Uncle Buck

TV Series
1990–1991
30m

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Dah-ve Chodan, Jacob Gelman, Sarah Martineck, Audrey Meadows, and Kevin Meaney in Uncle Buck (1990)

An irresponsible slob becomes the legal guardian of his nieces and nephew, when his brother and sister-in-law are killed in a car crash.An irresponsible slob becomes the legal guardian of his nieces and nephew, when his brother and sister-in-law are killed in a car crash.An irresponsible slob becomes the legal guardian of his nieces and nephew, when his brother and sister-in-law are killed in a car crash.

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5.4/10

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Awards
- 4 nominations

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The pilot caused a minor controversy in 1990 because of a scene where Maizy tells Uncle Buck: "You suck." This was the first time this expression had been uttered in an American network television series.

Connections
Follows Uncle Buck (1989)

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Uncle Buck
Written by Steve Dorff and John Bettis
Performed by Ronnie Milsap

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Absolute tripe

The Uncle Buck television series is a testament to the TV of the late 80s - early 90s, in which networks appeared to completely lose what little creative talent they had. Instead, they chose to spin-off any movie that had any kind of popular following.

Uncle Buck the TV show was, of course, shamelessly copied from the John Hughes film of the same name, which starred John Candy in the title role.

Shows like this should be utterly forgotten. Fortunately for the TV viewing public, this and other lame spin-off attempts (Ferris Bueller, to name another), very quickly sank into the abyss of useless cast-off shows that not even a mother could love.

For a hilarious, touching film, rent Uncle Buck starring John Candy. If some TV station decides to show episodes of Uncle Buck the TV show, I suggest you pawn your TV and take up Greenlandic throat singing.