Oh, Gary Unmarried. Will you ever learn?

I have called Frasier the uber-sitcom: the show explored every possible conventional sitcom scenario you can think of.  They brought "character overhears part of a conversation and misinterprets it with hilarious results" to an artform.

But there's a new uber-sitcom.  It's not as good, but it uses many familiar sitcom situations.  I'm talking about Gary Unmarried.  After last week's "guy is at a restaurant with one woman and must keep her from seeing another woman who is also at the restaurant" situation, this week we're enjoying the "guy and gal aren't together but must pretend for somebody else that they are together, and the audience knows the truth, with hilarious results" scenario.

Jokes about men and women not getting along?  Oh, hell yes.  Jokes about sexless, joyless marriages?  You betcha.  Jokes about a hapless male who just doesn't get it?  The show is called "Gary Unmarried" folks--what do you think?

Sometimes I find myself not quite understanding, and I have to stop to catch up.  "Wait a minute: so a woman called a man to tell him something personal and slightly sexual, and he had her on speaker phone for a large group of people, and she didn't know she was on speaker phone, with hilarious results?"

Oh, Gary Unmarried.  What will you get yourself into next?