ABC, in its infinite wisdom, once gave comedy sensation Jeff Foxworthy a sitcom in the mid-90s and then decided that the Southern comedian known for redneck jokes was too Southern for a national audience and set his show in Indiana. Then again, they also thought Margaret Cho was too Asian-American in that era. The show was a fish out of water comedy, which I guess gave Foxworthy the chance to explain the exotic South to the residents of Bloomington and get in a few redneck jokes. His father-in-law, played by the guy who played Doug's dad on "King of Queens," was IU's president and looked down on him, as did most of the rest of the town. Because he was from the South of course! Even more inexplicable was the decision to portray Foxworthy as a love-machine sex god, but perhaps that was his choice.
Unsurprisingly, the show didn't do particularly well and moved to NBC for its drastically retooled second season. All of the case was dropped except for Jeff and son Haley Joel Osment, his new wife was much less hot, and the entire thing was moved to the small town in Georgia where the character was from and he ran a trucking company. It was still a sitcom, but the humor was more natural and there wasn't a need to explain the South ... to Southerners. Anyway, it still didn't do particularly well so this company softball game-themed episode was the last and one of the better ones. Well, except for the fact that the opposing company's team is led by pitcher and giant Bill Walton. He was an analyst for the NBA on NBC at the time, so perhaps the network felt a need to promote him? Regardless, he's no Dick Butkus as a luncheonette owner on "My Dad Dads," shown on the same Roku live channel.
