The King of Queens

Plot synopsis:
Doug and Carrie Heffernan are a working class couple living at "3121 Aberdeen Street" in Rego Park, Queens, New York, along with Carrie's eccentric father, Arthur Spooner. Doug works for the fictional International Parcel Service (IPS) as a delivery driver, while Carrie works as a secretary in Manhattan, first for a law firm and later for a real estate firm. Their lives are complicated by the demands of Arthur, so much so that they eventually hire Holly, a professional dog walker, to spend time with him as she walks dogs in the park.
Also featured on the show are Doug's friends Deacon Palmer, Spence Olchin and Richie Iannucci, as well as Doug's cousin Danny Heffernan. Deacon's wife Kelly is Carrie's best friend.
Most scenes take place in the Heffernans' home, but other common locations include Doug and Carrie's workplaces, the restaurant "Cooper's" and the residences of friends and family. While locations seen during the theme-song were filmed in areas surrounding New York, the series was filmed in California.
The show begins after Doug and Carrie have already married, and how they met is slightly unclear due to continuity issues. In one flashback episode, "Meet By-Product", Doug meets Carrie when he is a bouncer at a nightclub that Carrie attends. However, in another episode, "Road Rayge", Carrie reflects on a song that she says Doug asked her to dance to when they were in junior high school. In a later episode, it was implied that they all went to high school together, as Kelly and Carrie were said to have slept with the same guy neither husband knew of until the day of the guy's wedding.

Tags: humor

Review:
This show has two things that other great sitcoms don't or didn't, Kevin James and Jerry Stiller.
Kevin must be one of the most underrated comedy actors there is, his comedy timing is perfect, he is insensitive yet endearing and basically just damn funny, the scenes between him and Leah Remini are just fantastic.
Sense Seinfeld, Friends and many other great sitcoms have left the scene I am left with wasting my life on the one great series that is left, "The King of Queens", and in my humble opinion beats them all.
I have to admit, as has been mentioned before, it takes a couple of shows before you get hooked but it doesn't take long before you start realizing the brilliant comedic performance and timing of Kevin James, Patton Oswalt, Jerry Stiller and Leah Remini.
However, I'm puzzled only about one thing, "Everybody Loves Raymond," but I don't, and it is hovering around #5 in the ratings but The King of Queens, which totally kicks ass on Raymond isn't even showing up in the top 20, what's up with that?
You've got Doug played by Kevin James who is the loving and sometimes self-centered husband to Carrie played by Leah Remini.
King of Queens is definitely a show to watch week nights after a days work.
The latter part of the episode where Doug beats up his childhood self in a therapy session is beyond funny, it's one of the most creative scenes I've seen on a sitcom.
I feel the strange need to defend this show, because it is severely underrated--while "Friends" was sometimes amusing, and "Raymond" has some great episodes and characters, they both lacked the creative touch that "King of Queens" has.
The King of Queens is a very funny show especially since Jerry Stiller (Ben Stiller's dad) is in this series and I think Jerry Stiller is hilarious!
This series is about a blue-collar couple, Douglas and Carrie Heffernan (Kevin James and Leah Remini) share their home in Queens, New York (suburb of New York City) with Carrie's crazy dad, Arthur (played the hilarious, Jerry Stiller).
Burly Doug, who makes a living as a parcel deliveryman, often has to scheme to find time alone with Carrie, as Arthur can be quiet a handful -- so much so that they a dog-walker, Holly, to look after him.
But it actually isn't.I think everyone should see at least one episode to see if you like especially Carrie's 30th Birthday or the one where Deacon and his wife go some where cause of a family crisis and Doug and Carrie watch Deacon's kids.
This show reminds me of Everybody Loves Raymond, which is just as funny, but King of Queens' comedic jokes are easier to figure out than Raymond's.
Can't understand why this is called The "King" of Queens when it is quite clear Doug is not the King of his own home let alone Queens, a more realistic title would be "Carrie is always right" because everything has to be her way or no way which can be quite annoying, Arthur Spooner is Frank Costanza imported from Seinfeld which makes Jerry Stiller look like a one trick pony who can only play eccentric angry old men which I am sure is not true, some of the episodes are quite entertaining but some others are bordering on farce and leave you feeling embarrassed on the characters behalf, I sometimes quite like the show but can't help thinking it is a poor man's Everybody Loves Raymond..
Kevin James and Leah Remini as Doug & Carrie Haffernan are the craziest couple I know, Jerry Stiller as Arthur is the funniest "grandpa" I know, and Victor Williams and (especially) Patton Oswalt as Deacon & Spence are the most different, but funny guys I know.
"The King of Queens" could be divided into two eras.The first era, constituted of the first few seasons portrayed the issues of everyday life of a man and his wife making it through life in the city paycheck by paycheck.The second era, increased the scope of the show, addressing current popular culture and marital issues with a humorous spin.But besides all of that...This show was freaking hilarious.Kevin James, when not doing crap comedy films with Adam Sandler, is a genius of laughter, and his chemistry with Leah Remini was unparalleled on TV.Jerry Stiller as the psychotic live-in father in law added his own unique style of quirky humor, and Patton Oswalt as the "man-child" Spence Ulchin was amazing, (he's a great comedian too) "The King of Queens" was the final sitcom of the 1990s to go off the air, and it's a damn shame.
My boyfriend and I love going to stand up comedy shows in Boston (where we live) and have seen Kevin James twice and his brother Gary Valentine (Danny) once.
Set in the working-class suburb of Queens, New York, the show follows Doug Heffernan (Kevin James), an amiable delivery man, and his wife, spitfire legal secretary Carrie Heffernan (Leah Remini), as they explore the everyday challenges of love, life, family and marriage.
Doug's friends Deacon Palmer (Victor Williams), Spence Olchin (Patton Oswalt) and cousin Danny Heffernan (Gary Valentine) round out the cast with their "guy" humor and diverse perspectives.In a manner that evokes "The Honeymooners," THE KING OF QUEENS finds inspiration in life's everyday situations.
I am sorry, but anybody who finds them to be funny or hilarious is just beyond my comprehension.The whole idea for a good comedy show is to make the people who are watching it laugh and find it to be very entertaining.
In a time of bad, if not plain awful, comedies, King of Queens is more than just a breath of fresh air, it's a complete oxygen tank!
It's a sad day when a great, quality sitcom such as The King Of Queens goes out with a whimper (ratings-wise) and moronic ones such as Two And A Half Men continue to go strong.
KoQ, for nine great seasons, brought us hilarious plot lines, colorful characters, and witty dialogue led by the anchoring performance of Kevin James.
Rarely did the story lines come out perfect for all of the characters, but the world kept on spinning and the laughs kept on coming...However, what I've forgotten to mention is that The King Of Queens was also a tremendously funny show.
Kevin James, whom plays IPS deliveryman Doug Heffernan is extremely funny, Leah Remini who plays Doug's wife Carrie is incredibly hot ( # 19 on Stuff magazine's hottest 102 woman list ), and very funny.
He has a pretty wife, Carrie (Leah Remini), who works as a legal assistant, and senile father-in-law, Arthur Spooner (Jerry Stiller), who lives in his daughter and son-in-law's basement.
Kevin James' Doug is your typical beer drinking, sports loving, TV watching slob of a sitcom husband who would rather watch the tube than deal with his marital issues.
The worst of all this is that it's all so damm uninteresting and lacking in every way.To make things worse leading man Kevin James has a permanent "I'm so funny" smug grin on his face that would be tolerable if only he once delivered in the comedy department, which he doesn't, he just lies there doing nothing like a big unfunny baby.
However,I figured one episode as insufficient to form an opinion, so I watched several more episodes.From this I deduced the characters portrayed in the series were some of the most unscrupulous, selfish, loathsome, childish people I had every seen.
The show is basically about Doug, (Kevin James) a crude, fat delivery guy who is your typical pretentious chauvinist, a staple of male characters in American sitcoms these days.
She is the typical wife character, similar to the wife on 'Everybody Loves Raymond' (only Carrie is funny), which is not surprising since they're both on CBS.
A more sophisticated version of 'Home Improvement.' To be fair, these shows often portray the husband as the idiot and the wife as the all-knowing figure, and as such, the husband comes off funny and the wife just comes off as painstakingly annoying.The other characters in the show is the terrific Jerry Stiller (who deserves better material), perhaps the more interesting subject of the show, as the father-in-law.
Then, like all of these sitcoms of it's kind, there are Doug's stupid friends who are so miserably stupid, it's often a pain to watch them.
Basically, 'King of Queens' makes your male characters to be complete and utter idiots, and the situations aren't so funny as realizing how stupid these people are.
Like the characters of 'Everybody Loves Raymond' where none of the family members seem to be able to tolerate one another, it's a wonder why Doug and Carrie would even want to be married to each other.
While this show might be running out of gas in terms of what they can do with the plot lines and character development,this show almost never fails to amuse me,sometimes LMAO.It could be argued that in real life,the couple of Doug and Carrie Hefernin(Kevin James,who's even funnier as a stand up,and Leah Remini)would rarely,if ever be together,but once watching the show,you are hit with the realization:just because he's a fat,blue-collar slob and she,an on-the-cusp-of-white collar attractive lady,doesn't mean they don't share a brain or methodology.
It was actually Arthur that is a funny guy in this show, but sometime he can be like the rest of the cast: Annoying to watch.
The family dynamic still seems real and the situations after all this time are not so far fetched to make it seem the writers are reaching into an empty bag trying to keep the show on for one more season It is one of the few shows I watch without the remote in my hand for quick switching..
Last night, I watched my first episode of King of Queens.
"King of Queens" occasionally has some genuinely funny moments but, unfortunately, they are very few and very far between.Kevin James is the beer loving dolt who is married to pretty but shrewish wife, Leah Remini.
Its airing in Ireland at the moment on the Irish television station RTE1 at 12.30pm in the Afternoon (as of 26th July 2006).This program literally makes me laugh out aloud and I cannot boast that on most sitcom's (apart from UK's 'The Office' with Ricky Gervais in it).Todays episode of TKoQ (26 July 2006)was the one where Carrie starts a new job and invites her friends home and goes off to make some coffee and Doug wants Carrie to have no 'outside' friends so he lifts up his top and shows off his 'belly hair!' and licks plates when he goes out to dinner!
But another funny episode was the other week when the old fella (carries Dad) won on the Bingo and that episode creased me up with laughter especially when they went out and got a replacement fridge and Carries father stood there looking at it and thought it was new.So I don't know how much longer this has got to run on Irish TV or at which stage (year recorded) we are at but I hope it don't end soon because I am really enjoying it.To sum up there is some great writing, some great characters and comedy acting (namely by Carrie, Doug and Carries father) some great punchlines and delivered well - a bit saucy and near the mark sometimes (send the kids out the room!) but i think this US Sitcom is a winner and very funny..
If you have had a crap day just sit yourself down with a beer (if you are old enough that is.if not a root beer will have to do.) and watch a couple of episodes,it's the perfect recipe for happiness.The thing I like most is that everybody in the show is very funny and they all have fantastic comedy timing.
Hi I do not want to offend i just wanted to express how i and many others feel about Leah Remini being a member of Scientology i know everyone has the right to believe in any religion or cult they want but maybe it would help the show if this was not revealed as it was on the BBC shown on CSI as it makes you think what kind of empty person is he/she that has no faith in the lord and believe it or not makes an impact on the actual character Carrie, i used to watch the show all the time since it started but this has put me off and instead of watching the show so it helps the ratings i spread the word for people not to watch it..
This is one of those shows you can watch every episode over and over again and laugh every time.
It's criminal that when people think of the sitcom greats, they list shows such as Seinfeld, Cheers, Frasier and so on, with The King of Queens rarely getting a mention.
This show was consistently entertaining for eight whole seasons, with a simple well-worn formula that it managed to do great things thing: fat lazy funny guy is married to attractive, thin and a bit rude woman, and live with her elderly, partially crazy father.You have seen this kind of formula hundreds of times before, but never was it done so well as in KOQ.
CBS has never had a good show and with this one they actually spit in your face.After creating a terribly unfunny show for the worst comedian alive(Ray Romano),they created this "companion" show for an equally unfunny turd of a person.What is a companion show?It's a lie to fool stupid people.They want you to think it's a spin-off but there is no real connection.Romano appears on the show twice and both times are horrible.This show has nothing original or funny.It goes for the over used "fat man with a hot wife" story but it's all a lie.It's really the used to death "married people who hate other" story,just like that awful Raymond show.The only difference is there are no kids who are never there.All the "comedy" centers around the married couple lying to each other and it's never funny.The few times the story line wanders,it becomes about them coddling a crazy old man,very disturbing.There are actually 2 episodes where one of the "married" people gets an apartment and keep it a secret.Is that what marriage is?Being forced to lie and be miserable?The only thing I have ever learned from CBS is that marriage is a joke.I already knew Kevin James wasn't funny..
"King of Queens" didn't get quite the hype of "Sienfeld", "Friends" or "Everybody Loves Raymond" but it's just as good.The principle and second characters are compelling and well-acted.
Kevin James (Doug) is great with Leah Remini (Carrie) and Jerry Stiller (Arthur) is always hilarious...
Originally I started to watch King of Queens because of Leah.
The supporting cast of King of Queens is great too Victor Williams and Patton Oswalt particularly need a mention - my only gripe is with Jerry Stiller.
this show is the best it is full of laughs and Kevin James is the best so if you want a good show i recommend the king of queens and its a letdown that they canceled it so in the end this show will make you forget your worries and troubles cause if you have a cast with Kevin James and jerry stiller you cant go wrong.
so i don't know why the canceled the show if any one knows please tell me.now a days you cant find a lot of shows that fulfill your needs as an audience.after Seinfeld and king of queens the only show worth watching is prison break and if that stops i don't know what to do.
With them lives Carrie's father Arthur, a picture-book extrovert, who is played by the fantastic Jerry Stiller and who steals the show from all the others every time he appears.
Some episodes were rather funny, then there were many that were not worth watching--primarily for the reasons mentioned in the negative reviews, essentially that Doug and Carrie were often not likable people.Still, they did have some good episodes.
Leah Remini and Kevin James have real chemistry, and she isn't really mean to him like you see on some other shows (According to Jim, anyone?) Jerry Stiller essentially reprises his charactar from Seinfeld but now he really gets a chance to shine.
King of Queens is a rare comedy that has all the right ingredients to give you serious belly laughs which is normally caused by Arthur Spooner, I think its about time this comedy gets the hype it deserves and not the lame Raymond & CO..
With the chemistry comes brilliant timing and superb delivery - this is a first-rate comedy.Carrie (Leah Remini) is the new Elaine -- finally, a female lead who is as demented as the male and isn't just installed in the cast to play the straight-and-crabby, intolerant wife (see Everybody Loves Raymond).This is a Grade A comedy that works as well in rerun as Seinfeld does - always getting new laughs.
I love "The King of Queens", I would say this sitcom is one of the funniest who exist, but many people underrate it.
Kevin James is a very great comedian and he bring me always to laugh, but it would not so good work, without the pretty and hilarious Leah.
Leah and James play great together, they play a lovely and very funny couple and I like this couple because it's different like others, and Arthur(Jerry Stiller) who get on Doug and Carrie's nerves play that so great, I don't know what I can say more about the show, it's great and you have to watch it..
It is mainly focused around Doug and Carrie,-(Kevin James; Leah Remini) a couple from Queens, New York.