"Baby Blues" (2000) TV series

Writers:

Neal Boushell (writer)
Julie Sherman Wolfe (writer)

Seasons:

1 | 2

Release Date:

28 July 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy

Plot:

A married couple living in a quiet neighborhood with not-so-quiet neighbors discover the joys and the...

Cast

Elizabeth Daily	...	Zoe MacPherson / ... (4 episodes, 2000-2002)
Mike O'Malley	...	Darryl MacPherson / ... (3 episodes, 2000-2002)
Julia Sweeney	...	Wanda MacPherson / ... (3 episodes, 2000-2002)
Joel Murray	...	Carl Bitterman / ... (3 episodes, 2000-2002)
Kath Soucie	...	Megan Bitterman / ... (3 episodes, 2000-2002)
Arabella Field	...	Melinda Bitterman / ... (3 episodes, 2000-2002)
Nicole Sullivan	...	Bizzy / ... (3 episodes, 2000-2002)
Alice Hirson	...	Mrs. Johnson (3 episodes, 2000-2002)
Diedrich Bader	...	Kenny (2 episodes, 2000-2002)
Phil LaMarr	...	Rex / ... (2 episodes, 2000-2002)
Ron Fassler		(2 episodes, 2000)
Steven Weber	...	Dr. Gruber (2 episodes, 2000-2002)
Philip Baker Hall	...	Mr. Saunders / ... (2 episodes, 2000-2002)
Wendy Raquel Robinson	...	Josie (2 episodes, 2000-2002)

Also Known As:

Bluesville (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

30 min | USA:30 min (13 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Canada:18+ (TV re-rating) | Canada:PG (TV rating) | USA:TV-PG | Brazil:Livre

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Split the Difference Productions

Trivia:

In one episode, Kenny, voiced by Diedrich Bader, begins rambling on about an episode of the "The Beverly Hillbillies" (1962) he watched which focused on Jethro wanting to become an astronaut. Diedrich Bader played Jethro in The Beverly Hillbillies (1993).

Quotes:

Darryl: My wife is obsessed with our babysitter's love life!
Kenny: Obsessed enough to take pictures?

Movie Connections:

Spin off A Baby Blues Christmas Special (2002) (TV)

Lost and mourned by no one

As a big fan of the comic strip "Baby Blues," I anxiously awaited the long delayed TV adaptation. The wait was not worth it. Baby Blues the TV series was a case of taking a proven formula and mucking it up badly. The comic strip is one of the last strips in America that is actually funny, not so the now cancelled TV show. In an attempt to broaden the strip's scope, the producers added a tremendous amount of characters who never appeared in print, while ignoring the strip's far better background characters. Case in point is Nicole Sullivan's baby sitter. As one critic pointed out, "Does this woman have a contract to appear in every TV show known to man?" Go back to Mad TV Nicole, or better yet, just go away. Besides the poor supporting cast, the producers decided to reverse the time line of the strip so that it dealt with Darryl, Wanda and baby Zoe. Big mistake as the strip really hit it's stride when the second child, Hanmmie, was born, but it was par for the course with this show, just one big mistake after another. It was Baby Blues in name only. Had they actually stuck closer to the source material, then we would have had something. They didn't and neither did we. The comic strip lives on, the TV series is now a fading memory. As it should be. Note to Hollywood producers, if it's not broke, then don't fix it.