Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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Frasier was great farce. In one Valentine's Day episode, Niles is cooking dinner for a date with a woman with very exacting standards. After everyone else has left the apartment, he notices a tiny flaw in his outfit. From there, things spin further and further (and more and more hilariously) out of control.
10 minutes of classic television. With one character and not one word of dialogue.
It would make him think differently about the shows earlier in the range AND give him true perspective on what's truly terrible. My earliest TV memories include the actual Happy Days shark jump. Maybe that made me kinder to "Good Morning Miami"(which, okay, was nothing special) but it doesn't make me cringe or anything.
Community was fabulous last night. A diorama of a diorama! Monkey! Troy and Abed mug (the kids are getting them in their Easter baskets!) My spoon! The monkey hitting Chang on the head over and over, Jeff trying to pull his hair down over his forehead, the tag at the end! My daughter and I cracked up over the Annie/Jeff montage, because she'd just showen me the vid (she's a Annie/Jeff shipper).
Niles is a human laugh-riot, Fred.
Okay, how come Britta kissed Troy last week if she was boinking Jeff the whole time? How am I supposed to reconcile my FEELINGS?
I also love that none of the clips were clips, and I love that they went completely insane with them.
I've now read the article. I can't take the author seriously when he says things like,
The greatest live-action sitcom of all-time, Seinfeld is essentially the reason Must See TV exists.
Really? Not Cosby? Or Cheers? They made NBC kings of Thursday nights. (I preferred Night Court, but I realize that's a minority view.)
Now, i think Night Court's better, but then I didn't.
This episode actually made me a bit sad that I never gave The Cape a chance. Oh, Abed.
Yes, The Cape bits were hilarious, especially "It might gain a second life on cable"
I don't even remember the set-up but one of my favorite TV moments ever involved Frasier walking in dressed in a Jesus constume and Niles shouting "Jesus!"
They made NBC kings of Thursday nights.
But I don't think they used the slogan "Must See TV" then.