This short-lived comedy series from NBC featured Mike O’Malley as a thirty-year-old EMS technician who lives in a small house in New Haven, Connecticut, with his scruffy slacker friend Weasel (Mark Rosenthal).
Mike loves watching hockey, and if there is a way to get away with avoiding work, he will find it.
Life changes for Mike when his womanising best friend Jimmy (Will Arnett) decides to marry his soul mate Marcia (Kate Walsh). Mike suddenly realises that his life is going nowhere and impulsively decides to make some changes, beginning by rekindling his relationship with his ex-girlfriend, Shawna (Missy Yager).
O’Malley frequently broke the fourth wall to talk things over directly with viewers.
His real-life sister Kerry played his on-screen sister Kerry . . .
Low ratings killed the woeful series – basically a sub-par Drew Carey knockoff that made Men Behaving Badly look like The Sopranos – after only two episodes had aired.
Mike O’Malley
Himself Weasel
Mark Rosenthal Jimmy
Will Arnett Shawna
Missy Yager Marcia
Kate Walsh Kerry
Kerry O’Malley
