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Country of origin
  
United States

Theme song
  
What I Like About You

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Genre
  
Teen sitcom

Final episode date
  
24 March 2006

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Created by
  
Wil CalhounDan Schneider

Starring
  
Amanda BynesJennie GarthWesley JonathanSimon RexMichael McMillianLeslie GrossmanNick ZanoAllison MunnDan Cortese

Theme music composer
  
Wally Palmar, Mike Skill, Rich Cole, and Jimmy Marinos (lyrics)Philip Steir (seasons 2-4; remixed version of theme song)

Opening theme
  
"What I Like About You", performed by Lillix

Networks
  
The WB, TeenNick, Freeform

Cast
  

What I Like About You is an American television sitcom set mainly in New York City, following the lives of two sisters, older sister Valerie Tyler (Jennie Garth) and teenaged sister Holly (Amanda Bynes). The series ran on The WB from September 20, 2002, to March 24, 2006, with a total of 86 episodes produced. With the exception of a brief period early in the second season, What I Like About You was a headline on The WB's Friday Night Comedy Lineup.

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Cast and characters

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Throughout their time on the series, two main characters - Vince and Lauren - were never given last names. Jeff was also never given a last name, although in the artwork for the season 1 DVDs, he is listed as "Jeff Campbell".

Recurring cast

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  • Dan Cortese as Vic Meladeo (recurring season 1,4)
  • Stephen Dunham as Peter (recurring season 2)
  • Edward Kerr as Rick (recurring seasons 2–3)
  • David de Lautour as Ben Sheffield (recurring season 3)
  • Theme song and opening sequences

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    The series takes its title from the song of the same name, which was originally released on a hit record by The Romantics in 1980; it was written by the group's members Wally Palmar, Mike Skill, Rich Cole, and Jimmy Marinos. A cover version of the song, performed by the Canadian all-female rock group Lillix, was used as the theme song for the show. Lillix's cover version was also heard on the soundtrack of the 2003 remake of Freaky Friday and the soundtrack of the film 13 Going on 30. The theme was remixed into a techno/dance style theme for the second season by Philip Steir (who composed all the music for remainder of the series).

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    The pilot episode had a short opening sequence and the cast members' names were only shown over the cold open. The title sequence used scenes of New York as a background, with an animation of the show's logo in which the letters "i" and "o" appeared first in a larger size than other characters, the word "what" slid in from the left side of the screen, the word "like" expanded and contracted, the "ab" and "ut" in "about" slid in from both sides of the screen to meet the "o", and the word "you" slid upward from the bottom of the screen, appearing to collide with the rest of the title before all the characters settled into place. This same animation was carried over to the season one opening titles.

    The first season's opening sequence featured intercut scenes (as from home movies) of two girls portraying younger versions of Holly and Val, with shots of Bynes and Garth sticking their tongues out at the camera, mixed with footage excerpted from the first four episodes; each of these elements were framed in rounded rectangles that moved from right to left across the screen. After every two to five such rectangles, the headshot of each cast member would appear with its name. Newer footage excerpts were inserted in the sequence for the episode "Valentine's Day" and again for the episode "The Fix-Up", which replaced nearly all of the excerpts from the first four episodes.

    The opening title sequence used for the rest of the series featured the show's cast in front of digitally inserted scenes of New York at night. Different versions of the sequence were used for SD and HD broadcasts: the SD version seen in The WB, TeenNick and until October 6, 2010 in ABC Family airings, featured a letterbox-style version with the cast and creators' names in a black bar below the sequence; HD broadcasts on The WB and in ABC Family airings since October 6, 2010, featured the cast and creators' names within the sequence itself. The sequence was modified twice; the first time was in the episode "The Incredible Shrinking Group" when Stephen Dunham's video headshots were removed and the second modification was in "The Longest Night of the Year" when all traces of Michael McMillian were removed from the sequence and a yellow streak of light was added to the sequence as well.

    Syndication

    From February to September 2006, the series aired as reruns in a new weekday afternoon block called "Daytime WB" on its home network, The WB alongside Reba. After the show was ended by The WB in 2006, reruns of the series aired in syndication in most markets until September 2008.

    In 2008, the program moved over to ABC Family (now Freeform) to air in various timeslots during the daytime, in a letterbox format. Secondary rights are also held by TeenNick which has aired the series since 2009 shortly before the network's rebrand from The N; that channel mainly aired episodes of the show in two-hour marathon form, until October 2010, when TeenNick began airing three one-hour blocks of the series in different timeslots. Canadian syndicated rights are held by YTV, broadcasting the series for the first time in High Definition when the network introduced an HD channel in 2011.

    DVD release

    Warner Archive has on March 7, 2017 released The Complete 2nd Season on DVD in region 1. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available from online sellers such as Amazon.com and their CreateSpace MOD program.

    Awards and nominations

    GLAAD Media Award

  • 2006 - Outstanding Individual Episode (In a Series Without a Regular Gay Character) for "Someone's In the Kitchen with Daddy" (Nominated)
  • Teen Choice Awards

  • 2005 - Choice TV Actress: Comedy for Amanda Bynes (Nominated)
  • 2005 - Choice TV Show: Comedy (Nominated)
  • 2004 - Choice TV Actress: Comedy for Amanda Bynes (Nominated)
  • 2003 - Choice TV Actress: Comedy for Amanda Bynes (Nominated)
  • 2003 - Choice TV Breakout Star: Male for Wesley Jonathan (Nominated)
  • 2003 - Choice TV: Breakout Show (Nominated)
  • Young Artist Awards

  • 2004 - Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama): Leading Young Actress for Amanda Bynes (Nominated)
  • 2003 - Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series: Guest Starring Young Actress for Chelsea Brummet (Nominated)
  • References

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