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VanSandman posted:Does anyone know a good place (ha) to watch the first few episodes of Season 3? Hulu doesn't have them all and the wife and I are hooked. Yeah you have to use the nbc app or ![]()
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Jesus Becker is still that "new show ted danson did with the lady from DS9" in my mind.
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I never even heard of Becker till the last time it came up in this thread
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Regy Rusty posted:I never even heard of Becker till the last time it came up in this thread What?! It's Ted Danson's most famous role! (I think his role in the 3 Men and a Baby films are better remembered than Becker)
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Baronjutter posted:Jesus Becker is still that "new show ted danson did with the lady from DS9" in my mind. Holy poo poo Jadzia Dax was on Becker?
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PostNouveau posted:Holy poo poo Jadzia Dax was on Becker? Becker is the entire reason Ezri Dax exists.
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Ironically, didn't Farrell leave Becker a season or 2 in?
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Klungar posted:Becker is the entire reason Ezri Dax exists. Nah she got sexually harassed off the show unfortunately
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Regy Rusty posted:I never even heard of Becker till the last time it came up in this thread Same.
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Obligatory “We’re in the Bad Place!”![]()
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Gaz-L posted:Ironically, didn't Farrell leave Becker a season or 2 in? I think she was on all but 1-2 seasons of the show (though I was kinda surprised to find out it lasted six) but was written out pretty abruptly between seasons.
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VanSandman posted:Does anyone know a good place (ha) to watch the first few episodes of Season 3? Hulu doesn't have them all and the wife and I are hooked. I just checked and they're 2$ each for the SD version on Amazon. 3$ each for HD. I've been watching it on the On Demand Charter Spectrum app, but you need Charter TV for that.
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Davros1 posted:(I think his role in the 3 Men and a Baby films are better remembered than Becker) He played Gulliver in a halfway decent Gulliver's Travels adaptation.
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Someday someone is going to do that joke with Bored To Death or CSI and make the original tweeter feel as old as we do now. (Ted Danson, of course, being immortal.)
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Danson also spent his post-Becker career doing -Curb Your Enthusiasm recurring spots -Two seasons of Damages -Three seasons of Bored to Death -Like five seasons of various CSIs -The best season of Fargo All of which I would have put ahead of "Becker" on notoriety levels, but below Cheers.
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VanSandman posted:Does anyone know a good place (ha) to watch the first few episodes of Season 3? Hulu doesn't have them all and the wife and I are hooked. Soysaucebeast posted:I just checked and they're 2$ each for the SD version on Amazon. 3$ each for HD. I've been watching it on the On Demand Charter Spectrum app, but you need Charter TV for that. I use Amazon and episodes go up around midnight, iirc.
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Oh god, I completely forgot Danson did CSI.
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![]() Wow. What a great joke.
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Bored to death is imo dansons best performance up until Michael
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Tequila25 posted:Obligatory “We’re in the Bad Place!” That is so perfect.
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Davros1 posted:What?! It's Ted Danson's most famous role! Becker was barely on TV here, I'd absolutely say it's not. Hell I think Curb is what made him properly famous to me. It's also pretty funny that the country that actually broadcasts and makes the show is the one where it's hardest to watch. I guess the same goes for ST:Discovery though. Taear fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Jan 7, 2019 |
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Taear posted:Becker was barely on TV here, I'd absolutely say it's not. Whoosh
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Regy Rusty posted:Whoosh If it's meant to be a joke they're just repeating the one that started this? Which isn't funny.
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I doubt anyone remembers Danson's first post-Cheers sitcom, Ink, which aired on CBS for one season from 1996–1997 and costarred his wife, Mary Steenburgen. It aired after Cosby, the second Bill Cosby sitcom where he was married to Phylicia Rashad. Both shows were not good.
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ted danson was in this teen sex ed video with justine and justin bateman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62x54y7y54g&t=728s
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I've watched way more Becker than cheers.
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Becker had some good episodes. There's one where Reggie sets Jake up on a date, and it turns out it's with a blind woman, and Jake is peeved that just because he's blind Reggie assumed he would want to date other blind people - he wants to be with someone who can see, because being blind is stressful enough without having to look out for another blind person too. Plus, he asks her like, "would you have set up a seeing friend with a blind person without telling them she was blind?" and she's forced to admit she wouldn't have. That stuck with me. Some surprisingly complex takes in that show.
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yorkinshire posted:I've watched way more Becker than cheers. I'm sorry ![]()
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I tried watching Cheers once, watched the pilot and peaced out. I had heard that the show had a much different tone the first two (?) seasons, which gave me hope that it wasn’t another HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA sitcom. That hope was unfounded
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It's not often that a pilot episode is peak show.
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Watch the first Season Finale. It's fantastic. It's still an 80s sitcom, but it's a perfect example of early Cheers.
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Also they had a really neat Gay Panic episode which played on stereotypes without using them straight. It was basically Sam, Diane and the (suspected) gay customers vs everyone else's hysteria. It also had a great twist where the suspected gays were friends of Diane's and weren't actually gay - the actual gay customers were joining the rest of the bar's hysteria, a plot of Diane's (I think) to prove how bullshit the stereotypes are and get the patrons to chill the gently caress out before Sam threw them out.
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GreenNight posted:It's not often that a pilot episode is peak show. It may be a case of the Casablanca Effect, where the show was so groundbreaking that its influence has become entrenched in the fabric of those shows which have succeeded it, thus rendering it unremarkable to a new viewer. I’ll give it another try, sometime.
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LividLiquid posted:What am I missing here? The actress' name is Jameela Jamil. Her character's name is Tahani Al-Jamil. The name of the character's sister, who is a total spotlight hog and who people fawn over and ignore Tahani, is Kamilah Al-Jamil. Which of these is used in the chyron?
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pwn posted:It may be a case of the Casablanca Effect, where the show was so groundbreaking that its influence has become entrenched in the fabric of those shows which have succeeded it, thus rendering it unremarkable to a new viewer. This is like me and Seinfeld. I never watched it when it was first airing, and now going back while I can recognize that it must have been amazing for its time and had a lot of influence, I've seen other shows do the same things better now.
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Tequila25 posted:Obligatory “We’re in the Bad Place!” I wonder if it was a mistake or a prank. Either way this is amazing.
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1glitch0 posted:I wonder if it was a mistake or a prank. Either way this is amazing. No way it wasn’t a prank and it’s amazing.
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Cheers is legit a good show that starts fairly dece and gets even better, especially once one handsome and svelte psychologist with a velvety voice joins the cast Just keep in mind you’re never supposed to admire Sam
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# ? Apr 29, 2025 11:06 |
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The payoff to the longterm storyline of Sam trying to buy back the bar is still one of the most hilariously pathetic things I've ever seen ![]() https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWRxs1zvy2w
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