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The Trouble with Normal

Summary The Trouble with Normal follows the lives of four men and their therapist as they try to face the fears of the world while living in crazy New York. Bob, the most normal one, is just trying to get some help with how to handle his personal life. Zack is Bob's new neighbor who thinks he is constantly being watched and that the world is aft...

  • 2000
  • ABC
  • 2000
  • ABC

The Trouble with Normal

Season 1 Premiere: Oct 6, 2000
Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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Summary The Trouble with Normal follows the lives of four men and their therapist as they try to face the fears of the world while living in crazy New York. Bob, the most normal one, is just trying to get some help with how to handle his personal life. Zack is Bob's new neighbor who thinks he is constantly being watched and that the world is aft...

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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82% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
25
0% Positive
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18% Mixed
3 Reviews
82% Negative
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Jun 13, 2013
Critics have been trashing this sitcom for weeks, singling it out as the season's first likely casualty. I have to admit I got a modest kick out of the first episode. [6 Oct 2000, p.D1]
By Matthew Gilbert FULL REVIEW
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Jun 13, 2013
In what is almost certain to go down in history as a legendarily bad TV idea, Normal seeks to find weekly comedy in the sad, small lives of four paranoid men and their incompetent therapist. Odds are the idea, while novel, was unsalvageable -- but the execution of Normal is so flawed on every level, it's hard to be sure. [6 Oct 2000, p.11E]
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Jun 13, 2013
It's like watching "Big Brother" with a less nutty and less interesting cast, or the old "Bob Newhart Show" without Bob - or laughs. [6 Oct 2000, p.5E]
By Tom Feran FULL REVIEW
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Jun 13, 2013
Despite a decent cast that includes Jon Cryer and Paget Brewster, all the demented characters are too much to take. The trouble with The Trouble With Normal is that it needs some normalcy. [6 Oct 2000, p.1E]
By Terry Jackson FULL REVIEW
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Jun 13, 2013
Thoroughly unfunny paranoid romp through New York. Rev up the midseason replacement. [6 Oct 2000, p.22]
By Phil Gallo FULL REVIEW
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Jun 13, 2013
May very well be the worst sitcom of the fall. [6 Oct 2000, p.55]
By Phil Rosenthal FULL REVIEW
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Jun 14, 2013
The characters are all so nutty it's like being trapped in a roomful of Kramers for a half-hour. [6 Oct 2000, p.117]
By Adam Buckman FULL REVIEW

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Production Company:
  • Garfield Grove Productions
  • Touchstone Television
  • Paramount Network Television
  • Pacifica Sound Group
Initial Release Date: Oct 6, 2000
Number of seasons: 1 Season
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