Mike Biggs | |
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First appearance | "Pilot" 1x01, September 20, 2010 |
Last appearance | "I See Love" 6x13, May 16, 2016 |
Portrayed by | Billy Gardell |
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Gender | Male |
Occupation | Police officer |
Family | Peggy Biggs (mother) Jack Biggs (father) |
Spouse(s) | Molly Flynn |
Children |
William Michael Biggs (adopted) unborn child (currently expecting with Molly) |
Relatives | Joyce Flynn-Moranto (mother-in-law) Mr Flynn (father-in-law; deceased) Victoria Flynn (sister-in-law) Vincent Moranto (step-father-in-law) |
Religion | Christian (Roman Catholic) |
Nationality | American |
Molly Flynn-Biggs | |
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First appearance | "Pilot" 1x01, September 20, 2010 |
Last appearance | "I See Love" 6x13, May 16, 2016 |
Portrayed by | Melissa McCarthy |
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Gender | Female |
Occupation | Schoolteacher, writer |
Family | Joyce Flynn-Moranto (mother) Mr Flynn (father; deceased) Victoria Flynn (sister) Vince Moranto (step-father) |
Spouse(s) | Mike Biggs |
Children |
William Michael Biggs (adopted) unborn child (expecting with Mike) |
Relatives | Peggy Biggs (mother-in-law) Jack Biggs (father-in-law) |
Religion | Christian |
Nationality | American |
Carl McMillan | |
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First appearance | "Pilot" 1x01, September 20, 2010 |
Last appearance | "I See Love" 6x13, May 16, 2016 |
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Gender | Male |
Occupation | Police officer |
Relatives | Rosetta McMillan (maternal grandmother) |
Mike & Molly is a sitcom which premiered in September 2010. The show revolves around the lives of Mike Biggs, a police officer, and Molly Flynn, a schoolteacher, who meet at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting and fall in love. The series follows their relationship with each other and their two families.
William Michael Biggs (adopted)
Officer Michael "Mike" Biggs (Billy Gardell), is the lead male protagonist of the series. He is introduced in the first episode as a Chicago police officer with weight issues who attends a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous. It is here that he meets Molly Flynn. After Molly asks Mike to come and speak to her class at the school where she works, they begin dating in the second episode. Mike is regularly accompanied by his best friend, Carl McMillan, his partner on the police force, whom he joins for breakfast to chat about the state of their lives at a cafe where their waiter is always Samuel, an African immigrant who likes to make fun of Mike's weight. Mike and Molly got engaged in the season 1 finale, are married in the season 2 finale, and are still trying to conceive their first child as of the Season 4 premiere. In Season 5, though, Mike finds out that Molly went back on birth control without telling him due to the pain and frustration of two years when she was unable to conceive a child, and they resolve to pursue avenues like adoption as they still love each other and want to raise kids.
William Michael Biggs (adopted)
Molly Flynn-Biggs (Melissa McCarthy) is the lead female protagonist of the series. She is a fourth grade school teacher who attends the same Overeaters Anonymous class as Mike. She lives with her mother Joyce and her sister Victoria, while her mother's partner Vince Moranto is often seen at the house. She is very sweet, intelligent and caring, but she can be hypersensitive and has a very bad financial history thanks to a large amount of credit card debt. She and Mike married in the season 2 finale. She and Mike spent two years trying to have a child but put those plans on hold in Season 5. In Season 4, she quits her teaching job to pursue a career as a writer, and in Season 5 she has a huge success when her literary erotica novel is published by a major company. It is later revealed in a session with a psychologist that Mike's stabilizing presence, something she hasn't had since her father died, has allowed Molly to finally feel comfortable taking risks.