Nikki

Nikki

2000
Nikki
Nikki

Nikki

5.7 | en | Comedy

Nikki White pursues her dream of being a Las Vegas showgirl, while her husband, Dwight, tries to break into professional wrestling.

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EP19  Portrait of the Wrestler as a Young Man
Jan. 01,0001
Portrait of the Wrestler as a Young Man

After Dwight's mother unexpectedly dies, he blames Nikki for his bad relationship to her, since the two women never got along. His mother hated Nikki so much, that he only gets his heir, when he gets divorced. Meanwhile Mary starts performing in the Tiki Lounge and has unexpected success. The reason behind her success is even stranger than the fact of her success.

EP18  Working Girl
Jan. 01,0001
Working Girl

Nikki and Dwight can't afford their rent anymore, but get offered to maintain the building and get a discount for that. With their new work they see strange things happening around the building. To investigate some of these things, Nikki sneaks into another apartment where she gets arrested for prostitution. To escape charges she has to visit a humiliating first time offenders program.

EP17  GED Off My Back
Jan. 01,0001
GED Off My Back

Dwight tries to convince Nikki to take a high school diploma test, since she never made it when she was in school. First Nikki is happy about Dwight's efforts, but she soon expects that he just feels embarrassed by her. When Nikki gets drunk, Mary has to convince her to take the test, to make up for missed experiences. Marry and Jupiter are arguing about private strip shows for each others, but Jupiter finally gives in and gives away his pride.

EP16  My Two Left Feet (a.k.a. Gotta Dance)
Jan. 01,0001
My Two Left Feet (a.k.a. Gotta Dance)

When Nikki finds out that her obnoxious landlords, Ken and Alice Gillespie, are going to compete in a ballroom dancing competition, she insists that Dwight join her in entering the contest. Soon, Mary and Jupiter get involved as well. However, through a series of mishaps, Nikki teams with Ken, and Mary rejects Jupiter for a handsome Latino, Antonio. Seeking revenge, Dwight and Jupiter compete against the others and almost win. Nikki prevails but learns that her overcompetitiveness almost ruined the fun of the evening.

EP15  Uneasy Rider
Jan. 01,0001
Uneasy Rider

Nikki buys an old motorcycle because she wants to be independent. Dwight is worried about her, since because he thinks it's too dangerous. He can't admit that he's afraid, so they take a ride, but suffer a heavy accident. After that they decide they can't leave the house anymore, since they might get killed anytime and everywhere.

EP14  Welcome to the Rest of Your Life
Jan. 01,0001
Welcome to the Rest of Your Life

Nikki loses her job at the Golden Calf Casino and must audition for dance parts at other venues. However, she soon finds that the notorious reputations of other former Golden Calf dancers impedes her job search.

EP13  She Was a Job-Jumper
Jan. 27,2002
She Was a Job-Jumper

Nikki quits her retail job after landing a teaching position at a dance school, but dislikes working for her abrasive new boss. Meanwhile, Mary faces danger in her job as a process server.

EP12  Nikki Can't Wait for Dwight's Birthday
Jan. 20,2002
Nikki Can't Wait for Dwight's Birthday

Nikki and Dwight try to secure reservations at a fancy restaurant for Dwight's birthday, but Nikki's efforts embarrass her husband and endanger his health.

EP11  To Your Grave
Jan. 13,2002
To Your Grave

Nikki loans Mary money so she can buy Jupiter a car, but a dispute over the amount of the loan threatens a planned weekend trip to the Grand Canyon that both couples hoped to take together.

EP10  Through Thick and Thin
Jan. 06,2002
Through Thick and Thin

Nikki contemplates cutting her long hair and tries out a wig to see how she would look, but Dwight's reaction to it isn't what she expected. Meanwhile, Dwight and Jupiter work in a homeless shelter after getting ticketed for setting up the Ring of Death in a public park without a license.

EP9  Milli Vanikki
Dec. 16,2001
Milli Vanikki

A record producer offers Nikki a chance to become a singer, but the time required to do so may force her to quit her day job. Meanwhile, Jupiter makes his wrestlers get tattoos of corporate logos to make up for lagging profits.

EP8  Gimme Shelter
Dec. 09,2001
Gimme Shelter

Dwight and Jupiter plan to debut the Ring of Death during a show in a church's annex with wrestler Kevin Nash, but they meet resistance from the church parishioners. Meanwhile, the Whites shop around for a new apartment.

EP7  Take This Job and Love It
Nov. 25,2001
Take This Job and Love It

Nikki auditions for a dance part in a theater production but worries that her performance wasn't good enough to get the job. Meanwhile, Dwight and Jupiter unveil a replica of the "Ring of Death" that they hope will attract investors.

EP6  Home Sweet Homeless
Nov. 18,2001
Home Sweet Homeless

Jupiter quits his new job, he gets Dwight to walk out with him and they decide to start a league of their own. Meanwhile, the new landlords threaten to evict Dwight and Nikki if the couple break any more rules.

EP5  My Best Friend's Day Care
Nov. 11,2001
My Best Friend's Day Care

When a new neighbor running an illegal day-care center in her apartment turns to Nikki for help, the Whites face potential eviction. Meanwhile, Dwight appears in a promo for his new wrestling league, but the gig isn't as glamorous as he expected.

EP4  Superhero Blues
Nov. 04,2001
Superhero Blues

The owner of a rival wrestling association buys out Jupiter's organization. At first Dwight and his co-workers are excited about appearing in a league with a higher profile. But their elation is short-lived when the new boss announces that he intends to replace them all with his own cronies, a decision that forces a conflicted Jupiter to fire his entire staff in order to save his own job. Meanwhile, Nikki and Mary vie for the lead in a music video slated to air on MTV.

EP3  A Rock and a Hard Place
Oct. 28,2001
A Rock and a Hard Place

Nikki and Dwight agree to try out several condom products for a Chinese manufacturer in order to pay for a weekend getaway at the Hard Rock Hotel, but the task proves to be more dangerous than they expected.

EP2  Vaya Con Nikki
Oct. 21,2001
Vaya Con Nikki

Unemployed Nikki gives Dwight cash so he can go to Mexico with his friends, but doesn't tell him the funds are from their account. She's forced to accept a humiliating job so she can recoup the money.

EP1  Technical Knockup
Oct. 14,2001
Technical Knockup

Nikki feels bad, so Dwight drags her down to the doctor. The news she receives from the doctor are pretty bad, because it could be that she might not be able to get kids much longer. Nikki feels torn apart by the idea of not being able to have her own family, but the other option to have kids right away freaks her out even more.

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Released: 2000-10-09 | Released Producted By: Warner Bros. Television , Mohawk Productions Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
Synopsis

Nikki White pursues her dream of being a Las Vegas showgirl, while her husband, Dwight, tries to break into professional wrestling.

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Cast

Nikki Cox , Nick von Esmarch , Toby Huss

Director

Les Firestein

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Warner Bros. Television , Mohawk Productions

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liquidcelluloid-1 Network: WB; Genre: Sitcom; Content Rating: TV-PG (for adult content); Classification: Contemporary (star range: 1 - 4); Season Reviewed: Complete Series (2 seasons) I don't know why anybody would do this, but if you trace the career path of Nikki Cox you will find yourself tripping over "Nikki" on the way from a brief role in the cult favorite "The Norm Show" to the mainstream hit "Las Vegas". In it you will find the WB spending away like a drunken sailor whatever capital Cox accrued after her breakout role in their "Unhappily Ever After". My uncommon likeness of "Unhappily" is on record. Yes, it was a "Married…with Children" rip-off, but I think it is one of the best bad shows on the air and one of the gutsiest shows the WB has seen. With Cox's popularity on the rise it only made sense to try to give this supporting character actress her chance at a lead role.But the reason Cox has been successful, and remains successful, is because she or her agents know her limitations and have the foresight to take an actress known more for her assets not related to acting than her comic ability (which isn't nonexistent) and give her a supporting role or surround her with real pros. "Nikki" is the first, and hopefully, last time where they slipped up and bit off more than they can chew. Cox's inability to carry the series is the least of the reasons "Nikki" is a painful to watch garbage dump. If I had a "Hate, Hate, Hate" book like Roger Ebert, this show would certainly be in there.Cox is not without comic ability, "Norm" and "Unhappily" proved she can deliver a deadpan one-liner as well as anybody. But you could put brilliant comic actors in the lead here and the show would still be a disaster. It was an ill-conceived series from the get-go. The smartest and safest way to approach a star vehicle with an unproven star would have been to spin off her brains-and-beauty Tiffany character from "Unhappily" out into college or the working world. That, people would have watched. But no. Creator Bruce Helford with longtime teammate Deborah Oppenheimer (both of star vehicles as "The Drew Carey Show") do all the legwork to contrive this hokey new idea. Cox plays a Las Vegas showgirl living in a rundown apartment with her deadbeat wrestler husband Dwight (Nick Von Esmarch). Both have big dreams and as they scrape miserably to achieve them, hilarity ensues – at least for the laugh-track, some of us humans may need to be talked off a ledge after a viewing.The sloppy writing, having none of the bite of "Unhappily", is chained to the show's go-nowhere premise – it nothing more than a half-thought-out mechanism to get Cox in a wide variety of Las Vegas showgirl outfits. While the skimpy outfits of her former series placated the pubescent male audience just fine, Helford must have thought this would just drive them bonkers. Like everything else in the show, it's overkill. Because they don't shop and spend as much as the opposite sex, teenage boys are a demographic rarely exclusively played to on network TV (seriously) and the show-runners in the room probably had no idea what this alien life form would want.This takes me directly to another confounding misconception in this mess. Maybe the biggest in a gutter-level series like this. I have to wonder whose idea it was for our hot young sexpot to be married. The show falls in with a dozen other sitcoms in which the fat slob is blessed with a hot wife and takes it for granted. While it is not blindly followed conventional network wisdom that this has to be the set-up so the schleps that watch TV can cathartically fantasize about getting a hot wife of their own, I hope there was at least one voice at the planning table who thought keeping their sex symbol single and available was a better idea.I'm reminded of the classic "The Simpsons" episode "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" where his agent tells Homer not to wear his wedding ring on the road because "women will want to have sex with you and we want them to think they can". I'm stunned real networks so rarely think like this. It's a shallow business, but even worse is a shallow series that doesn't know that it is shallow and expects us to go through these hum-drum motions.½
Joyela The first season of this show is absolutely hilarious. Some people don't like the dark ride, as evidenced by the cool reception given to the similarly-themed John Larroquette Show, but I do! The opening dance numbers were delightfully tacky, and the love story of Nikki and Dwight was sweet and sincere. I'm glad actress Nikki Cox continues on TV on NBC's Las Vegas, but it's a shame she couldn't have brought castmates Nick von Esmarch, Susan Egan, and the eternally-underappreciated Toby Huss with her (hang in there, Toby; it took *decades* for Joe Pantoliano to get his due, too). Alas, the good times ended with the second season, with Steve Valentine's exit (to Crossing Jordan), Nikki & Dwight losing their showgirl and wrestler jobs, and the re-focus of the show to the "wacky neighbors" in their apartment building. Huh??! Yuck!! Naturally the few fans the show had acquired left in droves, and the show died a quick death. I see the show has been enjoying distribution all over the world now (Portugal?!). Woe to those who have stumbled upon the later eps -- when they could have been outside watching grass grow, a far more entertaining way to pass the time.
jeff-223 This is on daytime tv here in Aus at the moment, and I have to say that this show is one of the hilights of my daytime tv viewing. I am not a big fan of US sitcoms, but the actors and their characters are actually quite engaging in this one.That is what makes a sitcom - the actors, and they really are all quite well suited to the characters here. I don't like wrestling, yet I find the wrestling situations funny in this show, I don't particularly like dancing/cabaret shows yet I also find this quite funny in this show. Definitely funny and worth watching.and to add the lame comment at the end, there a very few actors sexier than that Susan Egan. Phwoarrr :-)
mal karma Hey, we're poor- and we love it!!! just don't follow your dream even if it makes you happy, you'll be another loser like those shown here being poor and laughing anyway. Great message. Not funny, no good actors. Nikki Cox has some big... teeth. I only laughed (sometimes) when Jupiter appeared, and I'll never forgive the writers for that episode where Nikki and the other girl were about to wrestle each other but a female cop stopped them because they had no permission to do such a thing in a park.No script, acting, casting, directing, etc., etc. etc. Even the neighbours were the late 90s Steve and Marcy Rhoades from Married With Children.White Loser Trash