shantbe

I tried to give this show a fair chance, but this is ridiculous! I am tired of seeing these shallow, chauvinistic shows with implausible casting choices! ON WHAT PLANET DO WE BELIEVE THE MEAGAN GOOD COULD POSSIBLY BE A LOVE INTEREST FOR CRAIG ROBINSON! LET ALONE THAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE SAME AGE! TIRED OF SEEING THIS CRAP! TIRED SEEING THE DOUBLE STANDARD ON TV/MOVIES. We are really supposed to believe all these homely, overweight men have model/actress girlfriends 10-20 years younger than them! YEAH RIGHT! The premise of musician turned teacher has been done before too. Try something original. I usually like Craig Robinson, but here he just annoyed me!

First of all, the I am a Mae Whitman fan but I just don't her in this. First of all, everything happens so fast. She never has to struggle for anything. They just gloss over it so fast. She breaks up with her boyfriend, announces she's going be a writer out nowhere, moves to New York, gets an apartment, a job, a writing class, and a new boyfriend in the blink of an eye. What can't the show take its time and show up the process? And her character is super annoying and whiny. I do like Miguel's character, but the actor is miscast. I just don't believe that he would struggle to get dates, or that Lindsay is the best that he could do. She's frumpy and entitled. I could ignore the frumpiness if she had a better personality. Also, at no time did I believe that it was 1999! 2 stars for Miguel's songs alone.

Well, not exactly.I hung in there for one more season.I bailed out when they decided to give Tia an ex-con boyfriend, let the twins sing the theme song, and have Tamera(the dumb twin) somehow get into the same university as Tia.Sure the show was fluff when it started, but that was part of its charm.Every sitcom doesn't have to be a nighttime soap. Sometimes you want to sit back,laugh and forget about the world problems for just a half an hour.I liked the kooky, funny, non-talented twins who scorned popularity,wore god-awful Blossom-like outfits and fended off Roger amorous advances.OK, I know the twins had to grow up sometime, but there was so much more that could have been explored.They could have made Lisa more independent.I would have loved for her to have owned her shop and have been on equal footing with Ray from the start.I hate how they made her low-income and dependent on Ray's benevolence so that she and Tia would have a place to stay.Also they touched on twins' desire to find their parents,Lisa's fear of competing with the birth mom,Tia's need for a father figure, and twins' fear of being separated again.However, no mention was ever made of Ray's wife, who was Tamera's adoptive mother.Did she remember her? Why weren't there any pictures of her? Why were the home movies only of Ray and Tamera? That should have been the focus, not singing groups,cheerleading,modeling,drugs,ghetto boyfriends, and that stupid Roger/Batman look-alike episode. Oh and why didn't Lisa marry that Food-Boy guy? So much wasted potential.

5 stars--in remembrance of the frizzy-haired years.