melissabarrie The Drew Carey Show was a perfect sitcom. Okay so if you look at my profile picture you can tell that I am the world's biggest fan of the Drew Carey Show so obviously I'm going to say that, but I can't think of many people who did not like it.Drew Carey was a great character who always did the right thing for his bosses, fellow employees, friends and family, but he always ended up being beaten down. He was a "loser" who deserved a lot better than what he got.His friends and co-stars were also great characters. The creepy, weird Ryan Stiles. The also weird but sweet-natured and even more gullible Oswald. And the sexy tomboy Kate. The show actually suffered when she left the cast.The supporting cast of the big, brash, makeup covered Mimi, Drew's lecherous boss from England and his cross-dressing brother were also great.It's also the only sitcom I can think of that pushed the envelope so much creatively. They had live shows, shows with pop-ups showing mistakes that were happening (these were actually contests and the first time the episodes aired the viewers had to catch the mistakes themselves and send them in), full musical episodes, improvised episodes and even more.The show also had a fantastic theme song and treated viewers to new credits numbers every season.I loved The Drew Carey Show!

DKosty123 It is not easy to do with real people (cartoons do it better) but this show creates characters that are well defined but have no class. Drew Carey is painted as a real life Dilbert (the cartoon) type except even less intelligent than the cartoon character. Then he has two male friends that are from the gates of someplace. They are usually intelligent enough to add 2 plus 2 & get 3, but are rarely smarter than the bedpost at the end of the bed.Then there is Mimi. She is a classic type of woman like Phyllis Diller but only more garish & less of a sense of humor. Mimi sets a new television & perhaps womanhood low for make-up. He taste is clothes is so loud that when she leaves a room, everyone there is like stunned for at least 10 minutes.Mr. Wick was so funny on this show that he now has his own talk show. He is very over-stated & confused, & still is even now on his talk show. Still, he is a lot of bloody likely fun here. Ryan Stiles is fantastic and often in his own world on this show. Dietrich Bader is great too & plays off Stiles & everyone very well.Actually, because of Mimi, all the other females on this show look really hot. What is amazing is that these people actually accomplish goals in spite of the fact none of them really know where they are going.The later seasons have some fancy special effects. The theme song morphs a few times until it settles in on Cleveland Rocks & then morphs again. I liked the Five O'Clock world theme best. The later shows have the best comedy timing. Carey did some fine writing for this show he helped create.Over all, this show is almost always very funny, & never can be taken seriously. Like Buzz Beer, Mission Accomplished.

Syl I have watched the Drew Carey show for years both on network and on television in syndication. I have to admit that it still holds up. Who could forget the fights between Mimi Bobek and Drew Carey played wonderfully by Kathy Kinney who should have been nominated for Emmys rather than being short-sighted by the television academy. I loved her relationship with Drew's cross dressing brother. Over the several seasons, the show peaked from modest and humble beginnings to success and then soured by critics and fans. Christa Miller's departure was upsetting but Cynthia Watros was equally interesting. Drew Carey Show was truly blue collar. This was not Friends nor did it appear to be and we didn't want another Friends where their biggest obstacles was their relationships with each other and the opposite sex. The Drew Carey Show was real to it's audience. The casting of Craig Ferguson as Drew and Mimi's boss was genius as was Nan Martin who plays the store owner. We loved Oswald and Lewis and their shenanigans with Drew and Kate as well. The show tried to be different and it succeeded but Drew doesn't give up his show easily to say it's over. Maybe the swan song took longer than it should but I believe Drew Carey show will live forever in reruns with audiences rediscovering it's humor and the genius of it. Too bad, the Academy never noticed the Drew Carey Show for it also had great guests like Shirley Jones, Marion Ross, etc.

bb_hsu My friend admitted he liked this show a lot because at the time it had something different from other sitcoms- a setting not in New York. Also, the story pretty much revolves around Drew Carey- the others are always there to provide comic relief. Oswald (Diedrich Bader), which I just realized is a name rearrangement of the guy who shot Kennedy, and Lewis (Ryan Stiles) are like two dogs that accompany Drew to his misadventures; faithful, kinda slow, and pee a lot.The Drew Carey show is down-to-earth and humorously self-deprecating. Drew Carey, the overweight man in thick glasses, works a dead-end job surrounded by those who work hard to make him suffer. The way Drew and Mimi (Kathy Kinney) sling insults and pranks at each other day after day provides one of those greatest moments of real life living. Most shows tend to avoid the workplace even though it consumes almost one-third of your life (except some like Just Shoot Me or Murphy Brown) You wonder how coworkers around you manage to stay alive. Example- Drew to Mimi- "What's with this pile of crap? And what's with all the junk on its desk?" Oswald and Lewis are there mainly as Stooges to make Drew's life more exciting. This trio can make a list of dirty jokes and all three are bachelors on the journey to a good time. Only Drew is slightly more moralistic, but Lewis and Oswald are there to cheer him up and tell him that he blew it on a chance to totally get some. Just like true chums.The show has some similarities to Seinfeld, but less Jewish and more beer-drinking by all cast members. This sitcom is not afraid to deviate from the standard situational episodes once in a while, like the "Emmy-performance" or the "live" show. But, better than most shows, is the believability of the characters. They don't mind sitting around drinking. The characters sling insults at each other and shake it off so that they can drink Buzz Beer.I like this show more because of its constant slew of great insults and misfortunes, while still giving the characters that down-to-earth feel. You don't always get what you want, and that's what Carey gets to learn when surrounded by an awesomely quirky cast.