Muscle (1995)

Genre

sitcom

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 13 episodes

Rating

3.7 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This sitcom is set in a New York City gym and spoofs 1990s prime time soap operas. The characters are over-the-top and the show pokes fun at the genre's melodrama.

parodicfast-pacedcampywittyabsurdsatiricalmock-soapbiting

What happens

Muscle is an American sitcom television series that aired on The WB from January 11 to May 24, 1995. It was set inside the fictional Survival Gym in New York City, and was a parody of prime time soap operas of the 1990s (with Fox's Melrose Place being the most noticeable inspiration). The series was created by Rob LaZebnik, and was executive produced by Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas and Gary S. Levine (the former two of whom produced the groundbreaking 1977–81 sitcom Soap, which parodied daytime soap operas). Because of the network's launch, Muscle was one of the four sitcoms that aired as part of The WB's original two-hour Wednesday night lineup, at 9:30/8:30c (with The Wayans Bros., The Parent 'Hood, and Unhappily Ever After being scheduled before it). It was the only one of the four that did not make it past the first season, and was also the first series to get canceled by the fledgling network. It ended with all the show's characters being shot and killed off, after being canceled due to low ratings, but replaced by ABC's Sister, Sister. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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