We Got It Made Boned the Fish When...

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The show focuses on Mickey Mackenzie (Teri Copley), a stunningly beautiful woman in her early 20s who applies for a housekeeping job in Manhattan. Her employers are two bachelors who share the two bedroom apartment attorney David Tucker (Matt McCoy) and salesman Jay Bostwick (Tom Villard). Mickey is the first and only applicant for the job; in fact, both David and Jay are so taken by her beauty they immediately hire her. Both David and Jay had girlfriends David's was Claudia (Stepfanie Kramer, who left midway through the first season), while Jay dated kindergarten teacher Beth Sorensen (Bonnie Urseth). Both Claudia and Beth were skeptical about their boyfriends having such an attractive maid living with them, but they eventually grew to accept Mickey as a friend. When it first premiered, it appeared We Got It Made would be successful, winning its time slot early in the run. But before long, negative reviews from both critics and the general viewing public eroded its viewership. By March 1984, We Got It Made became the latest casualty of NBC's disastrous 1983-1984 season.

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  A short-lived show about two guys with an attractive live-in maid. Oh goody, Three's Company with Joyce DeWitt as a man, just what I've been asking for.
  This sitcom was so brainless it made "Three's Company" look like Masterpiece Theatre. The maid was a completely senseless clone of Chrissy Snow whose main function was to giggle and jiggle. The 2 guys were the most unappealing lead characters that I can ever recall seeing on a TV series, and that includes the entire cast of "Friends".
  yes indeed, this show was a shark jumper from the start, but it did have its merits. teri copley. oh boy. she was very strokable. and some of the cast was funny. tom villiard, who played the only guy in the eastwood movie heartbreak ridge to die, who died in real life with aides, he was great. hey, c'mon, it wasn't a bad show. or, maybe it was. i guess it was just a good memory.
  I believe the name of the show was actually "We Got It MAID". Don't ask me why I remember that or this stupid show.
  This show absolutely sucked. It's pretty obvious it jumped quickly - based on the length of it's run. I don't even think they kept the tapes for reruns, at least I've never had the horrible experience of seeing it again anywhere.
  It never jumped because the ramp was pulled. I think the networks got cold feet. But it could have survived and become a great T&A show like "I Dream of Genie" or "Baywatch." Let's face it, a T&A show if there ever was one. And don't tell me that dooms it, Baywatch and I Dream of Genie ring a bell. With that said, the maid (and I do believe the show was spelled "We've got it MAID") was unbelievably hot which provided an incentive for half of the population to tune in. To keep us there it needed to be funny. For this, I can not comment on. I know that I was blinded by hormones and stared at the maid. However, I do remember one HUGE annoyance that turned into rage. One of the guys on the show was set up to be the straight man or "heavy" that would always to the moral high ground. Hence we would not soil his ethics through sexual behavior with the HOTTER-THAN-**** maid. Wake up writers! This did not make him the "heavy" or "ethical," it made him gay or stupid. God, I would have stopped watching just so I would not have to put up with that moron "fending" of the advances of his hot maid. This is very similar to Major "Larry Hagman" and Jeannie on "I Dream of Jeannie."
  This show was a victim of NBC's infamous "Be There" campaign of 1983-1984. According to Brandon Tartikoff's "The Last Great Ride" in 1992, not a single new NBC program that premiered in September, 1983 lived past the end of the 1983-1984 season, the only new show to survive was a midseason replacement series that lasted for about nine seasons called "Night Court". Also, it jumped the shark when it moved "Cheers" to a 9:30 time slot for the 83-84 season. (it returned to 9:00 in September 84)
  While Ms. Copley was SUPERNOVA HOT, this show was NOT! I mean, it went to *great* lengths to keep her from EVER sleeping with ANYone. One episode had her crawling into bed with the lead dork but, aww, it turned out that she was NOT being seductive but, rather, did this because she was thinking of her parents' divorce and reverting to a childhood sleepwalking habit (huh?!). The WORST tease-then-withdraw plot had to be when she was courted by a middle-aged Spanish millionare named Sandoval and he proposes to her and she accepts! Well, after hemming and hawing a bit at the wedding (in the DORKS' apartment- like the millionaire couldn't afford somewhere ELSE to hold it?), she finally DOES say 'I DO' . ..and *moments* later, Señor Sandoval DROPS DEAD!!! I guess it was from frustration! Well, the NEXT part of the two-parter shows her *mourning* 'the love of her life' by attending board meetings at his company wearing hot-to-trot business outfits. .but STILL living in the dorks' apartment- despite having inherited HALF of his millions! In the end, she convinces his wimpy bald son to run his father's company instead of her (while she STILL keeps the money) and then at the very end she plays the tape of his will and 'cries' like a five-year-old girl whose Barbie doll lost its left shoe down the drain! I mean, this was SO bad, that it wasn't even *unintentionally* funny. AND, in spite of KEEPING all those millions, she NEVER considers leaving the dorks' apartment and is BACK to being a maid (and using her maiden name) right at the start of the next episode- and NEVER AGAIN is her late husband mentioned for the rest of this witless series!
  This show was eaten, chewed up, and spit out at the first mention of the concept of this "Who greenlighted this crap?" show. I comment on this show becuse it was one show where the commercials for it made me so mad that I couldn't see straight. I wish I could have been in the room when this show was pitched to the network. "We have this hot looking maid.............and we have this hot looking maid....... oh, yeah and, get this!, she ends up working for these two sex-crazed single guys!!!. No wait!...here's the funny part....the guys are always oggling her and making stupid comments and trying to hit on her!!! " I would like to know one thing: Who at NBC was the guy in the room that said, "Yeah, great idea, let's do it!" I just want to know because I want to make sure that he is currently doing something more suitable to his talents like shoveling ****. I also must agree with the poster who said that the two guys had to be the most unlikable sitcom characters in TV history (especially that SUPER DORK with the dark curly hair). Belongs in the BAD TV Hall of Fame.
  The show pretty much was doomed from the start. I remember it starred that Villiard guy who also appeared in a movie called "One Crazy Summer" with Bobcat Golthwaite and John Cusack. He was also in a Clint Eastwood flick called Heartbreak Ridge. He died of pneumonia brought on by AIDS some years ago. I'm 99% sure that Amanda Bearse (Married with Children) was also in this show as one of the girlfriends. Really, the show wasn't at all fresh or new as far as ideas and NBC came up with some really lame shows that year and most all of them got canned.
  In hindsight, this was a pretty substandard show. However, the opening credits were the salvation--the sexy Teri Copley in a pink T-shirt and blue jeans! She looked great wearing those simple clothes. Be honest: How many good-looking young women out there--college-aged or late high school, 5'6" or under and not overweight--look great just wearing a plain white T-shirt and blue jeans? Awesome, baby! Oh, the show. Well, had there been some writers with some decent talent, WGIM could have survived a few years and been NBC's salvation for the season. The show just didn't appeal to me in syndication. However, just for kicks, I'd like to see TV Land rerun one of the NBC "WGIM" episodes in one of its "Fandemonium Marathon" weekends--perhaps as a salute to all those short-lived sitcoms and drama series that, for one reason or another, laid an egg. If for no other reason, just so I and others can see the opening credits with Teri Copley in a pink T-shirt and blue jeans.
  teri copely was a clone of the Snow girl from 3s Company only in attitude, she was hotter than Krissy, or Crissy, however you spell it, Crissy looks like she has down syndrome sometimes, and Copely has buck teeth. I'm confused. The show sucked - that's all there is to it!@!!!!@!!
  This show sucked from Day One. And it is so obscure that I can't believe there are all these comments on it. Must be because it had unforgettable babe action (w/o any real action) When Stephanie Kramer is the "ugly girl" on the show, then it's got some serious power. Believe it or not, I actually had a Teri Copley poster (wearing white shorts) and threw it away. What was I thinking!
  Show sucked. Teri Copley was hot. Just what all men in the 80's were looking for. A super HOT blonde that is super STUPID. She would prance around in her skimpy outfits cleaning two idiots house. And the correct spelling for the show is "We Got It Made", although the other spelling would have made more sense.
  Fred Silverman tried to imitate the success of ABC's more popular Three's Company and was shot down again!! Ridiculous plots [one of the guys accidentally seeing Mickey nude in the shower,a tanning product that turns Mickey's skin blue,an episode that revolved around a musical toilet],worse characters [an uptight lawyer,wacky guy,braindead maid,uptight girlfriend,braindead girlfriend],and did so poorly in the ratings NBC moved it to Saturday nights where it was promptly cancelled in only 6 months! It ran another year in first run syndication that replaced the uptight lawyer character with another actor!! What,the original actor [Matt McCoy]wasn't available? Teri Copley's career went in the toilet after doing this show,she posed nude in Playboy in 1990 and it didn't help much because where is she now??
  Just a note: one of the guys was played by Matt McCoy, who went on to play the wimpy husband opposite Annabella Sciorra in the film "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle." He's an alumnus of a theatre group I spent a few years in, Wildwood Summer Theatre, in Bethesda, MD. He was a few years ahead of me tho, so I didn't know him personally. Local boy makes good!
  Yes this show sucked, and Terri Copley was hot, but remember the brunette girlfriend? Her name was Claudia I think; she was the hottest by far. Remember when her and one of the idiot main characters made that videotape which everyone later saw because they accidentally put in the VCR? Where they were dressed up as a sultan and belly dancer? Come on wasn't Claudia in the belly dancer outfit the hottest thing you ever saw? Later that guy and Terri Copley got together and he dumped the girlfriend, what was he thinking. That just shows how lame the show was.
  I saw a few episodes of it, god only knows why, and I spent my time wondering who Teri Copley slept with to get this on the air in the first place.
  It didn't take a genius to see that this show borrowed heavily from Three's Company. Fred Silverman, who was running NBC in those days, never thought twice about ripping off other shows for concepts. Matlock, which Silverman produced, was a blatant ripoff of Perry Mason. Similarly, We Got it Maid was a ripoff of Three's Company. However, instead of two women living with one man, it was two men living with one woman who was supposed to be their maid. To the poster who said he thought Amanda Bearse of Married: With Children played one of the girlfriends, you're incorrect. The girlfriends were played by Bonnie Urseth and Stephanie Cramer. Cramer of course went on to Hunter after WGIM was cancelled. Although this show jumped the shark on day one as far as I was concerned, the reason was not so much that it ripped off Three's Company as it was that it just happened to be poorly written and performed.
  When this show debuted, it was paired up with Cheers. The writers of TV Turkeys said that it "did neither show a favor." This show was mentioned as being a rip-off of Three's Company only with another guy and another gal. To think that Stephanie Cramer and Matt McCoy both got their starts on this show was pretty weird. As if that wasn't bad enough, they later syndicated this show in the late 1980s. Unlike Mama's Family, this one did not survive the cast changes and other switches.
  The theme song to this atrocity just came back to me, and I can't get it out of my head. The guys in this show were so bland I don't even remember them, and the girl was just another dumb blonde, though she's hardly memorable either. I remember watching it because it replaced a better show that had been cancelled, and even at my young and impressionable age, I remember thinking it was the stupidest show on TV. All shameless, mindless T&A.
  One of the great embarrassments of NBC, WE GOT IT MADE was a mercifully, short-lived sitcom about two "swinging bachelors" who hire a stacked, blonde bimbo to be their housekeeper, despite the disapproval of their girlfriends. This show jumped from day one. It was another attempt to cash in on the "jiggle" craze initiated by THREE'S COMPANY and was a dismal failure. Teri Copley may have been the worst actress on the planet and thankfully, was never seen again after this disaster. Man, this one really stunk up the place.
  The correct spelling IS "We Got It Made." This is exactly WHY the show jumped from day one. The producers were TOO stupid to catch on to the play on words.
  The title of the show was, "We Got It Made," with "Made" crossed out and "Maid" written in over it -- it was a pun! Sadly, that was about the funniest part of that show.