"Mike and Molly" Premieres Monday, 9/20 on CBS

Many of you know that I am a "Gilmore Girls" fanatic.  When I am feeling down, all I have to do is pop in an episode from my 7-season DVD collection, and it never fails to bring a smile to my face.  The character of Sookie, Lorelai's best friend, was played by Melissa McCarthy, a fabulous actress who also happens to be one of the few people in Hollywood who are not a size 2.  When I saw that she was cast in a new series as a woman who meets her love interest at an Overeater's Anonymous meeting, I was so happy I ate a cookie in her honor.  I'm very interested to see how a show whose main premise is to make jokes about being fat goes about it without going too far.  And I'm interested to see if people will watch a show whose two main characters are not beautiful in the Hollywood definition of beauty.  Tune in with me each week as I review the show. 

Here is the show's premise taken from CBS's press release, May 2010:

 MIKE & MOLLY is a comedy from Chuck Lorre ("Two and a Half Men," and "The Big Bang Theory") about a working class Chicago couple who find love at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting. Officer Mike Biggs (Billy Gardell) is a good-hearted cop who sincerely wants to lose weight. Mike's partner, Officer Carl McMillan (Reno Wilson), is a thin, fast-talking wise-guy, who despite his teasing encourages Mike on his road to slimness and romance. While speaking at an O.A. meeting, Mike meets Molly Flynn (Melissa McCarthy), an instantly likeable fourth-grade teacher with a healthy sense of humor about her curves. For Molly, focusing on smart choices isn't easy because she lives with her sexy older sister, Victoria (Katy Mixon), and their mother, Joyce (Swoosie Kurtz), both of whom flaunt their healthy appetites and slender figures. Mike also faces temptation at the diner he and Carl frequent, where they've become friends with the Senegalese waiter, Samuel (Nyambi Nyambi), who finds trying to eat less a foreign concept. For Mike and Molly, thanks to their mutual love of pie and the desire to resist it, finding each other may have been worth the "weight."