The Grinder is an American legal sitcom television series created by Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel for Fox.

Though Dean is not a lawyer, he believes that his experience playing one on television makes him qualified to practice law.

He decides to join his family's law firm, Jefferson, Sanderson, & Holt, much to the chagrin of his younger brother Stewart, who is an actual lawyer.

Stewart and a new hire named Claire are the only people who seem to comprehend that Dean's television experience does not qualify him for a job at a real law firm.

The site's critical consensus reads, "The Grinder's humor is buoyed by Rob Lowe and Fred Savage's chemistry as a hilarious new odd couple.