Many thanks to TRIO for running several episodes of this horrible, horrible show during June, 2004. I watched the first few episodes during its first run, and believe it or not, I could still hum the theme song almost 40 years later. What went wrong here? Scripts by Burns and Hayward (Bullwinkle, etc.) and James L. Brooks (Oscar winner)! But the two episodes I watched this week were PATHETIC, one-joke episodes. Strangely, one had NO laugh track, and the other had a laugh track that laughed far too hard in all the wrong places. The premise must have sounded good at the first meeting; then when they actually had to write full episodes, they realized how difficult it would be to pull off. You have to see this turkey to understand why virtually EVERY poll of bad TV shows puts it at or near the top.
Review of My Mother the Car
