Forced comedy about a Korean family that owns a bar and the "characters"--for lack of a better word--who hang out there. Obviously a rip-off of the infinitely better "Cheers", this show isn't even in the same league as the one it copies. Although it had its share of jokes, "Cheers" was mainly character-driven, and the cast worked together like a well-oiled machine. The cast here doesn't connect at all, especially the woman who plays the shrewish, money-mad Korean mother, who's the most offensive Asian character I've seen since Charlie Chan. The writing consists mainly of poorly written sex and fart jokes and tired--and gross--toilet "humor" (a guy comes out of the men's room and announces "Watch out, I did a number three!") and the characters are a cardboard collection of types you've seen a thousand times before in a thousand different sitcoms (the hip black guys, the aging blonde who's desperate for a boyfriend and will sleep with anybody, the nerdy white guy who has trouble with women, the crotchety, heavy-drinking horny old guy, ad nauseum), most of which were funnier than this one. This thing is so bad I didn't think it would finish out its first season, but as of this writing it's back for a second one. Go figure.
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