You may hate 'Teenage Daughter'

Nikki's ex, Gary (Chad L. Coleman), and Annie's ex, Matt (Eric Sheffer Stevens), are also floating around. The brats, Sophie (Kristi Lauren) and McKenzie (Aisha Dee), have all of them twisted in parental knots. Both moms are actually living vicariously through their spawn: Deprived in their own childhood -- or as someone says to Annie, "you lived in military lockdown and dressed like a character from 'Little House on the Prairie' " -- they really wanted to be just like Sophie and McKenzie.

All those old, desperately moldy teen-inspired jokes about skimpy clothes, mean girls and Facebook are trotted out for the benefit of a studio audience that behaves as though it has never heard them before. Finneran and Pressly mug and yawp their way through material that barely rises to the level of sitcom cliche. Next week's episode is an improvement over the pilot -- correct, this is not saying much -- but that does seem like a long time to wait for the first genuinely funny line.