r/sitcoms • u/solipsisthisis • 3d ago

Anyone remember this super strange and unpopular little show called Tucker?

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"Tucker is a teenager whose life is uprooted following his parents' divorce in this coming-of-age comedy. Following the split, Tucker moves in with his Aunt Claire, her husband Jimmy and strange cousin Leon. Tucker is disappointed about moving in with them until he meets their attractive neighbor, McKenna. Once he meets her, Tucker tries to become McKenna's boyfriend."

I think it was NBCs attempted answer to Malcolm in the Middle. Based on the ratings my brother and I were the only people that ever enjoyed it. I remember liking it but the only thing that really stands out to me is that Tucker's cousin collected human hair. I searched for a long time to rediscover this show with only the hair thing to go on.

Now I'm about to attempt to rewatch it and I'm wondering if anyone has any opinions on it, or even remembers it at all

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u/Allaboutbears 3d ago

Loved it.

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u/Allaboutbears 3d ago

The uncle was a pilot. I remember Seth Green being in it? And an episode where his aunt has a fever dream and his cousin liked wrestling.

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u/baxtermcsnuggle 3d ago

I remembee this. Seth Green was dating McKenna, whichbwas SUPER weird because she was 16... maybe younger, and Seth was in his 30s playing himself🤷‍♂️

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u/solipsisthisis 2d ago

In Seth's defense, he's only recently started looking like he's in his 20s (now that he's probably like 50) Plus the actress who played McKenna was probably in her 20s at the time

To be clear being/looking physically or mentally adolescent definitely doesn't make it okay in real life, and it's still a bit creepy on TV. I'd be inclined to give an actor like Seth a pass even though I totally get where you're coming from since he does play "himself"

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u/IDunno7419 1d ago

This comment won't age well lol. Seth definitely shouldn't get a pass...

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u/solipsisthisis 21h ago

We weren't talking about real life. Did you read the discussion? my entire comment? Do you know what Seth Green looks like? Do you know what actors are? Have you seen a TV show?

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u/IDunno7419 19h ago

What a strange series of questions. Chill out. Yes, I read everything. You said you'd be inclined to give an actor like Seth a pass... and now you're being oddly defensive about it.

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u/solipsisthisis 18h ago

So you read that, got offended, and disregarded the rest of my comment as well as the context of what we were talking about. The only reason I'm being defensive is because you're acting like I think something like this would be okay outside of the TV screen. You're trying to be a white knight about something that I wouldn't agree with either if it were real life

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u/IDunno7419 17h ago

Okay. I'm just gonna chalk this up to... you don't know about Seth Green in real life.

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u/solipsisthisis 17h ago

Yeah I thought you were solely talking about his role in the show Tucker lol

You're right, I had to educate myself because this is the first I'm hearing about Seth being a part of that Q-anon thing.

Obviously, if the allegations are true, yes, seth is a bad person. I would not give him a pass for that. Not only that, I would regret defending him.

Admittedly, I do not know a lot about what actually happened but that's because I could only find one article copied on a few different websites. Some actor chokes out a woman, accuses Seth of being a pedo, threatens a shootout with the police, and jumped off a bridge. Those could be the actions of someone severely abused, or just very sick in the head.

We really don't have a lot else to go on, and there were dozens of allegations like this going around during that whole q-anon. Granted, there have been some of those accusations that turned out to be true, but we just don't have the facts on this one.

Long story short: I did miss your original point, but we still can't go so far as to say Seth is guilty of anything at all. If he is that terrible he should be convicted of every crime committed and I would never defend him again

And sorry for kinda lashing out in confusion

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u/baxtermcsnuggle 2d ago

oh I'm not casting judgement on Seth's personal character. he didn't write this. whoever wrote this, or proposed Seth be THAT to the character McKenna was quite unaware of the age gap.

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u/solipsisthisis 3d ago

Oh wow! Katy Segal play the sister, that's two fairly big names for TV at the time. I wonder what killed this show

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u/RedHotScreaming 3d ago

Yeah this aired alongside Michael Chiklis’s short lived family sitcom “Daddio”.

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u/jamescharisma 3d ago

All I remember is Seth Green was in it.

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u/EnzoMcFly_jr 2d ago

I do remember. I remember feeling like the marketing ensure it was going to run for a few years. Idk what that means, but it just seems like the network was confident it had legs. It was sort of drafting off Malcolm in the middle vibes. Katy Sagal as the mom iirc and Seth green as himself. I don’t think I saw more than two episodes