- Network: CBS
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 19, 2005
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If someone turns down the volume, ''Out of Practice" has the potential to become a likable, if conventional, sitcom.
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"Out of Practice" lives in a comedy vacuum: All its laughs are trapped inside and can't get out.
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"Practice" has the kind of easy flow that comes from veteran sitcom experts.
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"Out of Practice" is that increasingly rare old-fashioned sitcom that delivers decent laughs.
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At least Henry Winkler didn't ditch Arrested Development for a show that totally blows. [7 Oct 2005, p.64]
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With its superb cast, impeccable direction and mostly sharp writing, "Out of Practice" demonstrates simultaneously how polished and professional a sitcom can be and why TV comedy, with a few notable exceptions, is in such a funk.
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Shockingly unfunny.
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Although there is nothing compelling... ["Out Of Practice" is a] professional job and not hard to watch.
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A purported sitcom, it draws no laughs... but does manage the impressive achievement of making Stockard Channing and Henry Winkler, playing Gorham's parents, thoroughly unlikable.
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Its supporting players steal the spotlight from the central character.
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These pros deserve better than bad jokes and swinging doors.
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If you expect the worst, your expectations will probably be met.
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Proves that a conventionally made sitcom can still produce laughter.
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Tonight's episode employs the same he's-talking-about-one-thing, she's-talking-about-another, and neither-one-knows-it farcical convention that was frequently featured in Frasier, and goes back at least to Moliere. These pros bring it off with panache.
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"Out of Practice" relies on trite misunderstandings and crude dialogue, both go-to gags for uninspired sitcom scribes.
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Had Keenan and Lloyd devoted more time to providing their characters with depth and less to flinging insults, viewers might have developed empathy for them and better understood why they feel such aggression toward one another.
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It isn't as funny as it should be.
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Pleasant to watch.
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Practice is the kind of show that will probably appeal to those who like their comedy theatrical.
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[It] already feels like it's been on air for three seasons... in a good way.
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Has a few funny lines.
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Boasts the strongest cast of any new sitcom.
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In the first few episodes, nothing's happening. No pulse. Doctor, what's wrong? [24 Oct 2005, p.41]
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In Keenan and Lloyd’s world of dizzy, barb-tossing sophisticates, this group is confident and well-armed: Channing’s patented ladies-who-lunch tartness, Winkler’s nervous defensiveness, Burrell’s blasé arrogance, Marshall’s droll delivery and Gorham’s frustrated sensitivity all mix like a well-shaken cocktail, even if it’s the kind that gets tossed in somebody’s face.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 49 out of 55
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Mixed: 0 out of 55
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Negative: 6 out of 55
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VivekAMar 15, 2007This was a great show. I am waiting to see the new episodes
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serferdNov 30, 2006Best TV comedy in years.
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DanabOct 25, 2006