My Wife and Kids
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| Genre | Black sitcom |
| Created by |
Don Reo Damon Wayans |
| Starring |
Damon Wayans Tisha Campbell-Martin George O. Gore II Jennifer Freeman Parker McKenna Posey Noah Gray-Cabey Brooklyn Sudano Andrew McFarlane Jazz Raycole (season 1) |
| Composer(s) | Derrick "Big Tank" Thornton (seasons 1–3) Dwayne Wayans (seasons 4–5) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 123 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Don Reo Damon Wayans David Himelfarb (seasons 1–4) Andy Cadiff (season 3) Dean Lorey (seasons 4–5) |
| Camera setup | Film; Multi-camera |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Wayans Bros. Entertainment Impact Zone Productions Touchstone Television |
| Distributor |
Buena Vista Television (Former) Disney–ABC Domestic Television (Current) |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Picture format |
480i 4:3 (SDTV) 720p 16:9 (HDTV) |
| Original release | March 28, 2001 – May 17, 2005 |
My Wife and Kids is an American television sitcom that ran on ABC from March 28, 2001, until May 17, 2005. Produced by Touchstone Television (now ABC Studios), it starred Damon Wayans and Tisha Campbell-Martin, and centers on the character of Michael Kyle, a loving husband and modern-day patriarch who rules his household with a unique and distinct parenting style. As he teaches his three children some of life's lessons, he does so with his own brand of humor. Wayans and veteran television writer/producer Don Reo co-created and executive produced the series.
Unusual for a sitcom, there were no episodes focused around a major holiday (i.e. Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween); partially due to Damon Wayans being raised as a Jehovah's Witness. There also is no proper opening theme song, although the series did have two closing themes (one of which was also used at the very beginning of certain episodes during the first season) throughout its run.
Michael desperately wants to have sex with his wife, but Jay fears that having sex would bring about another pregnancy and asks that Michael undergo a vasectomy. Although he has second thoughts about the procedure, his need to have sex with Jay overcomes his fears. Meanwhile, Tony asks Claire to make him a hat so that he can attract the attention of God, but his hat is hit by lightning as he dances in the middle of the forest. In order to avoid having the operation, Michael lies about having had a vasectomy, but Jay is infuriated when she finds out. Ultimately, Michael decides he will have the vasectomy done for real. At the very end of the episode he tells Jay and she reveals that she's already pregnant.
Tony Jeffers (Andrew McFarlane; seasons 2–5) – Tony is Claire's boyfriend for the majority of the show's run. In season two's "Letting Go", he was depicted as not being very bright, sexually inactive because of his religious beliefs, though his subsequent appearances depict him as a nice, Christian teenager, though Michael often thought that Tony had an agenda that he is really using this as a ruse to try to trick Claire into having sex with him; Tony's actual demeanor and what Michael thought Tony was really like had Michael refer to him in the season two episode "Papa Said Knock You Out" as a "religious Eddie Haskell"; although Tony and Claire announce to Michael and Jay that they were thinking about having sex in the season three episode "The Big Bang Theory" (which does not happen as Tony saw that a Bible that was in a drawer in the hotel room they were going to lose their virginity in was a sign from God, not knowing that all hotels have a copy of the Bible), Michael's beliefs about Tony were never the case. Tony often sought ways to prove his devotion to purity and to God using extreme measures, such as fasting for eight days and wearing a handmade religious hat to get the approval of God (which backfires). Whenever Claire is breaking up with him or he falsely thinks she has broken up with him, he often wails. In season three's "Here Come Da Judge", it is revealed that his real first name is Honest and Tony is his middle name. In the Season One episode, "Breaking Up and Breaking It", Andrew McFarlane, the actor who played "Tony", also played the role of "Roger", another boy with a crush on Claire.
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