How to Be a Gentleman
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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 34 Ratings
- Summary: Andrew Carlson (David Hornsby), an etiquette columnist, is forced to seek out Bert (Kevin Dillon), a reformed bad boy from his past, to help him learn how to be a "real man" after his editor informs him he needs to modernize his column.
- Genre(s): Comedy
- Show Type: Ended
- Season 1 premiere date: Sep 29, 2011
- Episode Length: 30
- Air Time: 08:30 PM
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Positive: 4 out of 20
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Mixed: 7 out of 20
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Negative: 9 out of 20
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Sep 26, 201175The notion that decent guys need to learn how to be "real men" from macho jerks is a little silly, even for a sitcom. But the pilot does serve up some laughs, especially when Flight of the Conchords vet Rhys Darby is on screen.
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60As ordinary as this plot sounds, How To Be a Gentleman has a couple of things going for it, namely, Hornsby and Dillon.
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37Even were this Odd Couple rehash amusing, you'd still wonder what sane person would think the dimwit who bullied him in high school was the ideal Sherpa into modern manhood.
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30It seems to have an awful lot in common with a group of shows that never [found themselves], the generic and unfunny fodder that NBC threw up between its popular comedies back when it ruled Thursday nights with Friends, Seinfeld, Frasier, and Will and Grace.
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Positive: 4 out of 17
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Negative: 13 out of 17