2004
30m

Summary Tony Kleinman and his partner, former professional athlete Bernie Widman, co-host a television talk show in Philadelphia devoted primarily to sports and athletes of all disciplines. View more details

2004
30m

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Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Will Rothhaar Jason Alexander Wendy Makkena Daniella Monet

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Genres : Comedy Sport

Release date : Sep 19, 2004

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : CBS

Language : English

Filming locations : 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : New Regency Productions CBS Productions 20th Century Fox Television

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Genres : Comedy Sport

Release date : Sep 19, 2004

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : CBS

Language : English

Filming locations : 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : New Regency Productions CBS Productions 20th Century Fox Television

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Episode 1 • Sep 19, 2004

Pilot

Former sports commentator Tony Kleinman is the comical star-half of a TV-life show presenter duo with ex-jock Bernie Widmer, loaded with sports angles and terminology. Tony also has a syndicated newspaper column in which he usually writes ironically about life from the viewpoint of a short, fat non-beauty, just like him. When Bernie teases Tony for always writing about his own appearance, he promises something different and comes up with the way his teenage daughter Megan treats her dad--as if--and lastly, even explicitly said, he knows nothing and is always wrong while 'even a broken-down clock is right twice a day'. When his wife Dana brings home a potential big-bucks sponsor for her zoo charity, Tony quickly chases him off by taking issue with the mere phrasing that he is 'surprisingly' funny and talented on his show. Tony's son Mickey, on the other hand, avoids all controversy, too absorbed by his studious reading to notice anything trivial, such as Dad attending his golf practice--except his mean kid sister Megan pinching him arm blue for not standing up for himself. Of course, Megan is livid to read Dad's funny piece, considering it an infringement on her privacy, as people get a clue about her underwear; she completely bans Dad from attending her soccer practices and games.

Episode 2 • Sep 26, 2004

Hammer Time

Tony's manhood is threatened from all sides. At work, studio boss Paul wants him and Bernie to make a more trendy, active opening, but his smaller O-size wrecks every single attempt. When Bernie tells how much tougher his father was on him, Tony decides that after too much talking to disrespectful Megan, it's time to punish her hammer-hard. Alas, he picks his battle wrong, feels guilty once he realizes, and finds her counter-offensive far more efficient: when she has her ears pierced again despite explicit paternal refusal, he grounds her for a month, but she concentrates on making life at home a living hell; even sweet sphinx Mickey, who systematically praises Dana for everything he eats or drinks, hides in his room, terrorized by the born bitch. Dana insists that Megan is just Tony's nasty teenage version and that they should talk it through.

Episode 3 • Oct 03, 2004

Grandmaster of the Wolfhunt

Megan invites Bernie Widmer to her school's professional guest-speaker day and only "allows" her dad to join in with a long list of stringent conditions. Despite Will's warning that it's such a tough crowd, even senator-astronaut John Glenn was crying when booed away, Tony prepares a speech and bribes a kid to queue him a "spontaneous question", but they could both have spared themselves the trouble: everybody hangs on big ex-jock Bernie's lips and ignores O-shaped tiny Tony. Furious when Bernie also turns up at home just in time to scare off a nasty cheater, Tony takes it out on his partner on-air, making a total ass of himself, and walks off claiming he will no longer deprive his family of his priceless presence, which in fact is all but prized, barely welcome, and doesn't work out for him either.

Episode 4 • Oct 10, 2004

Cool Jerk

When his studio has a camera problem, Tony drives home and persuades Dana to let him use her cellphone, but on the way back he gets distracted and wrecks the car, but Bernie introduces him to his exclusive mechanic Willie. Pending repairs and retrieval, Tony gets to drive NBA rebounder Dennis Rodman's cool 4x4, which is so huge that O-shaped Tony can barely climb aboard. The girls love the truck so much that even Megan now wants her "too embarrassing to be seen anywhere" father to driver her and her friends Jenny and Sarah everywhere, even to the big dance. Alas, Willie calls: the rust bin is repaired, and Dennis is back and wants his wheels.

Episode 5 • Oct 17, 2004

Quest for Fire

Tony fears that Dana is no longer interested in him as a man, so he takes Bernie's advice to plan a romantic evening--to no avail. Meanwhile, TV focus-group results marking him as cuddly and non-threatening persuade him to turn on the macho during a power cut, but the caveman approach seems just as tranquilizing--and even Laird John Hamilton assumes that Tony and Bernie are a gay couple. Actually, Dana, has another reason..

Episode 6 • Oct 24, 2004

Mickey Swallows a Bee

When ever-gentle son Mickey literally swallows a bee, he and dad Tony decide to let him finish the last hole of his golf course before rushing him and the tournament cup to the hospital. Dana is appalled by such poor prioritizing but has bad news: Mickey's report card is a crushing testimony to his inability to combine top-level golf practice--his best shot at a college scholarship--with limited academic talent. Bernie makes Tony admit that any sports career is far too fragile to rely upon, but then Mickey, who has taken up hospital volunteer work, says he wants to be there when doctors save lives in ER, so Tony thinks he has his little heart set on medical studies. Alas, when proud pa interviews sonny dear on his own TV show, Mickey points out he wants to become a humble orderly: no college required. Yet at the hospital Tony sees that doing the shitty (bedpans!) jobs nobody wants makes both patients and his kind kid sincerely happy. Meanwhile. Megan maintains that if Mickey isn't forced to get good grades, she can slack off a little....lot.

Episode 7 • Nov 07, 2004

The Gift of the Ton-I

Sick and tired of his wife outclassing him with cooler gifts Tony bets that he can do better for his pa Max's birthday. Since Max, who lives in Tampa, is addicted to the Weather Channel, Tony decides on surprise congratulations during a walk-on there. Alas, the station's executive producer Sal Vedetti expects a favor back: a formal dance date for his horrible daughter Loretta with Tony's cute boy Mickey, who is told that Grandpa's heroic war generation deserves a sacrifice out of gratitude, and bites the bitter apple. Alas, Max has an unexpected idea.

Episode 8 • Nov 14, 2004

Sweet Charity

When Tony sees Megan's enormous cell-phone bill, he has enough of her selfishness and taking everything for granted, so he signs her up for a Big Buddy program for single-parented latchkey kids, where she is assigned as Big Sister to little Amy. So Megan signs Tony up to run with her 5-kilometers-sponsored (by him) run for the charity, which nearly gives him a heart attack, but they bring in the most. Alas Bernie recognizes the organizer, Buddy Freeman, as a renowned crook who steals the money raised by his fake charities. Mikey even planned to sell his beloved baseball-card collection for Buddy's benefit, so Tony refuses to believe it's fake, but sees for himself the next day..

Episode 9 • Nov 21, 2004

Thanksgiving

Bernie's widowed mother Pamela Widmer is a bossy know-it-all who lives alone since he moved out but still has 'Bernard' whipped, so he keeps her at arm's-length except for family traditions such as flying over for the elaborate Thanksgiving dinner, and this year he got her and his crazy girlfriend Kiara (his mother's type, he hopes) invited to Tony's home, where Dana finds that she can't do a thing alone (well, not quite right) and sweet son Mickey is 'skinny,' as if Dana didn't feed her family properly (only true compared to O-shaped giant Bernie). Mickey and Megan wrestle with the table-leaf, which is in a sad state after years of non- and misuse. The men couldn't resist betting on the football game by phone, but Pamela must not find out.

Episode 10 • Nov 28, 2004

Mickey Without a Cause

Megan is happy with a box of dad's old clothes mailed by grandma, as "ugly old clothes" are in. Megan didn't give her soccer team's final a single thought despite dad's efforts, but by pure luck her averted head happens to be on the equally accidental path of the winning goal. Tony declares her the sports hero of the century, filling an entire episode of his TV program with Bernie to her accession to the Temple of Sports. Good son Mickey, whose devotion to golf was always boundless, ditches class the next day, neglects his clubs, and sneaks out, all firsts; Megan attributes this to Dad's "hippie period" diary--and the weed that they found in his 1970s pants. Tony finds deeply-disappointed Mickey practicing golf and gets arrested as trespasser in possession, but the kid's bone is of another, younger, meaner nature..

Episode 11 • Dec 12, 2004

Enemy at the Gates

All Tony's over-enthusiastic hopes were on sweet son Mickey's amateur finale golf match, but his slick opponent Jake O'Shannon is just unbeatable that day. Megan protests she had to come, but suddenly take interest in golf on seeing hunky Jake. Tony can't stomach the loss, and pushes ever-obliging Mikey to dare Jake to a friendly rematch on his Philadelphia home turf links. Mikey wins the match and Megan wins a date to a party with Jake, but Tony forbids her to go, so she sneaks out right under her parents' noses after physically threatening gentle big brother Mikey into silence. But his innate honesty makes him crack and spill the truth at Dad and Bernie's first incredulous glance. Alas, Jake isn't quite Megan's dream prince..

Episode 12 • Jan 02, 2005

Tony the Tiger

When the Kleinmans enjoy a rare family restaurant night, Dana makes Tony ask a giant neighbor to put out his stinking cigarette, but the brutal threat of violence gets his lifelong standard response: leaving, claiming he won't lower himself to the bigger (anyone!) challenger's level. When Bernie finds how deep it hurts Tony to have run away "yellow" as always, he offers to teach him all about fighting, or rather not having to thanks to a deterring aura of confidence, which works great in role-play with ever-gentle Mikey, who shyly sends himself to his room after a single glance from castle-built Bernie. The men go test it at the restaurant, but the burly brute doesn't show up; Tony still gets a black eye from an old crone pushing the door, but the homegirls go ape about his "primitive misbehavior." When Dana books to celebrate at the same restaurant, the truth is finally faced, and handled.

Episode 13 • Jan 16, 2005

Snub Thy Neighbor

When ever-docile Mikey follows his girlfriend Rebecca to Gettysburg, five hours away, for her dad's battle re-enactment, Tony tells sonny his life is about to be totally taken over by the other sex--bad advice according to womanizer Bernie, who isn't making any headway with new studio crew member Susan himself. Tony and Dana didn't even know their previous neighbors' names and now practically ignore their successors, until they realizes that they were the only ones in the neighborhood who weren't invited to their first barbecue, even after they bring them a bottle of wine. When Tony finally manages to invite equally aloof Andy and Jane McKillop to dinner, everything conspires to make the worst possible impression.

Episode 14 • Jan 30, 2005

Weekend with Bernie

While Dana is away for the transfer of a monkey to the zoo from Chicago, but "stuck" in a luxury hotel (with masseur) in Cleveland, Tony invites Bernie to stay at his home after a knee operation. Megan gives him the royal treatment, notably giving him her bedroom-- and violently commandeering poor Mickey's bed. Thus Bernie catches two of Megans's school-friends climbing up to her bedroom window to ask her out for mischief, and coaches Tony to show understanding, soon extended to spoiling the surprised "good kids." The next day Bernie bunks with Tony, which goes great, but when his girlfriend Kim invites herself over, Tony feels neglected. After Dana's surprise return, Megan's mischief gets dealt with the zoo-way.

Episode 15 • Feb 06, 2005

Inky Dinky Don't

When construction workers whistle at Tony and Dana, not for her looks but as his show's fans, he decides to concentrate on better fan contacts. She feels she needs a rougher, sexy angle, and after consulting Bernie she gets a Chinese character tattooed on her butt. Tony protests that's "half his" body, to which she replies that he must lose 20--or at least 10--pounds from "their" body, for which Tony crankily blames Bernie. Megan sees sweet Mickey's adored girlfriend Brooke blatantly kissing another boy in public, but he refuses to believe it. When Brooke passes the other boy off as her nonexistent Latvian cousin when it's really Mickey's lab partner, even meek Mickey must mark the truth.

Episode 16 • Feb 13, 2005

Colon-oopscopy

When Bernie has an insurance-required colonoscopy (a miniature camera on a tube right up the rectum), Tony is loudly approving and supportive as he tags along for moral support--but Dr. Lou Swerling seizes the opportunity to schedule Tony for the next morning. Giving Mickey's hospital orderly observations and Dana's "childbirth's worse" routine, he can't even milk it for sympathy. It gets worse: Swerling finds a probably benign polyp but still schedules Tony's butt for the scalpel next day. His attempts to sneak out are foreseen and countered. While he is being prepped, Swerling recognizes Dana as a college date's friend, and Tony fears being "conveniently lost in OR" and runs, albeit only to maternity. So the surgery goes through, but the weirdest twist is in the tail.

Episode 17 • Feb 20, 2005

Tony Whine-Man

Tony is upset when Dana invites to dinner a man who used to bully Tony when he was a kid at summer camp.

Episode 18 • Mar 06, 2005

Couch Potato

Megan's amateur girls' soccer team's coach Mitch tells Tony that his endless criticism is too much and quits, leaving Tony holding the clipboard. The next day, Mitch comes to thank Tony for being such an obnoxious idiot and the ideal excuse to dump a job that his wife would not let him quit. Tony tells Bernie that he's happy to not be the only tormented teenage girl's father, but fright of a whole team suffices to talk him into showing how easy it is for a real player who could handle 140-pound muscle mountains. Tony is impressed, but Bernie admits to Dana that it's murder; she remembers the one thing guaranteed to motivate teenage girls: cute teenage boys, like Mikey, who proves the perfect prize with Patrick and some other mates. Alas, now Tony is jealous, so Bernie asks Tony to "fill in" and tells him the "hormones" trick; they overhear Megan defending Tony to her team friends.

Episode 19 • Mar 20, 2005

Waiting for Kleinman

Megan is thrilled to get the part of Gretel in the local community theater until the director asks Tony to play Hansel, figuring that his "celebrity" status will boost audience attendance. When Tony starts to drive everyone crazy and tries to take over the production, Megan and the rest of the cast realize that, in order to save the show, they must band together to get rid of Tony--quickly.

Episode 20 • Apr 10, 2005

Check Mates

To his own surprise and Dana's delight, while taking out the trash Tony charms his way back into being on speaking terms with neighbor Andrew, who even agrees to come to dinner with his wife Jane. Dana is even more elated when Andrew hears during the meal about the new Philadelphia petting zoo she's raising funds for and decides that it's a good cause to earn some tax deduction himself, but after Tony insists on pie for desert their check stays away while the zoo's deadline next day approaches, and Andrew says he ignores why his wife Jane is suddenly furious at him. Tony promises but fails to clear the situation next door, and incurs his own wife's wicked wrath, only sweet Mikey secretly hands him anything besides a strict pie diet; Tony's next attempt has them bordering on a violent divorce. Bernie has a go, but.

Episode 21 • Apr 17, 2005

Ebony and Irony

When Bernie brings to the studio his visiting cousin Erika, he asks Tony to invite them to dinner so she has someone else to consider utterly uncool. It works, but Erika also dates Mikey, once; when Tony happily shows them off as a couple, both Dana and Bernie suggest that it's a ploy to flaunt his family as being utterly liberal: an insulting thought that makes even Tony and Bernie wonder which part "color-blindness" plays in their own relationship.

Episode 22 • Apr 24, 2005

Last Vegas

The TV station sends Tony and Bernie on a promotion trip to Las Vegas, but since that means not sharing her favorite Elvis marathon, Dana makes him take her and the kids along so they can celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary there as a family. Mickey and Megan are refused casino entry, being underage, but figure there must be many teenagers thus afflicted and set up their own gaming table in their hotel room, and a more experienced local little girl proves a thorny twist... Conflicting loyalties soon cause a row between the spouses, so Bernie takes Tony to a strip-club, but hearing that the lap dancer is called Megan makes him turn paternal and entreat her to return to home and study; then he surprises Dana, who painstakingly resists the tenacious overtures of showman Teller and his mate Penn Jilette.

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