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Here it is, Fiction Friday again and I've been toying with the idea of whether or not to post about this show all week.

Why?

Because it bugs me, and I'll probably get lots of disgruntled comments about how closed-minded I really am - and for a woman who writes romance (and sometimes erotic romance) do I want that rep?

Let me start by saying this is nothing against Jenna Elfman - I like the actress, I think she's very talented.  I just hate the premise of this show and think it's a waste of her talents. (And the fact that Grant Show isn't featured enough - but I digress...)

I assure you I am not closed-minded and I am the first one to agree that normal is state of mind and not one to be foisted upon people by society, religion or government. BUT, have we sunk so low as a society that the whole premise of this show could be considered a feel-good comedy?

In case you haven't seen this "gem," the premise is older woman picks up much younger guy in bar, goes back to his flea-bag apartment to have unprotected sex. Which results in her becoming pregnant. Now she's shacking up with "the baby-daddy" as he's referred to in the show and still dating guys her own age - while forging some weird live-in relationship with the younger guy.

Unless the humor is about our society being morally bankrupt, then yeah, I get THAT.

Unfortunately, my household is contributing to the ratings on this loser because of its time slot (which actually fits the name of the show - "accidentally on purpose") because if it wasn't sandwiched between two winners like "How I met your mother" and "two and half men" - I'm sure it would have been cancelled by now. So, my hat is off to the time-slot execs at CBS for earning your money with that smooth move.

I guess this conservative girl does take heart in the fact that Jenna's character didn't go the obvious and just have an abortion - in that respect she did do the morally upstanding thing. The rest of the show? Not so much.

Other men buying cribs for her baby. Her friends trying to hook her sister with a "gay-guy" to fix her image (oh, yeah, that was a great storyline!)

My problem is my teenage boys watch tv with us on Monday night for the comedy - is this the message I want to send my impressionable, hormone driven 16 and 18 yr old boys? Most nights we try to switch over to another channel for that 30 minutes - but if I leave the room to do something else and forget, my kids end up watching something I don't think belongs on prime-time. Unprotected sex, unwanted baby and living with one man while dating another is not exactly the humorous message I want to send to my kids in prime-time.

Okay, let me have it. It's fiction. It's a sitcom. Lighten up Frances... yeah I know. Sometimes I just can't help who I am and how I was raised.

And now back to your regularly scheduled programs...

 P.S. If I do watch, it's for Grant Show!

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