Growing up, I remember people telling me how I looked like Fred Savage from the Wonder Years. Not much, but enough to make me hate him. It was easy enough as it was. Not to hate him, but not to like him. In his career, he had only two decent performances. One was in The Boy Who Could Fly, and the other was in the Princess Bride.
Wonder Years exposed a flaw that would become more apparent in Working and other stuff he did. As he got older, he would be forced to rely on actually acting, and he really wasn't that good.
The cast of the Wonder Years was forced to stay the same, but they had to introduce new people to make up for weakness in certain areas. The boring sidekick friendship between "Kevin" and "Paul", which, at times, seemed to be reduced to a jealous rivalry thing. That happens when you hang out with someone too long. I remember Ringo mentioning how the other guys basically treated each other like brothers. Love and hate. You can only take so much.
So, they added those card-playing friends. The short, annoying guy who seemed to be an idiot and a comic foil, the dumb, tall guy, and maybe there was a jock. I can't remember.
Stupid thing was adhering to Winnie as constant love interest, but course, that was TV show writing. Olivia D'Abo (however you spell it) was actually quite attractive. Weird though, having a sister with an English accent. "She's a hippie" "Oh, well that explains everything!" First time I saw David Schwimmer, and right then and there, I knew he was a whiney guy.
