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40. Good Morning, Miami: Another notorious bomb from the dying days of Must See TV, 2003's Good Morning, Miami felt more like a collection of network notes than an actual show.
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39. Out All Night: Patti LaBelle starred in this short-lived, music-packed show about a Los Angeles nightclub. It was loosely set in the same world as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, a hit NBC sitcom that anchored the network's Monday night lineup for years.
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38. Boston Common: Anthony Clark joined the long list of stand-up comedians with short-lived sitcoms with this generic fish-out-of-water show from 1996. After a strong year on Thursday nights, NBC moved it to Sundays for a second season, where it plummeted in the ratings and was quickly cancelled.
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36. Cursed / The Weber Show: How was a show with this cast so forgettable? Steven Weber might have been a bit annoying on Wings, but he's been great in pretty much everything he's done since. Add comedy legend Chris Elliott and Wendell Pierce and you've got three people I'd pay to watch just hang out with each other for a half-hour a week. Their talents and charisma were corralled into this misguided, high concept mess of a sitcom from 2000, which drastically switched gears and titles halfway through its only season.
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35. Madman of the People: Dabney Coleman deserved better, but that's basically the story of his career. This 1994 show starred Coleman as a cantankerous newspaper columnist dealing with the newfangled world of the 1990s. (Journalistic ethics require us to refer to any Dabney Coleman character as "cantankerous.") This is the fourth different sitcom in just over a decade where Coleman essentially played the same character; the first and best of those shows will be popping up later on in this list.
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34. Jesse: The only bright spot of this staid romantic comedy that ran from 1998 to 2000 was Christina Applegate, who played the title character and proved she could have a career after Married... With Children.
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33. Fired Up: This blandly competent two-season wonder from 1997/1998 had a couple of likable leads in Sharon Lawrence and Leah Remini and featured a very pre-Breaking Bad Jonathan Banks. Rounding out the cast is Mark Feuerstein, who I'm pretty sure was a regular on every single show on this list.
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32. The Duck Factory: What was supposed to be Jim Carrey's big break aired after Cheers for about two months in 1984 before being exiled to another night and quietly disappearing forever shortly thereafter.
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31. Leap of Faith: One of NBC's pre-Office attempts at a single-camera comedy, 2002's Leap of Faith was dismissed by critics as a sanitized Sex and the City clone. I guess Ken Marino was the Samantha?
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30. Mama's Family: Yes, Mama's Family was originally a part of Must See TV. Vicki Lawrence's cornpone sitcom was cancelled by NBC after two seasons in 1984, but lived another four years in first-run syndication.