Sitcom's humor is anything but funny

The second episode doesn't get any better.
By ED BARK
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
The last of fall's 31 new series checks in Wednesday and instantly finds its level of humor when the shirtless star of the show greets a new morning by scratching his behind.
His four live-in female relatives happily capture the moment with a cell-phone camera to the delight of an easily amused laugh track. ABC's "Freddie" has made its first impression, as a juvenile, sub-par sitcom that makes "Who's the Boss?" seem textured.
Freddie Prinze Jr. ("Scooby Doo," "I Know What You Did Last Summer") had a gainful if not lustrous film career going before succumbing to this. He plays bachelor chef Freddie Moreno, whose swingin' Chicago lifestyle suddenly is road-blocked by the arrivals of his divorced sister, her 13-year-old daughter, the widowed wife of his deceased brother and a cranky grandma. It's a full house, all right. It's just not a very funny one in a Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. slot that actually has two even lamer comedies in CBS' "Yes, Dear" and Fox's "Stacked."
Prinze isn't the principal problem with "Freddie." He's an engaging enough guy whose late father, Freddie Prinze ("Chico and the Man"), had an abundance of comedic timing. Son Freddie seems to have inherited some of it, even if ABC sees him first and foremost as a pretty boy magnet for advertiser-coveted young female viewers.
Other characters
Freddie's man-about-town exploits and mishaps are shared by a knuckle-dragging pal named Chris (Brian A. Green from "Beverly Hills, 90210"). Chris is dumb enough to make even Joey Tribbiani seem like "Jeopardy!" genius Ken Jennings. But Freddie apparently is none the wiser, summing up his philosophy of life by telling sister Sofia (Jacqueline Obradors), "Stupid works for me."
Sofia's daughter, Zoey (Chloe Suazo), seems to be the show's brightest bulb. Meanwhile, sister-in-law Allison (former "Twin Peaks" girl Madchen Amick) is a barely functional scatterbrain, and grandma (Jenny Gago) chooses to speak only in Spanish although she understands all of the English around her.
The laugh track nearly blows its fuse every time grandma lets loose with a subtitled sour remark or slaps someone alongside the head.
She knows what she likes, though: "This robe has been through three husbands, four births, a house fire and a hurricane." Pause, one-two. "Only three dollars."
A second episode sent for review should be marked down to 50 cents. Caveman Chris deduces that "poor girls" are easy marks for the likes of he and Freddie. So they go to their "natural habitat" -- a Laundromat.