TV Reviews : Sitcoms Touch Bottom With ‘Top of the Heap’

Fox hits the bottom of the barrel with “Top of the Heap,” its new comedy from the producers of “Married . . . With Children.”

It premieres after “Married . . . With Children” at 9:30 p.m. Sunday on Channel 11, a quasi-spinoff that reeks with the raunch of the older show’s Bundy clan, but inherits not a whiff of its humor.

The main protagonists are the Verduccis: illiterate Vinnie (Matt LeBlanc) and Vinnie’s boorish father, Charles (Joe Bologna). Vinnie was introduced on “Married . . . With Children” recently as the boyfriend of Kelly Bundy.

The Verduccis are seeking refuge from their dreary life among Chicago’s underclass, 16-year-old Vinnie in a job at a swanky country club whose wealthy matrons lust for his bod, and Charles in the arms (he hopes) of the club’s swanky manager, Alixandra Stone (Rita Moreno).

“Top of the Heap” fires off a hail of dumb malapropisms and cheap sex jokes that draw loud woo-woos from a studio audience that sounds like it was trucked in from a Quasimodo convention.

The dialogue goes like this:

“Vinnie, how’s my attire?”

“Pop, you don’t got a tire.”

This show don’t got nothing.