The Jeff Foxworthy Show

I have the first season on DVD and started watching it again last night. I thought this was a very good clean show that the family could watch instead of the garbage we see today. It wasn't dealing with the dysfunctional family like we saw on Roseanne, The Simpsons and Married with Children. It's just too bad the networks didn't give it a chance to build an audience and bring in the people needed to tweak it. But then again, these same networks got all panicky and wanted to can shows like All in the Family, M*A*S*H, and Seinfeld because they weren't doing so good in their first few seasons. Big mistake on the networks part and the reason you see so many people watching more shows on networks like The Discovery Channel than are watching the major networks.

The reason why this show was a flop was this: 1) The only people who watched it were fans of his comedy acts. 2) Those people knew all his redneck and other jokes by heart already 3) The show was just another forum for him to tell these same jokes.

Now I noticed the second season they actually started trying. But it was too late.

I never even knew this show existed until last week. I tried one episode and loved it so I immediately watched the whole first season. Jay Mohr and Debra Jo Rupp were both hilarious. Then came the second season. Those two were replaced by the comedic genius of Bill Engvall, ugh. That man has never said a funny thing in his life. Anyway, they don't even explain what happened to Jeff's brother, their business or his wife's sister. For the entire first season Jeff's wife was pregnant and many times they said it was a girl. Turns out it was a 4 year old boy. Seven stars if there hadn't been a second season.

Really latetotheshow - but I have both seasons on DVDs & recently rediscovered them & rewatched.

Very funny & great stories (for that era) I'm surprised there are only 10 written reviews here (11 with mine now) & 735 just rated with stars only, and the series garnered a 5.7. I'm sure it would've been at least 6.5, possibly 7 if more people had seen it.

One little thing kept 'taking me out of it' - the brother-character Wayne. He should'a had a mullet haircut.

He was funny, but he would've been ten times funnier with a mullet.

I also really missed Walt & Russ after they summarily & needlessly got wrote off the show . . .

I like the actress who played Karen's sister, but something about her just didn't fit the show. And the writing for her just wasn't always good.

My take is, they made too many drastic changes with characters in season one, so people probably quit watching - They should've kept Russ & Walt & brought in Wayne & let Wayne & Russ buddy together to drive everyone crazy.

The obnoxious boojie neighbor disappeared too, and everyone liked the contrast between him & Jeff.

I actually started watching The Jeff Foxworthy Show soon after it switched to NBC. It's no secret that it didn't do very well in the ratings during its first year (when it was on ABC); then when it was on NBC for its second year, the ratings were somewhat better, but it still got cancelled. That's very unfortunate. I found it to be a funny series. If it had only been renewed for a third season, it might have become a hit. (I mean, the same thing happened with Cheers, Seinfeld, and Everybody Loves Raymond: they all initially gathered poor ratings, but gradually climbed to the top.) This show deserved a long run on prime-time. But, I guess, if you have ever been cancelled by two or more networks, then you might be a redneck!