By the late 90s there was an understanding that everything he did was an elaborate ruse, and only humorless Christians took it seriously. It was perfect insulation, since you could point to any instance of self-awareness as the “real” person, and dismiss every instance of him being terrible as just the act. Since it…

I don’t think there’s much better to say than ‘what a piece of shit, I hope they put him away forever’

As I recall, Larroquette won the Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Emmy so many years in a role that he eventually took himself out of the running because it eventually became ridiculous.

I know this is like complaining about how Monica and Rachel afforded that huge Greenwich Village pad, or how Al Bundy’s shoe salesman job somehow afforded him a two-story, three-bedroom home in a decent neighborhood (they lived across the street from Marcy, who was shown to be very successful), but

Jackie as well. So they just had her sleeping different characters. Hyde, then Fez then back to Michael.

That wasn’t the end of the episode, it was just after his friend first showed up as a woman and Dan was being a dick. They got into a fight and Dan got the shit kicked out of him.

Eventually? I remember that as ending with him being left faceplanted into a salad bar by said friend precisely because he couldn’t!

Dan is kind of an 80s “greed is good” New York Republican and a sexist creep, but isn’t a part of the culture war lunacy that grew into the hot mess we have today.

Dan was creepy, but he also (eventually) accepted when his best friend came out to him as trans. So, still better than 90% of modern-day conservatives.

There’s a theory that as the average life expectancy rises in general people age slower (one reason why before the 20th Century there wasn’t really a teenage stage—and it wasn’t *just* because so many people had to start work young.) I mean even looking at my parents or grandparents high school year books compared to…

Well, Jupiter is a long way to travel back from.

Also better awareness of sun damage/better sunblock, I believe.

Night Court was actually pretty popular in syndication at one point - I used to watch an hour of it almost every night. But once the big 90's shows like Seinfeld, Friends, and The Simpsons hit syndication, it disappeared quickly.

People just looked older decades ago. Part of it is styles we associate with older people, and part of it is the prevalence of smoking. Part of it is the perceptions we had of peoples ages relative to our own when we first saw them.

Considering the first couple years of Night Court, it’s kind of amazing that the last two survivors are the bailiffs.

And he’s feeling much better now!

I know that we’ve reached a point for reboots/sequels/whatever get an immediate side eye (I’m talking to you, Pink Ladies). but Night Court is such a simple, evergreen premise. It lives or dies on the ensemble, of course, but the premise is so brilliantly simple. And as much as I love serialized storytelling, here’s…

“Sadly, much of the original cast has passed on”

So are we going to have Bob and June Wheeler make appearances?