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“Fifty dollars plus time served.”
Actually it was $55.00 and time served.
I think the show worked for a few reasons:
1) A great cast with great chemistry.
2) Witty, snappy writing.
3) Despite the humor and laughs, there was a lot of poignancy to the plots and characters. It was a very human show.
I so wanted to nail Markie Post back then…
I was named after her. >.<
Thanks SO much for that post! Best laugh I have had in about 3 weeks!
Gawd I MISS Night Court! The Lithuanians were always a RIOT!!! I am in tears watching the clip above… I guess Bret Spiner proved he could keep a straight face through ANYthing… good training for DATA.
Correction Yugoslavian couple… Bob and June WHeeler.
Yep, one of the best sitcoms of all time. Great writing, great cast (Has John Larroquette EVER been funnier?), great timing and great guest stars. Including Mel Torme.
They also need to get a lot more seasons of this show out (right now there are only two). I own all 7 seasons of the Golden Girls, but it’s play 8 hours a day on two networks! I’m lucky to see NC early on a Sunday morning.
My favorite recurring minor characters were Buddy (John Astin, as Judge Stone’s biological father; his mother had an affir with Buddy after they met in a psyche ward – presumably IN the psyche ward) and Yakov Smirnoff’s recurring Russian emigre. As for my favorite main character, I’ve always liked Bull, though Dan was a close second (especially the episodes where he pretty much got hit so hard by events, that his inner self came out, showing that he wasn’t quite the jerk that he put up as a facade).
What’s scary is that they filmed a pilot for a sequel of the old Syd & Marty Krofft characters Electro-Woman & Dyna-Girl, casting Markie Post as a somewhat bitter, divorced, Electro-Woman (the original Dyna-girl stole her husband)…
Would have been bizarre, to say the least, but I wonder what Markie would have looked like in Spandex….
My favorite was the turtle guy. I don’t remember his name, but the way he moved and talked was super slow and my brothers and I would just lose it when we watched that.
The whole show was hilarious. I wish there was more reruns shown now.
Brent Spiner? Um… That’s Harry Anderson.
Oh. Wait. I’m an idiot. Disregard.
Was that…Data?
me idiot too durrrrrrrrrrr
U.S. Army sadly states
Sometime yesterday
Captain Fielding’s plane went down
North of Hudson Bay
I used to watch this faithfully and never thought of who that character was played by, until my husband was watching the reruns recently, and said “Data was on Night Court, I swear!”. Thanks for the clip!
god-awful show, painfully bad writing, and an american 80’s sitcom success!!
Night Court was the winningest win ever!
Fond memories of watching this with my father when I was a kid. Awesome, funny show!
I had a huge little girl crush on Spiner, when I didn’t even know what a crush was. I didn’t understand the humour in the show at all but I’d watch it just because I liked his voice and his tall black robed ganglyness. And I think there were cartoons on after or before it.
I would totally buy DVDs of this show!
Harry Anderson not Bret Spiner – this show was hilarious