Movieline Calls The Marriage Ref's 4 Biggest Penalties

In Conclusion

Julie: I just thought that if anyone would have standards when it comes to television and comedy, it would be the co-creator of the greatest sitcom of our time.

Louis: Unfortunately this sort of thing happens when you make the greatest sitcom of all time -- you become protective over that show's success, yell at Larry King for it, and use your huffy pride to make vanity projects that involve drafting all these stars into the picture. Tina Fey, run away!

Julie: I wonder how the ratings were? They gave that the Olympic lead-out.

Louis: Ratings were pretty great. Seinfeld clearly wants to enter the void that, yes, America's Funniest Home Videos left in late '90s. Families can watch this one together! On a Sunday night! And Dad can remark that Kelly Ripa is "actually pretty funny" AND a doozy.

Julie: It's sad to me because NBC made some positive PR progress with the Olympics. They smartly buried their Leno promos. And now they are once again nosediving.

Louis: But did you really expect much from this in the first place? This was a celebrity-baiting ploy from the start.

Julie: I kind of did -- I heard Seinfeld talk about how funny the couples were -- and I figured we'd at least get a few Seinfeld-quality observations. And anything that Alec Baldwin is involved in, I tend to think could be good.

Louis: You thoughtless little pig. ♦

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Comments

  • Gallant Patsy says:

    I could have watched the first couple argue over the stuffed dog in the in-house mausoleum forever.
    The rest? Not so much.

  • Louis Virtel says:

    The couples were so good, it's almost like they belonged IN THE STUDIO. God, bad decisions everywhere here. I will now talk directly to Jerry Seinfeld by quoting the album in your avatar: "This is an alarm call, so wake up, wake up now."

  • sweetbiscuit says:

    It was all immensely awkward. And you'd think they'd air the funniest one first, right? Oy. Alex Baldwin didn't know where to face (the host? the video screen? the audience? Kelly?), and I couldn't for the life of me understand why Tom Pablum (orange as an Oompa Loompa) kept asking the booth to replay some of the video, like we'd all forgotten what was said 18 seconds earlier?
    When it went to Marv "Bite Me" Albert, I just figured I'd accidentally put the wrong mushrooms in my stir-fry. Again.
    The whole thing should have been in Japanese.

  • jeff says:

    "can't they judge 'The Singing Bee'?"
    Jerry Seinfeld already tried the Bee thing. It didn't work.

  • Patrick says:

    You missed one of the most annoying aspects of the entire groan fest:
    The laugh track. Didn't matter there was a live audience. They spliced in laughs. It was an act of desperation I suppose. I imagine producers thought that, after all the hype, television viewers were going to hear uproarious laughter. Yet sadly, at one point where a celebrity made an uninteresting predictable comment, I could hear uproarious canned audience laughter (almost sounded as if it were on a loop), but I also could see the faces of some in the audience ... and they were stone faced. Ouch!

  • el smrtmnky says:

    alec baldwin being on this show is like david duke hosting the image awards

  • graham says:

    This show was on more than once? Ouch. I saw the first episode, and thought they should just refer the lame marital issues over to Dr. Phil. This show was painful to watch, like an adult piano recital.
    so sad...Jerry should have walked away after Seinfeld. If he had, he would be revered like Johnny Carson today. Instead, after Bee Movie and The Marriage Ref, he is much closer to George Lopez insignificance.
    Cosby - Enhanced his rep with an EVEN BETTER sitcom the second time around.
    Ted Danzen - Played a completely different character the second time around, and worked it just as well.
    Ray Romano - Gracefully didn't try to top Everybody Loves Raymond.
    Seinfeld - Oh yah, maybe he should have been viewed as the SUPPORTING ACTOR on Seinfeld.

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