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The Critic
Opening titles of The Critic
Opening titles of The Critic
Format Animated sitcom
Created by Al Jean
Mike Reiss
Starring Jon Lovitz
Nancy Cartwright
Christine Cavanaugh
Gerrit Graham
Judith Ivey
Doris Grau
Maurice LaMarche
Nick Jameson
Country of origin  United States
No. of seasons 2 (TV)
1 (Internet)
No. of episodes 23 (TV)
10 (Internet)
Production
Executive producer(s) Al Jean
Mike Reiss
James L. Brooks
Running time approx. 22 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel ABC (1994)
FOX (1995)
Original run January 26, 1994 – May 21, 1995

The Critic is an American animated series revolving around the life of movie critic Jay Sherman, voiced by actor Jon Lovitz. It was created by Al Jean and Mike Reiss, both of whom had worked as writers on The Simpsons. The Critic had 23 episodes produced, first broadcast on ABC in 1994, finishing its original run on FOX in 1995. The show was produced by Gracie Films in association with Columbia Pictures Television (now Sony Pictures Television on reruns), and was animated by Film Roman.

Episodes featured movie parodies with notable examples including Howard Stern's End (Howards End), Honey, I Ate the Kids (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids/The Silence of the Lambs), The Cockroach King (The Lion King), Abe Lincoln: Pet Detective (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective), Scent of a Jackass and Scent of a Wolfman (Scent of a Woman). The show often referenced popular movies such as Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and The Godfather, and routinely lampooned actor Marlon Brando.

Throughout the show’s run, other famous critics have also guest voiced as themselves, including Gene Shalit, Rex Reed and the duo Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert.

The show was canceled after two years, though nine scripts were written for a run on UPN that never panned out. Ten webisodes were later produced, which in turn were included on the DVD box set.

Reruns can currently be seen on ReelzChannel in the US and on Teletoon's Detour in Canada.

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[edit] Cast

[edit] Characters

[edit] Jay Sherman

"New York's third most popular early-morning cable-TV film critic," Jay Prescott Sherman is the host of Phillips Broadcasting's Coming Attractions. His catch phrases include his exclamation of surprise ("Hotchie motchie!"), his common putdown of sub-par films ("It stinks!") and his distinctive cough ("acch-um!"). He is known for his surly and sarcastic putdowns of the majority of films he reviews — which is the majority of films he sees (an act that has earned him disdain from the public and rather low ratings), as his favorite films are foreign films. He often uses the "Shermometer" to measure the films he reviews, or a list of diseases he would rather have than see a movie. He has been known to rate films on a numerical scale, in which his highest score is seven out of ten. Most of his dislike for films comes from a love for cinema that has been disillusioned by seeing the commercial processes involved in the film industry.

Jay is the adopted son of wealthy couple Franklin and Eleanor Sherman, who originally thought he was a monkey. In preschool, he was given LSD-laced Kool-Aid by guest speaker Timothy Leary. (He claimed afterwards, he had jammed with "'Dylan"), and was mistakenly sent to Attica Prison instead of summer camp as a child in the summer of 1972. He has a teenage sister named Margo. He has a young son, Marty, who visits often when not staying with Jay's ex-wife Ardeth and her "personal trainer," Alberto. Jay is 36 years old.

Jay appeared in a guest role on the episode of The Simpsons, "A Star Is Burns", in which he presided over a local film festival, much to Homer's envy. Simpsons creator Matt Groening, for his part, detested the act of a current FOX show (which The Critic was at the time) crossing over with another current FOX show, and refused to allow his name to be shown in the credits, or discuss the episode on the later DVD commentary, feeling that the episode was nothing more that a 30 minute ad. When Jay enters the Simpson household, Bart is watching a Flintstones-The Jetsons crossover show (which was probably the movie The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones), which he criticizes; he then praises Jay and Coming Attractions/The Critic, before shuddering and saying to himself "I feel so dirty." At the end of the episode, as he is leaving for New York, Jay offers the Simpsons to appear on Coming Attractions/The Critic, but Bart declines, saying, "Nah, we're not going to be doing that." Oddly, The Simpsons also appears on television as a cartoon in The Critic. Jay Sherman also has yellow skin when he appears on The Simpsons but pink skin on The Critic.

Since then, Jay appeared briefly on The Simpsons a few more times. In the episode "Hurricane Neddy", he was in an insane asylum apparently unable to say anything more than his catchphrase (Doctor: "Yes, Mr. Sherman. Everything stinks.") In another episode, he is seen at Moe's Tavern with all the other characters on the show that Lovitz voices or has voiced.

Jay has also held several other jobs in his time, including a truck driver, speech writer for his boss's presidential campaign and a writer for the film Ghostchasers III (renamed Ghostbusters III during the final episode clip show.)

He has won a string of prestigious awards for his career. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for criticism, in addition to a People's Choice Award, five Golden Globes, an Emmy Award, a PhD in film, and a B'nai B'rith Award. Duke frequently makes patronizing comments to suggest that Jay is gay; Jay maintains that he is straight.

Jay blames his weight problem on the fictional disorder "vitilardo", a word-play on the skin pigmentation disorder vitiligo. His weight is suggested to be greater than a tank, as a helicopter that was originally designed to lift tanks was unable to even get him off the ground. He was also shown in a file photo on a news report as "weighing more than the entire band Los Lobos,", in which he is sitting on a see-saw, lifting the entire band into the air. When he exercises, Duke often uses Jay in place of a set of dumbbells when lifting weights. His weight led to the death of a horse when he was a child, crushing it to death when Jay was forced into sitting on it. Jay's stomach seems to have a mind of its own, often giving him commands that he obeys out of fear, going so far as to call it "Master". Acting on the advice of a quack public-relations expert, Jay once gained so much weight that he had to have several months' worth of liposuction.

He also has an alter-ego in "Ethel". His Ethel persona is an elderly woman, whom he often pretends is his assistant, and therefore assumes her persona when answering the phone. "Ethel" only appears in the first season.

In an episode from the first season, Jay discovers Marty to be in Cuba. In desperation to retrieve him, he goes to Mexico City's "Linda Ronstadt International Airport" and marries a Mexican woman in order to travel there. She then admits to him that she is only marrying him "for citizenship" and then openly states "I plan to divorce him and take half his money" (It is a possibility that this may be the "second divorce" Jay mentioned in the first webisode).

In the opening sequence for every episode, Jay is awakened by a disquieting phone call or radio news brief. At the end, he is seen sitting in a movie theater, eating popcorn and drinking soda as the closing credits are shown on the screen. When they finish, an usher approaches and says, "Excuse me, sir, the show's over." Jay then delivers one of the following four responses:

  • "But I have nowhere to go..."
  • "Is the snack bar still open?"
  • "Get away, zit-face!"
  • "I'm stuck in the chair!"
Marty Sherman, Jay Sherman's son

[edit] Marty Sherman

Jay's 13-year-old son Martin (Marty for short) usually stays with his mother, but visits Jay often. Like Jay, he is overweight, which causes him problems at United Nations International School. He was elected eighth-grade president thanks to a speech written by his father, dated Fidel Castro's granddaughter (he even secretly boarded the plane she was on in order to see her again), and discovered he has a gift for belly-dancing (he has great muscle control in his belly). In one episode, he lost a lot of weight, but found his new thin body to be more trouble than it was worth and gained it all back before the end of the episode.


[edit] Ardeth

Jay's ex-wife, last name unknown, who fell in love with Jay as his nurse, during a period in which he was completely bandaged and gagged. She instantly regretted marrying Jay, admitting so during the wedding ceremony. They spent their wedding night playing The Newlywed Game, which they won (Jay correctly guessed Ardeth compared his sex appeal to a dead mackerel).

Ardeth spends most of the series insulting Jay or demanding more alimony. At one point, when he greets her at a school athletic competition, she tells him he has to pay her $100 every time he talks to her. Opening his wallet, he replies, "Here's two hundred. Get bent!" It is implied that Ardeth cheated on Jay with the judge who presided over their divorce hearing when, during said hearing, they make suggestive comments and purring sounds to each other in front of Jay. She once attempted to place a voodoo hex on Jay's girlfriend Alice, despite the divorce settlement specifically forbidding such actions. Despite her dislike of Jay, she shares Jay's affection for their only son Marty and even goes so far as to admit, "We raised a great kid." She is often seen when Marty is in a show or event. She is voiced by Brenda Vaccaro, but in one episode, she was guest-voiced by Rhea Perlman.

[edit] Margo Sherman

The youngest child of the Sherman family, and the only biological child of Franklin and Eleanor. She is 16 years old and is a junior at a finishing school for "untouched girls." Margo is an activist who often protests her mother's socialite lifestyle. She also cares greatly for Jay, making sure his girlfriends aren't just dating him to get good reviews and having him escort her to the debutante ball. Briefly dated grunge rock singer Johnny Wrath (real name: Jonathan Rathberg), after he moved next door to the Shermans.

[edit] Franklin Sherman

Jay's adoptive father and Eleanor's husband, Franklin always carries a drink in his hand, wears slippers and speaks with a thick "Locust Valley Lockjaw". His mental health is uncertain, and he often acts quite erratically. His family claims that he had a stroke (to which Eleanor adds "He didn't really. We just say that to explain his personality"). A few of his oddities include burning down the house (this is explained by him forgetting to turn the oven off), becoming stuck to an ice sculpture, glueing the dog to the ceiling, wearing underpants on his head at the dinner table, and sticking a banana in his ear which he claimed was to try to lure the monkey out of his head. He is also well-known for dressing up as the New Year's Baby for the year 1937.

He is a former governor of New York State, as well as a former ambassador, Cabinet member, a Rhodes scholar and a heavy contributor to the Republican Party. He was also U.S. Secretary of Balloon Doggies. When told by President George H.W. Bush that the position is a ridiculous figment of his imagination that Congress will no longer provide funding for, Sherman vehemently claims, "I didn't ask to be Secretary of Balloon Doggies, the balloon doggies demanded it." He was Duke Phillips' running mate when he ran for president, though Duke tried to remove Sherman after he claimed to be the first black female head of the Ku Klux Klan.

It was revealed during a period newsreel in the episode 'A Little Deb Will Do Ya' that he was completely sane and had never had a drop to drink in his life until Ted Kennedy spiked the punch at his wedding.

[edit] Eleanor Sherman (née Wigglesworth)

Jay's adoptive mother and Franklin's wife, Eleanor is very prim and proper. She can be very nasty and underhanded when it suits her purposes, willing to shoot her daughter's horse to force her to go to a debutante ball. She is often embarrassed by her family and its eccentricities. She seeks to have all poor people shot into space, and when she wrote a children's book about Jay called "The Fat Little Pig", she promised to put all the profits toward that goal. She is a little too concerned with her outward appearance, despite her lack of tear ducts. This is brought to light when she is asked how her skin is so smooth, and she replied that she scrubs her face rigorously with steel wool, and then soaks her face in boiling hot water for two minutes exactly. Eleanor's voice, and many of her mannerisms, were inspired by Katharine Hepburn.

[edit] Duke Phillips

Duke is Jay's boss, and head of Philips Broadcasting (formerly Duke Phillips' House of Chicken and Waffles). He somewhat resembles Ted Turner and has a virtually superhuman constitution (he's able to lift Jay with relative ease and walk through concrete walls). He runs the network that shows Coming Attractions, and is always trying to change things to increase ratings and maximize profits. He owns an amusement park called Phillips Land, dubbed "The Happiest Place In Jersey", founded his own preschool ("Built on a dare"), runs PNN (Philips News Network), and a hospital/medical research center (with a giant statue of himself on it chanting "All hail Duke, Duke is life") and also tried to run for president with Franklin Sherman as his running mate. He possesses a hypnotic power called the "Evil eye" which he used to avoid reporters questions during that campaign. Contracted a fatal disease, later dubbed "Duke Phillips" disease; the treatment for which includes an 8 ounce injection of a medication discovered by Jay entitled "Jay Sherman's Oil" (a parody of Lorenzo's Oil) into his eyeball every 4 hours. He believes Jay is gay and in love with him, and wastes no opportunity to belittle him in public about this. Towards the end of the series, he marries Alice Tompkins' sister Miranda. When asked about religion, Duke commented that he, along with the rest of America's cultural elite, worships Pan, the goat god. Also, pigeons love the sound of his voice, as when he once spoke to explain it, a pigeon flew into his mouth. He has a secret love of cats, and in the episode "All the Duke's Men" a videotape of him tearfully singing to his cat is used by Bob Dole to discourage Duke from running as a Republican. Duke loves America, but for tax purposes is a citizen of the Dutch Antilles.

[edit] Jeremy Hawke

Jeremy is an Australian actor, and is Jay's best friend since Jay gave his first film its only positive review. Best known as the star of the "illogical, blasphemous, and ultra-violent" Crocodile Gandhi series, he has starred in multiple action movies and played former president James Monroe (as a spoof of James Bond eg. "Monroe, James Monroe"). He has a twin sister, Olivia (voiced by Morwenna Banks), who tries to win Jay's affection. He is a combination spoof of Australians Paul Hogan in terms of the exaggerated accent, and Mel Gibson with his luck with the ladies as well as his action film roles. His hidden shames: he's 43, uses elevator shoes to give the illusion of height, had allegedly fired a caterer for bringing the wrong kind of biscuit and has had extensive plastic surgery. He can also imitate the voice of Bullwinkle J. Moose.

[edit] Doris

Doris is Jay's make-up artist, a chain smoker and possibly Jay's biological mother (tests were negative but there are many similarities between his circumstances and her own son whom she gave up for adoption). She also tries to be attractive to Duke, by purring and sending him nude photos of herself. She only has one lung and anytime a cigarette is removed from her mouth a new one appears. Doris lives in a very spacious and luxurious apartment, affordable to her since it has been "rent controlled since 1946," and also for the fact that Duke pays her $300,000 per annum, believed that this was what average people earned. Her rent is $120 per month. She says that one of her talents is making shapes out of cigarette smoke, but when she tried to make a bunny she created one with a demonic face which told her "Doris... Tick! Tock!" She was once a Commercial actress for Phleghm Fatale Cigarettes, but her career in acting ended after she "got knocked up by the Fruit of the Loom banana". Doris was even married to horror-movie actor Lon Chaney as evidenced on her arm tattoo. Voiced by Doris Grau who also played a character named Lunchlady Doris in The Simpsons.

[edit] Alice and Penny Tompkins

Introduced in the second season, Alice Tompkins becomes Jay's girlfriend. She is named for Alice Kramden on The Honeymooners and she is once married to a country singer, Cyrus Tompkins (voiced by Sam McMurray), but she leaves him when she begins to suspect he is cheating on her (she reaches this conclusion after seeing Cyrus' album, entitled "I'm Being Unfaithful to My Wife, Alice Tompkins. You Heard Me, Alice Tompkins.") As a consequence, Alice moves to New York from Knoxville, Tennessee, to show her daughter Penny that a woman can make it without a man. He later tracks her to New York and tries to seduce her, but to no avail. She maced Jay upon first meeting him, an act he shrugged off (even enjoyed).

Alice was originally an artist and is capable of perfectly replicating art masterworks on the walls of her apartment (such as Michelangelo‘s The Creation of Adam and Georges Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte). She now works as Jay's personal assistant. She has an older sister, Miranda, who has usurped her popularity many times over the years, and a younger brother named Bisquick.

Despite hitting him when she first met him for not liking The Lion King, Penny quickly takes a liking to Jay, initially calling him "funny man" due to the comical mishaps that repeatedly befall him when he is around her. Later in the season, she begins to call him "Uncle Jay." When he and Alice are unable to get her admitted into any of the top preschools in New York, Duke Phillips founds one exclusively for her, staffed by Jimmy Breslin, Sean Young, and Prince Charles.

A fifth tagline for the closing credits was created to go with the original four (see above). Here, Jay and Alice are seen kissing in the theater seats as the credits roll. At the end, they are interrupted by an usher who says, "Excuse me, the show's over." Alice responds, "Get away, pipsqueak," and Jay says to the camera, "That's why I love her!"

In the first Critic webisode Jay's makeup artist Jennifer asks him what happened to his self-esteem, to which Jay replies that he lost it in the second divorce settlement. Although Alice is never mentioned by name, this led many fans to believe that Jay had married Alice which eventually ended up in a bitter divorce.

[edit] Vlada Veramirovich

Vlada, who is an Eastern European immigrant, runs a restaurant called L'ane Riche (French for "The Wealthy Jackass"), which Jay and Jeremy both frequent. He hates Jay, but loves his money (stated by his son Zoltan that "thanks to his appetite, we bought a yacht"), frequently belittling him quietly or in a foreign language to the staff. Best known for his greeting to Jay, "Meeester Sherman", he has a keen understanding of who is hot and who is not in New York and a posse built for schmoozing. He has an equally effeminate and disturbing son, Zoltan, who attends the same UN School as Jay's son Marty and sings unintentionally hilarious songs about his homeland. The headmaster of the UN School once described Zoltan as "The boy who used to be a girl. Oops, that used to be a secret!..." On a side note the restaurant is also a parody of Sardi's of New York, which is frequented by Broadway stars and New York socialites alike.

[edit] Shackleford

The Shermans' butler, Shackleford is an older Englishman with a dour, sarcastic attitude. He is not particularly loyal to the family. As shown when he watched the house burn down yelling "Burn, Baby! Burn!" after Franklin left the stove on causing it to burn down. but he stays with them for the money and fringe benefits. Shackleford is particularly contemptuous toward Jay, referring to him as Adopted Master Jay, with a tone that suggest that he does not consider Jay to be a true member of the family. He is also a fan of grunge rock and has worked for a number of famous musical groups. Shackleford was inspired by John Gielgud as the Butler Hobson in the movie Arthur.

[edit] Webisodes

In the early 2000s, show creators Al Jean and Mike Reiss ran a series of ten internet episodes of The Critic, still with Jon Lovitz as the starring role. While still making fun of movies and Hollywood in general, its story focused on Jay lusting after the lovely Jennifer, his new makeup lady. Alice does not appear in any of the episodes and is not mentioned by name, though Jay does briefly refer to a "second divorce" in the first episode—presumably from her or the Mexican woman he married in order to get to Cuba. Besides Jay, Vlada is the only other character from the show to make an appearance. All ten of the "webisodes" were included on the complete series DVD (but not iTunes). Parodies include gaffs on The Patriot, Harry Potter, Mission: Impossible 2, X-Men, Pearl Harbor and Cast Away.

[edit] Episode List

[edit] Season 1: 1994 (ABC): 13 Episodes

1. Pilot: January 26, 1994: When Jay has actress Valerie Fox on his show, they both fall in love with each other and get involved in a caring relationship. A relationship that may be threatened if Jay pans her performance in her new movie.

2. Marty's First Date: February 2, 1994: Marty invites his dad, Jay, to career day at his school. Marty then develops a crush on a Cuban girl named Carmen. They go on a date, but when Carmen decides to fly back to Cuba, Marty follows her and Jay must get his son back.

3. Dial 'M' for Mother: February 16, 1994: Jay is considered to be one of the most unpopular men on Earth ranking even worse than Adolph Hitler, so Duke attempts to spruce up the show to get more people interested. When this doesn't work, Jay decides to soften his image by going on the "Geraldo Show" with his mother but Jay gets an even worse reputation when his mother embarrasses him to the point where he tells her to "shut up".

4. Miserable: February 16, 1994: Jay, noticing everyone in New York has a fiancee except him, begins to feel unloved. Things change when he goes to review the movie, "Indecent Proposal II" and falls in love with the projectionist screening the movie. They arrange a date at her house where she is revealed to have an obsession with Jay to the point where she kidnaps him and ties him to a bed holding him hostage.

5. A Little Deb will Do Ya: February 23, 1994: Eleanor is determined to have her daughter, Margo, attend the annual Debutantes Ball as it is a tradition in her family. When Margo is reluctantly forced into it, Jay decides to accompany her. Meanwhile, Jay competes in his time slot against childrens idol Humphrey the Hippo.

6. Eyes on the Prize: March 2, 1994: Jay celebrates his 1,000th episode, but the episode is less than successful. Ratings get worse so Jay seeks image consultant, Adolph Hitmaker, for advice. The advice is unsuccessful and Jay is fired. Jay gets a new job on a show which teaches English for cab drivers but Jay is unhappy so he decides to win himself another Pulitzer Prize.

7. Every Doris has her Day: June 1, 1994: Jay is given two tickets to a new play based on The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He tries to find a date but no woman will go with him so he goes with Doris instead. Surprisingly, Jay and Doris have a good time and their relationship eventually blossoms. One day, Doris recalls she has a son she put up for adoption. Jay mentions he is adopted and both start to think they are biological mother and son and must find more evidence.

8. Marathon Mensch: June 8, 1994: When the studio catches fire during Jay's show, he collapses and must be rescued from the fire by Doris. When the news reports Jay's being rescued, he gets a reputation as being a wimp so he tries to prove his manliness by running in the "New York Marathon" which tends to be more tiresome than it seems.

9. L.A. Jay: June 22, 1994: Jay is offered to write the screenplay for a new movie, "Ghostchasers III" so he takes a break from his show to go to L.A. to write the new movie and experience Hollywood life but the movie producer isn't satisfied with Jay's script.

10. Dr. Jay: June 29, 1994: Jay's boss, Duke, has just made a new invention, "PHILLIPSVISION" which alters movies to make them more likeable. Jay is disgusted with Duke's invention, but when Duke is discovered to have a fatal disease, Jay must find a cure for Duke's ailment.

11. A Day at the Races and a Night at the Opera: July 6, 1994: After Marty fails to win an event at his school field day, he is feeling very low so Jay tries to improve his self-confidence by getting him interested in playing guitar and putting him in the school talent show. Meanwhile, Them Magazine, a parody of Time Magazine, names Jay "The Wittiest Man Alive" so Duke offers to pay everyone who doesn't laugh at Jay's show $100 which doesn't go over very well.

12. Uneasy Rider: July 13, 1994: Jay is asked by Duke to use his show to promote a new product, Savvy Indian Chewing Tobacco. Jay doesn't want to promote tobacco so he tears up his contract and quits. He finds a new career in truck driving where he is praised by the other truckers, but starts to realize the importance of his other job.

13. A Pig-Boy and his Dog: July 20, 1994: In the first season finale, Eleanor is bored and feeling depressed with her life so he attempts to become an author and write a book. She writes a children's book called "The Fat Little Pig" which Jay learns is modelled after him and does not leave him very pleased. Meanwhile, Jay tries to get along with his new pet dog.

[edit] Season 2: 1995 (FOX): 10 Episodes

1. Sherman, Woman, and Child: March 5, 1995: In the second season premiere, Jay's ratings are not doing so well and Duke is about to fire him, so Jay is feeling depressed. His mood improves when he meets a woman named Alice and her daughter Penny. Alice gives Jay tips on how to improve his show and her advice works. Jay wants to get to know Alice better, but discovers that her estranged husband Cyrus has returned, whom she wants to reject but can't.

2. Siskel & Ebert & Jay & Alice: March 12, 1995: After Jay attends The Academy Awards Ceremony, Siskel and Ebert have a fight on the plane ride home and split up. Jay sees his golden opportunity to be a partner to either Siskel or Ebert, but feels they weren't right to be apart so he tries to reunite them.

3. Lady Hawke: March 19, 1995: When Jeremy Hawke's sister, Olivia Newton Hawke, visits New York, Jay meets her and is smitten with her. He puts his relationship with Alice on the line when she begins to feel left out, and Jay then must decide who he really loves.

4. A Song for Margo: March 26, 1995: Margo gets a new neighbor, Johnny Wrath, who is the lead singer in the rock group, Nuns in a Blender. Margo falls in love with him, but doesn't feel the relationship is right when she finds him with another girl. Meanwhile, Alice tries to find a suitable preschool for Penny.

5. From Chunk to Hunk: April 2, 1995: Jay and Marty begin to feel a little big, so they enroll themseleves in a weight loss camp. Marty loses a remarkable amount of weight which makes him feel more self-confident, but when he is placed as the star in a school play, he doesn't feel his skinny self is right for him. Meanwhile, Jay receives a death threat from Belgian actor Jean Paul Le Pope after giving his latest movie a bad review.

6. All the Duke's Men: April 23, 1995: When Jay helps Marty become class president, Duke decides to have Jay help him become U.S. President.

7. Sherman of Arabia: April 30, 1995: At Marty's slumber party Jay is asked to tell his story in which he got caught up in the Gulf War. Jay tells how he was attending an Iraqi film festival and eventually was thrown in jail where he escaped and lead a troop of men across the desert.

8. Frankie and Ellie get Lost: May 7, 1995: Franklin and Eleanor celebrate their 40th anniversary by going on vacation, but their plane crashes leaving Franklin and Eleanor marooned on an island. Back in New York, Margo and Jay find out about their disappearance and discover they have left Jay everything in the will. Jay decides to put the family fortune to use by cleaning up New York.

9. Dukerella: May 14, 1995: Alice's sister, Miranda, comes to visit them which Alice is not comfortable with. Miranda must find work in New York so she joins "Mattress in an Hour" delivering mattresses. When everybody attends a party held by Duke, and Miranda falls in love with Duke but is shy because of a wrinkle. She runs out on Duke at midnight and Duke must find the woman who fits her slipper. When it turns out to be Doris, Jay must get Duke and Miranda reunited.

10. I Can't Believe It's a Clip Show: May 21, 1995: In the second season finale, Jay is hosting his 10th anniversary show live from Carnegie Hall where he showcases a number of movie clips from past episodes such as "Jurassic Park 2," "Every Which Way But Lucid," and the infamous "Rabbi P.I." The show is later held hostage by a number of terrorists who threaten to blow the place up with a bomb tied to Jay's waist. Fortunately, everybody is eventually rescued by Milton Berle.

[edit] Webisodes: 10 Episodes

1. In the third season premiere, Jay talks about how he hit rock bottom and then boosted back to super stardom. He also meets a beautiful makeup woman.

2. Jay continues to review the films of 2000 from his beach decorated studio, as he is banned from all public beaches until he loses 20 pounds. Jay also receives an unexpected visit from Arnold Schwarzenegger.

3. Jay pans The Patriot with a special guest from Pokemon: 2000, Pikachu. All the while, he tries to prove to Jennifer he is nice enough to date.

4. Jay finally lands a date with Jennifer. He takes her to L'ANE Riche where he talks about the movies he missed out on reviewing while unemployed.

5. The Oscars get knocked down by Jay like they were gold-plated bowling pins.

6. A behind the scenes look at the Jay Sherman's off air love life.

7. The Critic sinks Cast Away and takes a look back in anger at the films of 2000.

8. Jay takes an odyssey through the films of 2001 zapping Harry Potter.

9. Jay defuses Broadway bombs with "Death of a Seinfeld" and others.

10. In the series finale, While waiting in line for a movie with Jennifer, Jay talks about Pearl Harbor and is mistaken for Shrek.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

http://www.tv.com/The+Critic/show/2265/episode.html?season=1&tag=list_header;paginator;1

http://www.tv.com/The+Critic/show/2265/episode.html?season=2&tag=list_header;paginator;2

http://www.tv.com/The+Critic/show/2265/episode.html?season=3&tag=list_header;paginator;3

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