Watching Sitcoms

In my random channel flipping yesterday, I caught a glimpse of a couple of different sitcoms and I wanted to impart some small bit of wisdom that I gleaned from them. Apparently, men are stupid, won’t ask for help or directions, and have no commonsense. I’m serious.

I saw a small bit of Everybody Loves Raymond and some of King of Queens. I never really watched that show, only Raymond, but Kevin James did guest star on Raymond as a friend of Ray’s.

Anyhow, on Raymond, the ep was about Debra’s birthday and how her mom wants to plan a special party for her and Raymond doesn’t just cause he doesn’t want to get stuck doing a lot of work. Then he screws up and tells Debra that they are planning a surprise, so she tells him what she wants and he has to somehow convince her mother to change everything all around. Then he stupidly tells everyone else that Debra knows about the party and, furthermore, ends up trying to take all the credit, even though her mother did all of the work. See, men are stupid.

On King of Queens, Doug and Carrie are out in the woods and they get lost. Instead of trying to find some way to get back, Doug thinks it will be easier to just stay there and start their own society. Then, because he won’t consider that he’s wrong and his wife might be right, he refuses to go in the direction she indicates as back to the highway, but he goes off the other way and leaves her to fend for herself. As it turns out, she is right, and does find her way back, at which point, she cleans up and stops in a diner for breakfast before getting a map and going back to find her husband. Meanwhile, he has been wandering aimlessly around in the circles, pretending to be King of the Mountain, splashing around in a little stream, and sitting to cry cause he’s lost. When she does find him, he whines about having to cross a rope bridge over a ravine cause he thinks it won’t hold him. This tell us that men are idiots.

So, when did this happen? Not for anything, but I’m pretty sure if we were lost in the woods (which would never happen, cause my idea of the great outdoors involves leaving the windows open at the Waldorf), I’d be much more likely to sit around crying and having to be coaxed across a rope bridge. Not that my hubby is a nature man or anything, but he’s not a whiny simpleton either. OK, maybe he does sometimes lack commonsense, but he will definitely pull over and ask a stranger for directions way before I will.

Everybody Loves Raymond, King of Queens, Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Kevin James, Leah Remini