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COUNTRY MUSIC SUPERSTAR WYNONNA JUDD GUEST STARS—

Kath (Molly Shannon) and Kim (Selma Blair) are in the running to host a dinner for country music star Wynonna Judd but must first be interviewed by Wynonna’s people.

The ladies do everything they can to impress the judges, but things do not go as perfectly as they think.

Meanwhile, Craig (Mikey Day) and his friend Derrick (guest star Jay Phillips) try their hand at writing their own hit country song. John Michael Higgins also stars.

i picture the Kim character worshipping someone more like Madonna or Britney Spears instead of WJ.
but that's just me. i never have been, and never will be a country music fan.
sadly, i can't tell you the name of even one WJ song.

i guess you can only write in who is willing to be on the show though.
i think a wine time with Britney would be hilarious on many levels...

I totally agree, and for the note, i like MUCH MORE britney than c. aguilera.
Waiting for this new episode, sound very funny.

[i]I luff Kath & Kim. It's the funniest show on TV - Thursdays on NBC are awesome again. Not since Seinfeld and Friends when I was 19 have I laughed so hard watching TV. It's fun to chill on Thursday evening, going out and laughing your head off getting ready.

LUFF Kath & Kim - and 30 rock and the Office... I really hope Kath & Kim get a second season.

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Last night Molly Shannon (Kath Day) had me rolling on the floor laughing !!! The last scene of this episode brought back the old SNL days Molly. It was just about the funniest thing I've seen on TV in a long time! Seriously I think I'll go watch it again....AMAZING!

Me too Angel, and this episode is funny too

i totally agree.
i don't know how the cast kept from laughing at her during that scene.
i would just die if selma and molly came into my kitchen! can you imagine? i'd freak out too!

did you see the sacrifice episode? molly riding that tricycle?
they just have to let her do that kind of stuff. it's so funny, and it's what people want to see from her.
who cares if that's not what the original kath was like?! i don't. let molly be molly.

I am in the minority here, I thought this episode was really baaaad.....I even felt sorry for Wynonna for even being on the program

maybe it's funny to me because i know nothing about her.
and i mean nothing.

Here is the video for that hilarious scene!!

Wynonna Judd is IN MY HOUSE!!!!

Chazee, I'm with you. I fail to see anything remotely comedic in that scene. In fact it's kinda pathetic, really.

I enjoy the cast, just hate what the writers are putting out. The program needs to be more adult oriented than child like.

Yeh, that's definitely a writing issue. Just so juvenile. And it epitomises what is wrong with the average sitcom produced by networks like NBC, etc, they aim for the lowest common denominator.

Someone else mentioned on another thread about the show aiming at the "Ugly Betty" audience, and I guess that is another major difference between the American and Australian - it is aimed for a different audience, and for some reason the American series has decided to really dumb it down.

Not the fault of the performers, it's the writing.

When Wynonna came to Kath's house, the scene with Kath running around the house and outside, reminded me of something I would see on the Disney channel. It was so difficult to remain interested in the program, so much so, that I DVR'd it and watched the last 15 minutes the next day. No where in any scene did I remotely laughed or even cracked a smile.

Ok, there I've said it, it's out of my system now!!

Hehe, there you've just described my entire Kath and Kim America experience!

chazee, i think you and degan_fan just became BFF's...

Actually I hate that I cannot stand watching K&K any longer!! I really enjoyed the first couple of episodes. Really thought that NBC had something here. Sadly, for me, it's been downhill ever since. The scripts are just totally lousy for me.

I just hate that they did such a hack job of adapting it. The writers do not understand the premise of the show and it is very clearly evident they do not understand the humour of the original series. It should not have been attempted *shrug*. The irony and the subtlety of the Australian series is completely lost on the American producers. Instead they have gone with in-your-face, over the top, obvious humour that I have never liked.

Sure, the Australian series did have cameos of celebrities in them, but they were either playing a character (like Tony Martin playing Sharon's violin-playing boyfriend, or Shane Warne playing a really bad Shane Warne impersonator, or Kylie Minogue playing a grown up in the future version of Epponee Rae, Kim's baby, on her wedding day, or Matt Lucas from Little Britain playing Sharon's sister), or if they were playing themselves, they made sure the celebrity a) understood the premise of the show, and worked it in much more cleverly (such as when the Wiggles were backstage at Carols By Candelight, or Michael Buble performing while Kath and Kel were in their dance class). They're not just there for the sake of it for characters to scream at them, which is all I can see Wynnona Judd's purpose of her appearance.

in the aussie version are kath & kim celebrity obsessed? that is a big part of the american version, and i think it's funny because people really do freak-out here when it comes to celebrities.
it was an over-the-top scene, but that is what made it funny to me. like i said before, i didn't feel bad for wynonna, because i really don't know anything about her or country music for that matter. i didn't think the whole episode was funny, but i did like molly having a meltdown over wynonna being in her house.

the episodes i had a problem with were the ones that seemed too corny.
like kath and phil dancing at the club. also, the episode where they made "friends" with the swingers.
i don't know what audience they were trying to reach with having W. Judd on, but it wasn't me.

i wonder just how many writers have been fired from this show?
i'm glad you guys aren't blaming the actors because i think they are doing their best with what they have to work with.

sorry degan_fan, i don't care if this version even comes close to the original's ideas, i just want it to be funny.
whatever it takes for it to be funny, that's what i want.

Yeh, but the fact that it's NOT funny is what I have a problem with!!!

Yeh, but the fact that it's NOT funny is what I have a problem with!!!

Sorry, bprd, I didn't address some of your questions, huge apologies!!!



No, it's not. That's not to say there aren't celebrity obsessed people in Australia (they are) but I guess obsessive types are more frowned upon. Hence you don't really see people acting mental like that when they come across a celebrity here, people generally are pretty low key and down to earth when it comes to that. Australians tend not to take themselves too seriously, including the celebrities - it's amazing how many of them would do things like catch a tram or whatever!

But the characters in Australia are different in the sense that they are aiming for nothing more than to be seen as regular members of the community and are failing, even though they can't see that others see them as a joke. In the American show, they are already regular members of the community but aiming for celebrity status. With that simple difference, the characters are automatically not relatable to their audience - the Australian characters are characters people can relate to because they are failing at everyday things. Not too many people could relate to having a celebrity in their kitchen because for the average person, it simply doesn't happen.



Here lies part of the problem. Because it is produced for commercial television, they have to appeal to the broadest possible audience, in order to maximise the chances of gaining good ratings and sell advertising space. Therefore, there is no set demographic they are aiming for, and the show becomes directionless. I'm not sure if they have a set audience in mind, certainly whatever audience they are aiming for, they appear to be aiming for the lowest common denominator, making the show corny and unwatchable to the discerning comedy viewer, a common trap for many producers of American sitcom viewers.