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Tucker aired from October 2-23, 2000 on NBC.

Tucker Pierce ( Eli Marienthal) was a teenager whose life was seriously disrupted when he and his newly divorced mom were forced to move in with her bossy fussbudget sister, in the latter's big suburban house. Jeannie ( Noelle Beck) was his worrywart mom and Claire ( Katey Sagal) his aunt, who never let them forget how generous she was even while making Jeannie sleep on the couch ( so she wouldn't have to give up her sewing room) and obsessing about her figurines. Uncle Jimmy ( Casey Sander), a pilot for Trans Globe Airlines, was a little more mellow, but their son Leon ( Nathan Lawrence) was a holy terror, fixated on wrestling ( which he practiced by continually jumping on Tucker) and his collection of human hair. Tucker, who narrated, was a bright and outgoing lad who made the most of things and concocted many schemes, none of which seemed to work out. One bright spot was McKenna ( Alison Lohman), a sexy neighbor kid, who alternately teased and flirted with him. Kenickie ( Andrew Lawrence) was a classmate.

NBC pulled the low-rated sitcom after four episodes, however nine additional episodes were aired in the middle of the night between March 6-27, 2001.

A Review from The New York Times

New TV Season in Review; Coming of Age In the Year 2000
GENZLINGER
Published: October 2, 2000

'Tucker'
NBC, tonight at 8:30

The opening gag of ''Tucker,'' a new sitcom that NBC offers tonight, is so tasteless that it may take casual viewers a moment to decode it; it's not the kind of thing one expects to see on a show billed as ''a coming-of-age family comedy.'' Don't worry if you miss the first reference, though, because the best these oafish writers can do is reintroduce the offensive bit again and again. The gag won't be detailed here, but picture a 14-year-old telling Viagra jokes, and you've got the idea.

The ''Tucker'' interpretation of ''coming of age'' is all hormonal, making the show a sorry imitation of its betters in the genre. Eli Marienthal is Tucker, the 14-year-old; Noelle Beck is his newly divorced mother; Katey Sagal is the aunt/ sister they move in with; Alison Lohman is the lust object who lives next door (happily, she declines Tucker's invitation to take off her shirt, at least in the first episode), and all of them should be quarantined immediately. NEIL GENZLINGER

For more on Tucker go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_(TV_series)