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Personable comedian Jeff Foxworthy seemed a likely candidate
in the 1990s to get his own situation comedy on television; thus was born The
Jeff Foxworthy Show in '95, lasting two years. The Complete First
Season includes the series' initial 18 episodes, which have much to
recommend them despite obvious signs the program never quite figured out what is
was about. Year 1 can easily be divided between pre-Jay Mohr episodes and
everything after actor-comedian Mohr (Saturday Night Live) joined the
cast as Wayne, a younger, wilder redneck brother of Jeff. (Foxworthy's
character, like Jerry Seinfeld on Seinfeld, is named after the star.) The
pre-Mohr episodes are simple domestic comedies focusing on Foxworthy's nuclear
family: wife Karen (Anita Barone), a wry and insightful nurse and son Matt (a
very young Haley Joel Osment), a gifted student. Jeff, who owns a heating
business but is too nice to his deadbeat customers, discovers in the show's
premiere that Karen is pregnant, a happy event that culminates (of course) in a
season-ending birth.
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