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Unhitched Becomes Unglued

March 10th, 2008 at 09:18am Richard Pulfer

The Farrelly Brothers have a box office reputation for matching the bizarre and usually gross with the warm and sometimes heart-felt, as seen in hits like “Dumb and Dumber” and “There’s Something About Mary.” Unfortunately, in executive producing the new comedy sitcom Unhitched, the half-hour compression squeezes out most of what made the Farrelly Brothers’ movies so fun to begin with, and leaves behind only gross and grosser material. The show follows divorced Gator (Craig Bierko), who befriends several other ex-spouses and abruptly returns to the bachelor’s life. It’s a great premise, and one that might work – if the emphasis was on finding love instead of gross-out humor. But often the most original elements of the show – such as a bouncer finding work at a doctor’s office – winds up as just an end note. Bierko (Scary Movie 4, Boston Legal) is perfect for this style of quirky comedy, but right now seems like another lead wasted. Unhitched airs on Fox Sunday at 8:30 P.M.