'The King of Queens' wasn’t a sitcom game-changer. But it tried to elicit hard laughs — and it got them. These are the show's 50 best episodes
Photo-Illustration: Vulture/Photos Courtesy of TV Land/YouTube, Throw Back TV/YouTube and CBS Paramount Network Television Doug Heffernan drives a truck for courier service IPS. His wife, Carrie , is a legal secretary in Manhattan. They have a good life in Queens, goofing around with their best friends, the Palmers — Deacon , also a driver at IPS, and Kelly , a friend of Carrie’s from high school.
That isn’t all the show has going against it. The King of Queens is in a critically drubbed subgenre: “Fat Guy/Skinny Wife.” This vertical predated King of Queens, with shows like The Honeymooners, Family Matters, and even The Simpsons, but the success of The King of Queens arguably kicked off a CBS boomlet with sitcoms like Still Standing and According to Jim. Discerning viewers are supposed to disdain such shows because of their inherent sexism .
But despite its blind spots and the creakiness of early episodes before producers and cast really locked in on what the characters would and should be, the reason I’ve watched The King of Queens so much — thank you, TV Land, for your nightly six-episode block, conveniently scheduled at bedtime — is that it’s funny.
Across its nine seasons, The King Of Queens aired 207 episodes; if you have 25 hours you need to fill, you could do much worse than the top 50 episodes, as ranked below.“Cheap Saks” Carrie meets Trish , an interesting woman who even works at Saks! Whoops, she’s an ex of Doug’s, and things didn’t end well: He slept with her even though he knew they didn’t have a future, then took money from her purse for a cab, then played a needy message she left him for a bunch of people, which she heard.
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