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''The Jackie Thomas Show'' is an American sitcom that aired on the ABC network from December 1992 to March 1993. The series received widespread attention due to its creators Roseanne Arnold, then starring in the fifth season of her comedy ''Roseanne'', and her husband and ''Roseanne'' co-producer Tom Arnold. ''The Jackie Thomas Show'' starred Tom Arnold as a misanthropic sitcom actor. ==Premise== As Jackie Thomas, Arnold played a former nightclub comic and slaughterhouse worker now starring in his own sitcom (a show-within-a-show), also called "The Jackie Thomas Show."〔Freeman, John. "Tom Arnold plays a nasty boss for laughs in new ABC sitcom." The San Diego Union-Tribune, 1992-11-29, p. TV WEEK.〕 As described in one review, Arnold's character was "an obnoxious, loud-mouthed tyrant who fires writers, producers, actors, even the show's caterers, on the slightest whim."〔 In the premiere episode (written by the Arnolds with Brad Isaacs), Jackie demanded that the child actor portraying his sitcom son be killed off, due to Jackie's jealousy over the amount of fan mail received by the boy.〔 "He's unbelievable," Tom Arnold said of the Jackie Thomas character. "It's a guy you love to hate. He has his own reality and it's different from the people around him. And you go, 'Gosh, the guy is such a jerk.' But you have compassion for him, especially as the show goes on, because you learn where he came from, what's really going on with him."〔Du Brow, Rick. "A Simple Matter of Clout." Los Angeles Times, 1992-11-29, p. 3.〕 The character was named in tribute to Arnold's two favorite comedians, Jackie Gleason and Danny Thomas.〔 From the beginning, ''The Jackie Thomas Show'' was intended to be an ensemble production, as Arnold "didn't feel () was ready" to support a show on his own.〔 The cast included recurring ''Roseanne'' guest star Martin Mull as a network executive, Dennis Boutsikaris, Michael Boatman, Paul Feig and Maryedith Burrell as writers and Alison LaPlaca as an office assistant.〔Shales, Tom. "Doubting 'Thomas'; Tom Arnold's Hard-to-Like Sitcom on ABC." The Washington Post, 1992-12-01, p. C01.〕〔Rosenberg, Howard. "The Other Arnold Steps Out in 'Thomas'." The Los Angeles Times, 1992-12-01, p. 1.〕 The show was designed partly as an homage to ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'', which centered around a fictional television variety show with a tyrannical star.〔Turow, Joseph. "Can a Meanie Make It in Sitcomland?" Los Angeles Times, 1992-12-29, p. 3.〕 (A photo of Dick Van Dyke was displayed prominently on a character's desk in the first ''Jackie Thomas'' episode.)〔〔 Roseanne Arnold said that she had always "wanted to do a TV show that talks about television."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Jackie Thomas Show」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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