Surviving Suburbia

2009

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5.6| NA| en| More Info
Released: 06 April 2009 Canceled
Producted By: MRC
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://abc.go.com/primetime/survivingsuburbia
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Surviving Suburbia is an American sitcom starring Bob Saget and Cynthia Stevenson that aired on American Broadcasting Company from April 6 to August 7, 2009. The series originally aired at 9:30 PM Eastern/8:30 PM Central following Dancing with the Stars, before moving to Fridays at 8:30 PM Eastern/7:30 PM Central for its remaining episodes. It was the first program starring Saget to air on ABC since he left America's Funniest Home Videos in 1997. On August 8, 2009, ABC Entertainment President Steve McPherson announced that Surviving Suburbia, along with The Goode Family, had officially been cancelled due to low ratings.

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Comedy

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Surviving Suburbia Audience Reviews

SoftInloveRox Horrible, fascist and poorly acted
Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful
Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict
PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
raymondsummerlin Admittedly, the first episode was awful. The second, however, was much much better. Bob Saget did not seem so awkward, the wife was not so bad, and the kids were actually fairly good. The best friend could be better, but all in all, the show is improving.I think they would do a lot better if they lost the laugh track. It makes the show very choppy and ruins any comedic flow that could happen. I also think they would do better if they told Saget to stand up, but that is another matter altogether.Some times it takes a show a couple of episodes to get its act together, and then it really improves, aka Kings. I will give it a few more shows to see what happens.
jpurvis3-1 A real family sitcom in the midst of so much reality trash that you can actually watch with your kids. Bob Saget reprises his familiar role as a father "lost in the shuffle" of family life and Cynthia Stevenson plays his wife and the mother of a teenage son and young daughter.The real star of this family-friendly show is the spunky and precocious G Hannelius, who can be seen on the Disney promo shorts "Leo Little's Big Show". Her natural energy and personality shine in what may be the early glimpses of a future superstar.Given the current TV viewer's apparent appetite for adults behaving badly, just hope a family-oriented sitcom about normal child-raising issues can survive in a network prime-time spot. It's safe to let the kids stay up till 9:30 again.
Ken Nichols (fivecentfamily) One of the worst shows I've seen in a long time.I don't really watch many sitcoms anymore, since most every joke has to do with sex, but I did like Bob in Full House, and I enjoyed the other sitcoms of that era. This is NOTHING like that.Bob plays a completely unlikable character. I guess you could say he's supposed to be kind of like Homer Simpson, but Homer is easy to accept as stupid, where Bob just isn't. We know the REAL Bob Saget too well to be able to accept him in this role of a bumbling boob.The wife was simply irritating and completely unrealistic. All she cared about was her "standing" in the neighborhood. She was no "Marge" to his Homer, in that she was just as bad as he was.The teenage son was supposed to be the voice of reason. Again, completely unrealistic. Watching him "lecture" his father was painful.The little girl was cute, but she was nothing like a real child, either. The obsession with Zac Efron was annoying. Her parents seemed to act like it was fine for her to talk about how she would give Zac a flirtatious look so he would "fall in love with her" and they could "move into her room".But the WORST part was the wishy/washy morality tale. Apparently you don't need to be honest with your neighbors (if you can get something out of them) or even your kids (it's OK that you just WANTED to be honest, because your kids need you to be a "hero" in their eyes), but you should be with your spouse. Ridiculous, but I guess that's what passes for morality these days.I doubt this show will last a month. It's already cleared off my DVR list.
Cali Though I love Cynthia Stevenson, I must throw aside my loyalties to her to say that given a choice of watching "Surviving Suburbia" or Steve Wozniak on "Dancing with the Stars" I would have to opt for "The Woz." Bob Saget delivers his one note befuddled and bemused Daddy routine in his usual fashion, heavy on the dry staccato, light on the bumbling. Throw in a couple of precocious kids, an annoying best friend, some sexual innuendo and a heavyweight, hormonal neighbor and you have every other TV show Bob Saget has "starred" in. Given all of that, if you are able to live through the canned laughter, the predictable shtick and the less than funny scripting, then you truly did "Survive Suburbia!"