew went looking for marriage... on and on. It lost its edge and it stopped being funny. Drew Carey is one of my favorite American comedians, but he really needs to take a break and get that edge back or else his career will be on a decline.