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Bobbed Barker: NBC Scrubs Andy's Thursday Finale
NBC has pretty much closed the case on Andy Richter's Andy Barker, P.I., shuttling the short-run series' fifth intended-for-broadcast episode from this Thursday to Saturday at 8 pm/ET, where it will be paired with a sixth episode that was originally planned for online streaming only. Filling Barker's 9:30 slot this Thursday, a week sooner than planned, is a fresh episode of Scrubs.
It's too bad, seeing the Andys get this less-than-honorable send-off. The show had much promise and a sweet, wholesome undertone long missing from TV comedies, which these days can be so... snarky.
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Apr 9, 2007 7:45 PM
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Bobbed Barker: Andy's Thursday Finale Gets Scrub'd
Very funny.  But sad about the show. "Joey" got better respect than this show.
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Apr 9, 2007 7:51 PM
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"Joey" got better respect than this show.
Gee, when you put it that way... it sounds just mean. 
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Apr 9, 2007 7:56 PM
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Too bad, seeing the Andys get this less-than-honorable send-off. The show had much promise and a sweet, wholesome undertone long missing from TV comedies
Well said, Matt. I was enjoying this show too. Oh well.
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Apr 9, 2007 8:33 PM
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I miss those types of comedies too. Nowadays, these comedies are too tongue in cheek.
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Apr 9, 2007 8:45 PM
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So sad! I really enjoyed that show. Andy Richter is so funny, and the show made me laugh out loud so often. Very disappointing.
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Apr 9, 2007 8:53 PM
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I agree. Joey got more respect and it is much worse than Andy Baker. I think the shows will grow if it is given time. I get NBC is getting inpatient!
One more reason I hate Grey's Anatomy and CSI!! All my favorite programs got canceled because everyone wants to watch these unworthy shows.
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Apr 9, 2007 8:58 PM
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too bad--this show was very funny!!
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Apr 9, 2007 9:14 PM
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...a sweet, wholesome undertone long missing from TV comedies, which these days can be so... snarky.
You are so right, Matt. I loved that sweet, wholesome undertone. And, when I saw the first episode and loved it, that sweetness is exactly what made me realize that this show wasn't long for the world -- well, not this world, anyway.
Nowadays, it seems that people seeking wholesome entertainment pass over smart wholesome in favor of empty, treacly, subtle-as-a-mallet-to-the-groin wholesome, like Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and 7th Heaven.
I don't necessarily want "wholesome" shows per se, but I am sick up to here (hand over head) of snarky shows. There's just no cleverness to the snarkiness anymore.
One final note: I commend NBC for at least running the final episodes. This is an excellent use of the Saturday Dead Zone, and I wish the networks would do this more often with the remaining episodes of shows instead of yanking them altogether. My VCR works on Saturday just as well as it does the other nights of the week.
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Apr 9, 2007 10:41 PM
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I'm sorry to hear that the show has been shuttled off to Saturday. We loved Andy, and I'd hoped that since Conan was behind it that it would get decent treatment from the network. I liked having a comedy that I could watch with my kids without worrying that a joke would be too "adult" for them, but wasn't Full House, either.
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Apr 9, 2007 11:11 PM
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Andy Barker P.I. is the best comedy of this television season.
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Apr 10, 2007 12:20 AM
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Another point that I thought of--Andy had only two episodes that aired after Scrubs and at 8:30. One episode was at 8:30 during a marathon of The Office repeats, which is a show that I don't really care for. The next week, it aired during a night of "supersized" shows, so it ended up not even starting until almost 9 PM Central time. That seems like a risky move for a new show that's trying to find an audience. Andy Barker deserves some time to be discovered; didn't Andy Richter's much-maligned Quintuplets get more of a chance than this show?
I'd love to find out that all the worrying is for nothing, and the move is simply because 30 Rock is returning, but where the networks are concerned, I've learned to not be optimistic.
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Apr 10, 2007 12:31 AM
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Shows like Andy Barker PI will never stay on air for 2 seconds. "Quality" shows like Stacked would.
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Apr 10, 2007 12:39 AM
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While I agree Saturday night is usually a wasteland, this Saturday, NBC was supposed to air a special on autism that I've been looking forward to seeing. I'm anxious to see the updated listings, and find out whether they are going to move that special to 9pm or what?
I liked Andy Barker more than Quintuplets, but not nearly as much as I loved Andy Richter Controls The Universe! I didn't think Barker had much of a chance, so I was content to just enjoy it while it aired.
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Apr 10, 2007 12:39 AM
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...didn't Andy Richter's much-maligned Quintuplets get more of a chance than this show? - monkey65
Quintuplets ran for 22 episodes from June 2004 to January 2005 -- seven months -- which, coincidentally, is about how long the single episode I watched seemed.
NBC aired 14 episodes of Andy Richter Controls the Universe from March 2002 to January 2003 (a fifteenth debuted on HDNet in June 2004).
Isn't that sad? Of his three series, the repellent one aired for more episodes than the two good ones combined.
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Apr 10, 2007 2:40 AM
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