History Series / MadAboutYou

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Quite simply, a DomCom airing on Creator/{{NBC}} from 1992-99, about a married couple with a ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''-esque interest in meaningless conversations and minor fiddling events over big important ones. Rather unusual in that the couple is composed of two intelligent, attractive, well-adjusted and financially well-off people, Paul (Creator/PaulReiser, who also co-created the series) and Jamie Buchman (Creator/HelenHunt) who are deeply in love and rarely argue. Except over [[SeinfeldianConversation whether the floor is slanted]].

Trhe series received a 12-episode limited revival in 2019 as a Spectrum Original (Spectrum being the consumer name for Charter Communications' cable services, including the remnants of Time Warner Cable).

The well of inspiration [[SeasonalRot ran dry]] in the final season , but the series managed to wrap up with a [[AuthorsSavingThrow truly heart-rending finale]]. However, the series received a 12-episode limited revival in 2019 as a Spectrum Original (Spectrum being the consumer name for Charter Communications' cable services, including the remnants of Time Warner Cable).

Their dog, Murray, became an EnsembleDarkHorse due to his phenomenal acting talent.

** The first season showed Paul and Jamie (and Lisa and [[BrotherChuck Selby]]) heading to Jamie's family home for Thanksgiving (with Fran and Mark on the same train to ''their'' family's home), and then on the way home after their respective Thanksgiving experiences.

* MeddlingParents: The parents of both Paul and Jamie. And God helps when they get angry.

->Tell me why I love you like I do,\\

I'm [[TitleDrop mad about you]] baby...

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Quite simply, a DomCom airing on Creator/{{NBC}} from 1992-99, about a married couple with a ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''-esque interest in meaningless conversations and minor fiddling events over big important ones. Rather unusual in that the couple is composed of two intelligent, attractive, well-adjusted and financially well-off people, Paul ([[TheDanza Paul Reiser]], who also co-created the series) and Jamie Buchman (Creator/HelenHunt) who are deeply in love and rarely argue. Except over [[SeinfeldianConversation whether the floor is slanted]].

* FamousLastWords: Paul's uncle dies on-camera screaming "[=Hoooooooooooooo...Mooooooooooooooooooos!=]" In a spoof of ''Film/CitizenKane'', everybody spends the episode running around to find out what it means. [[spoiler:It's the serial number on the camera. (Hoo-[=Moo5=])]].

** With ''Series/{{Friends}}'', sort of. Early on, Lisa Kudrow played Ursula, a scatterbrained waitress at Riff's. After Kudrow landed the role of Phoebe on ''Friends'', Ursula was revealed to be Phoebe's twin sister. Jamie and Fran have a cameo in one episode of the latter show, where they go to the coffee shop where they see Phoebe and mistake her for Ursula. The fact that Phoebe, being a customer and not a waitress, doesn't take their order only further convinces them that she's Ursula.
** It also turns out that Paul used to live in the apartment now inhabited by ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'''s Cosmo Kramer, which creates a weird CelebrityParadox when a later season finds that program's George and Susan in bed watching a ''Mad About You'' episode!

The well of inspiration [[SeasonalRot ran dry]] in the final season ([[RagingStiffie Viagra overdoses]] and breast implant jokes abound), but the series managed to wrap up with a [[AuthorsSavingThrow truly heart-rending finale]]. However, the series received a 12-episode limited revival in 2019 as a Spectrum Original (Spectrum being the consumer name for Charter Communications' cable services, including the remnants of Time Warner Cable).

** ''Mad About You'' had quite a few {{Thanksgiving Episode}}s. The first season showed Paul and Jamie (and Lisa and [[BrotherChuck Selby]]) heading to Jamie's family home for Thanksgiving (with Fran and Mark on the same train to ''their'' family's home), and then on the way home after their respective Thanksgiving experiences. A later T-Day episode dealt with how Paul and Jamie tried (with hilarious failure) to control the dissemination of their pregnancy to their relatives.

* ThemeTuneCameo: Paul walks past an ''ACappella'' group singing the theme song, which he'd co-written. To [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall further mess with the wall, he mentions its familiarity]]. At the end of the episode, Paul and Jamie listen to the same group singing the theme again as the end-credits play. This time, Paul recognizes the tune and grins with satisfaction, but does not identify the tune out loud.

* ObnoxiousInLaws: Paul's mother constantly takes subtle and not-so-subtle potshots at Jamie. Especially bad as Paul's father adores her, and Jamie's parents (despite their own [[MyBelovedSmother smothering and manipulative]] ways) like Paul.

%%* ZettaiRyouiki: The school girl Paul sees on Ovulation Day. '''Administrivia/ZeroContextExample'''

The well of inspiration [[SeasonalRot ran dry]] in the final season ([[RagingStiffie Viagra overdoses]] and breast implant jokes abound), but the series managed to wrap up with a [[AuthorsSavingThrow truly heart-rending finale]]. However, the series received a 12-episode limited revival in 2019 on Spectrum Originals.

* ContraceptionDeception: In the last episode, Jamie convinces Paul to have a vasectomy, then to have the vasectomy reversed, then to have the vasectomy *again*. He doesn't go through with it the last time, and Jamie ends up pregnant (though she loses the baby in a miscarriage).