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Grounded for Life - Season One

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I always liked this one. It was quite a funny show whose ratings didn't reflect how good it was. In it's rookie season, it was good, but as each season progressed, I think it got better. My favourite character is Eddie who comes across as a dark, moody, brooding and mysterious guy, who is actually a puppy dog. The kids are great and the parents are fun. What this show does in each and every episode, is have flashbacks. The story lines always have a reason to go back in time and explain how a particular situation occured. The Finnerty's are the fun kind of family we all wish we were a part of. Through all the teasing and fighting, you know they love each other. This is a keeper, and I'm sorry it was cancelled. As I said earlier; ratings don't always proove how good a show can be, and this is a classic example. A terrific sitcom that will keep you laughing.

In the summer of 2005, we got cable for the first time since we moved into the new house. I had never heard of Grounded for Life, until they started playing it on ABC family. I watched it the first day it was on, and thought it was hilarious! I thought it was so funny that I started watching it every single day. In fact, after all the shows ran through once, i started taping them so i could watch whatever one i wanted to, when i wanted to. I love it! I went over to my friend's house one day and i asked her if we could watch Grounded for Life. She said sure, and she thought it was funny too! She even asked me when it was on the next day so she could watch it again! This show is about Sean, Claudia, their kids, and all the everyday problems and little adventures that they have. Lily, the oldest daughter, is basically 99.9% brat, and .1% not brat. She is just a regular teenager, except screams all the time! Jimmy, the middle child, is becoming a teen and is just trying to get through life. (He's really hot.) Henry, the youngest child, is sooooo funny! My mom says he's a smart allec/brat, but i disagree. Eddie, Sean's brother and the kids' uncle, is also very, very funny. He mooches off of Sean and Claudia, and in like season 5 he ends up living in their basement. Brad is the neighbor kid who is in love with Lily. He also is pretty funny. You don't see much of Brad in the early seasons, but near the end you see him in every episode. Grounded for Life is a great show. You should definatley watch it!!!

This was one of the best family sitcoms on TV. (Hard to find sitcoms on tv anymore) Unfortunately, it was cancelled by 2 networks. Fox cancels everything too soon. The WB replaced it with some stupid Fran Drescher show that bombed and Blue Collar TV (yuk!). You can still catch "Grounded" in re-runs on ABC FAMILY. I Recorded every episode and transfered it to DVD..only to find out it's coming out on dvd.

If you are a fan of "Roseanne", you'll definately enjoy "Grounded for Life". The final season was the best. The daughter Lilly is very funny. My husband says the mom is "HOT".
I'm still surprised the show got cancelled.

I was waiting so long for this show to come to DVD. They always underestimated it's comedical genius! This show is so hilariously funny, each character is so fitting, they all work so well together. All topics are great because anyone can relate to their woes and laugh at their answers to all their quarky problems. This show is so funny and unfortunately never got enough of the credit it so deserves. I guarentee you will be laughing your pants off for a long time watching this show. You will also gain a love and respect for each of the actors that appear on this show that you may or may not have seen before! Enjoy!

Grounded for life as I'm sure many of you already know is a wonderful show.It can teach parents what or what not to do in certain situations.This show should never of ended as soon as it did.I think they should of alteast made a 6th season.

I recently discovered this show on ABCFamily Channel and it is so funny! My family and I watch it everyday and sometimes rewind each episode and watch the same one over and over. It is truly that good! Every night while we are watching the show, we say, "How did we not know about this show?" and "What were they thinking, taking it off the air?" I can't come up with a favorite character because they are all so unique and fabulous in their own ways. Sean is just funny, and loves to scream. Claudia is such a fun loving and cool mom. Lily is a time bomb. Jimmy is intelligent but does stupid things. Henry, is well, Henry. And Eddie, is the icing on the cake! Trust me, this show is appealing to all age groups and to all senses of humor! Grounded For Life is the BEST!

I hadn't ever heard of the show until it started showing on ABC family. (channel 39, 4:00pm, Spokane Washington) It's hilarius!!! Every line I hear, just makes me crack up. I have friends over all the time, and I always make them watch it with me because I can't miss one episode. And, they've learned to like it too. My cousin Melissa, age 12, loves it too! She liked it so much that she watched it at home with her dad, and now he likes it too. My friend Shannon came over once too, and she watched it with me, and told me to call her the next day to remind her to watch it at her house. When I'm on the phone with Nick, I always hold the phone up to the TV so he can hear a line, or two, and he even cracks up a little through the phone. The characters are Sean, Claudia, uncle Eddie, Lily, Jimmy, Henry, and Brad. There's more, but they don't really matter. Jimmy is really, really, REALLY cute!!! And as the seasons go on, he gets really, really, REALLY hot!!!He was supposedy born on October 8, 1987. That would make him 18! So not true...I hope. I love his personality in the show...I wonder if he's like that in person. I love the episode where the Finnerty's get a new TV, and Claudia accidently spills soda in it. She tells Jimmy to do everything he can to keep Sean from watching TV. And after a long day, Sean finally goes to watch TV, and to destract him, Jimmy's like, "Dad, how do you know if you're gay?" That is soooooooo funny, to me anyway. Another episode is when Jimmy goes to the bathroom to shave, for the first time, and there's this girl that he likes at this party that was going on at his house. He's in the bathroom forever, making everyone at the party wait to use the bathroom. He finally gets out, and the girl he likes is there, and he starts talking to her. All of a sudden, his face just starts bleeding because of all the nicks. She has this look on her face like, OMG! How gross! I think that it was very cute. Anyway, to me, everything that Jimmy (Griffin Frazen) does is funny. I can't believe that he's 18! Anyway, you're gonna have to wait to see those episodes, because those are like in season 4 and 5. I would reccomend this show to everyone, even though there's alot of "sexual content" it's still funny for the whole family to watch. My dad even thinks it's funny...and that's saying something!!!

This is a great show, shown unfortunately at 1.30 am on Irish tv, with some great acting and some fun plots. Have been wanting to get this on DVD and at last! This programme follows the Flannerty family with dad (chuck from ER), uncle eddie and claudia the mom with cool kids: lily, jimmy (what's with the hair?) and young one -- there's the crazy Sister Helen, who always pops up as the nice/evil nun in charge of the school that the kids go to as well as the neighbours next door. There are a number of sub-plots along with the main story and it's refreshing in a sitcom that the writing is fresh, imaginative and creative. There is a bit fun poked at the Catholic church and some morals along the way, but it's never preachy or PC-correct. It's a laugh with real issues.

I am so thankful to ABC Family for bringing this show on television in the afternoons. I never watched it on FOX or the WB the first time around, but I caught part of an episode one day and was hooked. The writing is incredibly funny, and the whole attitude of the show and the "lessons" the kids learn is similiar to those of the Connor family on Roseanne, rather than other family sitcoms. It was definitely cancelled before it's time, and I am so glad the DVD is finally being released!

Fox gets rid of some of the best comedies and Grounded for Life is a good example of that. Fox got rid of it and then the WB picked it up just to cancel it as well. So neither stations are that smart lol. Donal Logue (Blade, The Patriot) is an a hilarious leading man as Sean Finnerty . Each weak he has to deal with a different family problem. He also has great chemestry with Megyn Price who plays his wife. The rest of the cast is fine as well. Kevin Corrigan steals the show every time he's shown as Sean's scheming brother Eddie. I get baffled to why this show was canceled every time I see re-runs on ABC Family Channel. It's funny and clever and better than most of the crappy comedies that are on now.