Parker Lewis Can't Lose
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Season Three cast of Parker Lewis Can't Lose
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| Also known as | ''Parker Lewis'' |
| Genre | Teen sitcom |
| Created by |
Clyde Phillips Lon Diamond |
| Starring |
Corin Nemec Troy Slaten Billy Jayne Melanie Chartoff Taj Johnson Abraham Benrubi Maia Brewton John Pinette |
| Composer(s) | Dennis McCarthy |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 73 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Clyde Phillips |
| Producer(s) |
Alan Cross Russell Marcus Larry Phillips Larry Shaw Bryan Spicer John Ziffren |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Clyde Phillips Productions Columbia Pictures Television |
| Distributor |
Columbia TriStar Television Sony Pictures Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | Fox |
| Original release | September 2, 1990 – June 13, 1993 |
Parker Lewis Can't Lose is an American teen sitcom that originally aired on FOX from September 1990 to June 1993. During the last season, the series sported the simpler title Parker Lewis. The series was produced by Columbia Pictures Television and was strongly influenced by the feature film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. In competition, NBC debuted the film's TV spinoff Ferris Bueller, but it only lasted 13 episodes, even though it aired during the same month as Parker Lewis.
The series depicts the tribulations of the title character Parker Lewis, a Santo Domingo High School student, for whom nothing is impossible. Parker often narrates in shows. Just like his best friends Jerry Steiner and Mikey Randall and Parker's girlfriend Annie Sloan, his prime concern is achieving and maintaining coolness.
However, their efforts are often thwarted by Parker's little sister Shelly and principal Grace Musso. Apart from various aspects of teenage life, embedded in a surreal, living-cartoon-like quality and the clever camera angles and filming techniques (dissolves from one scene to the next were done by ever larger pixels), an episode regularly contains more or less subtle references to movies, politics, and celebrities. The surrealism was toned down in the series' final season, with even Parker acknowledging this fact by breaking the 4th wall and 'canceling' a dissolving pixel scene. The 3,100 students at Santo Domingo High School are called Flamingos, after their school mascot, and the school motto is "E Pluribus Flamingus", clearly mimicking the famous USA's motto E Pluribus Unum.
The show premiered in syndication on September 14, 1993 on the USA Network. As of February 2009, minisodes are available on Crackle. In late 2015 the show is airing in syndication on the Family Network on Saturday mornings.
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