According to Jim

Better than any sitcom on TV these days, that's for sure. I especially like the episodes where Jim and Andy cook up some crazy scheme that backfires on them. Gimme Jimmy!

Jim (Jim Belushi) and Cheryl (Courtney Thorne-Smith) have three kids in Chicago. Her brother Andy (Larry Joe Campbell) is his best friend. Her sister Dana (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) often makes fun of her brother-in-law.

It's easy to dismiss this long running family sitcom. All the stars are aligned for people to take easy pot shots.

1.Jim Belushi is NOT his brother.

2.Yet another fat boorish husband with a hot wife.

3.All the jokes have been done before.

4.No edgy stuff. Just so middle America.

But does that truly justify all the hate? The humor is cute enough. Larry Joe Campbell has some hilarious moments. All in all, I think it's has enough comedy to sit thru. Why not? Especially if you're sitting with your family and have little kids. Trust me, you don't want to sit thru something edgy with your little kids.

Definitely underrated. It's a show that shouldn't be taken seriously, but more on the funny side.

This series is not a masterpiece of comedy sitcoms, but it i up in the higher levels of the genre. Belushi plays Belushi and therefore he does it perfectly and the other actors are good as well. The comedy is layered in the relation and interacting of the family members with Jim, a sometimes lazy but still caring father, who wants to be left alone but cannot help to care, even for his brother-in-law, who gets on his nerves so often. It's a classic sitcom with not much moving forward or connecting the eoisodes, but it works week to week. It's good to watch, it's light and it has humour in the small moments of life. Nice.

This show made me laugh. Plain and simple. It didn't necessarily break any new grounds, or pursue any new formula. It just managed to be funny. Yes, Jim's character is a slob, a jerk, an insecure ass**** who needs reassurance. That is what drives a lot of the story lines, and I'm fine with that. But In typical sitcom fashion, he "learns a valuable lesson" in these said story lines to make him more manageable. Courtney Thorne-Smith plays his "long suffering" wife trying to cope with his antics. Yes, we've seen it before. But it was FUNNY. Kim Williams-Paisley plays Jim's SMOKING HOT sister-in-law, and of course those two are largely at odds with each other throughout the series run. But they also show true caring and affection for each other when the time comes. And Larry Joe Campbell plays Jim's best friend and brother-in-law, Andy. He plays the butt of many jokes regarding his luck with women, or for that matter life in general. I have no complaints, all of the main characters appeal to me just fine.

One of my favorite story arcs is where Jim is distraught over something regarding his infant son. For instance, his wife allowing him to wear a dress for Halloween. Or his wife buying him a Green Bay Packers football, despite Jim being a HUGE Chicago Bears fan (arch-rivals of the Packers), and hoping to pass that on to his son (like most parents do). This brings in a fantasy segment in which Jim speaks to a teen aged/young adult version of his son regarding the topic at hand. Yes, Jim may be a pompous jerk, an ass-hat, but he doesn't wrap the show up in "his" own viewpoints. There's still a moral, and still a concession made by such an opinionated man.

Really though, if you catch this one on TV, watch it. I don't see how Jim Belushi's character on this show is any harder to deal with then Doug Heffernan on King of Queens (who at first, I couldn't stand). It's got laughs, it's got solid plots (even if some aren't the most original), it's got a good time.