If The Loop, a new midseason replacement sitcom on Fox, replicates real life after college, then audiences everywhere will choose to live a fantasy. Set in Chicago, the show focuses on how Sam (Bret Harrison) manages his top-tier job as an airline executive along with his terribly typical social life of drunken near-hilarity.

Living with his deadbeat brother and two centerfold material girls, Sam lives the perfect cliché: work hard, play hard. He accidentally succeeds at work while making a complete fool of himself in his personal life. He pathetically obsesses over his pre-med roommate, Piper (Amanda Loncar), quite possibly the worst actress of all time. Piper rubs her boyfriend and her body in Sam’s face, acting sweet and oblivious all the while. Sam is a dopey doormat without a backbone or a decent punch line.

Of course, in his work environment Sam is quite the catch, drawing attention from colleague Meryl (Mimi Rogers). He absentmindedly dodges her tawdry advances (ass-grabbing included). While some might fantasize of an all-business, no-strings-attached love affair in the work place, the situation between Sam and Meryl derives no such enjoyment.

In an effort to include all the stereotypes of the workforce, Sam has an MIT graduate for a secretary whom is clearly overqualified for her low-ranking position. This could be seen as a sexism issue, but the show does not deserve such credit.

From the first episode it is obvious that Piper will have an epiphany upon realizing that her “best friend,” Sam, could be her lustful lover. They will have a tumultuous yet predictable Ross and Rachel relationship with less passion and more alcoholism. What’s the point of watching drunken losers for a half hour on Thursday nights when you can partake in the same things with your friends? Nice try, Fox.