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Is Ted Chaough in it?

And so is born the most disturbing Mad Men meme of all.

Where's my money, mare!?

Caught Campion when it aired on Mystery! but the Last Detective was off my radar, I'll add it to the Davison list, thanks.

Meh?

Yeah, thing about Cheers… it went OFF the air 20 years ago. So pretty reasonable that a decent chunk of AVC readership, even having heard of it, has never actually seen an episode.

A - not Basil. Basil too maybe, but the show as a whole was my subject. B - "low payoff". A show can be some (maybe not all, particularly not tonedeaf) of those things and still funny. See 'Extras' or as Tunt says, the terrific Party Down. Fawlty's just not funny. Or when it is, it's often despite itself, as Cleese

I found A very Peculiar Practice not long ago searching for Peter Davison work I hadn't seen. It's often charming, but also damnably odd - I feel like it doesn't know what the hell kind of show it wants to be, but somehow benefits more than suffers from the lack of clear identity. Watchable if nothing else for

Hooray: Rubicon. I adored this weirdly personal take on conspiracy shows. Plus: MILES!
Boo: Fawlty Towers. A tonedeaf, offensive, hyper, over-loud low-payoff formulaic mess.
My addition, offered without comment: Lovejoy.

So, the Fellini Doctor. I like it.

Laurel: "I don't resent you, Ollie. Maybe I… resent myself".
Oliver: "You're staying with a man who doesn't love you."
Laurel: "I really don't want to talk about it."
*elevator dings*

Oh, Well.

moreso as she's given nothing to do

" a showbiz blog since before they had big colorful buttons everywhere"

Someone replied and it was deleted? Why, spoilers?

So who killed Laura Palmer?

Good point.

Me thought so also.

Nope. Nor Speed.

This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red…