The above comment isn't really fair but you've gotta admit that among others, Drew Carey, Ray Romano or even Jerry Seinfeld aren't really people you should look up to. Nothing really works out for them either or if it does it is usually forgotten by next week where they are back to the "Nothing good happens to me or if it does something else happens that screws the whole thing up".The problem with this show is that Drew, the character, is too aware that things doesn't work out for him. He knows he is fat and the way to live with it is of course to make self-deprecating jokes and occasionally make a snide remark to his assistant Mimi, well played by Kathy Kinney.Of course, Drew has to have an attractive female friend, in this case the very hot Christa Miller, at least she was back then. But they could never be anymore than friends. His two male friends are also a couple of dimwits of course. I will say that Dietrich Bader (is that how you spell his name?) is somewhat of a favorite of mine ever since i heard his voice on the Simpsons playing a hillbilly sheriff. But for some reason he doesn't make a big impression here because there is too much focus on the other male friend, played by Ryan Stiles.Many people will probably write me hate mail if they read this but the live sitcom is a total waste of TV space today. And I am not just talking about American sitcoms either. Here in Denmark we have tried experimenting with sitcoms featuring well known Danish comedians, just like you do in the States. But for some reason you can't make a Danish version of an American invention. It has something to do with the Danish language, I think. We have to incorporate some English phrases to make it work and it is usually a four-letter word. Is that really great comedy? Of course not. So I will give American sitcoms some credit. Nobody can make them except Americans but they are not up to the standards of the 80's to early 90's sitcoms, where in my opinion the American sitcom had its prime.This was more of a diversion away from what I really think of "The Drew Carey Show". But what more can I say that I haven't already done on the Seinfeld, ELR or Ellen comments.

First,let me say there is nothing I could possibly add to the positives of The Drew Carey Show. I have to say at it's outset,I had no idea who he was,having never seen him on The Tonight Show. I wasn't crazy about the "Moon Over Parma" theme either (I thought he said Move Over Mama which made no sense of course!) I liked the scene,in the pilot,where he coughs and at the same time tears up Mimi's application for the cosmetics department...very funny! The whole series was great (except for the episode where he almost passes away!) until ABC moved it to Monday nights. What possessed them to do that?! I think given his success with this show and "Whose Line.." maybe ABC thought he was getting "too big" and decided to sabotage him. (Not directly accusing but that's how it seems to me.)So poor Drew and crew get regularly pushed back to late night due to the fact that football comes first! I actually had to stay up to see a show! Since I usually had work the next day,naturally i couldn't always do that. So I lost track. I didn't even see the final shows until this past May. At least it had a conclusion and for my money,it was worth the wait. Nice ending,Drew once again out in the rain playing pool in his back yard,with those closest to him watching from the window...thinking he's nuts! (ha ha!) Closing with "You Can Still Rock In America" by Night Ranger.

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.

The Drew Carey was definitely one of my favourite sit-coms to come out of the 1990s. It was refreshing to see a show where the characters made fun of themselves in a self-deprecating way, rather than the usual brinkmanship of other shows. While Lewis and Oswald were two of the funnier characters, I feel that all characters had their moments. I've read several places that people do not find Drew Carey as funny, yet I believe he's necessary to balance out the many other cartoonish characters.This show also fascinated me because it wasn't always happy times and appealed to more than our sense of humour. One of my favourite episodes was where Drew and Nikki break up, as it just seemed like a very real moment when the episode ended with Drew watching the "break-up tape' alone while drinking a beer. The show made fun but also dealt with the flaws and weaknesses of its characters, something few comedy shows have ever done.Finally, I actually enjoy some of the later episodes. Granted the episodes that combined Drew's other show, "Whose Line is it Anyway" generally fell flat (but hey, at least they were trying something new), many of the episodes in the last season had some of the show's biggest laughs. Particularly, the episode where Drew and Kelly entered into the karaoke competition at the Warsaw still has me laugh every time I hear the song, "Do it to me one more time."Oh, there's rumours that a DVD set for Season 1 is finally coming out some time this year, and hopefully soon. Hell, if shows like Murder One and The Jamie Foxx Show are being released on DVD, it makes little sense that the number 1 ranked show during its prime isn't released on DVD soon. MAKE IT HAPPEN ABC!!!Cheers