Administrator Toups Posted May 19, 2010 Administrator Share Posted May 19, 2010 Mike & Molly: Discussion Thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted May 19, 2010 Author Administrator Share Posted May 19, 2010 MIKE & MOLLY is a comedy from Chuck Lorre (“Two and a Half Men,” and “The Big Bang Theory”) about a working class Chicago couple who find love at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting. Officer Mike Biggs (Billy Gardell) is a good-hearted cop who sincerely wants to lose weight. Mike’s partner, Officer Carl McMillan (Reno Wilson), is a thin, fast-talking wise-guy, who despite his teasing encourages Mike on his road to slimness and romance. While speaking at an O.A. meeting, Mike meets Molly Flynn (Melissa McCarthy), an instantly likeable fourth-grade teacher with a healthy sense of humor about her curves. For Molly, focusing on smart choices isn’t easy because she lives with her sexy older sister, Victoria (Katy Mixon), and their mother, Joyce (Swoosie Kurtz), both of whom flaunt their healthy appetites and slender figures. Mike also faces temptation at the diner he and Carl frequent, where they’ve become friends with the Senegalese waiter, Samuel (Nyambi Nyambi), who finds trying to eat less a foreign concept. For Mike and Molly, thanks to their mutual love of pie and the desire to resist it, finding each other may have been worth the “weight.” Chuck Lorre and Mark Roberts are executive producers for Chuck Lorre Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted May 19, 2010 Members Share Posted May 19, 2010 Didn't Norman Lear do this show 25 years ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted May 19, 2010 Members Share Posted May 19, 2010 He did? It sounds like a limiting concept. I mean, how many plotlines can they make based around fat jokes and skinny jokes? And if the show is based around that, then why so much focus on it in the PR? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted May 19, 2010 Members Share Posted May 19, 2010 Norman Lear had a short lived sitcom about two overweight people in love. I think it was called Dumplings or something. Given that Lorre shows, at least Two and a Half Men, seem to be all about hate and bile, I can see this show becoming a success, since a lot of people still enjoy making fun of the overweight (even though so many Americans today are overweight). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted May 19, 2010 Members Share Posted May 19, 2010 Wow, as much as I've been into TV of the 60s, 70s, and 80s for all these years, I'd never heard of that before. Now I want to see it. Oh, they make fun of being overweight because if they make fun of it, it won't be the serious health risk that it really is. Kinda sad. No, not kinda sad. Very sad. I'm just glad John Goodman is not involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted May 20, 2010 Members Share Posted May 20, 2010 As we "speak," members of all the anti-weight discrimination leagues are probably lining up, posters in hand, outside CBS Television City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dm. Posted September 24, 2010 Members Share Posted September 24, 2010 Decent pilot, could have been better, but there were definitely worst pilots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted September 26, 2010 Members Share Posted September 26, 2010 Pretty much agree with you. I'll give it another run next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Southofnowhere Posted September 26, 2010 Members Share Posted September 26, 2010 Like Crap My Dad Says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Juliajms Posted September 26, 2010 Members Share Posted September 26, 2010 The characters met in Overeaters Anonymous, so the show is acknowledging being obese is a physical/psychological problem. I really don't think we have to worry too much about Hollywood (or the media in general) sending us the message that being overweight is ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JackPeyton Posted September 26, 2010 Members Share Posted September 26, 2010 i LOVE this show! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted October 27, 2010 Members Share Posted October 27, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members JackPeyton Posted October 28, 2010 Members Share Posted October 28, 2010 I can not believe Marie Clair, online or not, would allow such a thing to be published. Whats disgusting is this former anorexic woman who would like to bully and shame people into having her former eating disorder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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