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Wad VanDerTurf
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"I've got so many lawyers lined up to see me you'd think I had tobacco leaking out of my breast implants." Ah, the 90s.

*gives disturbed look, backs away into office*

I remember for a long time thinking Dave's "only if you dyed all your hair to match!" couldn't have been referring to pubic hair, because, come on, no network sitcom in the 90s is getting away with that.

I just watched that again last night. It's great because Lisa's trying to talk to Dave, and you can see him listening, then checking out as Arnold comes on the screen behind her.

So Lisa Miller what did you want to say at this meeting in the office in which you and I work in today.

It's also the way he grabs Lisa's arm and waves it around like it's Snuffleupagus' trunk.

"They asked, 'What kind of jackass hires a discount butler out of the local penny-saver?"

"THAT was your plan?!"
"I panicked!"

Well, Greendale's study group is seven. It's eight if you add the Dean but then you probably have to add Chang too. NewsRadio's core cast was eight.

What really makes it work for me is not only the sincerity with which Jimmy delivers that speech, but how he IMMEDIATELY flips back into businessman mode after it's done. Brilliant and hilarious to leave that window of doubt open, and I'm not sure who could have pulled off that turning on a dime as well as Stephen

Seinfeld was great and obviously so, but NewsRadio was just so perfectly executed. That cast was ridiculously talented— I don't know that there's ever been another ensemble like it (maybe Arrested Development— I can't really speak for far back in history).

Only if he dyed all his hair to match…

NBC Thursdays
Friends, Seinfeld, and two shitcoms

"I'm Bill McNeal. On crack. I like boys."
"Destroy that right now."

NewsRadio won an Emmy for costuming for the Titanic episode. It's the only Emmy of any sort the show ever won.

Don't care, my friend!

Great, now I'm picturing Todd and Libby on their laptops frantically racing against one another to turn in their copy first.

Hey, I just realized Saturday was the 20th Anniversary of NewsRadio's premiere!

Here you g—no!

It is Peggy? I thought it was Bobby. I love that line, though.