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1A 2000 ShortRunner American comedy that followed four paranoid men (Creator/DavidKrumholtz, Creator/BradRaider, Creator/JonCryer, and Creator/LarryJoeCampbell) as they try to deal with their daily problems with the help of their therapist (Creator/PagetBrewster).
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3The show also featured Creator/JimBeaver, Creator/PatriciaBelcher, Creator/ConstanceZimmer, Creator/JonathanBanks, and Creator/DawnMaxey.
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5It aired from October 6 to November 3, 2000 on Creator/{{ABC}}.
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10* AlliterativeName: '''Stansfield Schllick'''.
11* BlatantLies: In the first minute of the pilot, Bob immediately denies that he was listening in on the new neighbor when Max asks if he was spying on them again.
12* InsistentTerminology: Max says he and Bob aren't paranoid, they are just have "a heightened sense of awareness".
13* NerdNanny: The foursome has Claire Garletti, who is their therapist, who has recruited them into her group, as they have obsessive tendencies, with the show acknowledging that guys have serious mental health issues. specifically they are all obsessive paranoids, whose lives are ''accurately'' portrayed as being very dysfunctional thanks to their obsessions.
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15** ''Pilot''.
16** ''Clairanoia''.
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