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    • I Love You...Soon
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    • Like A Virgin (Kinda)
    • No More Mr. Nice Guy
    • I'm Sorry, So Sorry
    • Partially Obstructed View
    • Absence Makes the Heart Grow...Never Mind
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    • Europe Was So Much More Fun
    • The Longest Night Of The Year
    • The Not-So Simple Life
    • God Help The Mister
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    • I Want My Baby Back
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    • Dan Schneider
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What I Like About You
Genre	Teen sitcom
Created by	Wil Calhoun, & Dan Schneider
Starring	Amanda Bynes, Jennie Garth, Wesley Jonathan, Simon Rex,Michael McMillian,Leslie Grossman, Nick Zano,Allison Munn, and Dan Cortese.
Opening theme	"What I Like About You", performed by Lillix
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	86

What I Like About You is an American television sitcom. It aired for four seasons, spanning 86 episodes.

Contents

• 1 Plot
• 2 Cast
• 3 Episodes
• 4 Production
• 5 Syndication
• 6 DVD Release
• 7 Gallery

Plot

The lives of two sisters, older-sister Valerie Tyler (Jennie Garth) and teenager-sister Holly Tyler (Amanda Bynes). The series ran on The WB Television Network 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.

Cast

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".

• Amanda Bynes as Holly Tyler
• Jennie Garth as Valerie Tyler
• Wesley Jonathan as Gary Thorpe
• Simon Rex as Jeff Campbell (Season 1)
• Leslie Grossman as Lauren
• Michael McMillian as Henry Gibson
• Nick Zano as Vince
• Allison Munn as Tina Haven

Episodes

Main article: Episode Guide

Production

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).

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, Juice Box media player cartridges 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 April to September 2006, The WB aired a daily hour of reruns of the series during its Daytime WB afternoon programming block alongside 8 Simple Rules. When The CW launched in September 2006, reruns of the series moved to the new network's CW Daytime block, remaining 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 Home Video has released the first season of What I Like About You is now available for DVD on May 7, 2007 (Region 1 only). 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.

DVD Name	Ep #	Release Date
The Complete First Season	22	May 7, 2007
The Complete Second Season	22	March 7, 2017

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