The King of Queens: 1st Season

Do I look fat in this sitcom to you? Obvious and distasteful, this working-class "comedy" relies entirely on class and gender stereotypes to elicit cheap laughs. Doug Heffernan (Kevin James), a professional package-deliverer complete with ugly brown uniform, is like a real-life, un-ironic Homer Simpson, but his wife Carrie (Leah Remini) is no Marge. Heffernan and his friends are crude and rude, Carrie cries a lot, and her father (Jerry Stiller), who moves in with them in the premiere episode, earns a pass for his lewd sexism because his hilarious (not) borderline dementia means he lives in a perpetual 1952. All 24 episodes of the debut 1998-99 season are included here (plus, mysteriously, two bonus episodes from seasons two and three), and jokes about "a box of wine" and a man's love affair with his TV are about as good as it gets. Extras include two pointless featurettes and commentary on the pilot by James and co-creator Michael Weithorn. Optional. (M. Johanson)