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I should have quit after the disappointing first 2 episodes, but in fairness I persevered.

I would have been better off watching some old movies, rather than waste my time with this jumbled, bad scene continuity and mental story!

No other show is as disjointed as this!

Too much BS in 28 episodes. It could have all been done much better in one single season.

Stories repeated, no follow up in the next episode, rather try and explain the ending of episode 3 in episode 6, by then forgotten who was with whom doing what!

I don't recommend it.

I can't believe the high score! The actors or the whole company must have a lot of friends!

Only suitable for viewers with a mental defficiency!

I find this season 12 a bit ridiculous, actually the show declined over the second half.

Mike got married and disappeared, like he died, never to be mentioned ever again, then that painfully annoying character and actor Ernie is adopted into family, he never changed from being an annoying character or hiss whole career in acting, I guess to still make 3 "sons", but Robbie has only been seen a couple of time more than halfway in season 12, so he no longer there, just his wife Katie and the triplets. Chips got married and only seen a couple of times. Dodie seems to have taken the front stage, meanwhile Barbara, who ged 10 years in one year, has 3/4 inch eyelashes which she never takes off, not even for bed, same goes for all the women wearing super long eyelashes which are ridiculous! Of course all American women have always gone to bed wearing a bra!

I was glad to see the back of the first Uncle, annoying grumpy character, as he was in I Love Lucy. Now Uncle Charly needs to be a grump for some reason... Unlike most uncles in both real life and movies. TV... The idea of filming advanced scenes, mix and max had some goofs, where Dodie has one from tooth then two, then back to one!

When it was B&W, it was best, then they moved to California.

Why did Mike disappear altogether? Fred mentions his 3 sons, but he includes Ernie and NOT Mike!

Why did the director/producers make that awful decision?

As for Ernie, the most annoying, irritating kid! If he was my brother, I would have disowned him!

Most of the show doesn't run in a timeline, there is little continuity, but apparently it was Fred's iea.

Katie is the most likeable character in the later, when she married Robbie.

The Uncle, first that annoying actor, who was just as annoying in I Love Lucy, leaves the show, then is replaced by another grumpy Uncle!

I've had several uncles, all were caring and loveable!

There is NO reference ever about the mother, no in memoriam, nothing.

Another super annoying thing is having to see the outside of the house in scene changes! It must have saved them many hours of screen time in the whole series! One way of spending nearly 4 minutes in every show! Cheap "trick".

I still watch it, at season 9 now. But I wonder how it will all end.....