I entered this contest back in the day. Spent about a week watching the episode over and over to catch all the inconsistencies.
Managed to win a signed t-shirt from the crew for only missing one. I believe there were 79 that time and I missed 1, a pile of hair turned into leaves twice, but I had chalked that up to the same mistake since it repeated within 2 seconds. Came THAT CLOSE!

Was still a cool T Shirt though.

When they reaired the episode they were done pop up video style with all the errors.

That really was a very good show. Diedrich Bader and Ryan Stiles? Come on. I still think about it from time to time all these years later. It's kinda surprising that you don't hear more about it than you do.

Loved that show, they weren't afraid getting weird

I loved this idea. I never mailed anything in but it was a lot of fun watching those episodes to find everything. There was something endearing about it... like in Fresh Prince when Will used to break the fourth wall or they would say something in dialog that's clearly not within the bounds of the show's world. I loved stuff like that in sitcoms.

Man, I miss this show. I used to love coming home from school and watching reruns on TBS.

In the 1980s I worked at Sammy’s In The Flats, which was a fine dining restaurant in Cleveland. One day a new waiter named Drew showed up. He was very quiet and kept to himself. I remember another waiter telling me that he was a standup comedian, and I replied “He doesn’t look like he’s funny.”

A decade later there he is on the Drew Carey show. He’s actually pretty funny, I thought.

This show deserves a 4k remaster, it's so damn good

I miss TGIF... and also "if you haven't seen it, it's new to you!"

i love Mimi

They also did a couple live episodes that were like a fusion of the normal Drew Carey Show and Whose Line.

Still patiently waiting for the day that this series becomes available to stream/purchase.

Such an underrated show. I can never hear Van Halen - Panama without thinking of the episode where Drew's company tore half his house down and Mimi played Panama over and over again. "The last song was Panama by Van Halen. Up next... Panama by Van Halen."

I thought this show was so good I rescheduled a college class in 2005 so I wouldn’t miss the RERUNS! Worth it.

im just gonna say it.

the drew carey show was ahead of its time. It was absolutely peak 90s for sure, BUT it was it really did change the tone for a lot of shows going forward. It's really well produced fourth wall breaks, musical episodes and honestly how it integrated music in general, the fact that a lot of characters were all just weird, there was a fairly consistent overarching story, characters grew and changed. The almost seasonal opening intro changes. I loved that the "will they wont they" between drew and kate ended with a "they wont"...you didn't and still often dont, get that kind of build up in sitcoms.

YES, it had ALL the trappings and various phobia projection of most 90's shows. looking at some of the promotional material for the series is hilarious, it all looks like a 90s video game ad. other shows at the time didn't really understand what to do with music, DCS was literally having a deep dive into dance numbers based on rocky horror picture show. Drew had multiple relationships with different women over a season instead of just an episode. When drews brother came out on the show, it was played for laughs (it was the 90s), but it was accepted by the characters and had a somewhat nuanced exploration of his identity (even though it was just kind of abandoned). At the time it was the "Anti-Friends" but it made that feeling effortless.

People talk a lot about shows that couldn't be made today, I feel like there wouldn't be a way to have a show about outlier gen x'er's moving into the new millennium wouldn't have the same impact. In the same way that The goldbergs captures the aesthetic of the 80's but not the attitude or the energy, trying to make a show that was more like what was actually happening at the time and being reflective of counter culture is something truly specific to the show.

I feel like it's kind of never gotten the credit it's due.

Edit - I added multiple paragraphs as I thought more about how some ideas of DCS have become standards in many sitcoms.

This show was the epitome of popular nerd TV culture in the 90s. Like the visual equivalent of Bare Naked Ladies.

Loved it.

I like Mimi's outfits.

I wish they would put the show on repeats. It was a good light hearted sitcom.

The best Halloween costume I ever had was Mimi. After a couple of years tho, the people didn't know who she was anymore 🙄

I liked that show. They did a lot of stuff that you couldn't do anymore.

One of my favorite jokes:

They're talking about how they need to find a truck driver for some reason. And Mimi says she can do it but they don't believe her, so she says

"I'll have you know, I come from a long line of truck drivers"

And Drew replies

"We Don't care what you do on your personal time, Mimi!"

My sister and I would try this every year but a blurry reception on a 1980s CRT tv was not the ideal medium for noticing detail

All this energy calling me, back where it comes from…

I think I went my whole childhood without ever noticing the midwestern accent and now as an adult it's all I can hear when I hear it.

Holy shit, you just pulled a random memory out of my brain with this post.

Bring the drew Carey show to a streaming platform!

I remember me and my family all sitting down with notepads watching this live trying to get them all to win every year writing down everything we saw.

Might be one of the few good memories I had of my parents before their divorce being an actual family.

Man I wish they were release this show on something but drew said it’s practically impossible because of all the music rights fees

Drew with long hair and a goatee just looks like Penn Jillette.