The Final Episode #141: Hangin With Mr. Cooper (1992 - 1997)

 

Recently as in like a few days ago, I talked about The Hughley's. Portnoyd was all like NO DON'T DO TGIF despite the fact that 1.) I had already done so many of their shows already. 2.) It was a big thing about the 1990s TV that I loved as a kid and still do. Most of those shows are still fun regardless of what GRUMPY says. I watched a Tim and Eric sketch earlier and it's just Paul Rudd watching himself dance on the computer. I do not get thta show and I never will. I at least understand TGIF. 3.) I live my life in complete defiance of portnoyd. You see he just posted a BLOG of some movie reviews and you know what, every movie he reviewed under a 5 I am going to watch and probably love them. I might even make a blog post series called PORTNOYD IS A POOPY BOY AND INCORRECT ABOUT THIS. It would be a lot of fun. For me at least.

I am now three TGIF shows left that lasted more than I dunno, 20 or so episodes.  I should have a limit number of episodes a show had to have for me to do a Final Episode. Or maybe not. Who knows. Anyway you know how I said The Hughley's seems to be forgotten by the black millennial youtbers that I watch sometimes. I do not remember any of them talking about Hangin' With Mr. Cooper but this still seems a bit more popular than The Hughley's. The thing is I do not remember this show in the slightest. I remember Full House and Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Boy Meets World and Step By Step and Family Matters and all of the rest. I remember Muppets Tonight and Aliens in the Family. I do not remember a single iota of Hangin With Mr Cooper and I watched this shit every damn week for a fucking decade of my god damned life!

Hangin With Mr Cooper was a sitcom that started in 1992 and lasted till 1997. 5 years. I am fucking sure I watched TGIF during that time. I was a fucking Urkel-maniac as a child and the rest of the shows were entertaining to 8 year old me. I'm just amazed how little I remember of Mr. Cooper. I even talked about this show less than 5 years ago and I don't even fucking remember doing that! Does this show just cause people to forget about it the second the episode ends!?  I just know that they did one of those "Hey look at the new cartoons for the upcoming season!" but like EVERY TGIF show got to do that. It was neat-o. I miss when they would do that. I miss the past. Poop.

So Hangin' With Mr Cooper starred a comedian called Mark Curry. He starts the show as a NBC super star or something and then has to become a basketball coach.  Then he dates a woman who I think probably has children. Every TGIF show had children or teenagers in it. This one has both. I think that might just be the lamest sitcom setup ever. Actually second lamest one because The Big Bang Theory of LOL NERDS ARE TERRIBLE setup is still worse. Can't even be the worst Hangin' With Mr. Cooper. You lame-o!

The Final Episode of this TV series was written by David Chapman and I am sure he is not related to Mark David Chapman. He wrote for several tv shows that were not well remembered at all and stuff like The Love Boat, The Wonder Years, The Simpsons, and Fantasy Island. It works really well to have a writer like this on the show. He might actually write something good but he's also not going to write something so amazing that you remember it despite the show airing on TGIF from seasons 2 to 4. I WAS 8 TO 11 YEARS OLD WHEN THOSE SEASONS WERE SHOWN HOW THE JESUS DO I NOT REMEMBER WATCHING THIS FUCKING SHOW? WHY DOES IT REFUSE TO STAY IN MY MEMORY BUT THE SMOGGIES DOES? IT CAN'T BE THAT UN-MEMORABLE CAN IT?

 Anyway the Final Episode was called Getting Personal and it aired on August 30th, 1997. One day before my 12th birthday. I don't really remember my 12th birthday except that I probably didn't do much but probably got some cool Super Nintendo games. This show went on a year long hiatius and showed back up on Saturday and with only 12 episodes. I seriously get the feeling that there were supposed to be more but something happened. I have no idea and no one else does becuase despite showing up on TGIF for several years no one remembers this damn show! I'm seriously amazed that I wrote a piece about it already on my blog! 

 Oh, good it's another show with a COMEDIC JERK in it. Who or what is the Comedic Jerk you ask? Well, Homer Simpson and Al Bundy would be good characters for me to use as examples. They are brash or stupid or all kinds of things but when it's done well as in acted well or written well they still come off as somewhat likable. Homer Simpson and Al Bundy may make all kinds of crazy dickhead comments but the shows (I'm sure PORTNOYD THE MARRIED WITH CHILDREN EXPERT) will show you that they can be good guys. Just something causes JERKY JERK ASS MOMENTS. All I know is when it's written poorly or acted poorly the Comedic Jerk is so fucking hard to watch and WOW MR COOPER IS A COMEDIC JERK PLAYED POORLY!!!

Anyway another reason for me to believe that this show did not end the way they wanted is that this show ends with them getting wedding photos. Don't you get them on the day of the wedding or what? Are they for invitations or something? I really don't know. I've never been married and I do not think there's another human being who could handle being around me for more than 24 minutes at a time. I am a weird gremlin of a man. Anyway he has to get his tuxedo by mail for some reason? You know it! it's forced WACKYNESS. Great. Yeah TGIF was wacky but it was with characters that felt like they'd do this wacky thing. I mean a lot of it I have not seen since I was a child but at least it felt like that. The woman he's marrying is also not very pleasant of a person either. Good the shitheads deserve each other.

 The kids, one of them being RAVEN SYMONE from the Cosby Show and also That's So Raven. One of those shows that I would end up leaving the TV on while I messed around on the internet. It seemed really dumb but hey AT LEAST I CAN REMEMBER IT AND I ONLY HALF WATCHED THE DAMN THING.  Anyway they want to sing and another thing is that Mark Curry is trying to play Mr. Cooper as a COOL 90s DUDE who isn't bothered by anything but he comes off as bored. It's not a good thing when that happens. Oh hey I was right. He has a SQUIRREL COSTUME instead of a Tuxedo! HAHAHAHAHAH THAT'S NOT FORCED AT ALL! OH AHE CAN'T SEE AOUT OF THE SQURRIEL COSTUME!!!! This is so stupid and forced I'm literally taking a picture of it so portnoyd can't go LOL YOUR MAKING THIS LAME SHIT UP MARK CURRY FOREVER!!!!

 

This is the dumbest, most easily fixed shit in the world. First off, don't put on the Squirrel Costume for WACKY SHINANGIANS. Tell your fianace hey baby there was a mix up can we go rent a tuxedo and hope the real one gets here before the wedding. This seriously feels like Season 16 we have been on too long and no one gives a shit and we are literally pumping out garbage so we can get cancelled. Except it's not season 16. It's season fucking five. Anyway she gets mad because he put on the damn costume for some reason. Jesus Christ. You know I gave City Guys a hard time because of the low stakes but I can at least see that some people who care about being COOL wouldn't want to be in the SCHOOL BAND. It's dumb horseshit when you are 40 year old man talking about but it was serious enough for those kids. It was at least a story you could get 22 minutes out of. This doesn't have that. TAKE OFF THE FUCKING SQUIRREL OUTFIT MR COOPER YOU STUPID FUCKING ASSHOLE then we can all go home or watch something better on ABC Saturday Night in 1997. Which was ANYTHING ELSE.

 OK. It was actually a joke. I'm with his SEEMS TO ALWAYS BE CRABBY WIFE. Seriously lady just leave him. End the episode and my suffering.  Jesus man. I don't really want to generalize or anything but for the most part Women really seem to take weddings seriously. I honestly get that. You hope to be with this person for the rest of your life and its to show that yes you care about them and all that. It's a special day and you should try to take it and the stuff before it seriously. THEN THIS FUCKING JACK OFF DOUCHEBAG COMES IN AND TAKES A GIANT FUCKING NUTTY SQUIRREL SHIT ALL OVER THIS. I'm apologizing to EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND. Even you came up with better plots than this and you had one plot of DEBRA GETS PISSED OFF AT RAY. 

 Now he's all like LOL BUT IM A PRACTAICAL JOKE MAN AHAHAHAHA. In like the most bored way possible. You know thats probably the acting I hate the most. I honestly think most actors at least seem to try but this guy is like OH HONEY LET ME SHOW YOU I CARE when you know he's a SELFISH JACKASS. I was way too nice to on this show when I reviewed it first time. I'm glad I didn't do a Final Episode on it because I probably would have puked up so much weird gunk doing something this STUPID AND TERRIBLE that early on. You gotta work up to this kind of SHITTY STUPID CRAP.  Oh good it's the kids and their song. They have to find something Traditional but NEW. Old but YOUNG. Fast but SLOW. You know a song that doesn't fucking exist! I'm not wasting my time even talking about this B-plot. It's somehow even shittier than the Squirrel nonsense! They somehow find a song to sing. I don't even care what song it is. 

Oh, MS COOPER put out a personal and MR COOPER has to find it. He has to prove his love by finding out who is who! WILL HE DO IT? Yeah I'm sure something will happen.  We now go to MR COOPER and this shows WACKY FRIEND. All of these shows had a WACKY CHARACTER and this guy is the worst. He is Cuba Gooding Jr's brother OMAR. He just tries to hard. Comedy is weird and if you come off to someone as trying to hard you probably are and that's never good. Oh wow more forced ZANY ANTICS. He's going to contact every woman he thinks is Vanessa and have them look for a man with a rose in his lapel. THIS ISN'T GOING TO BACKFIRE AT ALL!!!! Oh he's not actually going to wear a rose. Okay he's just going to notice Vanessa. Still something is gonna happen and I hate that I'm going to have to see it.

Oh man! Vanessa actually was one of the women! Holy shit his dumb plan worked. However his WACKY FRIEND won't leave and WOW he has a rose that he wants to put on. God you know yeah I like a lot of sitcoms and a lot of ones that are goofy and a lot of ones that are probably not even good but they all feel less hackneyed and try hard than this. I'm also pretty sure the reason I do not remember this show at all is because when the majority of it was on, we had a wooden thing to store food in it. Except it was in our living room and I put books in it. I am sure as fuck that I would see this show and go "Oh it's the dumb show" and then go read Garfield or Calvin and Hobbes or Charlie Brown or Bloom County or Heathcliff or Spider-Man or whatever in there. I'm about to say that I probably got so desperate once I read some Family Circus. I seriously don't know whats worse the most white bread thing in existence (the Family Circus) or this fucking nonsense.  

Oh wow his friend wont leave. You know sometimes I would like to try writing a script for a movie or tv show or something. I know the chance of it going anywhere is very slim but I am 100% sure that it would be less obnoxious than this. This is the most forced comedic crap I've ever seen in my life. Oh I was right. His MASTERPLAN is coming to BITE HIM IN THE ASS. Vanessa wants to keep the rose but Mark is pretending he lost it. His WACKY FRIEND is still there hoping to find one of the ladies that weren't Vanessa.  OH MAN HE LEAVES TO FIND HIS WACKY FRIEND BUT NOW EVERYONES ASKING FOR THE ROSE MAN. The way his lady was acting had me thinking she somehow knew the plan already but I guess wrong. She does now though. Oh good. He got the rose only to give it back to WACKY MAN and WACKY MAN then gets smacked my angry ladies and chased. I'd say (insert year from the past) called and wants it comedy back but I don't think anyone wants to claim this garbage. 

You know what's amazing, I don't actually have to watch the re st of the show. I know she's going to forgive him. You know what I'd love, is that one of the COMEDIC JERKS especially one of the ones who never seem to show any genuine care for anyone and are ACTED POORLY AS SHIT just get told to fuck themselves. Like her tearing right into him and leaving. Making sure he can't get into the house. Never talking to him again.  That would be the perfect ending for this shit. I am going to say it here now. Family Circus is better than this. At least you could get out a pen and go through those RUNNING DASH STRIPS. That killed at least 5 minutes. It was never funny but neither was Hangin' With Mr. Cooper. I just don't care anymore. They get back together. 

 Oh they have several minutes left because OF THIS WONDERFUL PLOT and now they are talking to the audience. It's weird and not done very well. I don't like it.  Oh wow. According to the credits JOHN KASSIR was the PHOTOGRAPHER guy who was really into the dumb squirrel shit. HE'S THE CRYPT KEEPER. I wish he had starred in a better TGIF sitcom. 

FINAL THOUGHTS: I just find the character of MR COOPER to be really obnoxious. Other than that the show is just dull and forgettable. The most memorable thing about this show was the fact he was filmed in the same house as the Seavers from Growing Pains.  Hangin' With Mr. Cooper was the worst TGIF show and I'm glad I never have to speak about it again. I'm also glad that I will probably forget about all of this. It's good too.