When you see the words "Cougar Town" smashed together like that in your line of vision, what image stumbles to the front of your mind? A zoo enclosure, maybe? A cartoon about a city run by anthropomorphized mountain lions? Knives, just many, many sharp knives? The Real Housewives Of New York City? Courtney Cox drunkenly slurring "you're hot as balls" at some guy at a club?
Well, if you said that last one, you work for ABC.
Three things:
1. Was Courtney Cox always this annoying, or is this just the annoyingness of her character, her character's situation, and the title of this show coming through? She's trying so hard to be funny here, if the camera panned to the ground there'd probably be pools of sweat everywhere.
2. The name of the local high school football team is "the cougars." Get it? So the title works on at least three levels: the team is the cougars, Courtney Cox is a cougar, and "Cougar" is the street name for the super-potent heroin that everyone in the town will fatally overdose on in episode three, at which point mountain lions from the surrounding area will descend on the town, essentially taking it over.
3. How long before Jonathan the "man pillow" gets his own spin-off? It's either him or the "Roaaaar!" sound effect.