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In some other realm, the football career and its showbiz afterlife, pitching rental cars and enlivening spoofery, would have warranted the plain-old Great American treatment.

Bell plays it straight in the opening episodes and escalates the lunacy as the plot progresses, trusting the viewer to find the spoofery in details.

No sacred cow is too delicate for this foursome to rope into a rodeo of spoofery.

More wisely, Bee has kept the field-reporting segments that she excels at, with less of “The Daily Show’s” wink-wink spoofery and something that’s increasingly rare in late-night: You occasionally catch her in the act of listening, rather than just snarking or spouting.

The spouses deal resignedly with the quirks of home, synagogue and community life, which are portrayed in scenes that range distractedly in various directions, often in a mode of loving spoofery.