Mad About You: Season 02 (1993)

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Beginning its second season in the fall of 1993, the NBC sitcom Mad About You continued in its low-key, unspectacular fashion, never quite accumulating enough ratings to crack the coveted Top 25 series list, but still enjoying a faithful fan following. Most of the series' cast remained intact, with co-creator Paul Reiser continuing in the role of documentary filmmaker Paul Buchman and Helen Hunt as his PR executive wife, Jamie Buchman, though Jamie would lose her job during the second season, prompting her to re-enter college. Paul's cousin Ira (John Pankow) pursued a romance with newly divorced Fran Devanow (Leila Kenzle), while Jamie's sister, Lisa (Anne Ramsay), persisted in looking for love in all the wrong places. Newcomers to the cast included such recurring characters as Paul's mother, Sylvia Buchman (Cynthia Harris); Paul's obstreperous new producer, Lou Bonaparte (Larry Miller); building superintendent Mr. Wicker (Jerry Adler); and, best of all, airheaded waitress Ursula Buffay, played by Lisa Kudrow -- a role that she would continue essaying even after joining the cast of Friends in 1994. Nominated for several Emmy awards during the 1993-1994 season, Friends managed to cop the gold statuette in the Outstanding Sound Mixing category. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi