- Network: CBS
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 10, 1990
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The fact that Meaney has a slightly Gleasonesque persona gives his exchanges with Meadows, so long ago Alice Kramden, a nostalgic oomph. Cheering memories of "The Honeymooners" hover over the proceedings -- the icing on a fast-frozen devil's-food cake. [10 Sept 1990, p.B1]
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Like it or not, this show is fairly amusing and not a blow against civility. [10 Sept 1990, p.C1]
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For the most part, Uncle Buck relies on Meaney inhaling mustard while exhaling cigar smoke and turning down the advances of a beautiful woman. As slob humor, Uncle Buck is as tame as it is lame. [10 Sept 1990, p.35]
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Boredom, not outrage, will drive viewers away from Uncle Buck, which steals shamelessly from the movie starring John Candy, everything from the giant pancake to the backfiring Buckmobile. Everything, that is, except John Candy. [10 Sept 1990, p.C1]
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Buck is mean-spirited twaddle, "Married ... With Children" without confidence in its crassness. [10 Sept 1990, p.3D]
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Uncle Buck is sometimes funny like a poke in the eye. It's crude and vulgar. The jokes are obvious, the situations cliched, the characters obnoxious. Would you believe a lecherous insurance agent named Doreen Douche? [10 Sept 1990, p.9]
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The trouble is that although Uncle Buck is not as boorish as "Married . . . With Children," it also is not nearly as funny...In fact, Uncle Buck is not funny at all.
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It is as distasteful and morally offensive as anything we've seen in the new season's roster of so-called comedy and entertainment. [10 Sept 1990]
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One of the true, noteworthy duds of the 1990 fall schedule...A lamebrained enterprise, a witless, obvious, often self-contradictory attempt at comedy. [10 Sept 1990, p.C-1]
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Uncle Buck is a tasteless, witless disaster. [10 Sept 1990, p.C1]