Don't cry, Ma…. (crunch, crunch, crunch)

I knew it was coming, just couldn't fathom it.  That speech?  THAT SPEECH????

Have you tried the invisible other hand?

I've never smelled a burning DVD.  I expect a full report.

Louis Prima coming for dinner?

English please….

Well, Tim's neighbor was 'mostly' visible.  Carlton sounded like Garfield, and I'm 100% behind you on the co-win.  Oh, wait, Deep Throat from the parking garage…. Fuck!

Maris has it all over Vera.  You never saw a 'Vera' dog, did you?

Ummm…. wrong thread.

She's Manchurian? 

Not sure what you mean by 'sitcomiest' (more akin to theater for me), but I agree.  It's never been done as well, before or since.

The character of Roz is the only part that was auditioned.  Everyone else got an automatic green light from the network.  Gilpin beat out a TON of others to land the role.  Needless to say, she was magnificent.  I'd love to see her again in anything.

Yeah, part of the whole thing was we're ALL jerks at one time or another.

Strangely enough for me, it cut right to the bone.  Not strangely, really, but who expects an American sitcom to tell you what you've been avoiding forever.  Definitely the most poignant episode for me.  Completely transcended television territory..  It's hard to believe that a room full of network television comedy…

I made the same point earlier.  The thing that surprises me most is that it ended up on TV, and was watched.  Brilliant theatre!

Ummmm……. wrong.

I had to cover my eyes watching  'I Love Lucy'.

…and who's this little fella?
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Everyone looks at each other……

This show is perhaps one of the greatest melds of highbrow / lowbrow comedy ever, outside of that English guy from Elizabethan times.  How's that for effusive praise?  I mean, when developing the foil for Frasier, who comes up with Frasier…. just more so… for the Niles character?  So much French farce, British style…

Do they still have Takee-Outees?  They were these weird little booths in the French Quarter that sold 16 ounce beers in a plastic cup for a buck. They had offensive little signs above them that showed a stereotypical Chinese guy, complete with a queue and pillbox hat.  They must have had some strange symbiotic…