#Serial mom 1994 imbd series#
#Serial mom 1994 imbd tv#

ABC cancelled the show in May 1998 after five seasons. Eventually, even some members of the LGBT community, including Chaz Bono (who at the time was the media director for GLAAD), began to criticize the show's serious new tone as well. The final episodes of Ellen were criticized for focusing too much on gay issues. After the initial coming out frenzy, however, the show's ratings declined, and ABC began feeling the pain of a backlash regarding the 'gay content' being exhibited. The revelation ignited a storm of controversy, prompting ABC to place a parental advisory at the beginning of each episode.Д®llen was successful enough in its early seasons to warrant annual renewal, due largely to DeGeneres's perceived appeal and comic ability, but only with Ellen's coming out did the show make its way into the wide public consciousness and hit a critical plateau.

#Serial mom 1994 imbd tv#

35 on TV Guide 's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time. Ellen DeGeneres's mother Betty can briefly be seen as one of the people in the terminal with a shocked reaction to the announcement. To ensure a memorable moment, the coming out scene was made into a gag where, at an airport, Ellen turns and tells Laura Dern's character 'I'm gay!' вЂ“ only to realize that she had turned right into the public address microphone, announcing her sexuality to the entire terminal. In 1997, Ellen made television history when the title character came out as a lesbian in the famous ' Puppy Episode' (DeGeneres herself came out concurrent with the episode on The Oprah Winfrey Show and in Time). A running gag during the third and fourth seasons was that each episode had a distinct/different opening credits sequence (often with singing and dancing), resulting from Ellen's ongoing search for the perfect opening credits. The series' theme song (used in season 3 onwards) is a version of ' So Called Friend' by Scottish band Texas with altered lyrics.

This event received a great deal of media exposure, ignited controversy, and prompted ABC to place a parental advisory at the beginning of each episode.

#Serial mom 1994 imbd series#

The series was one of the first in the US with a main character to come out as gay, which DeGeneres' character did in the 1997 episode ' The Puppy Episode', which aired shortly after DeGeneres publicly revealed that she was gay in real life. The series centered on Ellen's dealing with her quirky friends, her family, and the problems of daily life, set in Los Angeles. The title of the series was These Friends of Mine for the first season, but it was subsequently changed to avoid confusion with the NBC series Friends, which premiered in September 1994.

The title role is Ellen Morgan, a neurotic bookstore owner in her thirties, played by stand-up comedian Ellen DeGeneres. Ellen is an American television sitcom that aired on the ABC network from March 29, 1994, to July 22, 1998, consisting of 109 episodes.