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Here’s a sneak peek at Jenna Elfman’s fall CBS comedy, Accidentally On Purpose, in which she plays a cougar who gets pregnant from her one-night-stand with a really young guy, and the tension comes from the two of them being thrown together as future parents to the kid, because that would totally happen in real life. It’s like an unfunny version of Knocked Up but with an older Katherine Heigl character, and not funny. In fact, they even steal the whole “stoned roommates” thing from Knocked Up. From this preview, it’s clear that there are several things Jenna Elfman can’t do: pretend to be drunk, pretend to dance, or not be obnoxiously “quirky.” Dharma’s back!
I was just kidding about America begging for more Jenna Elfman, but she’s a huge Scientologist so it was only a matter of time before we got her again. (Via TV Squad.)
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the rogaine add was more interesting
WOW the laugh track does not work here.
this gets a big
Heh. They called a bong a “water pipe.” Those crazy adults.
“I’m running out of charming. I think I’ve got some more back at my apartment.”
I have nothing witty to add to that. I just thought I’d reiterate that that is a line somebody actually wrote.
Followed by the line, “Oh, wow! So clever, because you probably mean this as an opportunity for us to go to your place and perform intercourse…Okay, I’ll go.”
Ah, Scientology. Is there any career you can’t save?
Isaac Hayes
(too soon?)
Nooooo, Maggie from Extras, get out of there!!
My thoughts exactly. Ricky and Stephen DO SOMETHING TO HELP HER!
It’s okay. It’ll only last 3 episodes before they pull the plug.
kinda like two and a half men?
Having seen the pilot in its entirety, this is worse than Two and a Half Men. So no. Not like Two and a Half Men.
So, kinda like According to Jim?
haha.
Methface, just to clarify, I SURE HOPE they pull the plug, but I wouldn’t put it past America to eat this crap up. It would still surprise me, thought. It always does.
And this will be on CBS? What will the nation’s grandmothers think of all this claptrap about bongs and free sex?
not even Ashley Jensen can save this.
I may not like her, but “I feel like I hit the jackpot” made me
So, like…..that time Roz from Frasier got knocked up, but a whole series?
I love your icon! oh yeah, and this amazing vomitable. It’s like someone said, “hey we all saw Knocked Up, in order not to be sued for stealing the entire PREMISE, let’s make it painfully unfunny so that no big wig will even take the time to see the comparisons”.
I love your icon! oh yeah, and this looks amazing vomitable. It’s like someone said, “hey we all saw Knocked Up, in order not to be sued for stealing the entire PREMISE, let’s make it painfully unfunny so that no big wig will even take the time to see the comparisons”.
So many cougars on TV this fall!
Courtney Cox in Cougartown, Jenna Elfman in this…it’s like, ‘Remember all your favorite sitcom stars from the 90s? Well, they’re back! And now they’re cougars!”
YAY!
I watched this show at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas at the end of May. They paid us in cupons. I wanted my money back.
What are you guys talking about, congealed human suffering is always good for a laff, or many.
Remember all those romantic comedies like “Moonlighting” and “Who’s The Boss?” where you kept hoping that the two main characters would finally get together? This show is the opposite of that.
1. the font is all disheveled, so you know it’s funny.2. i’ve always wanted to see jenna ‘navigate’ through ‘situations.’ 3. also, i do not think jenna knows what jackpot means. it’s more like a jacknot. in your face!
And to think, Jenna Elfman was one of Barbara Walters’ “6 to Watch in ’98″.
I love how the rest of that list includes David Spade, Minnie Driver and Rupert Everette. It sure was 1998, huh?
Wait, you guys, are we 100% sure this isn’t just more viral marketing for Funny People?
I made it to :26. And then I clicked pause (PAUSE.) because, why am I doing this to myself?
oh, they’re talking on the promo like the show was already cancelled. yay!
man if i still watched sitcoms, this is the kind of sitcom i would watch. but since my brain has progressed past that point, looks like i’ll have to pass.
I really thought we’d all see “Keeping the Faith: Breaking Training” before she hit the sitcoms again. Boy was I wrong!
Wait–so now you’re a Cougar because you’re over 29? Sheesh.
I think you’re a Cougar if you’ve injected Botulism into your face.
Wait–so now you’re a Cougar because you’re over 29? Sheesh.
I think you’re a Cougar if you’ve injected Botulism into your face. Although, in Scientology, that’s called a “touch assist.”
You are right that this looks terrible, but you are wrong that nothing like this would every happen in real life. This show is based on a memoir of the same name by Mary Pols, about how she was a 40 something who had a one night stand with a 20 something that got her pregnant and how she dealt with the situation.
I guess that’s why I kinda don’t see what’s so ~zany or interesting about this premise. Yeah, people get knocked up all the time. Sometimes they have age differences. It’s called life and IT HAPPENS TO EVERYONE.