FOX’s sitcom series ’til Death premiered on September 7, 2006. The series was created and also written and produced by the husband-and-wife team of Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa. It is a television comedy about the triumphs and tribulations of marriage and friendship from two very different perspectives of the husband and wife.
This includes the funny and also annoying things that happen between husbands and wives on daily basis. The show takes viewers through the daily grind of marriage as seen through the eyes of Eddie (played by Brad Garrett) and Joy Stark (played by Joely Fishter) as they interact with children, parents neighbors and friends.
Eddie is the classic old school, grumbling husband who just tells it like it is and works at being unemotional and cynical as a daily passtime. His wife Joy is his exact opposite who has the patience and jokes to put up with Eddie’s cynicism… which perfectly balances their relationship.
The new season of ’til Death premiered on October 2, 2009, and in this first episode their daughter and her boyfriend show up and supposedly have been married by some Shaman in Ecuador – which the boyfriend can’t seem to pronounce correctly. This leads to them parking their Airstream RV in the backyard and literally moving in to the house.
Of course, legally they aren’t really married but have decided to take on a new way of life, eating pure foods and rejecting most of the corrupt forms of modern society… you know, things like school and education.
Well the daughter can’t quite get a grip around giving up her all of her vices, such as bacon and television, so they have this huge fight about how different the two of them are and if they really need to be together. As it turns out, and to their dismay, Eddie and Joy end up being the example the young couple use to mend their difference. They came to realize that two opposite people can still love each other and be happy.
I have to admit that until this episode I had never heard of ’til Death. For me Friday nights for the longest time had been primarily Syfy events but I was genuinely impressed by the writer’s wickedly clever, crude and at times borderline disgusting jokes. It gave me a loose association with the Married With Children theme.
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