Cougar Town Wants A New Name, Again.

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By Nads | Tuesday, May 31, 2011 | 1:00 pm | 18 Comments
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Cougar Town is flirting with changing it’s name again. Bill Lawrence thinks that the ratings are low because the title of the show is off putting, so in effort to get numbers up, he wants a new name. Actress Busy Phillips has even taken to her Twitter reaching out to fans asking for title suggestions–so I think it’s serious this time.

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I don’t see any harm in a name change. If they’re blaming the title on lack of viewership, let’s see if a title change will do the trick.  The current Cougar Town fans will follow, and maybe it’ll gain some new fans. Who knows…if anything, it’s more PR for the show.

I have some suggestions…how about Cougar Ville? Or Cougar City? No? Okay.

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18 Comments

  1. 1
    mulecitybabe
    Posted May 31, 2011 at 1:20 pm

    “Saggy Ho’s Doing Horny Young Douchey Losers”

  2. 2
    sarcasatire sarcasatire
    Posted May 31, 2011 at 1:36 pm

    They may live in a TOWN, but they aren’t Cougars. They’re dating men their own age, one of them is even married to fat, balding middle-aged man. I almost mistook this for a reality show. I think the lack of viewership comes from a boring script and a tendency for Busy Phillips and Courtney Cox to shout their lines. “I want wine! Have we got any wine?!” “YES! WE HAVE WINE!”

  3. 3
    plockeness monster
    Posted May 31, 2011 at 2:00 pm

    I really like this show. Instead of changing the name, they should just kill off Travis, C.C.’s son on the show. WORST.ACTOR.EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  4. 4
    itchy
    Posted May 31, 2011 at 2:23 pm

    This is one of the shows I ‘watch’ (i.e., allow to drone in the background) when I’m involved in some other usually mindless activity. I don’t understand how this show made it to a second season, much less how it’s going on to a third. It simply is not funny. Not even a little bit. Not even a wee little bit. And it’s got that weird-looking redhead from Scrubs on there, the gal with the strange plastic duck lips. Ew.

  5. 5
    HatersLivesOn
    Posted May 31, 2011 at 4:11 pm

    You all sound like a bunch of waste of space without a sense of humor. I bet you guys enjoy mindless drivels like those stupid trashy reality shows. You stick to those types of shows because clearly you wouldn’t know quality sitcom if you saw it. Go back to watching Mob Wives and inflated housewives

    LOSERS!

  6. 6
    Parisi LaRoe Parisi LaRoe
    Posted May 31, 2011 at 4:26 pm

    How about “Courtney Cox still can’t act”?

  7. 7
    Betsy Furman
    Posted May 31, 2011 at 6:42 pm

    It fell apart after they decided drinking wine was funny.

  8. 8
    Hypnotoad Hypnotoad
    Posted May 31, 2011 at 7:36 pm

    Holy shit there’s a bunch of Cougar Town haters! I think the show has declined a little bit in it’s hilarity, but I happen to like it. I think it’s a very funny show (and yeah, Courtney Cox? She can act. I’m still pissed she wasn’t nominated for an Emmy for Cougar Town).

    I definitely think a portion of viewers have not been viewing because of the name. You hit the nail on the head, Nads — some people will think, “Oh, there’s a new Courtney Cox sitcom? I’ll give it a chance” and of course us die-hard fans will follow.

    And I really don’t give a flying f**k what anyone says. Drinking wine and getting drunk in the afternoon will *never* not be funny, in my opinion. The show makes me laugh out loud as much as 30 Rock does these days, but unlike 30 Rock, you actually give a shit about the characters because they’re fleshed out and have actual, you know, human tendencies.

    I’m sick of “Penny Can,” though. They can get rid of that.

  9. 9
    Libithina
    Posted May 31, 2011 at 8:03 pm

    Oh man, these were rough comments to read! Cougar town is awesome, hands down, period end of story. It has way more heart than most shows on the tube. Cougar town (like scrubs before it, which was another show no one watched but had a crazy loyal fan base) speaks differently than other shows and if that’s not your style, it’s not your style, but to totally diss it is…I don’t know, annoying, I guess.

  10. 10
    Chicken Lips
    Posted May 31, 2011 at 8:18 pm

    I love Cougar Town AND Mob Wives. So clearly I have a sense of humor but still enjoy mindless drivel. Hope that’s OK.

    When it first started and really had the “cougar” premise, I thought it sucked. But then they dropped the young guy and made it more about the Cul-de-sac Crew and I came back and fell in love. I agree that Penny Can has run the course (perhaps that’s why they sold it so it wouldn’t just disappear, but we wouldn’t have to hear it – although I do chuckle when I hear “Penny Can!”) and Jules should lay off the “I love my son so much I can’t bear to be away from him for more than 45 seconds at a time”. Other than that – LOVE IT!

    I don’t remember what time it will be on next season (and I’m too lazy to look right now), but hopefully folks will come – even if the name doesn’t change but they make a big enough stink about it people will be curious – and the ratings go up so it will stay around at least another season or two. I think it is funny enough to last as long as Scrubs did…before Scrubs pole vaulted over the shark.

  11. 11
    Sweet_Dee
    Posted May 31, 2011 at 10:31 pm

    I think this season suffered a bit because there was hardly any Barb in it. Need. More. Barb!

  12. 12
    Hypnotoad Hypnotoad
    Posted June 1, 2011 at 12:37 am

    Sweet_Dee and Libithina — My PLL Peeps! Glad to know we have more than Hanna’s cupcakes in common! I agree that we need more Barb — what happened to her?!

    Also, besides the fact that the show is indeed HILARIOUS, Cougar Town is one of the only shows where I can honestly say I would totally do each and every one of the main male castmates. Hands down. Literally. I would. Nice and good, my friends. Nice and good.

  13. 13
    Lita
    Posted June 1, 2011 at 7:55 am

    I love love this show, it is hilarious! Not sure wha what they should change the name to just keep it on the air. It seems like sitcoms are harder to come by on tv ( enough with reality tv already). Im with Hypnotoad drinking in the afternoon is funny, though I do notice no one hardly ever works anymore on the show. I think Jules should cut the apron strings and let Travis work it out whatever it is he needs to work out (kind of done with that storyline too).

  14. 14
    plockeness monster
    Posted June 1, 2011 at 9:14 am

    Ohh! And I loved the fact the Danny Pudi (Abed from Community) made a cameo a few weeks ago.

  15. 15
    lrhflute
    Posted June 1, 2011 at 10:19 am

    I actually really enjoy CT! Is it the best sitcom on the air? Not really…but I still like it. I wanna be in the cul-de-sac crew and hang out with them. And have the job flexibility to not do anything all day! ;)

  16. 16
    Miss Delight
    Posted June 1, 2011 at 10:28 am

    I am also on the Cougar Town train. I always caught the first couple minutes before the recording shut off after my DVR’d Modern Family. I found myself laughing every time and wanting more. It was officially added to the DVR list a few months ago. Yes the Cougar Town name is what kept me away in the first place, but I’m glad I found this little gem of a show.

  17. 17
    2Hyper
    Posted June 1, 2011 at 1:43 pm

    I love Cougar Town but I am stuck in mommy hell every night and don’t get to watch primetime TV and then the show gets lost in DVR purgatory.

    At the end of last season when Elle and Jules remixed Grayson’s words into a song was the funniest sh!t I’d seen on TV in a long time.

  18. 18
    Sweet_Dee
    Posted June 1, 2011 at 8:19 pm

    Hypno, do I smell Cougar Town recaps in the future? I would SO read that! While drinking wine out of a vase, of course… ;)

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