History Series / UnhappilyEverAfter

->''[[FourthWallMailSlot 'Dear Unhappily Ever After]]: I think your show is nothing but a cheap ripoff of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''. Fred M., Chicago, Illinois.' Fred: That's ridiculous! Does that show have a bunny that talks like me? Plus, we have three children. Three. Two boys and a girl. You, sir, are an idiot.''

->"[[FourthWallMailSlot ''Dear'' Unhappily Ever After]]: I think your show is nothing but a cheap ripoff of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''. Fred M., Chicago, Illinois.' Fred: That's ridiculous! Does that show have a bunny that talks like me? Plus, we have three children. Three. Two boys and a girl. You, sir, are an idiot."''

* HoYay: Quite a bit between Jack and Mr. Floppy in the earlier seasons.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The show has yet to be released on Home Video in any form, despite [[Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle Ross]], [[Series/LasVegas Tiffany]] and [[Series/{{Entourage}} Ryan]] all going to to more famous TV roles. This could be because of the show's enormous hatedom. To this day, Unhappily is never even bought up.

* RomanceOnTheSet: Nikki Cox (Tiffany) was reportedly involved with Kevin Connolly (Ryan) at one point, and Bobcat Goldthwait (Mr. Floppy) at another.

* MemeticSexGod: In-Universe, Mr. Floppy.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Ross (Justin Berfield) would later star in [[MalcolmInTheMiddle another dysfunctional family sitcom]], only instead of being the sane, yet ignored child, he's become a dim-witted bully (Reese) who picks on his genius brothers (Malcolm and Dewey). The irony is delicious.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Creator/BobcatGoldthwait as Mr. Floppy.

* ButtMonkey: Ryan. And in the last season, Ross, who basically turned into this show's version of [[FamilyGuy Meg Griffin]].

* HeyItsThatVoice: BobcatGoldthwait as Mr. Floppy.

* ButtMonkey: Ross, who is basically this show's version of [[FamilyGuy Meg Griffin]]. Also, Ryan most of the time.

* TheUnfavorite: Ryan. Tiffany is by far Jack's favorite and Ross at least gets some kind of acknowledgement - until the last season, which intoduced a running gag out of nowhere that everyone utterly hates Ross.

* KilledOffForReal: Jennie's mother vanishes in-between seasons; a later episodes has an off-hand remark about her funeral.
* MemeticSexGod: In-series, Mr. Floppy.

* TheUnfavorite: Ryan. Tiffany is by far Jack's favorite and Ross at least gets some kind of acknowledgement.

The show was created by Arthur Silver and Ron Leavitt; the latter also co-created ''MarriedWithChildren''. This leads to ''Unhappily'' being considered a [[FollowTheLeader blatant rip-off]] of ''Married'' by many, as much of the humor was similar, though ''Unhappily'' was generally more surreal and cartoonish than even ''MWC'' got. The show ended in May 1999 with its 100th episode.

* CrossOver: As part of The WB's promotional night of inter-series character crossovers. Jackee Harry (then of SisterSister) popped in during a moment of [[BreakingTheFourthWall wall-smashing]].

* HeyItsThatVoice: Bobcat Goldthwait as Mr. Floppy.

The show was created by Arthur Silver and Ron Leavitt; the latter also co-created ''MarriedWithChildren''. This leads to ''Unhappily'' being considered a [[FollowTheLeader blatant rip-off]] of ''Married'' by many, as much of the humor was similar, though ''Unhappily'' was generally more surreal and cartoonish than even ''Married'' got. The show ended in May 1999 with its 100th episode.

''Unhappily Ever After'' was an American SitCom that aired for 100 episodes on TheWB and one of the few network launch shows to survive the first year. The series was initially intended to be a starring vehicle for Stephanie Hodge; however, Geoff Pierson's weary, mentally unbalanced but straight-talking character of Jack became the central character of the show and, by the show's third season, it became apparent that Tiffany ([[LasVegas Nikki Cox]]) was becoming a BreakoutCharacter and the de facto co-star of the show along with Pierson.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The show has yet to be released on Home Video in any form, despite [[MalcolmInTheMiddle Ross]], [[LasVegas Tiffany]] and [[{{Entourage}} Ryan]] all going to to more famous TV roles. This could be because of the show's enormous hatedom. To this day, Unhappily is never even bought up.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The show has yet to be released on Home Video in any form, despite [[MalcolmInTheMiddle Ross]], [[LasVegas Tiffany]] and [[{{Entourage}} Ryan]] all going to to more famous TV roles.