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  • 2006
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  • 2006
  • TV-14
  • Fox
Happy Hour

Summary Henry Beckman had the perfect life, a great job, a perfect girlfriend and a sweet apartment - until Henry gets dumped by Heather, the girl he thought was "the one," and he is now thrown into an apartment with a man who has his own surreal opinions on life and women, his new roommate, Larry Cone. Henry begins to rebuild his life and now w...

Created By: Jackie Filgo, Jeff Filgo

  • 2006
  • TV-14
  • Fox
  • 2006
  • TV-14
  • Fox

Happy Hour

Season 1 Premiere: Sep 7, 2006
Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
25
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Summary Henry Beckman had the perfect life, a great job, a perfect girlfriend and a sweet apartment - until Henry gets dumped by Heather, the girl he thought was "the one," and he is now thrown into an apartment with a man who has his own surreal opinions on life and women, his new roommate, Larry Cone. Henry begins to rebuild his life and now w...

Created By: Jackie Filgo, Jeff Filgo

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
25
5% Positive
1 Review
11% Mixed
2 Reviews
84% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
25
5% Positive
1 Review
11% Mixed
2 Reviews
84% Negative
16 Reviews

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70
The idle, boozy time between one romantic relationship and the next turns out to be a sweet spot for a sitcom.
By Virginia Heffernan FULL REVIEW
38
A bad morph-job of "Seinfeld" and "Friends" but without the simplicity of the first, the chemistry of the second or the brilliance, timing, and writing of either.
By Linda Stasi FULL REVIEW
30
This is merely another dead-on-arrival series to add to the mountain of failures Fox has hurled our way over the past few seasons.
By Melanie McFarland FULL REVIEW
20
The show is a warped copy of CBS' How I Met Your Mother... except that it's cynical, smug and utterly charmless.
By James Poniewozik FULL REVIEW
20
Given this straitjacket of a script, it's hard to know how good the cast could be with decent material.
By Barry Garron FULL REVIEW
10
Larry, Henry and virtually every person to walk through "Happy Hour" are broad, obnoxious, lame caricatures, even by the standards of Fox's laughtracked sitcoms.
By Alan Sepinwall FULL REVIEW
0
Sheer, excruciating pain.... "Happy Hour" stands a good chance of being named Worst New Show, or at least feeblest new sitcom.
By Tom Shales FULL REVIEW

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Production Company:
  • Double Double Bonus Entertainment
  • Warner Bros. Television
  • Werner/Gold/Miller Productions
Initial Release Date: Sep 7, 2006
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-14
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