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60Uneven.
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60It may be seen as a kinder, gentler, funnier cousin to Fox's bitter " 'Til Death."
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60Two of the first three episodes [reveal] an assured, risque, semi-cynical air that should dovetail nicely with "Two and a Half Men."
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50You might not remember to record it every week, but if you stumble upon it, you might stay.
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Pity Patrick Warburton whose dour delivery is the brightest spot in this half hour. He clearly feels trapped, but not by his marriage.
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42Rules is similar to Fox's grimly unamusing comedy 'Til Death, but it has one major advantage: deadpan, rubbery Patrick Warburton.
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40At no point will you feel like scratching your own eyes out rather than sitting through an episode. So there's that.
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40It's not a groundbreaking new series by any means, but it has some redeeming virtues.
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37Rules is one of those sitcoms that makes people who hate sitcoms hate sitcoms.
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30When it isn't slamming bedroom doors in a high-rise apartment house in ostensible Manhattan (just like Mad About You except without the charm) or meeting for heavy innuendos at the corner diner (just like Seinfeld except without the writers), Rules reiterates Til Death's take on marriage.
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30Rules would be more engaging if it weren't so familiar, but there is at least one consistently hilarious performance: Patrick Warburton.
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30Having two nearly identical, equally mediocre sitcoms on the air at the same time isn't exactly a crime, but it seems an awful waste of someone's time and energy.
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25"Rules" and "'Til Death" bear exactly the same ups and downs. The ups: essentially a good cast, plus sporadic funny lines. The downs: many un-funny lines, plus rehashed storylines from a thousand episodes of married-life sitcoms dating all the way back to "The Honeymooners."
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25Everything has the familiar mechanical deadness of a sitcom assembled from old ideas. [12 Feb 2007, p.39]
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25A ho-hum traditional sitcom filled with formula banter and cliched cuteness.
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20The series quickly begins to resemble one of those fake sitcoms you'd see in a snide movie that likes to take easy potshots at low culture.
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20Besides making every aspect of dating and mating look depressing, it's hard to come up with a reason to spend time with any of these characters.
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20Let's hope Rules is just a misguided piece of fluff that disappears after a dozen episodes - and not a bellwether series trying to tell us something about how our lives have changed for the worse.
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20This one isn't David Spade's fault. Really it isn't.
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20There isn't a single new comedy idea in any of the upcoming episodes, and in some scenes, you practically can yell out the punch line before the characters get to it.
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12"Rules of Engagement" is no more believable than it is amusing, and it's never amusing.
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10No one in the cast is likely to be your new favorite actor.
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10The story lines are every bit as insufferable as the punch lines.
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10Painful-to-watch.
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10Besides being uninspired, "Rules" isn't all that funny.
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0Everyone involved in creating this show should be forced to immediately seek other forms of employment. This business is not - repeat, not - for you.
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0While TV comedy is getting good again, the network has decided it's time to resurrect the groan-inducing cliches of stinky sitcoms to remind us of just how truly rancid the genre can get.
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