Anthony Clark plays husband 'Greg' Warner who has a good job, a house, and a kid. Jean Louisa Kelly plays his wife, Kim Warner. Kim has a sister, Christine, played by Liza Snyder who is married to Jimmy Hughes, played by Mike O'Malley.
Greg and Kim are intelligent, "average" Americans, Christine is slightly less bright than her sister, and Jimmy is just plain dumb. Not to mention he's a freeloader.
Here's the plot:
Yes, Dear is a comedy about two young couples and their outrageously contrasting views on parenting. First-time parents, Greg and Kim Warner struggle on a daily basis to become perfect at the job. Kim is a neurotic, stay-at-home mother, and although her husband, Greg, is a success in his career, his more difficult job is keeping his wife calm as they raise their year-old son, Sam. While Kim is determined to be the perfect mother and perfect wife and to raise the perfect son, her sister, Christine Hughes, a very down-to-earth mother of two [four-year-old Dominic and one-year-old Logan], continually reminds her that life will never be perfect. Christine's husband, Jimmy, is employed as a security guard and unconcerned about living in Kim and Greg's guest house and feels compelled to share with his brother-in-law his philosophy about being a husband and a parent while still remaining a man
Doesn't that make is sound like Christine and Jimmy have it all together, and the well-employed Greg and Kim don't? In the reality of the TV show, Dominic is a brat, Jimmy Hughes feels that anything that belongs to his brother-and-sister-in law are his, and makes himself free with them.
In the course of the six year run, the Hughes' eventually move from the "guest house' to a house next door, but of course spend just as much time in Greg's house - making free with it as if it were there own. Jimmy eats all their food - and of course never buys any to replace it, sister Christine uses their washing machine.
But, of course, in the final episodes, it is the well-employed Greg who loses his job, and for some reason the couple lose their house, so they have to move in with Jimmy. Yeah, right.
The only good thing about this sitcom is that the actress playing Christine is "large." Not as large as Roseanne, but not a skinny stick, either. Of course she hides it by wearing draping clothing, but it's easy to see she is curvy rather than skeletal. That at least is nice to see.
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