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A 2000 Short-Runner American comedy that followed four paranoid men (David Krumholtz, Brad Raider, Jon Cryer, and Larry Joe Campbell) as they try to deal with their daily problems with the help of their therapist (Paget Brewster).

The show also featured Jim Beaver, Patricia Belcher, Constance Zimmer, Jonathan Banks, and Dawn Maxey.

It aired from October 6 to November 3, 2000 on ABC.


Tropes for the series:

  • Alliterative Name: Stansfield Schllick.
  • Blatant Lies: 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.
  • Insistent Terminology: Max says he and Bob aren't paranoid, they are just have "a heightened sense of awareness".
  • Nerd Nanny: 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.
  • One-Word Title:
    • Pilot.
    • Clairanoia.


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