The Michael Richards Show First Show 2000 Last Show 2000 Genre Comedy Network NBC Slot Day Tuesday Slot Time 8 pm Jumped The Shark when... Votes Day One 15 Title contains the star's full name 2 Never Jumped 1 Other Thoughts: * Before the first episode, based on the title. The only show I can think of that does not fit this category is the original Bob Newhart show. That is probably because Bob's last name on the show was not Newhart. * To the above post, how can you pass judgment before the show even airs? * With the signing of Michael Richards to reprise his one note shtick. His Kramer act got old and very repetitious on Seinfeld during the first season, but Richards continued to expound on length on his own comedy brilliance with every interview he gave. I expect this show, if it debuts in the fall, will be cancelled by Thanksgiving as an appropriate comment on what a turkey the star is. * Could they really not think of a better title for this show? I love Michael Richards, but please, for heaven's sake, give this show a better title. Otherwise, you're dooming it to shark territory before it even has a fighting chance! * This show proves once again that network programmers have no intelligence. C'mon, we all know it's Michael Richards being Kramer, just with a different name. Unfortunately, this wasn't the first cancellation of the 2000 season. But hopefully it will be a quick victim. * It jumped the shark in the trailers...... * I credit Michael Richards as being the greatest of the supporting cast in Seinfeld. I've heard the argument that shows with the stars name in the title are crap, but a few examples of great shows.... I Love Lucy (later The Lucille Ball Show) Newhart The Bob Newhart Show Burns & Allen The Dick Van Dyke Show Carol Burnett and Friends Seinfeld The Mary Tyler Moore Show The Drew Carey Show ...don't worry, there's plenty of others! * This show is amazing. If it weren't for the laugh track it wouldn't be identifiable as a comedy. It's another case of a mediocre actor being attached to someone else's star thinking that he's the reason that people love the star's show. Kramer was mildly amusing at best, but Richards' new character isn't even close to amusing. I expect that the actor has a career ahead of him at a local McDonalds. * After watching the first five minutes, I knew this show was in trouble. IT WASN'T FUNNY! Just another case of an actor "gravy-training" on past success of a different character. * This was probably the worst show I've ever seen. The plot was so disjointed, the acting was so wooden, and the laugh track was so forced, that I could do little more than stare in wonder as that first half hour dragged on for what seemed like hours. Did anyone notice that the laughtrack on the premiere episode seemed to go off for no reason? The characters on screen would do something that wasn't even remotely funny and the laughtrack would kick in like a coked-up hyena. (Maybe that was the fault of the poor writing)I'm glad that the show doesn't appear to be on the network schedule any longer. And, one more comment: When the show premiered, I made a comment to my wife that is was such a poor excuse for a comedy that it would become the first show in the history of television to be cancelled before the end of its first episode. Well, halfway through the show our local affiliate had technical difficulties and we were treated to 3 minutes of a blue screen. Prophetic vision of tomorrow? Perhaps. But, one thing is for sure, that 3 minutes was funnier than anything the Michael Richards Show had to offer that night. * it kinda sucked from the start, i wasn't expecting too much though. i knew it was basically just kramer, p.i. i mean kramer was an excellent supporting character in seinfeld, no doubt. that's part of what made seinfeld such a great show, was that you had 4 separate kinds of characters. but i don't think kramer could quite hold up a show on his own. plus, the supporting cast just wasn't there. i thought gregg kavet/andy robin were going to be great writers, and i expected a little more than that. i knew seinfeld/david's writing was the main force behind the show, but i thought the other guys were ok, at least. * Painful, painful, painful! The one new 2000 series that made "The Geena Davis Show" look respectable. Was the Tim Meadows character supposed to be retarded, or "touched"? Michael Richards will never be on another hit series. * YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who told this dingbat he could act? Kramer sucked on "Seinfeld", why the heck would I want to watch a show all about him with no comic relief in sight????? A show about a clumsy private eye who trips over thin air and falls into bushes? A sidekick who left a cushy gig on SNL to co-star in this crap? AUGH! The funniest thing that ever happened on TMRS was that NBC pulled the plug! Michael Richards thinks he's God's gift to comedy. I've got news for Mr. Richards, he's as funny as a stomach ache. The height of his stupidity is when he was talking to TV Guide a few years ago and basically said that he was funnier than Buster Keaton. This guy's got nerve, OR, he's clinically insane. Michael "I Totally Suck" Richards isn't worthy to carry Buster's porkpie hat. * NBC decided not to air the pilot as the first episode because they said the pilot wasn't funny enough, so they aired a different episode as the first instead. How is it possible that something could be LESS funny than what the first one they aired? Still, watching it, I recall feeling like I missed something, as if everyone had been introduced to the drab cast of extras except me. Their first mistake was to make this piece of shit of a show, their second mistake was to air them out of sequence, so we can not only hate the damn show, but be confused at the same time. * Who're they fooling? This show was nothing more than a Kramer spinoff. I thought the Kramer character on Seinfeld was funny and fit in with the rest of the characters - BUT this guy Richards is obviously a ONE TRICK PONY. Call the show what you want but a Kramer by any other name..... Jason Alexander also had his own show but it was apparent from the promos that it was a George Constanza rehash. Both these guys got lucky on Seinfeld - now they're relegated to horrible commercials - hopefully in the future they'll disappear altogether. * He's a no trick pony!! Between him and Seinfeld you got dumb n dumber. Seinfeld is an idiot and Kramer is lamer. He seems like a surfer on crack. Jason Alexander is ok, but Michael Richards is a no talent cartoon creature. By how long his show was cancelled I dont think I was the only one who noticed that. How could you not??? * I don't know what the other people on this page are talking about. I work outside the U.S. and finally got to see this show on some old videotapes lent to me. The episodes that I watched were hilarious. The humor is often different than your usual "insult/hug, insult/hug, repeat ad nauseum" sitcom, which might explain the negative reactions. New is frightening. It's too bad this show didn't get time to find its audience the way "Seinfeld" did. (In case anyone has forgotten, the general public once ignored/hated "Seinfeld" too. I bet the people above who trashed "The Michael Richards Show" are the same types who didn't start watching "Seinfeld" until it was in the Top Ten ratings.) I'd quote all the good lines, but I don't want to ruin this show for anyone who manages to get a hold of some episodes. * I agree that: 1. Richards was MILDLY amusing on Seinfeld 2. Richards believed he was more gifted than he was (those interviews referred to were excruciating--what a f---n ego!) I DISAGREE: 1. That the fact that this show was "different" and didn't fit the traditional sitcom form AUTOMATICALLY MADE IT GOOD. I'm all for breaking the mold--but a show is not inherently superior to formulaic shows just because it does so. * The day I saw him freak out in a Jamba Juice store and call the poor girl at the register "a retard girl." He then preceded to accept free coupons apparently in exchange for leaving. I will never watch anything he is in again!!! __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Home | Vote | About | A to Z | Stump the Shark | Bait Shop Same Character, Different Actor | Death | Ted McGinley | Puberty | Singing | Live! | Birth I Do | They Did It | The Movie | Moving | Special Guest Star | A Very Special | New Kid In Town | Hair Care | Exit...Stage Left | Graduation | Color | Never Jumped