Andrea and I are continuing our sampling of the original Night Court in lieu of the usual ubiquitous reruns of Big Bang Theory.
Revisiting the original series is a brutal reminder of how unfunny the new version of Night Court is.
Not that the original series was always hitting on all cylinders. The first couple of seasons struggled to find the show’s voice and tone not to mention an unstable cast. It wasn’t until season 3 that Markie Post was able to commit to being a regular as defense attorney Christine Sullivan.
And season 9 was just, well, not good.
The series was supposed to wrap with season 8 and the writers wrote finis to the “will they or won’t they” between Harry and Christine (they will and they did) and greedy, ambitious Dan Fielding is reduced to a homeless person scrounging for tin cans for cash.
Then NBC decided at the last minute that they did want 9th season of Night Court after all resulting in a scramble at the start of the season (with a parody of Phantom Of the Opera with Dan as “the Phantom of the Courthouse”) to restore the status quo.
And the rest of season 9 played down to everyone’s worst attributes. “Flanderization” at it’s worst. Yeah, Bull Shannon is dumb but THAT DUMB?
Still, it’s been more fun than not to revisit this show.
We’re almost to the end of my re-watch of The Orville. Andrea has really taken to this show and she’s going to be sad I know when we hit what appears to be the last episode ever of this series.
Andrea has become a fan of Seth McFarlane as a singer and likes to explore You Tube videos of Seth performing classic show tunes.
Since we are over on Disney+/Hulu anyway, we usually pair up an Orville with an episode or 2 of Gravity Falls. We've got about 6 stories to go to finish up season 2.
Yes, I do enjoy watching Gravity Falls even though I have a bad habit of falling asleep while watching. No reflection on the show, it's just I'm old and we're watching them too late in the evening.
I’ve also looped Andrea in for Dead Boy Detectives which she seems to enjoy despite the occasional gruesomeness. Look, she’ll put up with stuff to follow a Neil Gaiman creation anywhere.
I’ve also started a re-watch of Arrested Development and Andrea is really getting into this show as well. She really likes the Ron Howard narration.
The re-watch will stop at the end of season 3. Seasons 4 and 5 were just… so… bad.
Not everything I introduce Andrea to takes hold. I showed her the first episode of Vicious. Her response to a 2nd episode was “No thanks.”
What pray tell is Vicious? It is a British sitcom that ran for a couple of seasons and a couple of specials from 2013 to 2016. It stars Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi as Freddie and Stuart, an old gay couple who have been together for 48 years and counting. Freddie is an occasionally working actor whose biggest credit was playing a villain on an episode of Doctor Who. Stuart is a former bar owner who takes care of things around the house.
The show earns it’s title from the constant barrage of sharpened barbs that Freddie and Stuart toss around at anyone in the vicinity and each other. The first episode does see Freddie lean hard into some very cruel vitriol aimed in Stuart’s direction which is probably what put Andrea off on watching this further. Videos from the series appear on my Tik Tok feed and it does seem that we do get some more insight into why these two have been together for 5 decades and they do have genuine affection for each other.
But Andrea said no so I am on my own with this one.
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Next week, some other TV stuff I'm watching.
Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.
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