i rent this because i be a bit weary of 80 nbc programming and apparently i save myself a lot of money . i have nothing against any of the actor and for their credit they do a good job but this show be flaw from the premise . we have a character who be unlikable . he full of flaw and not enlighten and and a complete jerk on a good day . yet the reason why anybody should care just isn not there . while create an american sitcom center around a complete bullheaded jackass be revolutionary and full of potential and it just isn not meet here within this show . most of the support character aren not fully fleshed character but rather sad punching bag that want empathy from the audience for be punching bag . a in any sitcom and they be the one who be make the most normal for the audience to relate to and and in do this they negate the lead character to such an extent that we see bittinger be himself and harm people and they just stay there because . why . there be no reason . any normal people would have simply leave the abuse . keep them there without any real reason even the really unbelievable one give by joanna cassidy in the very special 2 part abortion episode that have major problem of it own be where the show just fall apart . to simply believe that people put up with this guy because we be tell he have a heart of gold do not mesh with the reality of the situation . if anything and this isn not even dramedy . this be a badly plot and conceive and and execute premise that have a few moment but overall meet the fate it deserve . someone have the gut to go out and make a very good idea and but the execution be so haphazard that it just look like a weirdly scripted version of the jerry springer show where someone be abuse by this tyrant that be suppose to root for because we be tell to . a show like this require a deft touch that the actor here could have provide easily and but somehow aren not able to . and that a fatal error that really kill the program . chalk it up to a show in it infancy . regardless and the show be worth a watch . but it really screw up when try to aim for the star and and make the whole enterprise not what it could have be .