NBC barely let 3 episodes of Tucker get on the air before they axed it and sent it to the Neilsen graveyard. Which is pretty unfair, since they stuck it on a bad night for TV in general and then expected it to do as well as Malcolm in the Middle. They did this to Freaks and Geeks as well, another cool show about teenagers. Honestly, I don't know what goes through their minds up at NBC. But anyway, I liked the little bit of Tucker that I saw. True, the characters were one-dimensional. True, it tried to be Malcolm, which admitedly is funnier than Tucker. But in its own way I thought it was worth encouraging. Maybe somewhere down the line it would have turned into something really jazzy, but for now all we have is 12 episodes to reflect on. I liked that they made Tucker constantly horny (a thing that many kids can relate to, especially when the guy's got a major jones that he has to hide from others), and Andy Lawrence was cool as the best friend. The two characters that did not work for me was the always evil Aunt and the cousin who was almost too much like the character Reese from Malcolm, in that he was an idiot with about 3 brain cells. They definitely could have been reworked to look more realistic in terms of personality. As it stands, I give Tucker 2.5/4 for trying to make it in an evening of crappy TV that no one watches. I salute thee!
