CARRIE HAD ANOTHER DAD BEFORE JERRY STILLER SIGNED ON.īickel described the show’s pilot as a “hybrid” because actor Jack Carter played Arthur, but when Stiller became available for the role, he replaced Carter. There’s a sort of honesty in that simplicity that I’ve really enjoyed and I’m really going to miss." 4. “It’s the simplicity of regular folks that people respond to-and in such an overwhelming way, it was kind of surprising to me initially,” Williams told Today in 2007. Victor Williams played Doug’s co-worker and friend Deacon Palmer. VICTOR WILLIAMS THINKS PEOPLE LIKED THE SHOW’S “SIMPLICITY.” Apparently the writers asked him to stand there just to see how weird it’d look, and to see if anybody would notice. In 2011 Oswalt explained the reason for his bizarre behavior to Jimmy Fallon: “I’ve never worked with a stonier crew than The King of Queens’ writers and producers,” he said. Spence neither moves nor speaks for the duration of the sequence, even when the camera cuts back and forth from the living room to the kitchen. PATTON OSWALT STOOD MOTIONLESS ONSCREEN FOR ALMOST THREE MINUTES.ĭuring the almost three-minute opening of the April 10, 2006, episode, Patton Oswalt’s character, Spence Olchin, can be seen standing motionless in the Heffernans’ living room while everyone else moves around, talks, and celebrates Doug’s 40 th birthday.
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“And for us, the thing was always Jerry Stiller is the baby.” During the series finale, Doug and Carrie finally have kids-they fly to China to adopt a girl, and then Carrie finds out she’s pregnant. “The studio felt that if you have a big thing happen to the Heffernan family then it kind of dates the old shows as 'pre-baby' and the new shows as 'post-baby' and it kind of hurts syndication a little bit,” he said. THE STUDIO DIDN’T WANT DOUG AND CARRIE TO HAVE KIDS.ĭavid Bickel, one of the show’s executive producers, told Futon Critic that Sony didn’t like the idea of them having kids. For the 10th anniversary of the show’s finale, here are 10 fun facts about the sitcom.
And, in a bit of symmetry, between 19 Ray Romano played Ray Barone on four episodes of The King of Queens. NBC passed on the pilot, then CBS picked it up." A couple of months after The King of Queens debuted, James reappeared on Raymond, this time as Doug Heffernan. "David Litt and I created the character of Doug for that pilot. "When I created The King of Queens in 1997, it wasn’t even for CBS, it was for NBC," co-creator Michael J. In 1996, Kevin James made his first appearance on Everybody Loves Raymond as a character named Kevin. For nine seasons, the CBS sitcom was a hit, especially because of Doug’s bickering dynamics with wife Carrie (Leah Remini), his cousin Danny (played by James’s older brother, Gary Valentine), and his live-in father-in-law, Arthur Spooner (Jerry Stiller).
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From Septemto May 14, 2007, Kevin James played Everyman Doug Heffernan, an International Parcel Service (IPS) delivery driver living in, you guessed it, Queens, New York.