The Drew Carey Show: Season 06 (2000)

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Season Six of The Drew Carey Show opens with the title character (played, naturally, by Drew Carey losing his job at Cleveland's Winfred-Louder department store and ending up slinging hash at his former high school's cafeteria--and despite this enormous setback, our hero is bound and determined to propose marriage to his longtime friend Kate (Christa Miller). Unfortunately, Drew is sidetracked into a sham "gay" marriage with his Winfred-Louder boss Mr. Wick (Craig Ferguson), who must be hitched in a hurry lest he be deported to his native England. Despite his marital status, Drew still finds time to date a vegetarian activist named Rachel (Ileana Douglas)--whom is promplty "corrupted" by Drew's friends Lewis (Ryan Stiles) and Oswald (Diedrich Bader) and transformed into a meat addict! Former recurring player John Carroll Lynch is promoted to full-scale regular in the role of Drew's transvestite brother Steve, now also the husband of Drew's mortal enemy (and reluctant next-door neighbor) Mimi (Kathy Kinney), who in the course of events becomes pregnant. This plot development figures prominently in a bizarre three-part story arc wherein Drew, rendered comatose in an accident and hovering between life and death, finds he prefers the Next World to This One--and while trekking Heavenward, he profoundly alters the future of Mimi's yet-unborn baby Gus. As a postscript, Drew returns to life only to discover that he's been declared legally dead, inspiring him to re-invent himself as a "born to be wild" cycle freak named Kyle! Upholding the tradition of past years, Season Six offers the second "Drew Live" episode (originally telecast live by ABC, in three different versions for the three main timezones) and the fourth and final error-ridden "What's Wrong With This Episode". And in a wacko plot twist that would not be resolved until the following Autumn, Season Six concludes as Mimi literally drives Drew insane and into a mental institution! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi