As the longest running sitcom currently on air, the CBS comedy The King of Queens will end its series in May. During nine seasons, audiences have followed the crazy, yet humorous antics of a young blue-collar couple, Doug (Kevin James) and Carrie (Leah Remini) Heffernan, living in Queens, NY with Carrie's father, Arthur Spooner (Jerry Stiller). The King of Queens is a comical gem that owes its success and longevity to a simple story about an unconventional family's love for one another.The "King" of Queens, Doug, is an overweight truck driver who delivers packages for the fictional International Parcel Service, or IPS (à la UPS). Doug's outspoken wife, Carrie, works as a legal secretary who dreams of being promoted in hopes of making a better life for her and Doug...so that she can afford designer clothing.
In the evening after work, Doug is usually found on the couch eating pork rinds, and watching a New York Jets game on his 50-inch television with his best friend and fellow IPS driver Deacon (Victor Williams), high school buddy Spence (Patton Oswalt), and cousin Danny (Gary Valentine).When Carrie, the more responsible one of the marriage, comes home from work, she cooks dinner, pays the mortgage and balances the checkbook, in addition to reminding her father, Arthur, to take his daily medications and putting up with his outlandish behavior. Arthur lives in the basement of the Heffernans' house after his wife died and Carrie felt sorry for him. When he's not at the senior center, he is usually found at home annoying Doug and Carrie with his announcements of bizarre ideas, inventions and observations.
