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  • NBC
  • Sep 23, 1992
  • NBC
  • Sep 23, 1992
Mad About You

Summary Jamie (Helen Hunt) and Paul Buchman (Paul Reiser) are a young urban couple with five months of marriage behind them and they're still trying to make some ground rules of living together in an apartment in Manhattan. This is definitely not easy because Jamie & Paul are both equally neurotic - but in totally different ways. Paul is a docum...

Created By: Danny Jacobson, Paul Reiser

  • NBC
  • Sep 23, 1992
  • NBC
  • Sep 23, 1992
Mad About You
Season 1
8 Seasons
Season Premiere: Sep 23, 1992
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
72
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary Jamie (Helen Hunt) and Paul Buchman (Paul Reiser) are a young urban couple with five months of marriage behind them and they're still trying to make some ground rules of living together in an apartment in Manhattan. This is definitely not easy because Jamie & Paul are both equally neurotic - but in totally different ways. Paul is a docum...

Created By: Danny Jacobson, Paul Reiser

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Episode 1 • Sep 23, 1992 • 22 m
Romantic Improvisations
Paul and Jamie are forced to schedule time alone together but they both forget to cancel plans made with their friends. Tensions run high over this and the fact they have tension. Jamie tries to turn the debacle into a decent social event.
Episode 2 • Sep 30, 1992 • 22 m
Sofa's Choice
Jamie wants their first big purchase, a couch, to be a joint decision. At the store, Paul & Jamie and Fran and Mark wander through the store. Paul and Mark cover various subjects, and Jamie and Fran also talk of random things.
Episode 3 • Oct 7, 1992 • 22 m
Sunday Times
Paul has a dream that he and Jamie were just watching TV. Jamie interprets it to mean she is boring so Paul tries to find them something exciting to do. They make plans, but phone calls, visitors, and a parade hinder their outing.
Episode 4 • Oct 14, 1992 • 22 m
Out of the Past
Selby tells Paul he saw Paul's old girlfriend, Lynn. Selby is a restaurant with her and Paul and Jamie meet them. Paul is excited and nervous. Jamie is upset when he forgets to introduce her and he talks only to Lynn.
Episode 5 • Oct 21, 1992 • 30 m
Paul in the Family
Episode 6 • Oct 28, 1992 • 22 m
I'm Just So Happy for You
Paul makes a documentary on Yankee Stadium for PBS. They do not like the film and reject it. Meanwhile, Jamie is working on a project and up for a promotion. She gets the promotion. Celebrate the promotion or feel bad about the rejection?
Episode 7 • Nov 4, 1992 • 22 m
Token Friend
Someone Paul went to film school with is a token taker at the subway. Paul avoids the subway because he thinks the guy has a miserable life stuck in the subway rather than making films. Jamie gets tickets for the circus.
Episode 8 • Nov 11, 1992 • 22 m
The Apartment
Episode 9 • Nov 18, 1992 • 22 m
Riding Backwards
Episode 10 • Dec 9, 1992 • 22 m
Neighbors from Hell
Episode 11 • Dec 16, 1992 • 22 m
Met Someone
Episode 12 • Jan 6, 1993 • 22 m
Maid About You
Jamie hires a maid to clean the apartment. Jamie loves her work, and Paul enjoys talking to her. He is taken with the fact that someone should have to clean up after their mess. Soon, Selby starts visiting and talking to her also.
Episode 13 • Jan 13, 1993 • 22 m
Togetherness
New York City hires Jamie to create a tourist promotion commercial. She hires Paul so they can work together. Paul wants a code word for when they disagree, but she does not think they need one. They find it is too much togetherness.
Episode 14 • Jan 27, 1993 • 22 m
Weekend Getaway
Paul & Jamie take a weekend vacation. Jamie obsesses over leaving and what to pack while Paul tries to keep it simple. Once there, Jamie initially finds it hard to relax. Soon Jamie embraces the area and Paul wants to leave.
Episode 15 • Feb 6, 1993 • 22 m
The Wedding Affair
Paul & Jamie attend an afternoon wedding of a friend. Jamie thinks it is unorganized and starts changing things. Paul accidentally tells the father of the bride that the happy couple lived together before marriage.
Episode 16 • Feb 13, 1993 • 22 m
Love Among the Tiles
On Valentine's Day, while getting ready for a party, Paul & Jamie get stuck in the bathroom when the doorknob breaks. They spend the time trying to break the door down, painting toenails, eating antacid pills for food and more.
Episode 17 • Feb 20, 1993 • 22 m
The Billionaire
Jerry Lewis guest stars as Freddie Statler, an extremely wealthy man. He wants Paul to film a documentary of his life. Paul hires a film editor/cameraman who turns out to be very low key and slow moving.
Episode 18 • Feb 27, 1993 • 22 m
The Man Who Said Hello
Episode 19 • May 1, 1993 • 22 m
Swept Away
Jamie's sister Lisa goes on a date with a new guy. Jamie imagines the worst. As the new relationship continues, Jamie continues to worry and probe. Lisa tells her not to worry because she is happy.
Episode 20 • May 8, 1993 • 22 m
The Spy Girl Who Loved Me
Paul finds out that Jamie has a former TV star as a client. Paul and Ira still adore the former spy girl from the show. At a dinner, Ira takes spy girl back to the apartment, but spy girl does not remember Ira the next day.
Episode 21 • May 15, 1993 • 30 m
The Painter
Episode 22 • May 22, 1993 • 22 m
Happy Anniversary
Paul and Jamie's friends Fran and Mark are separating. Paul & Jamie listen to Fran one night, and Mark the next. Paul & Jamie plan their one year anniversary celebration. Jamie feels she is betraying their friends with her happiness.
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100
Jul 11, 2013
The show is fast-paced, crackling, choreographed like a comedy ballet. [20 Sep 1992]
By Marvin Kitman FULL REVIEW
90
Jul 11, 2013
What elevates "Mad About You" is that it twists the reality of marriage in the '90s with restraint and wit. It is not going for the big laughs, or those based on insults, but rather for laughs of recognition. In that, it succeeds quite well. And it doesn't hurt that the two stars are charmers. [23 Sep 1992]
By Rick Kogan FULL REVIEW
88
Jul 11, 2013
Reiser brings a gentle sense of the absurd to his strange but affectionate view of modern marriage. [23 Sep 1992]
By Lon Grahnke FULL REVIEW
75
Jul 11, 2013
Fairly adult in tone and the comedy is a little offbeat. [5 Sep 1992]
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70
Jul 11, 2013
It doesn't matter much that there's an assembly-line feel to these drop-in characters. The focus is on Reiser and Hunt, who make a merrily dysfunctional couple. [23 Sep 1992]
By Greg Dawson FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 11, 2013
Helen Hunt's bright and flinty performance makes Jamie the kind of person one might like to get to know; she's spontaneous and fresh. But hangdog comic Paul Reiser... is tiresome and mechanical as Paul, and his stand-up comedy rhythms are monotonous. [23 Sep 1992]
By Tom Shales FULL REVIEW
40
Jul 11, 2013
Initially sleek and stylish but empty. [23 Sep 1992]
By Howard Rosenberg FULL REVIEW

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