Yes, Dear
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| Yes, Dear | |
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 The "Yes, Dear" cast. |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Creator(s) | Gregory Thomas Garcia Alan Kirschenbaum |
| Starring | Anthony Clark Jean Louisa Kelly Mike O'Malley Liza Snyder Joel Homan |
| Country of origin | USA |
| No. of episodes | 122 |
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| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | CBS |
| Original run | October 2, 2000 – February 15, 2006 |
Yes, Dear was an American television sitcom which aired from 2000 to 2006 on CBS. It starred Anthony Clark, Jean Louisa Kelly, Mike O'Malley and Liza Snyder. These actors had recently starred in their own series failed sitcoms; critics ravaged it as one of the worst new shows of the season and a likely candidate for first cancellations of the season. Instead, Yes, Dear scored surprisingly solid ratings for CBS over the next four seasons, in spite of little or no promotion and a number of timeslot changes.
In spring 2004, CBS pulled the plug on the program, but later ordered an additional 13 episodes for midseason. After canceling Center of the Universe, CBS began airing the new Yes, Dear episodes on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 in the 9:30 p.m. EST timeslot. The show did better than many expected and CBS ordered an additional season of 22 episodes for 2005-2006, but that order was later cut to 13.
Thanks to an untimely preemption, the Season Five finale was not aired in May 2005. Instead, it was aired in September of 2005 a week before the "official" start of the season. Thus, many viewers were unaware that a new episode was being broadcast. Another episode held over from Season Five due to a preemption was finally aired in January of 2006. Because of these preemptions, continuity for the series was thrown into disarray.
CBS confirmed to The Washington Post that the show will not return in the 2006-2007 season [1].
Yes, Dear is currently aired in syndication on cable station TBS. The show aired in local syndication in 2005-06; in the fall of 2006, 20th Television, the syndication subsidiary of 20th Century Fox, took the show out of barter syndication and replaced it with "Still Standing".
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[edit] Cast
- Anthony Clark as Greg Warner
- Jean Louisa Kelly as Kim Warner
- Mike O'Malley as James "Jimmy" Hughes
- Liza Snyder as Christine Hughes
- Joel Homan as Dominic Hughes
[edit] Plot synopsis
Clark and Kelly portrayed Greg and Kim Warner; Greg was a motion picture executive, Kim a stay-at-home mother to Sam and Emily. Kim's sister Christine and her husband Jimmy (and their two sons, Dominic and Logan) lived in the Warners' guest house, where the Jimmy's lazy, and easygoing approach to life in general contrasted with the more uptight and snobbish Greg's demeanor. The plots revolved around child rearing, work (especially after Greg got Jimmy a job as the movie studio's security guard) and sex, and often involved various combinations of the four adult characters plotting against the others - such as Jimmy and Greg trying to manipulate each other, or their respective wives, or vice-versa. In addition, Jimmy became the focus of a larger number of outlandish and stupid plots, including get-rich-quick schemes.
Late in the fifth season, the Hughes' finally have enough money to move out of the guest house and buy the house next door. Meanwhile, Greg quits his job following its takeover by a new corporation and the firing of his boss, the overbearing but ultimately decent Mr. Savitsky. (The continuity disruption mentioned above meant viewers saw an unemployed Greg before the episode that depicted him losing his job had been aired.)
After Greg is unable to find new work and the discovery of toxic mold in their home, the Warners are forced to move in with the Hughes' in a role-reversal early in the sixth season. Eventually, Savitsky latches on with a Japanese movie studio and rehires Greg, and the Warners are able to move back into their home. In the final scene of the series finale, an earthquake strikes Los Angeles; the Warners' home receives minimal damage, but the Hughes' are apparently not so lucky, as they show up at the Warners' front door asking if the guest house is still available.
[edit] Recurring cast members
- Brendon Baerg as Lobo "Logan" Hughes
- Anthony Bain as Sam Warner
- Michael Bain as Sam Warner
- Madison Poer as Emily Warner
- Christopher Berry as Lobo "Logan" Hughes
- Nicholas Berry as Lobo "Logan" Hughes
- Jerry Van Dyke as Big Jimmy Hughes
- Tim Conway as Tom Warner
- Vicki Lawrence as Natalie Warner
- Beth Grant as Kitty Hughes
- Dan Hedaya as Don Ludke
- Alley Mills as Jenny Ludke
- Billy Gardell as Billy Colivita
- Phill Lewis as Roy Barr
- Brian Doyle-Murray as Mr. George Savitsky
[edit] Main Theme Song - "Family is Family"
The Main Theme Song of "Yes, Dear", even though mostly thought to be sung or performed by Mike O'Malley who plays Jimmy Hughes in the television series, is actually performed by and written by Bill Janovitz.
[edit] Lyrics
(1, 2, 3) You got a wife and kid in love with you (Yes, dear)
You traded golf and poker for the zoo (Yes, dear)
And you live your life the best you can (Yes, dear)
'Till your family screws up the plan (Yes, dear)
But family is family is family (Yes, dear)
Family is family is family - yes, dear (Yes, dear - Yes, dear)
[edit] Trivia
- All of the main characters in the series moved to Los Angeles from Maryland. All of the actors playing the roles were born near the East coast - O'Malley, Kelly and Snyder were all born in Massachusetts, and Clark was born in Virginia. Clark also attended Emerson College in Boston.
- Anthony Clark and Mike O'Malley appeared in the Alan Jackson music video "The Talkin' Song Repair Blues", somewhat parodying their roles as Greg Warner and Jimmy Hughes, respectively.
- The show featured two musical performances - one from Rascal Flatts singing "Bless the Broken Road" and a performance from Travis Tritt and Trace Adkins singing "Jailhouse Rock".
- Clark, O'Malley and Kelly presented an award at the 2004 CMA awards.
- The Chicago song "Hard Habit to Break" is featured numerous times in the series as a running gag in a parody of memorial medleys. Each medley would show the characters doing activities with one another; these activities repeated in the same order in each medley:
- One character serving a baked good to another
- Playing checkers
- Characters brushing one another's hair
- playing cat's cradle
- Playing guitar and dancing
- Riding Razor scooters around the couch in the living room
