It never fully jumped the shark for me, though I thought it lost something when Christa Miller and Craig Ferguson left. Something sort of dark did creep into the show, it seemed; viewing it now, years later, I think the later, 'reactionary' Drew might have been a little bit of Carey's somewhat bitter, satirical take on the more hard rightwing turn the country was starting to take under Bush, and maybe also a reflection of how the character himself was becoming a little bit bitter and angry over the direction in which his life looked to be going after 40.
Given that, it makes the final episode (Drew's marriage and the birth of his and Kellie's baby), which I didn't much like originally, make a little more sense in context–the party's over, we're grownups now with responsibilities to others besides ourselves, and now it's time to move on.

It began a downward spiral somewhere in Season 5 and started becoming pretty bad halfway through Season 6 when Drew became Mimi's baby. However, I still kinda try to wade through it because even the bad seasons still had funny episodes sprinkled throughout.
Eh I don't know what 'phallocentric' means, but NO GIRLS!

I tend to stop when Drew and Kate got together as a couple.
You are sin.

I tell people to stop watching at the end of season 4. If you've made it to 9 you can watch anything. Just burn through them.

I remember when they burned off the entire last season in six weeks over the summer. That was actually entertaining in a perverse sort of way.

Are you referring to the internet company or when Winfred-Lauder was remodeled?
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You should delete all the eps featuring the unrealistic office layout.
I collect dead pigeons then I press them between the pages of a book.

You can stop watching?! What the?!