My sense of humor tends to run on the dry side like a single drop of vermouth hitting the most parched patch in Death Valley so I enjoy this series for being similar to that. It is very talky, very wordy, and without a trace of physical comedy. Some episodes never leave a living room or a dining room table. The most physical comedy you get is gestures and looks either while giving or receiving a line of dialogue. If you are expecting something along the lines of Fawlty Towers, Dad's Army or Steptoe and Son with that brilliant blend of both forms of comedy, you won't find it here.
The show was meant to be contemporary which makes it very dated with references to early 80s problems and paranoia over nuclear war which many were forced to believe to be inevitable.
The setting and plot is preposterous for most of the series. Young couple with a newborn manage to go a few series eating and living in their own two story house while neither of them have any kind of income except for what James Shelley gets from government assistance and his father in law. Despite that, they still whine and make excuses for never seriously doing anything to support their daughter, themselves and pay their own bills. That's basically the entire premise and it goes on from there without really getting anywhere. The return of the series is much better without the annoying family man aspect being a part of it.
