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Ted Levine was terrific and criminally overlooked as Stottlemyre.

The 1984-85 "ringer" year was SNL's best season after the 1975-80 golden era.

The best regular cast member in the history of the show—with Aykroyd, Hartman, Belushi and Gilda rounding out the Top 5.

Dan Lauria as Jack Arnold might be the more realistic and affecting portrait of a middle-class suburban father ever on TV. The older I get, the more I appreciate just how real his character was.

The first 2 seasons of Happy Days, when it was single-camera, really comprise an entirely different series than what it became after they started shooting in front of a live audience and turning the series over to Fonzie. The first 2 seasons hold up fairly well and have a low-key charm to them.

The NFL has always been inexplicably reluctant about allowing any old broadcasts to be shown in any form. If someone has 10 minutes of =an actual broadcast of a game from 1978, and they upload it to YouTube, the NFL Gestapo will jump into action and see to it that it's removed ASAP.

The original Bill Cosby Show, in which he played a gym teacher in L.A., is the oldest sitcom I can remember that had no laugh track. It aired from 1969-1971.

The 1984-85 "hired guns" season of SNL is probably the most cohesive and consistently entertaining after the first five seasons, but they're rarely seen because Lorne Michaels wasn't involved with the show that year.

If "The Chinese Restaurant" comes with a caveat that there is no Kramer, then it should be mentioned that "The Pen" excludes both Kramer AND George. It is nonetheless one of the great Seinfelds ever …penned.

Yes, and Plankton and Mr. Krabs are two of the greatest TV characters of all time, too. I'd have no problem with "Midlife Crustacean" appearing on this list.

Good call. I forgot about The Larry Sanders Show. Every bit as cutting, funny and well-observed as Curb Your Enthusiasm.

The Middle: "Foreign Exchange." Hilarious, and a perfect starter episode to familiarize the uninitiated with every character.

If I'm including a Simpsons on this list, it's "Radio Bart."

Other than the Festivus aspect of it (and Jerry Stiller stealing every scene he was in), the rest of that Seinfeld episode was pretty terrible.

Cheers ran until 1993, and "An Old-Fashioned Wedding," which aired in 1992, would fit very nicely on this list.

Yes, "The Limo." Definitely a unique and unappreciated Seinfeld episode from Season 3 (which, for my money, was the best Seinfield season).

"I threw up"
"It's a good thing the cleaning lady was there."

"The Outing" is, start to finish, the greatest Seinfeld episode, with apologies to "The Cheever Letters," "The Contest" and "The Boyfriend." Anything after 1994, and there is a serious drop-off in the week-to-week quality of Seinfeld.

No episodes of Cheers, Frasier or Everybody Loves Raymond? I guess those shows don't qualify because they don't have that hipster, single-camera, quick-cut, ironic quality that most of these episodes named possess.

There's nothing wrong with you: Season 1 is without a doubt the weakest
season of THE BOB NEWHART SHOW. It's bland and too soft around the
edges, and Emily is more of a meek, happy housewife than the acerbic,
tart-tongued foil she'd become. Season 2 is much better, and Seasons 4
and 5 better still.