SnoopyStyle Gavin P. Miller (Elon Gold) and Stuart Miller (Brian Scolaro) are brothers running a small bookstore. Gavin's book was a failure. Katrina (Marissa Jaret Winokur) is their coffee girl. Retired rocket scientist Professor Harold March (Christopher Lloyd) is a regular customer. One day, Skyler Dayton (Pamela Anderson) walks into the store. She's tired of her sex-filled broken relationships with bad boys. Gavin recruits Skyler to be his pretend girlfriend to make his ex-wife Charlotte jealous. To escape the temptations of hot guys, Skyler hires herself to work under the Miller brothers.This Pamela Anderson TV vehicle is able to show that she has workable charisma besides her ample bosoms and good looks. She holds her own delivering the hackney jokes and her character has good heart. Some of it is almost funny and Winokur is good at playing off of Anderson. The cast includes some functional TV actors and one bonafide legend. The situation is utterly manufactured. This is not the worst thing but I am surprised that it got two seasons on network TV. I guess the 5-episodes replacement first season worked just well enough to get a renewal. It's simply not good enough to keep going.

TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews The main reason I watched this was because Steven Levitan created it... well, OK, but that was in the Top 2. Seriously though, I love Just Shoot Me, its snark(the best of it delivered by David Spade), its raunchy material and the satire. I hoped that this would be the same. Well, two out of three ain't bad, I guess. With Anderson in the lead, a fact that probably made this show, and then preceded to break it, this got about 18 episodes, so in spite of being listed as two seasons, it's really more like one... and one that is about three fourths long, at that. The concept itself isn't half bad. It takes place in a store for literary works, run by two dorky brothers, one of whom is an unsuccessful writer. Add to that a disgruntled coffee girl, her regular customer(who has retired from a position at NASA, as an expert on physics), and, of course, Pam, whose... ahem... attributes are the focus of the series(so much so that they put it in the title). That makes for a full regular cast. These characters are actually decent enough, and their relative diversity allows for the jokes and gags(most of which work, some do fall flat) to draw inspiration from many different areas. The group(with the one exception we all know about) can act well enough, and the comic timing is pretty good. Lloyd seems nearly incapable of disappointing. The guest stars are fine, and there are a few recognizable faces(meanwhile, does every female that Skylar knows have to be attractive and easy? OK, I know those words are illegal to speak for all us straight men, still, seriously, it doesn't keep being funny). At its best, the humor is hilarious, and there are quotable lines here and there. I recommend this to fans of sit-coms, and/or those who appear in this. 7/10

Elori When I learned that 'Stacked' featured Christopher Lloyd, known best for his fantastic performance as 'Doc' Emmett Brown from the Back to the Future trilogy, I was astounded. When I learned of what an absolute wreck of a sitcom he had sold himself off into, I was even more astounded.In this age of series like 'My Name is Earl' and 'Office', sitcoms like 'Stacked' shouldn't happen. It is no wonder it was cancelled, because even for a sitcom, the writing was so horribly clichéd and anemic that even an actor like Christopher Lloyd couldn't save the jokes and his character. And yet, he was a more of a side character compared to Pamela Anderson's Skyler, who I'm guessing the horrible pun of a title refers to. And really, just the name, 'Stacked', tells everything you need to know about this show. The setting was good, and with a supporting actor like Lloyd, it could have turned into something fantastic, but this is just a horrible misuse of that potential, a depressing fest of tripe and shame.

liquidcelluloid-1 Network: Fox; Genre: Sitcom; Content Rating: TV-PG (adult content); Perspective: Contemporary (star range: 1 - 4); Seasons Reviewed: Season 1+ Take yourself back to around 1996. Pamela Anderson is calling herself Pamela Lee. She's just left "Baywatch" and made her "hotly anticipated" film debut in the future classic "Barb Wire" and kids around the country are horrified to hear that she used a body double in the movie's intro because she was pregnant at the time. Pamela Anderson, consistently regarded as one of the sexiest women in the world, is a hot commodity. People are throwing projects and star vehicles at her left and right. Again, this is 1996 - exactly where "Stacked" feels like it belongs.About a decade after the hype has died down, her film career has fizzled, "VIP" never really took off, being with Tommy Lee has become a degrading cliché for any Hollywood actress, and she's had her implants in and out so many times nobody cares anymore, Pamela Anderson returns to the small screen for a little career resuscitation. For anyone out there who thinks that Hepatitis-C riddled body is still hot - be my guest to "Stacked", a show for the prepubescent teen who will watch Anderson do just about anything.In keeping with the show's belief that Pamela Anderson can carry a sitcom, everything else about "Stacked" is passé - with only a running advertisement for Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" posted in the background to remind us we are in a new century. All the bad sitcom clichés are here: the screeching laugh tracks, the lame 1-liners, 1-dimensional characters. You'd think that after the mold-breaking neo-classic "Titus" - and even this year's sensational "Committed" - Fox could think beyond this. It is a sickening thought to imagine all the other sitcoms that where instantly canceled so that this one could be given all the benefit of the doubt from the public.Here is your high-concept, pitched by producer/creator, hack sitcom writer and increasingly my arch enemy Steven Levitan: people who work in a bookstore meet beautiful ex-rocker's girlfriend, Skyler (Anderson), trying to escape her wild former life, settle down and be taken seriously. Bookstore attendees include the straight-laced proprietor (Elon Gold) who will clash with Anderson's wild ways, his brother (Brian Scolaro) who is desperately trying to keep the women around long enough to think of a way to get her, a chubby girl around the counter (Marissa Jaret Winokur, "Hairspray") to take the slings and arrows of the babe. The show will pretend to use Winokur to put everything in perspective before switching all the victories back on Anderson - it is her career life support after all. Lastly, we have the aging scientist who hangs out, reads the paper and mildly gets caught up in the events of the store (Christopher Lloyd). "Stacked" is exactly the kind of show you're more likely to see IN another show as a parody of a sitcom.Winokur and Lloyd are clearly working well below their means. Particularly, Winokur who has effectively shifted her career into neutral in the thankless, degrading "fat friend" role. But once again, just like in his last series ("The In Laws") Elon Gold becomes the bright spot. I liked him then and I like him now. Gold knows exactly how silly this all is and while his ham-fisted over-acting would sink most any other show, it is perfect here. Any hopes for laughs come out of Gold's straight delivery or goofy eye brow shifts.In the end, like any slavish star vehicle, it is all about making Anderson look good. In this case, the show has the uphill task of making Pamela Anderson look funny - which is something I wouldn't even wish on Steven Levitan. Every gag-inducing self-referential joke ("I seem to have a thing for bad boy rockers" ha ha ha). Every attempt to show how hard she has it and how misunderstood she is. Every time the show gets back to its core mantra: that the beautiful, popular, large-breasted blonde who men fall all over themselves for isn't the dumb stereotype we all imagine. This is the big twist? I'm all for breaking cliché, but Skyler, must have some flaw somewhere to be the slightest bit interesting.One noticeable thing is that the joke roster in "Stacked" is heavily populated with the same tired gags making fun of what losers all the characters who aren't Anderson are. They "sat at the nerd table in high school", they "didn't date a lot in high school", anything they say is out of "bitterness for how lonely they are". Rinse and repeat. The entire series is like this. That is borderline propaganda people and it's lazy writing - to elevate one character by tearing down others. To discount all the intellectual or professional achievements of people because they aren't "getting any". "Stacked" is typical pandering television.* / 4