The curse of season 2
..messing with a winning formula. The thing that made this work was that the tow principles were the Odd Couple, but what they've done in the season 2 is sacrificed much of the Fonda / Tomlin shared onscreen time out and instead inserted way too much secondary character segments. Result: it's gone from a winning sitcom to an also ran soap without a single funny line.
'Well I've got two words for you - STFU'