Wow. Just wow, ABC. Is Work It the best you had to give us? The network of Modern Family, Cougar Town (occasionally), The Middle, Suburgatory, Happy Endings … this is what you’ve stooped to? I really am speechless. I’m all for good train wreck television, but Work It makes Cavemen look like high art (and I actually enjoyed Cavemen once it got into its short-lived groove). Geez, even Bosom Buddies was funnier … in 1980. The picture above perfectly illustrates what ABC put on the air … a mess.
If you mercifully passed up this excuse for a sitcom, the plot is simple: two guys lose their jobs, discover that it’s really a woman’s world (really?), and dress in drag to gain employment with a pharmaceutical company. Oh, and the reason this particular company only hires women? As explained by an employee (who is trying way too hard to be Kristin Chenowith), it’s because the doctors they deal with didn’t try to nail the male sales reps. So … the company actively recruits sexy women to peddle their product in the hopes that sex truly will sell? Ha ha. Yes, it’s a woman’s world, ain’t it.
And what did we learn along the way as Lee (Benjamin Koldyke) and Angel (Amaury Nolasco) — who both just happen to have non-gender specific names (what luck!) — don dresses and mix in with the rest of the female sales reps? Well, we learned that women are too stupid to recognize a man in drag, that Angel would be perfect as a drug sales rep because he’s Puerto Rican (get it?), that even successful women are still so image conscious that they barely eat, that they are delicate flowers who know nothing about fixing a car, and that any unmarried woman must be a lesbian. There was also a prostate exam joke that compared the procedure to the rape scene in The Accused (at least Lee’s wife told him it wasn’t funny).
And, seriously, this is the best thing ABC had for Rebecca Mader after Lost?!?
We’ve already started taking bets around the lavish CC offices as to how long Work It will last, and I jokingly said it was going to be the new According to Jim. I’m thinking now that it’s going to be more of an Emily’s Reasons Why Not.
Clacked by Chuck Duncan 
on Jan 04, 2012 @ 02:12 EST5EDT
I saw the commercials for this show and thought ..hmm..they are remaking Bosom Buddies? BB was a show that I watched and really liked but wow these commercials were not promising at all. I had no intention of seeking the show out. So last night, I was flipping channels because of all the reruns and came across it. I watched it for a minute or two..the scene was one of the guys trying on the outfit in the above picture. It was horrible!Even with not much else on, I couldn’t bring myself to watch it.
That picture is gonna give me nightmares. Can anyone tell me how such a show (I didn’t wach it, appareantly nobody else did either) gets a timeslot on a network?
maybe theres something wrong with me but enjoyed it. is it a great show no, will i be disappointed if it gets cancelled probably not, but it was funny ill defiantly be tuning in next week.
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I was hoping for some mindless fun like Bosom Buddies, but the sexist humor was, well, humorless. As a man I found the show incredibly misogynistic so I don’t know how a woman could watch it and not be offended.
HAHAHA WHAT, CROSS-DRESSERS ARE HILARIOUS
…is what the executive meeting must have sounded like. Geez these people are out of touch.