Wexor I really don't get all the hate. What kind of sitcom did you expect?. Most of the sitcoms in the 80,90's and early 00's had this kind of script. Many is against the fact that it's a fat husband and a beautiful wife (as usual) and she sticks to his side whatever he is up to. This was the case in the King of Queens as well, and that show got raised to the skies for being one of a kind and such a excellent show. But it's pretty much the same handling..An average fat American man, married to a beautiful American wife living in an average American house in the suburbs to a major city. They have some kids. A close friend, siblings or other persons that appears occasionally to provide more "action", and the husband makes all the wrong and bad things together with the friend, and the wife always forgives him. Just as in any sitcom pretty much. ATJ is a somewhat funny show, and a good laughter is always nice

O2D Now don't get me wrong, John Belushi wasn't funny either but at least he earned his fame.But we live in a world where people will accept a sibling of a celebrity and invite them into their homes for no reason other than who they are related to.This terrible show used every bad sitcom cliché they could find.Of course they use the "Idiot and Wife"(he's kinda fat and she's kinda hot) cliché that CBS perfected in the 90s.They also rehashed the old trick of never being funny, something I will never understand.Every story is about the husband being an idiot and the wife being insufferable.Since that wasn't unoriginal enough they decided to have the wife's sister always be there.Never saw that before.The most interesting thing about the show is that they have some gay guy hanging around all the time and he always pretends to like women.Like some weird 70s sitcom where we have to act like gay people don't exist.The only original thing about this mess is that they chose to have extremely creepy children.A tactic that was quickly imitated on that horrible show with the janitor from Scrubs(another horrible show).Unless you like to be bored and angry, never watch this show.

elshikh4 Average is what I can call this sitcom with clear conscience. James Belushi is a walking hit. Here he's a man's man, kind of live Homer Simpson, having the magical ability to seduce you with anything bad while sneering superbly at it in the same time too! Courtney Thorne-Smith is my dream of a wife, being the good mom of the 2000s, and a smart comedienne as well. While Kimberly Williams is so funny (loved, for little instance, her way of dancing over Jim's supposed grave), Larry Joe Campbell is the one who dazzles me with his laughable body language, look at his lightness during some of the acrobatic jests he perfect ; just astounding. However, the show's sense of comedy relayed much on the dirty humor (farts, peeing, masturbation, etc..). Sometime it promoted for ideas I didn't like. Let alone that there were what I consider as shocking moments; I can't forget till now the scene in which "real huge spiders" were used to be moving on Andy's back, that freaked me out, and still does. I don't know how in no case they put this horrific shot, but it's obvious how the whole show is for adults, and in kind of cheap way sometimes. At the first seasons the matters were OK though. But it turned into straight bad within the last days of it (or what I wish they would be !). By the seventh season the time became so un-funnily insipid. I couldn't believe the condition of the scripts. Aside from being a step down for the position of the show (which's average in the first place), it's useless material to watch, so how about entertain ?! I can't imagine anyone gives a green light for episodes like the one where Jim was hit by a bull ?? It looks like a lust for cancellation to me ! So, after enjoying half of the time, sometime more than the half, it forced me to save any time I have to watching something better. Finally, 2001 wasn't a lucky year when it came to sitcoms, (Grounded for Life), (The Bernie Mac Show), and (According to Jim) aren't any close to "favorite" for me. Thank god that 2001 got (Scrubs). So, nothing is wholly bad, though (According..) lately became about to !

windtar OK, so, jim and cheryl are having twins.Forget it.your 3 kids are enough.kids ruin shows for adult viewing. i know lots of people who watched the show and thought dana's pregnancy was boring. no one cared about her as a new mom.have jim cheryl and andy go on trips places, get away from the house scene.this is a good series but bringing in twins will ruin the show. audiences get tired of baby situations fast.jim belushi, use your star power and forget the twins.