CBS | 10 episodes | Sitcom
WHO'S IN IT? Corey Feldman, Stephen Tobolowsky, David Kaufman
SYNOPSIS: Carey, someone who barely knows the difference between microchip and potato chip, takes a job as an office manager at a fictional Seattle software company called Cyberbyte. The company is raking in enough money to move from its oil-stained garage headquarters – shades of Woz and Jobs – into a clean, modern, office building. Carey does most of her interacting with Cyberbyte’s trio of wisecracking, jargon-spouting programmers - the "dweebs" - whiny, neurotic Morley, clueless, sheltered Karl, and snarky, sleazy Vic.
I'm only onto the D's here and this is the 7th CBS show that didn't last longer than the 1995-96 TV season. Ten episodes were produced but only seven aired.
VERDICT: Not bad - in the first episode Carey throws a party which gives an introduction to the Dweebs - Vic, a know-it-all type (played by Corey Feldman), whose form of social chit chat is to tell someone: "the leather they use in German cars causes rectal warts in mice," the Dick Solomon type Karl (played by Stephen Tobolowsky), who turns up wearing a cape and later entertains the guests playing boogie woogie on the piano, and Morley, who when told he's a little early, sits in the hall rocking back-and-forth, later asking one of Carey's friends: "I've heard that women who've known each other a long time their menstrual cycles become synchronized".
Kathy Griffin plays a party guest who spends the evening avoiding the dweebs, later telling Carey when she urges her friends to speak with the Dweebs: "Carey, I have two regrets in life - I never learned to play the piano, and I didn't leave this party an hour ago!"
CANCELLED BEFORE ITS TIME? I guess the timing was wrong for the subject matter - 1995 was just on the cusp of the home computer use. Broadcast and cancelled before its time!
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