Jay Sherman is a TV movie critic who is forced to review the most pathetic films which he always rates as "It stinks." In addition to the film parodies, the show also deals with his personal life: working for a tyrannical media mogul boss, his lovelife and his family.
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- Seasons
- 2
- Episodes aired
- 23
- Latest aired
- S02E10
- Total runtime
- 8h 26min
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 January 1994 – July 1994 13 episodes
- Season 2 March 1995 – May 1995 10 episodes
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S01E01 Pilot
January 26 · 22min find the promo
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Film critic Jay Sherman falls in love with actress Valerie Fox. Jay's family and friends worry that Valerie is using him to get a good movie review. Does she truly care for him?
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S01E02 Marty's First Date
February 2 · 22min find the promo
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Marty invites his Jay to career day at his school where Marty develops a crush on a Cuban girl named Carmen. They go on a date but when Carmen decides to fly back to Cuba, Marty follows her and Jay must get his son back.
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S01E03 Dial 'M' For Mother
February 9 · 22min find the promo
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Jay is considered to be one of the most unpopular men on Earth (ranking even worse than Adolph Hitler) so Duke attempts to spruce up the show to get more people interested. When this doesn't work, Jay decides to soften his image by going on the "Geraldo Show" with his mother but Jay gets an even worse reputation when his mother embarrasses him to the point where he tells her to "shut up".
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S01E04 Miserable
February 16 · 22min find the promo
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Jay, noticing everyone in New York has a fiancee except him, begins to feel unloved. Things change when he goes to review the movie, Indecent Proposal II, and falls in love with the projectionist screening the movie. They arrange a date at her house where she is revealed to have an obsession with Jay to the point where she kidnaps him and ties him to a bed holding him hostage.
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S01E05 A Little Deb Will Do You
February 23 · 22min find the promo
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Eleanor is determined to have her daughter, Margo, attend the annual debutantes ball as it is a tradition in her family. When Margo is reluctantly forced into it, Jay decides to accompany her. Meanwhile, Jay competes in his time slot against children's idol Humphrey the Hippo.
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S01E06 Eyes on the Prize
March 2 · 22min find the promo
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Jay celebrates his 1000th episode but the episode is less than successful. Ratings get worse so Jay seeks image consultant, Adolph Hitmaker, for advice. The advice is unsuccessful and Jay is fired. Jay gets a new job on a show which teaches English for cab drivers but Jay is unhappy so he decides to win himself another Pulitzer Prize.
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S01E07 Every Doris Has Her Day
June 1 · 22min find the promo
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Jay befriends his make-up lady Doris after they attend a musical adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and thinks that she may be the mother who gave him up for adoption years ago.
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S01E08 Marathon Mensch
June 8 · 22min find the promo
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When the studio catches fire during Jay's show, he collapses and must be rescued from the fire by Doris. When the news reports Jay's being rescued, he gets a reputation as being a wimp so he tries to prove his manliness by running in the New York marathon which tends to be more tiresome than it seems.
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S01E09 L.A. Jay
June 22 · 22min find the promo
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Jay is offered to write the screenplay for a new movie, Ghostchasers III, so he takes a break from his show to go to L.A. to write the new movie and experience Hollywood life but the movie producer isn't satisfied with Jay's script.
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S01E10 Dr. Jay
June 29 · 22min find the promo
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Jay's boss, Duke, has just made a new invention, "Phillips-o-Vision" which alters movies to make them more "like-able". Jay is disgusted with Duke's invention but when Duke is discovered to have a fatal disease, Jay must find a cure for Duke's ailment.
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S01E11 A Day at the Races and a Night at the Opera
July 6 · 22min find the promo
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After Marty fails to win an event at his school field day, he is feeling very low so Jay tries to improve his self-confidence by getting him interested in playing guitar and putting him in the school talent show. Meanwhile, Them Magazine names Jay "the wittiest man alive" so Duke offers to pay everyone who doesn't laugh at Jay's show $100 which doesn't go over very well.
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S01E12 Uneasy Rider
July 13 · 22min find the promo
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After refusing to plug chewing tobacco on his show, Jay quits his job and becomes a truck driver.
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S01E13 A Pig Boy and His Dog
July 20 · 22min find the promo
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"A Pig-Boy and His Dog" is the 13th episode of The Critic. This was the final episode to air on ABC.