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The Rise and Fall of Dr. Frasier Crane

by | March 1st, 2013

Six months ago, I was living in Boston.  My wife had left me, which was very painful.  Then she came back to me, which was excruciating.  On top of that, my practice had grown stagnant, and my social life consisted of…hanging around a bar night after night.  You see, I was clinging to a life that wasn't working anymore, and I knew I had to do something, anything.  So, I ended the marriage once and for all, packed up my things, and moved back here to my hometown of Seattle.  Go Seahawks! [laughs] I took action, Russell.  And you can, too.  Move, change, do something; if it's a mistake, [...]

Best Sitcom Episode Tournament

Friends vs. Frasier and The Dick Van Dyke Show vs. Get Smart

by | February 1st, 2012

The Best Sitcom Episode Ever Tournament is pitting 32 of the greatest episodes of funny TV shows ever produced against each other in a single-elimination winner-takes-all (well, takes-nothing) competition. Every day, we're putting up episodes for you, our loyal readers, to vote on. Today: Friends vs. Frasier and The Dick Van Dyke Show vs. Get Smart.

Friends — "The One With the Embryos," January 15, 1998 The One With the Embryos has a simple plot: a competition between the guys (Joey and Chandler) and girls (Monica and Rachel) to see which side knows the other better. The jokes are plentiful and soundly funny, because they all stem directly from [...]

Tributes

Remembering David Angell

by | September 9th, 2011

During my basement era — those years from age 8 to 17, 1990 to 1999 — I watched constant comedy. I memorized NBC's jingles (“If you want to be happy on Tuesday night, Wings'll raise your spirits with a brand new flight”), and called my off-at-college brother after episodes of Seinfeld to do post-mortems of Nothing.  At that point my critical capacity only allowed me comments like, “Another thing that was really funny was when George screamed 'Seven.'  Wasn't that funny?” I still needed him to tell me for sure.

By the time I was 14, television producers and writers had become my heroes. They were like baseball players [...]

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