This week Val and Rachel and Special Guest Eric Hutchinson discuss The Single Guy, which aired from 1995 to 1997 on NBC's Must-See TV Thursday night lineup and starred Jonathan Silverman (from Weekend at Bernie's), Joey Slotkin Slotnick, Ming-Na Wen, and Ernest Borgnine. It has been considered a copycat of both Seinfeld and Friends, although it didn't muster enough enthusiasm to last longer. However, it was one of the highest rated shows to ever get canceled! The Single Guy is not available through any streaming service, but you can find a few episodes on YouTube.

 

Hot topics include: 1.) New Segment "What Ya Watchin'?" 2.) Accent Corner returns! 3.) Val's long-term relationship with ER 4.) Why The Single Guy failed even though it existed in the "Friends Universe" 5.) Creator Brad Hall's other project, the movie Bye Bye Love 6.) The first meeting of the Official Ming-Na Wen Fan Club comes to order 7.) Tenuous connections to The Monkees, The Everly Brothers, and The Brady Bunch 8.) 90s stuff like blind dates, beepers, Pay-Per-View, and answering machines 9.) Rachel becomes melancholy thinking about how many hours she wasted watching middling TV shows

 

Wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Single_Guy

 

For next week, we will be discussing The Pretender, whose pilot you can see now on Dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x78ofnf