Dharma & Greg

Anyone else love this show? It really was Jenna Elfman and Susan Sullivan's show. But the rest of the cast were great- Thomas Gibson, Shae D'Lyn, Joel Murray, Alan Rachins, Mimi Kennedy, and, my favorite, Mitchell Ryan.

Anyone else love this show?

It really was Jenna Elfman and Susan Sullivan's show.

But the rest of the cast were great- Thomas Gibson, Shae D'Lyn, Joel Murray, Alan Rachins, Mimi Kennedy, and, my favorite, Mitchell Ryan.

I would have loved for Edward and Kitty Montgomery to by my parents.

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by Anonymousreply 22April 3, 2022 10:42 PM

I DETEST Jenna Elfman. I don’t believe I was able to sit thru an entire episode.

by Anonymousreply 3March 29, 2022 2:23 AM

I rewatched it on Hulu during the early pandemic days, and the first several seasons still held up and were very enjoyable. Season 4, when they started to inject the drama and the potential infidelity plot, is when it started to go off the rails, and the fifth season was pretty tired. It was clearly time for the show to end. It was nice that they were able to give it a satisfying finale (that still would have allowed the show to continue if it hadn't been canceled).

I hate that Chuck Lorre brought the characters (or at least the actors) into Two and a Half Men just to shit on them, but at least that's easily ignored.

But yes, Sullivan really made that show, with Elfman close behind. (Haven't liked Elfman in anything else though.)

by Anonymousreply 4March 29, 2022 2:28 AM

Susan Sullivan was so hilarious on that show. Kitty Montgomery was both a snob and a priss, yet Sullivan made her so incredibly lovable.

by Anonymousreply 5March 29, 2022 2:29 AM

The Dharma character was the epitome of Manic Pixie Dream Girl. I'm glad she's dead.

by Anonymousreply 6March 29, 2022 2:30 AM

r5, agreed. Kitty would be unbearable in real life, but they allowed her a lot of nuance.

I loved this one where Greg tells her off for trying to rope him into mother-son activities so she takes up with a gay guy played by Scott Thompson who seems to worship her...only to have him end up doing a drag show mocking her.

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by Anonymousreply 7March 29, 2022 2:34 AM

How she says Edward is ingrained in my mind.

And Mitchell Ryan is a very underrated actor. He was always the villain- Dark Shadows, High Plains, Drifter, Magnum Force, Midway, Lethal Weapon, Hot Shots! Part Deux, Speechless, Judge Dredd, and Liar Liar. Really sad he died this month.

by Anonymousreply 8March 29, 2022 2:45 AM

I forgot about this show lol. A lot of late 90s and early 2000s shows like Dharma and Greg, Becker, Spin City, Two Guys and a Girl, Yes, Dear, According to Jim and Veronica's Closet are all but forgotten.

by Anonymousreply 9March 29, 2022 4:04 AM

Other nearly forgotten 2000s shows: 8 Simple Rules, Hope and Faith, Reba, What I Like About You, everything else on The WB and UPN.

by Anonymousreply 10March 29, 2022 4:07 AM

Thomas Gibson was cute. Beautiful cheekbones.

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by Anonymousreply 12March 29, 2022 4:45 AM

He delivered Dee Dee's twins, Anna and Edgar.

by Anonymousreply 13March 29, 2022 6:10 AM

It's a real testament to Susan Sullivan's talent that she has so far been the only actress who plays one of the manipulative cold bitches in Chuck Lorre's sitcoms and make her lovable. Neither Holland Taylor nor Christine Baranski were ever able to make you care about their similar characters in Lorre's shows; and yet after her initial episodes playing the role as Lorre had written her, Sullivan made Kitty the funniest and most engaging character on the show. I would watch it just for her.

by Anonymousreply 14April 3, 2022 2:41 AM

Dharma and Greg annoyed me. I loved both sets of parents, though. The actor who played Greg's father died this week.

by Anonymousreply 15April 3, 2022 2:45 AM

Mitchell Ryan was a hot daddy for the majority of his career.

by Anonymousreply 16April 3, 2022 2:58 AM

I thought it was really funny Jenna Elfman and Thomas Gibson reprised their roles in a very sour way on two and a Hlaf Men. Although they did not use the characters' names on the episode of TBBT, the story made it very clear what everyone long suspected: once the enormous sexual attraction had finally settled, Greg would have become very tired of Dharma and would be looking for a way out of the marriage.

by Anonymousreply 17April 3, 2022 4:28 AM

[quote]Mitchell Ryan is a very underrated actor. He was always the villain- Dark Shadows, High Plains, Drifter, Magnum Force, Midway, Lethal Weapon, Hot Shots! Part Deux, Speechless, Judge Dredd, and Liar Liar.

Don't forget Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers. Producer's cut is where it's at, yo.

As for Dharma and Greg, I remember it as an above-average sitcom, but I don't think I'd be able to watch it now. Jenna looked at Kirstie Alley's reputation as the most unhinged of all hardcore Hollywood Scientologists and said, "Hold my beer."

by Anonymousreply 18April 3, 2022 4:36 AM

Jenna fizzled because she always plays a variation of herself.

by Anonymousreply 19April 3, 2022 4:37 AM

Wait-- there were sitcoms on in the 90s that weren't Friends, Seinfeld, Mad About You, Roseanne and Home Improvement?

Mind blown!!!!

by Anonymousreply 20April 3, 2022 4:37 AM

I remember watching this show while waiting for something better to come on. We didn't have cable. I remember Dharma was really "wacky" in that fake TV way and Greg didn't have a personality. TV seems to have gotten a lot better in the past 20 years

by Anonymousreply 21April 3, 2022 2:14 PM

Susan Sullivan and Mitchell Ryan could have had their own show.

by Anonymousreply 22April 3, 2022 10:42 PM

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