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    The Promo for ABC’s Men-Dressed-as-Women Comedy ‘Work It’ Has to Be Some Kind of Joke

    Seriously??? [ABC]This is what we know: there is now a promo for the ABC mid-season show "Work It," shown below, about two masculine bros who dress up as women to get jobs in the "mancession," and it's so unbelievable that it's even leaving YouTube commenters speechless. (Sample: "I don't know what to write.") That never, ever happens!

    What in the hell is going on here? Will it turn out that the premise of the show, that people are actually fooled by these two guys and think that they're actually women, is all a joke on them somehow? And will this affect the legacy of one of the best movies ever made, "Tootsie," in any way (including people who are children now one day thinking the two cultural products are in any way in the same category)? Because that CANNOT HAPPEN. But let's not get distracted. Look at this unbelievably terrible preview for a show that would look ridiculous in the '90s! It's actually coming to TV on January 3rd. To quote that YouTube commenter, I don't know what to write! (Via Warming Glow, where our pal Matt Ufford says, um, even meaner things! And also mentions the fact that "Cougar Town" isn't on the mid-season schedule to make room for this!)

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    7 comments

    • Luke N  •  5 months ago
      doesn't anyone remember Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari in Bosum Buddies. It was on ABC too.
      • A Yahoo! User 5 months ago
        Totally. But apparently the average person has a cultural memory that goes back no more than five years so the TV and movie studios can just keep remaking the same things over and over and most people will be fooled by it.
    • Shandra  •  5 months ago
      This qualifies as a very BAD joke. I remember Bosom Buddies as a kid, and it was funny. This simply looks STUPID.
    • LoriAnne  •  5 months ago
      Bosum Buddies Redux? I can't fathom somebody revamping such insulting nonsense. It least Tom Hanks played the role with respect. This is just poo.
    • Sweet Loretta Martin  •  5 months ago
      Yep, Bosom Buddies do-over. Just another on the long list of evidence that today's movie and television writers have nothing new to give us. They are just reaching back into the old "vintage" closet (no pun intended).
    • JL  •  5 months ago
      Maybe it's based on that old Wayans' bros. movie?
    • Tammy  •  5 months ago
      I want to be on this show !! Sign me up !!
    • Tammy  •  5 months ago
      Send me an application I'll apply for that job as well

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