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Yes, Dear is a 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 failed sitcoms; critics ravaged Yes, Dear 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 to 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.
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Yes, Dear is a 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 failed sitcoms; critics ravaged Yes, Dear 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 to 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 time slot. 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.
Due to untimely preemption, the Season Five finale was not aired in May 2005. Instead, it was aired in September 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 2006. Because of these preemptions, continuity for the series was thrown into disarray.
During the later half of 2007, reruns aired on the cable station TBS in the 1:00 p.m. EST time slot. As of January 2008, TBS began airing the show during the 3:00 p.m. EST time slot instead, becoming a solid part of the weekday sitcom lineup known as "The Break Room." 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.
Plot synopsis
Greg Warner (Anthony Clark) is a motion picture executive and Kim Warner (Jean Louisa Kelly) is a stay-at-home mother to Sam and later Emily. Kim's sister Christine Hughes (Liza Snyder) and her husband Jimmy Hughes (Mike O'Malley) along with their two sons, Dominic (Joel Homan) and Logan (Brendon Baerg), lived in the Warners' guest house, where the Hughes' lazy and easygoing approach to life in general contrasted with the more uptight and snobbish demeanor of Greg. The plots revolved around child rearing, work (especially after Greg got Jimmy a job as the movie studio's security guard), 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 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 toxic mold is discovered 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.
Cast
Recurring cast members
Recurring Gags
There have been multiple episode endings where Greg Warner is day dreaming about someone he misses hanging out with, with "Hard Habit to Break" playing in the background. Its starts off with them sharing cookies, playing checkers, combing each other's hair, playing with string, playing with the guitar, and ends with both of them riding a scooter. The events of the montages remain the same, but the people whom Greg is with varies. However Greg is wearing the same clothes throughout the whole montage, seeming as if it was all on one day.
Another running gag is Greg often insulting Jimmy, often insulting his intelligence (once calling him a "stupid weasel") and the fact that he had lived in his guest house for 4 years (Greg once said a typical morning for Jimmy is "waking up in someone's bed in a house he doesn't own"). A very noticeable gag Greg makes about Jimmy is when he describes the simplicity of Jimmy's job as a security guard. Always say "All he has to do is raise the gate and wave." Once when Greg was on paternity leave, he tells Jimmy that his co-workers have to work extra hard with him taking an unnecessary sick day to inflate a pool. Jimmy replies with "All I have to do is raise the gate and wave. This will be most work I've ever had to do (referring to the pool)."
Yet another one involves Greg making a reference to a disaster (getting sucked into a black hole) and having an executive storm out of the boardroom because a relative was involved in a similar accident but "[Greg] had no way of knowing"
This show was famous for its product placement in almost every episode. Most of the time this just consisted of a character naming a product. Some of the products named on several occasions were Mountain Dew, Doritos, Outback Steakhouse, etc. Sometimes this just included an object being placed in camera's view (i.e. episode Greg's assistant, a Big Lots bag hangs on the door behind jimmy and Christine. Another episode famous for product placement was "jimmy Sponsors a Vacation", in which Jimmy uses coupons and vouchers for free food items. These included Wetzel's pretzels, Cinnabon, Taco Bell/Pizza Hut, National Enquirer, etc. This was possibly attributed to the high cost to produce the show based on the average viewing audience, especially in the final season. This was made obvious because most shows cannot name products on air unless the company buys a spot on the show, i.e. Survivor, The Apprentice, etc. Sometimes a character would mention the name several times in one conversation.
Theme song
"Family is Family" is the main theme song of Yes, Dear. The song is performed by and written by Bill Janovitz.
International airings of Yes, Dear
| Country | Alternate title (translation) | TV network(s) |
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| United States | Yes, Dear | CBS, TBS | | Canada | Yes, Dear | CH TBS | | Australia | Yes, Dear | FOX8 | | Bulgaria | ??, ???? (Yes, Dear) | Fox life | | Denmark | Umage Søstre | TV3+ | | Finland | Saman katon alla (Under the same roof | MTV3 | | France | Oui, chérie! (Yes, Dear) | TF1, Virgin 17 | | Germany | Yes, Dear | RTL, RTL 2 | | Greece | Yes, Dear | Macedonia TV | | Iceland | Yes, Dear | SkjárEinn | | India | Yes, Dear | Star World | | Israel | ?? ???? (Yes, Dear) | HOT3 | | Italy | Prima o poi divorzio! (Sooner or later, I'll divorce!) | Italia1 | | Norway | Ja, Kjære (Yes, Dear) | TV2 | | Poland | Tak, Kochanie (Yes, Dear) | Comedy Central | | Portugal | Sim, Amor (Yes, Love) | RTP2 | | Saudi Arabia | Yes, Dear | MBC | | South Africa | Yes, Dear | SABC 3 | | Spain | Sí, cariño | Antena.nova | | Sweden | Omaka systrar (Dissimilar sisters) | TV4 | | Thailand | Yes, Dear | True Series
Star World | | Turkey | Yes, Dear | ComedyMax |
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