The End

[CCRYDER1968]

TOTALLY PREDICTABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:talk:

[Ant-Lox]

I liked it.

[Miss Golden]

Jimmy Kimmel trashed the Parkers and UPN.

[jamesanthony]

It turned out the way I had thought it would if I hadn't watched parts 1 and 2. This show was brain candy, absolutely nothing dramatic, no aspirations to being socially relevant. In the end they gave the fans what they wanted.

He wanted her from year 1 but was in some serious denial and running from it. This match up makes more sense than Laura falling for Steve in Family Matters which I am still trying to figure out. That one is much more one-sided to me.

[isiahthomas]

Laura fallin for Steve i'll never figure out either. It seemed to me the writers of Family Matters just threw them together cause they wanted the fans of the show to be shocked. I was definitely in shock LOL. What did Jimmy Kimmel say about The Parkers show & UPN?

[jamesanthony]

Originally posted by Miss Golden
Jimmy Kimmel trashed the Parkers and UPN.

What did he say? Sure this show was not anything deep but what sitcom is? It is broad comedy. Some shows try to be deep and wind up looking stupid. All in the Family pulled it off, but there's nothing being produced now that can take risks like that. We're in too much of a politically correct climate to produce any kind of real groundbreaking show on broadcast tv.

Shows like The Parkers don't bother trying to win emmies etc but stand up to repeat viewing in reruns. I thought this show was retarded for years, but once I watched some reruns and saw that Stanley is basically spending the whole series running from Nikki there is actually a thread of entertainment value in it.

The other thing is that TV now has a racial divide that I have no memory of. Some shows are marketed to appeal to blacks and some are marketed to appeal to whites, and some are marketed to appeal to middle class etc. I know you can be white and love the Parkers, Eve etc but it seems like the shows are designed to grab niche audiences more than to appeal to mass audiences. I could be wrong and wouldn't mind feedback, but i think this is true according to the Neilsen ratings.

If Chris Rock or some comic who is black dissed the Parkers I would want to know more of why he feels that way, but Jimmy Kimmel is from completely different socioeconomic place. Parkers wasn't made to appeal to him.

[isiahthomas]

JamesAnthony u are on the money. Jimmy Kimmel does need to shut the hell up cause he can't relate to black shows so why is he even commenting on it. He seems like the type to watch those corny white comedy shows. Anytime a white person disses black stuff like movies or tv shows, i never listen to their opinion cause they can't relate to blacks just like blacks can't relate to whites.

[jamesanthony]

What I don't get is why there aren't more shows like the Norman Lear shows that everybody liked and could relate to. Plenty of whites liked Good Times, Jeffersons etc and plenty of blacks liked a lot of the old sitcoms like Bewitched Lucy etc. now there is this great racial divide in entertainment.

A lot of people jump on the black UPN shows but as I watch them I can relate to them. I know people who behave like those characters. The shows are just exaggerated the same way Frasier is an exaggeration of the lonely middle aged white guy who is a brilliant therapist but can't find his soulmate. If anything that guy Frasier's lack of a love life is more depressing than anything else.

Some network should do a sitcom with a mixed marriage, but they'd have to cast it with people who have real chemistry, not just stick two people together for cheap laughs.

[isiahthomas]

Frasier doesn't have a woman on his show? Maybe it's because he's boring LOL. I never seen his show so i wouldn't know about it. I don't like shows like his cause i can't relate to that type of comedy. It's very rare that i can relate to a white comedy show. Three's Company was a show that i loved cause of how silly Jack Tripper was. I also liked The Golden Girls a lot cause of the grandmother & Betty White. Bea Arthur was funny too on that show. I also liked Soap with Billy Crystal back in the day. Those type of shows i can relate to cause they were funny but i don't like comedy shows that are boring like Frasier.

[CCRYDER1968]

I can relate to any show regardless of racial or socioeconomic background if its funny.I think Frasier is great and obviously,I liked the Parkers.Can't say I can actually relate to either one of them,but I'm just out for a laugh...ya know what I mean?:)

[jamesanthony]

Originally posted by CCRYDER1968
I can relate to any show regardless of racial or socioeconomic background if its funny.I think Frasier is great and obviously,I liked the Parkers.Can't say I can actually relate to either one of them,but I'm just out for a laugh...ya know what I mean?:)

Laughs are good therapy.:)

Frasier isn't unwatchable to me, but I'd rather watch the black shows I guess because I can greater relate to them than the other moden shows.

My all time favorite sitcom is Get Smart from the 60s which has no black people in it but is very entertaining to me. I can watch the episodes multiple times. I like a lot of older shows with no black people in them: One Day at a Time, My Three Sons, Lucy, Danny Thomas. To me these shows have something about them that transcend race. Jeffersons Sanford and Son Good Times What's Happening too they're about black people but not overloaded with black specific injokes as to alienate white viewers.

[CCRYDER1968]

You may have a point about the older shows.I'm always watching TVLand and I guess I tend to go on most of the boards here about the older shows.I like all the shows you mentioned(except Get Smart;) )I think the modern shows,generally speaking,whether "white" or "black" don't have that certain something the older shows had.Its like they just slap together theses scripts sometimes.But there are exceptions,of course.

[danithang]

Originally posted by jamesanthony
It turned out the way I had thought it would if I hadn't watched parts 1 and 2. This show was brain candy, absolutely nothing dramatic, no aspirations to being socially relevant. In the end they gave the fans what they wanted.

He wanted her from year 1 but was in some serious denial and running from it. This match up makes more sense than Laura falling for Steve in Family Matters which I am still trying to figure out. That one is much more one-sided to me.

I liked the finale, yeah it did seem a bit rushed, but I can't really complain since it did have an actually ending. I'm sure the producers didn't have time to do too much with it, but if they did there are a few things that I would have liked to see happen a little differently.

First of all, they didn't really do much with Kim, I wasn't expecting her to have a boyfriend, but they could have did a little more with her getting her business started. Her, T, and Stevie were overshadowed by the Nikki stuff.

Second, I know the Professor was probably in love with Nikki since the beginning, but having him all of a sudden realize it the last 15 minutes of the last episode was really rushed. I think he should have started realizing it in the first of the last three episodes. Or have Nikki and Stanley together before the last episode so we could see how their relationship would have been, then have them marry in the very last episode.

Third, they should have introduced Zhahquan (Kim's invisible friend) earlier because she seemed to be a funny character. But I guess that would have taken away from the Kim and Stevie friendship. But like I said before I enjoyed the ending and wouldn't have liked it if Stanley and Nikki didn't end up together.

Also I thought I was the only one who loathed Steve and Laura together on FM, Steve was better off with Myra and Laura was better off with Stephan. When Laura started liking Steve that just seemed to come out of nowhere.

[marvin g]

She should have married Johnny! It'll never last! :)

[Lisa_06]

I think the show was rushed too but it had to be they didn't have alot of time to come up with something so they through it together! I liked the ending it was ok i knew she was going to marry him! Why would she marry jonnie any way? She just met him!

[Caffeine King]

I like The Parkers...

I'm very pissed at UPN for cancelling it, because it did good in the ratings and it was popular...

UPN ALWAYS cancels shows once they hit the syndication mark...

I'm not much of a fan of Girlfriends but I'm sure it'll happen this season once they have enough episodes of syndication...

As for Jimmy Kimmel or whoever...he sounds like an ass...

I don't think they even show his show down here but The Parkers is shown everyday at 7:30 PM!

But I'm white and I like The Parkers...

It's all a matter of liking the show, not wether your black or white but some ignorant people see UPN as strictly a black network... :rolleyes:

[isiahthomas]

I don't like UPN network either cause they cancelled Platinum 2 yrs ago & i liked the show. I heard the show only had 6 episodes before they cancelled it. They didn't give the show a chance. Eve, Girlfriends, All Of Us, Half & Half, Rock Me Baby will be cancelled. It's only a matter of time.

[Lisa_06]

yeah upn makes me sick. i dont even like watching it anymore. only thing i watch is the parkers at 7:30. i hear mo'nique gone be in another tv show. but i dont if it's true or if it is what network it will be on. if you know anything let us all know !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jamesanthony]

Originally posted by isiahthomas
I don't like UPN network either cause they cancelled Platinum 2 yrs ago & i liked the show. I heard the show only had 6 episodes before they cancelled it. They didn't give the show a chance. Eve, Girlfriends, All Of Us, Half & Half, Rock Me Baby will be cancelled. It's only a matter of time.

Rock Me Baby bit the dust- not surprising it's premise wasn't built for a long run. I strongly suspect that this is Girlfriends' last season- it's going into syndication next week and after 5 years they have to renegotiate contracts- UPN is going to send this one packing. Half and Half has a following- I think this will run long enough to get syndicated- 4 or 5 seasons. I don't know about Eve or All of Us. I suppose this season will be the make it or break it year for both- either they'll go into a third year and for UPN black sitcoms a de facto fourth so they can go into syndication or they'll die this season. If they do don't be surprised to see any of those actors in some other series.