The Drew Carey Show
Drew Gets Married
TV Flash files “Drew Gets Married” as hour 40 of 233 in the TV Flash guide — The Drew Carey Show (1995–2004) on ABC, season 2, episode 18, aired 1997-02-26, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E18: listed hour 40 of 233 in the The Drew Carey Show guide, hour 18 of 24 in season 2. It aired 1997-02-26 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “See Drew Run” (S02E17). Next is “Man's Best Same Sex Companion” (S02E19).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Drew goes to a convention in Las Vegas where he loses all his money but gains a wife.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Drew Gets Married sit in the The Drew Carey Show guide?
S02E18 is listed hour 40 of 233 — hour 18 of 24 in season 2, season 2 episode 18.
When did The Drew Carey Show S02E18 air?
Drew Gets Married aired 1997-02-26 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Why do episodes start with musical numbers?
Elaborate musical and dance openers were house style — local pride and surreal flourish before the department-store plot clocked in.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Cleveland as sitcom geography: a discount store, Buzz Beer, and cold opens that danced before the plot bothered to start. Drew Carey’s everyman deadpan against Ryan Stiles, Diedrich Bader, and a city treated like a character instead of a punchline. Blue-collar multi-cam with musical nerve — a workplace comedy that could rock without leaving Ohio.
Visual first: a Cleveland everyman in a discount-store silhouette, Mimi's makeup as a walking cartoon, cold opens that danced before the plot bothered to clock in. Drew Carey and Bruce Helford's ABC sitcom (1995–2004) treated the city as a character instead of a punchline. *Blue-collar, musical, local pride as a look.* The tags will call a dance number mid. **This was not mid; this was a city photographing as itself.**
Filed against
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