Bob Patterson

2001
Bob Patterson

Seasons & Episodes

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EP1 Pilot Oct 02, 2001

Bob is depressed that Janet left him, but she returns only to announce she's ""on a quest to find herself."" Meanwhile, Landau hires Claudia as Bob's assistant, making things more difficult in the office. Bob fires John Tesh from his infomercial because he has trouble with his height.

EP2 Honest Bob Oct 09, 2001

Poll results say women 18-79 don't like Bob, so he decides to get rid of John Tesh and bring a new co-host for his infomercial. Since they can't fire John, Landau and Bob trick him into quitting and get Bo Derek. Bob's son tells her he's a hermaphrodite and Connie Selecca drops by at the office to demand that John is hired back. Bo quits and Bob hires Connie as the new co-host.

EP3 Naked Bob Oct 16, 2001

Bob is invited to pose nude for a nude celebrity coffee table book. At first the idea of posing naked doesn't sound so good to him, but he decides to do it after Janet and Jeffrey say he has issues with his body. The problem arises when he finds out the photographer is french. Bob can't hear a woman speak french without getting 'excited', so he takes some tea Janet indicated to keep him down. When the photographer makes a move on him, he doesn't get excited because he's under the tea effects, so she thinks he's gay. To make things even better, she calls a bunch of built up men to pose with him, just as the tea loses its effect.

EP4 Awards Bob Oct 24, 2001

Bob is facing Warren Wellman, America's number 2 motivational speaker, for the Motie award. Afraid of losing one more time to one of his biggest rivals, Bob decides to get the judges votes. He takes the Kimballs to a baseball game and accidentally pushes little Kenny Kimball off the stadium's platform. Now Bob has to sleep with the other judge, an old sex-addicted lady. When the award is finally given, Bob has a tough time believing he lost again and makes a huge scandal.

EP5 Bathroom Bob Oct 31, 2001

The new office bathroom is finally ready and Bob couldn't be happier to have his private bathroom back. The only thing is that Landau keeps using the bathroom. Bob decides to stand up to Landau and tells him he can no longer use his bathroom. Offended, Landau quits, and they both try to remember who saved who 12 years ago when Bob was selling big screen TVs and they first met. Each one tells the story differently, but in the end they both remember that is was a 50-50 thing. Landau decides to return to the firm.

EP6 Family Bob Jan 01, 0001

Landau gets Jules Asner from E! to do a show about Bob's family. The only thing is that his family isn't exactly the ideal family. So to prevent the interview to ruin Bob's career, Bob forbids Janet to say anything about him and has to pay over 6,000 dollars for Jeffrey to be on the show. When Jules finds out the truth, Landau has to pay her to keep it quiet.

EP7 Paranoid Bob Jan 01, 0001

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EP8 Clown Bob Jan 01, 0001

When Jeffrey's therapist, Dr. Tepnick, takes Bob's word over his son's, Jeffrey feels slighted and gets revenge by kidnapping the doctor's very expensive, life-sized, mannequin-like talking clown, Mr. Jingles, and holds it for ransom. But when Bob and Janet accidentally stumble across the foreboding clown, they think it's alive and end up destroying it, leaving the task of ""dumping the body"" up to a frazzled Bob and Jeffrey — with a little help from Landau. (ABC)

EP9 Mentor Bob (aka Prom Bob or Matchmaker Bob) Jan 01, 0001

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EP10 Wheelchair Bob Jan 01, 0001

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3.9| 0h30m| TV-PG| en| More Info
Released: 02 October 2001 Ended
Producted By: 20th Century Fox Television
Country: United States of America
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Bob Patterson is a popular self-help motivational speaker. What his adoring public doesn't know is Bob is an insecure husband and dad who often fails at basic human interactions.

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bp-33 This show wasn't always bad, in fact the last episodes that were aired, perhaps episode 4 and 5 were on par with any sitcom of this nature that has ever aired.the concept of the show comments on American culture. The motivational speaker is both a good and a bad idea. Are we empty enough to run our lives on bob pattersons rules? The show showed us, that bob patterson, himself is empty.The other issue is where do we decide that this is actually funny, that a mans struggles are humorous. If the show is too sarcastic, then we aren't enriching ourselves by watching it.i wanted to and did give this show a chance, and given more effort jason Alexander would have had something on his hands. Maybe there was more comedy here to be developed.Maybe he could have destroyed the entire field of self help books, by writing a book that completely convinces the public that the only self help book is yourself, which in turn destroyed popular authors jobs.maybe then he goes back to school to become a certified social worker and a silly show becomes a serious drama.thank you for reading
MovieMusings The premise for this show was perfect for our times. Spoofing the "self-improvement motivational guru" phenomena could have run at least a second season if it'd been done right, until we as a society had moved on to something else.However, writers hit and miss (nobody's perfect) and the final product here was a definite miss.It'd have been nice to see Bob Paterson actually do a seminar or speak at a corporate sales meeting or weight-loss clinic or MLM gathering...it'd have been nice to hear how they spoof the blurb. The promotional work for this sitcom was heading in this better direction ("the only thing standing between you and your dreams is you...and your dreams").It'd have been nice to see this Bob Paterson as a character with an air of invincibility, one who can't hear how silly he is, while he takes his work far too seriously. It'd have been nice to see him running his business successfully, but we the audience sit back and see the humor in the guru industry as a whole. It'd have been nice to see fresh intelligent insightful humor that didn't insult the audience's intelligence, rather than a bunch of bumblers standing around waiting for the setup to drop their tired cookie-cutter one-liners. With a legacy of such mature sitcomes as Seinfeld and Frazier (mature for their subtle plots, subtle body language, subtle dialogue that is funny without telling jokes or one-liners), Bob Paterson was poised to connect with a mature audience ready to laugh at good material.Alas, all we got was a self-doubting, insecure high school student in an adult's body, a transplanted George Costanza, and poor cliched attempts at set-up one-liners that were just not funny.It's too bad, it coulda, woulda, shoulda been great, but it wasn't, not at all.
Ravenswing ... when the network was carpet-bombing trailers that were possibly the least funny and interesting promos in the history of cinema -- does anyone else think, for instance, that the plummeting of the credibility and popularity of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire dates from Regis Philbin hawking "Bob's book" as having made a huge difference in his life, on the Millionaire set yet, among other network celebrities pretending that Bob Patterson was a genuine motivational speaker? This show lived up to that degree of promise. I would say that Bob Patterson was a flaming heap of dreck, but that presupposes it was exciting enough to be considered "flaming." Dormant, washed-out heap of dreck is more like it. What I don't understand is this. Who were the network moguls who watched the rushes and signed off on it? Now for a big star, yeah, you take a dive on it because of the money invested and the name recognition. But this is *Jason Alexander* we're talking about. Who the hell cares whether you nark an Alexander off by telling him "The show bites, we're not even going to air it?"Rating: 2/10, and only that good because Moment By Moment still exists.
Doug Fish Jason Alexander does a good job especially when he sells bad jokes by underplaying them. The problem is I don't think they were intended as bad jokes. Klein has his moments but he's better foiling than being a foil. Contrived comes to mind but some of the best sitcoms were built on contrived plots. If this show can come up with some new contrivences it may have a chance. But so far it hasn't made me believe it will.