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Based on a popular W. Bruce Cameron column, ''[[8 Simple Rules]]'' is your basic [[Dom Com]] where Paul and Cate Hennessy (played by [[Three's Company|John Ritter]] and [[Married... with Children|Katey]] [[Futurama|Sagal]]) attempt to ride herd on the burgeoning love life of their teenage daughters, bookish Kerry (Amy Davidson) and promiscuous Bridget (Kaley Cuoco). Rounding out the family is son Rory (Martin Spanjers), who is Paul's only other source of testosterone, and thus they bond often.
The premise was good and it worked well... until the show was [[Reality Subtext|derailed]] by the death of John Ritter. The resultant [[Retool]] brought in Cate's cantankerous father Jim (James Garner) and slacker nephew C.J. (David Spade). Because of Ritter's death, the show's name was changed from the quirky ''8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter'' to simply ''8 Simple Rules''. The rating also took a plunge shortly after episodes dealing with [[Real Life Writes the Plot|Paul's death]] and it was cancelled within two years.
The series lasted from September 2002 to April 2005, a total of 76 episodes in
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* [[Actor Allusion]]: Paul in the ''[[Three's Company]]'' dream sequences (though he was Mr. Roper).
* [[Aesop Amnesia]]: During the first season, Cate tells Paul not to get his hopes up about the idea of being seen as popular in their daughters' eyes. However, sometime after Ritter's passing, she tries to appear to be "with it" in front of them herself.
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Damian. He even has a guitar leitmotif when he appears in a scene. Bridget assumes that everyone can hear it, but it's just in her head.
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