My buddy and I were at Universal Studios in CA and were recruited to go be in the audience of a TV show. They told us the title of the show was "The Bowmans." They put us in a bus and took us to the studio and then dropped us off back at the park about 3 hours later. It was pretty cool.What I remember most is Drew Carey. I knew who he was from his stand-up. The warm-up comedian was really stupid and no one was laughing. He had his girlfriend there and seemed to be trying to impress her. So after a bit, Drew Carey took over doing the comedy between takes and was hilarious!! I thought it was a shame the show got canceled.

Way too short of a run. They sure squeezed a load o' laughs into 13 episodes and I loved 'em all. One the biggest laughs ever came from this show when Tommy wanted to surprise himself with a gift he sent to himself. When asked how it could be a surprise, he explained: I pick some things I do like and some things I don't like in a catalog, copy the cat. #'s only down, jumble them up, pick one and order it. It shows up, he opens it and proceeds to grumble about what a piece of crap gift he just got. Then Drew takes it. Not too funny in my little synopsis, but it was great on the show. Wish I could see it again on DVD. The episode where John takes his son to the track on a school day is a riot too. And a note for the Drew fans out there that aren't familiar with this show. He was the cool guy that got the hot chickies, believe it or not---and he was a riot. I do happen to have the episode where his son's class visits the lock warehouse on "What My Dad Does For A Living Day." I'm desperate to get the rest of the shows. Hope to see the DVD someday. Turtleturk

I remember watching the show whenever I could. My NBC affiliate kept preempting it for garbage they were airing. I can remember the comment about the CFL teams. "What would you like to name yourselves?" "Rough Riders." "Nah... We've Already got a Rough Riders" "How about.... Rough Riders?" "C'mon, we need the teams..." Thank goodness Drew got his own vehicle, but what a shame that this dissolved away into nothing. The kids were cute, but I remember a guest appearance by one character later on Full House. I know that Drew even had him on his show as a guest once, too, but by then it was WAY too little, too late. It seemed like he was doing a dying man a favor. Or, how about the promo during the Olympics of the three-man Bobsled team. It didn't suffer from lack of promotion, just consistency, and local network support, along with LOW watching.

This truly was a worthy (and, most important, funny) series that was cut down before it ever reached its prime. In hindsight, it had sort of the feel of "The Drew Carey Show" (duh, Drew Carey was in it) meets "Everybody Loves Raymond."Funny, engaging, a tiny bit risqué in one episode, but mostly just good, clean family fun. A real winner that somehow lost. And now we've made the prime-time transition from warm, witty sitcoms to "reality" television that has nothing at all to do with reality -- unless you've ever been shipwrecked and had to live 30 days on an island populated in part by cameramen and TV hosts."The Good Life" deserved better, and we as television viewers deserved and continue to deserve better.