John!smile gets you through the most difficult episodes. Well, that and Rodney :p

we never really get to meet him, so it kind of feels like your daughter went off and eloped with some guy you don't know or something...
Pretty much, yeah ;) And he's so easy to ignore, they really wrote most episodes as if he's not really there. She suddenly has a token husband that's there when it's convenient. A guy with no personality to boot, not the best way to do it.