Friday, May 6, 2022

Wu's TV Corner #16: Misery Loves Company

 


https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/07/misery-loves-company.html

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0649113/

1995 Fox. "Uneasy Rider." Four aging friends hang out in a sports bar. Christopher Meloni, Julius Carry, Stephen Furst, Dennis Boutsikaris. Joe gets a Harley and inspires the gang to become bikers. Biker guest stars: M.C. Gainey, Mickey Jones, Donald Gibb, Franc Ross. Plus Diane Delano.

After buying motorcycles the guys think they can hang out in the local biker bar but quickly find out they're not exactly cut out for it. Just in the last week I have seen M.C. Gainey in Cheers, Simon & Simon, and Buddy Faro. He is one of mean bikers in the bar called Scar. Stephen Furst saves the day by performing some impromptu dental surgery on Donald Gibb. Impacted beef jerky. The payoff is that everyone in the biker bar turns out to be posers, not just our gang of friends. A pharmacist, a urologist, a Starbucks barista. 

Only four episodes of this show aired and one of the unaired episodes is titled, "Wu's Company." Fox had a history of short-lived sitcoms in the 90s. This one episode has been on Youtube for a while, and I've also seen the pilot, but that has been deleted. It's a decent enough show and the cast is good. The biker guest star cast makes this one a lot of fun. The promo below is actually for this episode.

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