Previewing The Bill Engvall Show

Living all my life above the Mason Dixon, I would be able to tell you the difference between Bill Engvall and Bill Bixby. But apparently he was part of the Blue Color Comedy thing with the king redneck Jeff Foxworthy and his series, the appropriately titled The Bill Engvall Show, is the top rated family sitcom on TBS and even set records as ad-supported cable’s number one sitcom of all time among adults 25-54. This is pretty impressive until you of just how little the amount of ad-supported cable sitcom their have been. But anyways.

For those of you like me and missed the first season, let me catch you up to speed. The show is billed as a traditional sitcom (i.e. the ones you remember from the 80’s) and Engvall is just your regular guy with a regular wife (Nancy Travis) raising three kids in the suburbs. Of course being a traditional sitcom, none of these siblings possibly came from the same gene pool. The youngest, naturally is the smartest of the bunch, presumably a genius, while his older brother received the Danny DeVito in Twins treatment and got not brain cells and floats around in full surfer mode. Then there is the eldest daughter who is just too cool for the rest of the clan and has as much street smarts as her youngest brother has book smarts.

Then out of nowhere, Tim Meadows of all people pops up as Engvall’s old friends from way back. The show is remotely entertaining in a stop and enjoys some wholesome fun when flipping past TV Land kind of way. The first episode of the season starts off with the children going on strike when Bill asks them to clean the garage and hilarity ensues when they fight with their parents on who will back down first. The second finds Bill fighting with his cell phone provider and really who cannot laugh at how painful it is to talk to these people.

The Bill Engvall Show premieres this Thursday at 9:00 on TBS.