sumana-m21 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!

brendanchenowith This show bowls me over in every way. Jami Gertz successfully played 1,000 miles against type and Mark Addy was the perfect American dad. Renee Olstead, Taylor Ball and Soleil Borda were hilarious as "THE THREE KIDS". Nothing about this series was formulaic. Sure the parents, kids, annoying in-laws were all there, but this was not your typical series in that vein.As a matter of fact, might I suggest that this was a parody of those blue collar hot chick marries a fat blue collar slob and has three snotty kids genre? The other blue-collar series, while amusing, was nowhere near as funny as this one. Reba comes a very close second to this, so you can imagine I must be in hog-heaven with two hours of the Millers and Harts every night on Lifetime. I realize Lifetime began airing this masterpiece on the strength of the long-suffering beautiful wife, but she can also be as idiotic as her husband, who is also smart and who does care for his children despite his jokes about them.Sure, the Lifetime programmers may have thought they had another series which shrieked, "women are better - men are lazy, slovenly pigs - women save the family - men are mentally ill and hideous", but this is not the case. I think this series belongs on Comedy Central, but more crucially, on DVD.Final accolade - this is a series in which it was evident the entire cast had a great time playing these characters. I ought to know - I'm having a great time watching them. I'm very sorry I missed this in production. It sounded too much like King of Queens and Everybody Love Raymond (two series I don't care for and I've always loathed Roseanne) Little did I know. This is even better than "The Nanny" and that's WAY hard to beat.

cbminfo I only found out about this show a few months back when it went into re-runs at 11 pm on FOX. The last stop before oblivion. I've taken to recording them since there are no DVD's, yet. There is a simple formula to this show, and I think that's what's made it the favorite it is. It had 24 writers on this show. Few that ever worked on more than 1 episode or with another writer. Yet there was the formula that kept the continuity in the show. It is amazing the variety of NEW situations and methods used to resolve them. But it always worked out.Mentally abuse the children, and each other. use the past as a template for the now. mother and father cookie cutter clones of each other.sister-in-law: spinster in training. Hasn't hit 40 yet and still picking the losers. Not someone you want at the horse races. Lives at her sisters home.Oldest son, from a different world. Belongs in Guiness for most out of place offspring. Genius in a family of below average middle class parentsmiddle daughter average to below average mentally. Knows what she wants and how to get it. Ugly duckling to swan in last season. Gives as good as she gets. Daddy's girl.Youngest daughter: closest one to actually belonging in this family. Also the one most likely to follow in daddy's footsteps as a mall sales person.Only thing I can say is bring them back before they get too old for this silliness. And advertise so someone knows it exists.

rmill50 This is a very funny show with great actors who are probably not all that well known but very talented. It was treated badly I think by the network since it seemed to just disappear without any explanation. And it was moved around to different time slots quite a bit. I found it very amusing and a much better comedy series than most of the fluff you see on network TV these days. The three young kids were very funny and Judy's single sister provided a lot of very funny moments on the show. Jamie Gertz was great as the less than perfect mom and Mark Addy did a very credible job portraying an American dad (he is from Britain). Over all a well written, well acted sitcom that will be missed.