Unhappily Ever After
Unhappily Ever After opening sequence
Format	Sitcom
Created by	Ron Leavitt Arthur Silver
Starring	Nikki Cox Kevin Connolly Stephanie Hodge Justin Berfield Geoffrey Pierson Bob Goldthwait
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	100
Production
Running time	30 minutes (per episode)
Broadcast
Original channel	The WB
Original run	January 11, 1995 – May 23, 1999
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Unhappily Ever After (often shortened to Unhappily... in promotional advertisements) was an American sitcom that aired for 100 episodes on The WB network from January 11, 1995 to May 23, 1999, for a total of four and a half seasons. A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Married With Children Ron Leavitt (along with Michael G. Moye) created the wildly succesful American television sitcom Married with Children. ... Nikki Cox (born Nicole Avery Cox on June 2, 1978 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress known mostly for her roles on the television series Unhappily Ever After and Las Vegas. ... This article is about the television actor. ... Stephanie Hodge (born December 24, 1956 in Wilmington, Ohio) is an American actress. ... Justin Tyler Berfield (born February 25, 1986) is an American actor, writer and producer. ... Geoff Pierson (Born June 16, 1949 in Chicago) is an American actor best known for his role on The WB series Unhappily Ever After as Jack Malloy, the father of a disfunctional family whose best friend is a stuffed animal rabbit named Mr. ... This article has been illustrated as part of WikiProject WikiWorld. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The Warner Bros. ... is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... is the 143rd day of the year (144th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events of 2008: (EMILY) Me Lesley and MIley are going to China! This article is about the year. ... This article is about a genre of comedy. ... The Warner Bros. ... is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of television-related events in 1995. ... is the 143rd day of the year (144th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The year 1999 in television involved some significant events. ...

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The Malloy Family

The show was about Jack Malloy and his dysfunctional family. A dysfunctional family is a family in which conflict, misbehavior and even abuse on the part of individual members of the family occur continually, leading other members to accommodate such actions. ...

• Jack Malloy (Geoff Pierson): A schizophrenic, alcoholic father who works at a wholly unsatisfying job as a used car salesman, his daughter Tiffany is his only real hope in his otherwise depressing life. He converses with a stuffed bunny (Mr. Floppy) that only he can hear.
• Jennifer "Jennie" Malloy (Stephanie Hodge): Jack's shrewish, sex-crazed wife. She gets along with no one in particular and is prone to jealousy, particularly toward her daughter Tiffany (since she's everything Jennie never was.) It should also be noted that Jennie's role in the show from a plot standpoint sometimes remains inconsistent and/or difficult to explain intelligibly. She is killed off in season 3 and amazing returns comes bakc to life in season 4 but abandons her family in season 5 with her lesbian mistress.
• Ryan Malloy (Kevin Connolly): born May 1978, The eldest son of Jack and Jennie, Ryan maintains a positive happy-go-lucky attitude despite being unpopular, stupid, and unsupported emotionally by anyone (including his parents.) His inability to attract girls and his parents' overt derision of him are recurring themes throughout the show.
• Tiffany Malloy (Nikki Cox): born 1979, The "favorite" child of Jack, Tiffany is seemingly perfect: smart, ambitious, popular, sexy, and still a virgin. Despite this, she is not really pure-spirited and is often self-serving. She has a large number of recurring friends and rivals throughout the show.
• Ross Malloy (Justin Berfield): born 1986, the youngest and arguably the most normal member of the family, Ross is often the voice of reason, common sense, and enlightenment in an otherwise dysfunctional family. However, it becomes clear from certain episodes that Ross has issues of his own. He is also the child that is most ignored in the family and unlike Ryan and Tiffany, tends to be treated indifferently by Jack and Jennie. His intelligence level is average marking him between Tiffany and Ryan.

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Additional Characters

• Mr. Floppy (voice of Bobcat Goldthwait, puppeteer Allan Trautman): A smoking, drinking, and perverted gray stuffed bunny who lives in the Malloy basement, often discussing his life in "the toy bin," his success stories with women, or ranting about cynical topics. A large part of the show revolves around Jack consulting Mr. Floppy for advice, as only Jack can hear him (Mr. Floppy doesn't actually speak, but in Jack's warped mind he does.) While both Jack and Mr. Floppy often have differing views on things, they have similar mindsets and thus, Mr. Floppy is best seen as a sort of alter-ego of Jack.

• Maureen Slattery (Joyce Van Patten): Maureen is Jennie's somewhat delusional, alcoholic mother, who clearly disapproves of Jack.

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Recurring Characters

• Barry Wallenstein (ANT): Tiffany's main guy friend at Priddy High who is flamingly homosexual.

• Amber Moss (Dana Daurey): Tiffany's best friend at Priddy High. She is less intelligent and more easygoing than Tiffany.

• Chelsea Drake (Shonda Whipple): Another one of Tiffany's friends at Priddy High.

• Patty Le Gurst (Elizabeth Harnois): Tiffany's rival who like Tiffany dresses scantily yet she is stupider than Tiffany.

• Sable O'Brien (Kristanna Loken): A beautiful and popular girl who becomes Tiffany's arch rival at Priddy High.

• Barbara Caulfield (Wendy Benson): Tiffany's on and off friend who is sometimes her enemy. She attends Northridge Junior College along with Tiffany and Ryan.

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Season 1

In the beginning, the show was actually developed as a starring vehicle for Stephanie Hodge, whose character of Jennie was the focus of the first few episodes. However, the series concept was soon re-worked. The character of Jack (who had been kicked out of the house and was living in an apartment) was brought back home, and began living in the basement. Soon, Geoff Pierson's weary, mentally-unbalanced but straight-talking character of Jack was clearly the star of the show, along with Mr. Floppy. Also in Season 1, Joyce Van Patten played Jennie's mother, Maureen Slattery, who despised Jack. Stephanie Hodge (born December 24, 1956 in Wilmington, Ohio) is an American actress. ... Geoff Pierson (Born June 16, 1949 in Chicago) is an American actor best known for his role on The WB series Unhappily Ever After as Jack Malloy, the father of a disfunctional family whose best friend is a stuffed animal rabbit named Mr. ... Joyce Van Patten (born March 9, 1934 in New York City) is an American actress who has appeared on TV on both As The World Turns and on The Odd Couple, in movies The Bad News Bears, and on stage on Broadway. ...

Season 3 and onward

By the show's third season it became apparent that Tiffany (Nikki Cox) was becoming a breakout character and the de facto co-star of the show along with Pierson. Stories began focusing on Tiffany and Ryan's high school (and later community college) escapades, and the producers attempted to kill off the increasingly unnecessary character of Jennie. Nikki Cox (born Nicole Avery Cox on June 2, 1978 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress known mostly for her roles on the television series Unhappily Ever After and Las Vegas. ... Henry Winkler as Arthur Fonzie Fonzarelli in Happy Days, one of the best-known breakout characters in television. ...

After doing so, however, they quickly reversed their decision due to negative audience reaction. On the show, the character was brought "back to life" in a deliberately bizarre sequence where a network executive wandered on to the set and announced Jennie's character was no longer dead.

Nevertheless, Jennie was soon gone again, as several episodes later, the character abandoned her family and was never seen again.

Final season

Nikki Cox was already signed to star in a new series for the WB when Unhappily... ended, and the final season focused more than ever on her character of Tiffany, who dressed extremely provocatively but was in fact an honor student and a virgin --though not exactly innocent. Added to the cast was Wendy Benson, who played Tiffany's equally short-skirted rival Barbara Caufield. Wendy Benson-Landes (born 8 July 1971 in New York City) is an artist not seen in many television shows. ...

The series wrapped up with a final episode in which Jack finally made enough money to send Tiffany to Harvard. Harvard redirects here. ...

Married...with Children connection

Unhappily... is sometimes called an imitation of the FOX network's hit Married... with Children, because the characters and their relationships to each other were very similar. Even the sets of the two shows looked extremely similar. However Married... with Children was usually much more extreme in sexual themes and humor. Both shows were co-created by writer Ron Leavitt, and several writers worked on both shows. Additionally, Geoffrey Pierson appeared as Roland Squab in the episode "Just Married... with Children" where Al and Peg (playing as Steve and Marcy Rhoades) trade zingers on a game show. FOX redirects here. ... Married… with Children was a long-running American sitcom about a dysfunctional family living in Chicago. ... Married With Children Ron Leavitt (along with Michael G. Moye) created the wildly succesful American television sitcom Married with Children. ... is the 20th episode of season two of the television sitcom Married. ... Alphonse Hercules Bundy (born ca. ...

Syndication and DVDs

The show was sold into syndication for the 1999-2000 and the 2000-01 seasons, but was not re-offered the following fall due to lackluster clearance rates and low ratings. It has been off the air in America ever since, though it was shown on the UK channel ABC1 between 2004 and 2005. In Canada, it was seen in syndication on OMNI Television during the 2006/2007 season. In the television industry (as in radio), syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast programs to multiple stations, without going through a broadcast network. ... The year 1999 in television involved some significant events. ... The year 2000 in television involved some significant events. ... The year 2000 in television involved some significant events. ... This is a list of television-related events in 2001. ... When TV viewers or entertainment professionals in the United States mention ratings they are often referring to Nielsen Ratings, a system developed by Nielsen Media Research to determine the audience size and composition of television programming. ... The year 2004 in television involved some significant events. ... The year 2005 in television involved some significant events. ... OMNI Television is a Canadian television brand owned and operated by Rogers Communications. ...

In Germany, the show first aired on RTL Television in November 1997, was since rerun on RTL II and presently (as of June 2007) airs on Comedy Central on a daily basis. It is titled "Auf schlimmer und ewig" ("For the worse and ever"), a pun on the phrase "Auf immer und ewig" ("For always and ever"), which is the German equivalent of the English final phrase in fairy tales ("Happily ever after"). RTL (formerly RTL plus) is a German commercial television station distributed via cable and satellite along with DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial, in larger population centers). ... A montage of some of the Real Surreality Break bumpers from 2004 RTL II is a privately owned, commercial, general-interest German television channel. ... Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel in the United States. ...

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Cast

• Geoff Pierson as Jack Malloy
• Stephanie Hodge as Jennie Malloy (1995-1998)
• Wendy Benson as Barbara Caufield (1998-1999)
• Kevin Connolly as Ryan Malloy
• Nikki Cox as Tiffany Malloy
• Justin Berfield as Ross Malloy
• Joyce Van Patten as Maureen (Season 1)
• Bobcat Goldthwait as Mr. Floppy (voice)
• Allan Trautman as Mr. Floppy (puppeteer)

Geoff Pierson (Born June 16, 1949 in Chicago) is an American actor best known for his role on The WB series Unhappily Ever After as Jack Malloy, the father of a disfunctional family whose best friend is a stuffed animal rabbit named Mr. ... Stephanie Hodge (born December 24, 1956 in Wilmington, Ohio) is an American actress. ... Wendy Benson-Landes (born 8 July 1971 in New York City) is an artist not seen in many television shows. ... This article is about the television actor. ... Nikki Cox (born Nicole Avery Cox on June 2, 1978 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress known mostly for her roles on the television series Unhappily Ever After and Las Vegas. ... Justin Tyler Berfield (born February 25, 1986) is an American actor, writer and producer. ... Joyce Van Patten (born March 9, 1934 in New York City) is an American actress who has appeared on TV on both As The World Turns and on The Odd Couple, in movies The Bad News Bears, and on stage on Broadway. ... This article has been illustrated as part of WikiProject WikiWorld. ... A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object — a puppet— in real time to create the illusion of life. ...

External links

• Unhappily Ever After at the Internet Movie Database
• Unhappily Ever After at TV.com
• Jump The Shark - Unhappily Ever After