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Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt return with Emmy-winning performances
in the very pivotal fourth season of Mad About You.
While Paul (Reiser) has found a job as a full-time documentary
filmmaker at the Explorer Channel, Jamie (Hunt) has opened a new
PR firm with her longtime friend Fran (Leila Kenzle). It is a
busy time in the Buchmans lives, and things are about to get
crazier when they plan to start a family. Despite a series of
frustrating false alarms, the couple are determined to do
whatever it takes to conceive: including virtually nonstop sex
and malodorous al remedies! The obstacles don t stop there as
they face everything from Pauls sudden unemployment to their
respective brushes with marital infidelity, and as the pressure
on their marriage increases, their relationship begins to
unravel.
Sophisticated, sharp and incisively funny, Season Four won an
Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. Guest stars include Yoko Ono,
Laugh-Ins Arte Johnson and Hank Azaria. All 24 Season Four
Episodes.
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In the fourth season of Mad About You, which originally aired on
NBC during 1995-1996, Paul (Paul Reiser) and Jamie (Helen Hunt)
Buchman deal with issues that could potentially break up their
marriage. As they start planning a family, they are faced with
infertility. When both decide to shake up their careers, one of
them loses their job. And then there is the possibility of
infidelity, when both Jamie and Paul are tempted outside of
marriage. In a testament to the writers' sharp scripts and adroit
acting by the leads, Mad About You manages to find humor during
some bleak scenarios. Like many couples who find themselves
unable to get pregnant, the Buchmans at first are incredulous
that they can't easily finagle a pregnancy. There's a not
completely original, but still funny, episode revolving around
Paul having to produce a specimen on demand, which isn't helped
any by his behemoth of a nurse (played by Everybody Loves
Raymond's Brad Garrett). At one point, Paul asks his cousin Ira
(the delightful John Pankow) if he realizes that the Buchman
dynasty could end if neither of them has children: "If we don't
produce an heir, it's all over." Looking at his cousin, Ira
quips, "If you and me are it… then it deserves to be over."
Some critics have harped that listening to the Buchmans bicker
has grown old by now. But the beauty of the show has always been
in the way the two argue. Quick-tongued and witty, they wield
their words like razor-sharp knives, reminding viewers of the
song "You Always Hurt the One You Love." But it's their quiet
truisms than can break your heart. When Jamie tells her husband,
"It's not working," viewers are left holding their breath and
urging the couple on to make it work. And in the three-part
season finale, Paul and Jamie have some major issues to work out.
Other story arcs include Paul's sister Debbie coming out as a
lesbian. Their mother is shocked but takes some solace in the
fact that Debbie's lover is a doctor. Ira begins gambling again
and handles it better than Paul. And Jamie's neurotic and
self-centered sister finally gets engaged. Guest stars include
Yoko Ono, Arte Johnson, and Hank Azaria, who appears as a
semi-regular as the Buchmans' dog walker. All 24 episodes are
included on the four-disc set. --Jae-Ha Kim