How many episodes do you think this TBS series about a Charlestown barbershop will last before it's canceled? But at least it answers the question of what happened to Norm from Cheers after he realized he had a drinking problem and joined AA.
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Good lord, that looks terrible.
By MC Slim JB
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 9:40am
I shun any show with a laugh track on principle, but the writing on this is just abysmal, and this is the highlight reel designed to entice you into watching it the first time.
If it were on one of the broadcast networks, I'd give it 2-3 episodes before being cancelled: they pull the plug really fast these days. On TBS, who knows? Most of their lineup is syndicated reruns.
On the other hand
By Hugh
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 10:25am
It might last longer than The Playboy Club. I wouldn't put money on it, though.
Half the transplants in Boston
By Buzz E
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 9:57am
Sound like that!
Really?
By adamg
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 10:01am
Guy sounds like a New Yorker trying to do a Boston accent, and failing.
Exactly
By anon
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 11:08am
Half the transplants who are New Yorkers, try to do a Boston accent and fail.
Uh...ok...
By MatthewC
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 3:37pm
I've never heard that. I think maybe you're just wanting to hate on something.
agree re: laugh track, and
By Carty
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 10:11am
agree re: laugh track, and his accent is not great, but I thought the trailer was kind of funny. I'll not write it off. <- posted in case a year from now I am proven prescient.
Will and Grace?
By SB B
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 11:04am
From the creators of Will and Grace - seriously? I enjoyed that show for years - this writing is nothing like the dialogue from W & G. They didn't "overdo" the NYC accent in W & G - why feel the need to do that with the Boston accent in this show? Ugh....couldn't listen to that much longer than the length of the clip!! (Will the retired Cliff Clavin be stopping by?)
How old are those women supposed to be?
By anon
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 10:52am
Sam Adams wasn't even started until 1984 and didn't really catch on until 89 or so.
She meant to say Narragansett
By scollaysq
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 12:05pm
Or was Haffenreffers still around?
When did Marty Walsh find time to be in a sitcom?
By adamg
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 11:16am
OK, this one looks a bit better, although it's kind of disconcerting that the lead guy never seems to look at whoever he's talking to - like his older brother, played by the mayor.
Also, because I'm lazy, can anybody figure out the South Boston block shown at the beginning?
Judging from the overhead view of Southie, that would
By MC Slim JB
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 11:29am
be E 7th St between H and I. But none of the houses on that actual block look like the ones shown when they cut from the overhead view.
That's also the largest
By b
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 2:00pm
That's also the largest friggin triple-decker I've ever seen.
There are plenty of bigger triple-deckers than that in Southie
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 05/18/2014 - 11:26am
Including ones that go surprisingly far back on surprisingly big lots. But there's generally not as much daylight between them and the next one as in this show. That looks more like Somerville spacing.
Lol! I will be tuning in!
By Nicole Desmond
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 3:20pm
Lol! I will be tuning in! Thanks for that lil gem!
OMG! OMG! OMG! I'm jumpging around like a Catholic schoolgirl!
By Nancy
Sun, 05/18/2014 - 10:57am
JOEY MAC!
This looks terrible but I'm in, just for Joey Mac.
Saugus
By anon
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 11:42am
Seems more like Saugus than Boston.
Sorry, what accent?
By Kaz
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 11:47am
It sounded like they melted Chicago, New York, and Boston into a puddle, drank it and are retching it up all over the screen.
Roast Beef
By Charles Bahne
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 2:10pm
Any true Bostonian, on hearing the name Buzzy's, will think of roast beef, not a haircut.
(Disclaimer: I haven't watched the video, nor do I intend to. Just the name was enough for me to decide that the show couldn't possibly have any redeeming value.)
I too thought about roast beef
By Sarcastic Sam
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 5:15pm
that would have been a better setting. Roast beef shop near a prison.
But then again I don't really watch TV...at all...anymore. Save for the occasional sports event. I watched a lifetime's worth as a kid. This trailer suggests I'm not missing much.
Buzzy's @ 2AM
By anon
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 5:50pm
Back in the 70s, you never knew what you might see at Buzzy's Roast Beef circa 2 AM. Druggies, drag queens, hookers, the whole gamut. Between that and the 24 hour Phillips Drug Store across the street it was quite colorful. Not to mention those nuclear hot Buzzy's french fries (which were actually just quartered potatoes) that NEVER cooled off, no matter how long you let them sit around. Another colorful part of urban life that is long gone.
I used to work third shift
By BikerGeek
Sun, 05/18/2014 - 1:51am
I'd grab a late dinner on my way in to work, eat it first thing sitting at my desk. Good times.
I can't remember...
By Rob
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 3:24pm
What was the name of that awful sitcom from about 20 years ago? Irish-American family. Stereotypes. I thought it was set in Boston, but I can't find it on any internet search. I thought it was named something like "The O'Shaughnessy's" or "The Gheoghans" or something like that. Couldn't find anything like it in the searches I've done. It was definitely a network sitcom.
I finally found it!
By Rob
Sun, 05/18/2014 - 11:35am
I finally found it!
The Cavanaughs.
Back in the late 80s - ran only about 26 episodes in two or three years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl1GAsWVY80
Outspoken 71-year-old Irish expatriate Francis "Pop" Cavanaugh is the glue holding together his tightly-knit, yet constantly bickering, clan, who mostly all reside in the same house in a middle-class neighborhood in South Boston. That is, except for flashy, oft-divorced daughter Kit, who left the family years ago to chase her dreams of show biz. Stardom eluded Kit -- whose success was limited to the showgirl circuit -- and, after an absence of two decades, she returns home to try to mend ways with her crotchety, widowed father and act as mother figure for her conservative, widowed brother Chuck's four children: Father Chuck, Jr., a twentysomething priest who comes off more like a used car salesman; Mary Margaret, a shy, 16-year-old wallflower who's trying to find her way around the dating scene; and smart-mouthed 10-year-old fraternal twins, Kevin and John. Together, the adults all manage a family owned and run business, the Cavanaugh Bros. Construction Company
I think the actor who played Cliff Clavin
By anon
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 4:08pm
did an excellent job of doing a typical Boston accent.
Cheers
By cybah
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 9:38pm
I've been watching reruns on Cheers on Netflix recently (okay, everyone has their crap tv show(s) they like to watch). And I'm not annoyed by the accents as much as I was in the clips above. The ones above were trying too hard.
But I also think John Ratzenberger and George Wendt did good jobs on the Boston accent. They just sound natural. Although I would have expected Norm's to be stronger and Sam to actual have one. (he doesn't)
Cliff Clavin was a crap accent
By Dave
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 9:52pm
Nobody from Boston would say "Nahm" for "Norm". That might be what non-natives hear, but a Bostonian would say "Nom". If you think those are the same, you must be from one of those places were "father" and "bother" rhyme.
This is...
By tcf098
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 10:03pm
This is... a real thing?
Is the Boston accent necessary on every show/movie based here?
By O-FISH-L
Sat, 05/17/2014 - 11:57pm
If these scripts had any appeal, would an extreme Boston accent even be necessary on this and other TV shows and movies supposedly based here? When done badly, as seems to be the norm, the attempt at a Boston accent is only a distraction. In real-life, I can detect an extreme Boston accent on maybe one in ten people locally. Why not have the actors speak normally and if necessary, hire a character actually from Boston for that extreme role? I haven't followed a sit-com in years (boring) but when you think of strong accents from other regions in TV's golden years, someone like Andy Griffith was actually born in NC, Polly Holliday (waitress "Flo" ) was born in AL, etc. Today, when Donnie Wahlberg narrates the Boston's Finest show and the like, he is obviously from here so the focus is on the show and not the nonsense. Amazing that these writers/producers have jobs.
OMG Polly Holiday?
By Sarcastic Sam
Sun, 05/18/2014 - 10:31am
"Kiss mah grits"
LOL
well that's
By BikerGeek
Sun, 05/18/2014 - 1:52am
two minutes of my life I'll never get back.
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