[1] Sexy, sophisticated, and dim-witted Manhattan party-planner Teddie Cochran starts dating writer Max Ryan.

Terri Minsky first pitched the idea of a Sex and the City-like character becoming a suburban housewife to ABC in early 2000.

After some debating, ABC decided to make the show less like Sex and the City and more tailored to its star, Geena Davis.

[2][3][4] Davis appeared on the cover of TV Guide's 2000 Fall Preview issue, along with three other actors starring in new sitcoms: Bette Midler, Michael Richards and John Goodman.

After Carter is punished for getting drunk and breaking curfew, he discovers college home movies of his father stoned.