"The Drew Carey Show" (1995) TV series 1995-2004

Creators:

Drew Carey
Bruce Helford

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | unknown

Release Date:

13 September 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Tagline:

It's like real life. Just a whole lot funnier.

Plot:

Drew is an assistant director of personnel in a Cleveland department store and he has been stuck there for ten years...

Plot Keywords:

Beer | Bigamy | Sitcom | Cleveland Ohio | Friend

Awards:

Nominated for 7 Primetime Emmys. Another 11 wins & 8 nominations

Cast

Drew Carey	...	Drew Carey / ... (204 episodes, 1995-2004)
Diedrich Bader	...	Oswald Lee Harvey / ... (202 episodes, 1995-2004)
Kathy Kinney	...	Mimi Bobeck Carey / ... (199 episodes, 1995-2004)
Ryan Stiles	...	Lewis Kiniski / ... (199 episodes, 1995-2004)
Craig Ferguson	...	Nigel Wick / ... (170 episodes, 1996-2004)
Christa Miller	...	Kate O'Brien / ... (168 episodes, 1995-2002)

Runtime:

30 min (233 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Company:

Mohawk Productions

Trivia:

John Carroll Lynch, who plays Drew's older brother, Steve, is actually five years younger than Drew Carey.

Quotes:

Drew Carey: For the next few days, he'll replace my shadow.
[before anybody can talk; points to Kate]
Drew Carey: Yeah, shadow, more like the population of China!
[points to Lewis]
Drew Carey: Yeah, shadow, more like a solar eclipse!
[points to Oswald]
Drew Carey: Yeah, shadow, 'cause you're so fat!
[pause]
Drew Carey: Real original, Oswald.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Rated 'R': Republicans in Hollywood (2004) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Cleveland Rocks

ABC killed this show

I was a big fan of the show when it was on, and I've been watching a lot of the episodes again in syndication. Drew Carey was always a funny stand up. The cast was great...Ryan Stiles and Diedrich Baker are two very underrated guys in playing comedy, and Craig Ferguson was always fun to watch.

Maybe the show ran its course and it was smart for Drew to close it out on a high note, and wrap the series up nicely with a final episode, but I can't help but think that ABC killed this show.

The show was a staple of the network for so many years, and it finally began to slip in the ratings a little and ABC got worried to quickly and juggled it around to a bunch of different time slots. Add that with the reality TV craze, and a show like the Drew Carey Show which I think cost quite a bit to produce became obsolete very quickly.

That's a nice thank you after the show and the show's main actor did a lot to help the network.

A lot of people peg Christa Miller leaving the show as the down turn. I don't think so. Cynthia Watros was did a decent job for having to come in 7 years into a series and take over the lead actress role. The series was still funny and could have been had ABC left it alone.

Sadly, the final season was run completely out of order with large gaps in between air time which made it nearly impossible to keep track of.

Hopefully, they'll release it on DVD to give this very underrated and funny show a proper sendoff.