Ground Floor

[Bill Lawrence] scores again here, with an instantly appealing ensemble, from Astin's "soulless upstairs tool" to Rory Scovel as the downstairs dude from "a very competitive community college.

We like the people and the jokes are funny. We know there’s something vulnerable and even poignant behind that barrage of one-liners.

When the jokes are hit and miss, McGinley and Scovel can easily salvage them. While the chemistry between Astin and Heelan isn't really palpable, both characters grow on you after a couple of episodes and everybody else in the cast also manages to elevate the material whenever it falters.

Ground Floor doesn’t make much of an impression initially. But stick with it for three or four episodes and it grows on you.

[Ground Floor] yields an occasional chuckle; it’s just more of a slacker than an overachiever.

One thing that might improve this office comedy is a few pink slips--upstairs, downstairs and off-camera.

The new worst show of the fall season.