It's the answer to the question, "What taped at the Ed Sullivan Theater in between its namesake and Letterman?"

One of the pranks was a flyer under Joanna's windshield that read, "Who you gonna call? Dust Bunny Busters! We ain't afraid of no dust bunnies!" It doesn't get more mid-Eighties than that.

I wouldn't describe "Newhart" as that lineup's anchor. CBS successfully counter-programmed against Monday Night Football with women-led shows, including the two sitcoms you mentioned (later "Murphy Brown"), capped by "Cagney and Lacey."

She was also runner-up to play Diane Chambers. Like Fred Dryer, who nearly got to play Sam, Duffy was given a first-season guest shot as a consolation prize.

I don't think it's an accident that "Newhart" took off around the time David Mirkin got involved with the series and the show built up a reliable group of occasional characters from around the town. Larry and the Darryls are the best known, but Chester and Jim were my favorites. There were also Officer Shiflett,…

While the surprise ending has gotten all the attention for the last 25 years, I always loved how the finale modeled everyone's departure from the town after the ending of "Fiddler on the Roof."

In both "Big" and "A League of Their Own," I thought Penny Marshall doled out the perfectly-sized dosage of Jon Lovitz.

It got so ingrained in the culture, that it can be evocative even if you don't like the song. In addition to "Gilda Live," and the line from "The Jerk" mentioned above, it was also the song that newly-Big Tom Hanks sang to Mercedes Ruehl to prove that he was her son.

I know you're referencing Lisa Loopner, but PBS recently aired a very good documentary on Hamlisch, which shows a performance where explains how the melody came to him. It had extra meaning because his first real job was as a very young rehearsal pianist for a very young Babs when she was on Broadway in "Funny Girl."

For a lot of people, I think one the episodes that is most memorable years later is an "An Officer and a Gentleman." Roseanne is out of town for most of the episode and Jackie pulls things together in the house.

I think both of you hit it, and the Geller takedown is especially apt. Johnny started performing as a teenage magician. He wasn't good enough to expose Geller, but he was interested enough in his subject to find someone who was (James Randi), which led to a riveting TV moment.

That was around the same time but a different show. What was then known as the Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ used to play The Star Spangled Banner before every performance there.

One of the comedians mocked HBO's method of marketing these shows by joking, "My first HBO special was called 'Women of the Night.' Then, I was on 'One Night Stand.' Next, it will be 'Sluts Tell Jokes.' "

One of my favorite lines of all time—and delivered by "The Tooz!"

And then Grampa Al Lewis came in as the veteran security guard to replace him for the night…

There are so many great moments in that episode. I love where Elaine is pondering how to break the news to Iggy that she's dumping him for the fancy party. Alex is giving his typically sensitive answer while Louie says as it's going to break his heart either way, she might as well destroy him quickly and directly.

After seeing that episode, I thought "This guy is going to have a long career as a sitcom star." Guess it didn't work out.

My addition would the fourth-season episode “Bobby Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.”

I love how Louie flips from tailing Alex in a gleeful attempt to bust him, to aching for him when the young producers (David Paymer and Matthew Laurence) treat him like dirt.

That was part of the fourth-season ending "pickup" episode, "The Road Not Taken." To give the in-demand actors a couple extra weeks off, they ended the first four seasons with two-parters where each cabbie has his/her own little storyline apart from the others.
The first season was the aforementioned "Memories of Cab…