Series Premiere: ‘Carpoolers’ on ABC Tonight

ABC is doing its best to convince the public that the network’s two new Tuesday-night sitcoms are going to provide a little something for the masculine set between the hours of 8 and 9pm EST. The first newbie is the long awaited Cavemen, of course, which is followed at 8:30pm by the suburban commuter series (I kid you not) Carpoolers.

Carpoolers, brought to us by The Kids in the Hall player Bruce McCulloch, is about four male nine-to-fivers—nice guy Gracen (Fred Goss, whom I loved in Sons and Daughters), womanizing divorced dentist Laird (Crossing Jordan’s Jerry O’Connell), put-upon Aubrey (Jerry Minor of Saturday Night Live), and newly married Dougie (The Guiding Light’s Tim Peper)—who commute to work from the suburbs each day together. During the drive, they share their thoughts about what’s going on in their lives and in their relationships.

The pilot focuses primarily on Gracen, who has to contend with both a spend-happy wife named Leila (the always lovely Faith Ford of Hope & Faith) and a slacker son named Marmaduke (T.J. Miller) who lucks out tonight with a job that pays more than his dad’s. I guess if my parents named me after a dog in a comic strip, I’d sit around the house all day doing nothing, too, just for revenge. Here’s hoping the name’s only a nickname.

Get a preview of ABC’s new mantastic—or so the Alphabet Network claims—Tuesday-night comedy hour with the following Man Date clip.

Resources

Carpoolers Episode Guide | Carpoolers Summary