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Non-sports post.
Back in the day when TV actually had more impact than it has now, one of the really good shows was Taxi. Go to the 1:10 mark and watch my favorite Jim moment.
Interesting. Lots of b-name actors:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165832/
Viewers gave it a pretty good rating. I’ll see if I can come across it…
That was FUNNY! Reminds me of one of my favorite Cheers spots. Norm walks into the bar, and as usual everyone yells, “How’s it going Norm?”. Norm yells back “It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there, and I’m wearing Milk-Bone underwear!”
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!”.
The final scene of the last episode of the second Newhart show is an absolute classic moment in American television as well.
More of talk show and a lot more recent by a guy who always seems to make me laugh somehow is Norm MacDonald.
Norm on the Daily Show:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=125858&title=norm-macdonald
Norm on the Conan (kind of have to listen to part of a boring interview, but worth it):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoLm-vD89SQ
And since this is mostly a baseball blog, Conan plays 1864 style baseball:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd1eu_conan-obrien-1864-baseball
Yep. Their rating formula cripples it too. Mean rating is an 8.1, but they scale it down due to only getting 7,000 ratings. 8.1 would be good enough to make the top-250 list otherwise!
Right, IMDB actually do a regression toward the mean.
And agreed that the Newhart finale, the final scene, was the ultimate scene to which all other finales will be compared against. Simply brilliant. That Newhart series (the second one) was fantastically funny. Great show.
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