Damage ContrLOLz

slap bass and soprano sax and woodblock make 40-second stand against deep Thursday late-nite despair feelings (similar to Sunday Feelings)
impenetrable-by-jokes darkness and clothing
endless steamy manhole covers, it's 3 a.m. everywhere forever
lift the manhole cover, there's a framed, signed portrait of mel torme down there

The Night Court, Damage Control

oh man, that's beautiful

I have to watch the intro again, but I swear that on one of the freeze-frames during the cast listing, you could see the VCR tracking off a little bit at the bottom.

also andrew, we should have a whole thread of those, related just to tv intros.

Not to cheapen that poetry, or anything.

z s, mh: you need to become a UYD listener

2006 4 Life: The Uhh Yeah Dude thread

andrew m i feel like i'm a little lost here but that was p beautiful

"steamy manhole"

It's a show I associate strongly with mid-80s me who was feeling certain ways but didn't yet know it was called depression. And the time of night and the look and feel of it all just fits right in there with all that. How did I watch so many episodes? Probably hundreds. Or 50 of them several times each. And how many times did I laugh? Probably not that much. And yet you continue watching. There were probably some good gags when they'd have the parade of then-current standup comics and character actors come in for a minute for the obligatory courtroom hearing.

How did I watch so many episodes? Probably hundreds. Or 50 of them several times each. And how many times did I laugh? Probably not that much. And yet you continue watching

this applies to me and:

night court
facts of life
small wonder
growing pains
step by step
perfect strangers
empty nest

lots of others. crazy.

I've talked before about how there were jokes made on Golden Girls that I didn't get until years and years later.

Same goes for Night Court. Once they gave Dan an erotic birthday cake and in a following scene, he comes out of the kitchen with the frosting all over his face. At the time, I laughed because, boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! It wasn't until, I don't know, 1993 or something, I'm walking past Brady Commons on the way to a Psych class when all of a sudden it hits me, "OHHH, IT WAS A CUNNILINGUS JOKE."

Re opening themes, I'm a big fan of youtube user bobcnn2 (formerly bobtwcatlanta who was terminated for infringement complaints). I may have shared a link before on some thread, actually. He's painstakingly compiled them by year. Like "1985 TV Show Openings Part 2" and on and on. All the big shows are there, of course, but then you'll come across some little show that maybe lasted a season, and maybe it triggers something weird in you. Good stuff. Also what's weird watching these is how damn long some of those old intros were. Many were a full minute and a half.

There were so many interstate Big Green Signs in those old intros. The 35W passing over Mary Tyler Moore's face. Indianapolis' on One Day at a Time. Seems like "Alice" had one.

I guess any show where a woman is pushing the metal to escape her tainted past, there were signs to warn us all where she was going.

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhi5fegaWQ1qb8xtno1_400.jpg

sort of looks like dr3w

I love the Night Court theme, and the way they'd always stage a big laugh line right before it started. Rest of the show is pretty drab.

That bailiff before Bull was totally smoking.

http://legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/selmadiamond.jpg

pplains OTM

i also have the theme song stuck in my head right now

oh man the guy who did the night court theme also did charlie's angels, mad props

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0254477/

Night Court was one of those shows I watched as a little kid where I'm pretty sure I had virtually no idea what was going on. Same with Cheers.

frasier was that show for me

can't remember if I would catch frasier after the simpsons or home improvement, but jeez!

think I started 'getting' seinfeld in high school

guys none of this is very funny

No. No it's not.

neither was Frasier.

suddenly feeling really old compared to dayo

I SWEAR I just happened upon this almost completely by accident and not because it was discussed earlier.

Markie

http://www.uidaho.edu/%7Erjklimko/mpf/pics/sf1.jpg

Wow.

How there's not a Night Court MIDI playing over that is beyond me.

http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~rjklimko/mpf/pics/10-27-1.jpg

biennial reminder of how much we miss Robb's Celebrities UK

http://www.uidaho.edu/~rjklimko/mpf/pics/electra.jpg

uidaho.edu!

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The prints he mailed for her to sign got chewed up by Markie's dog, as you can see by the damage! According to her personal assistant, Raquel Alvarez. Hahaha

never forget

http://badblue.com/temp/071020-lincoln-bedroom.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L6pDyjqqsvY/RxuBm99aALI/AAAAAAAAIYs/XMbHcVwbuEw/s400/clinton%2Blincoln%2Bbedroom%2Bguests.jpg

Is Markie the type of woman who would, in an effort to conceal her slothful nature from her best fan, have her personal assistant, Rachel Alvarez, CHEW up a letter and blame the dog?

She most certainly is not

http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k497/animalsbeingdicks/abd-236.gif

bet that wasn't the first time.

"What's Bandit doing, daddy?"
"Oh he's just trying to help daddy back up onto the old trampolin-o, son"

"For Sale: Pitner FX-6"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTAf_OkXATI&feature=relmfu

oh god gr80 that is my new favourite .gif of all time. wow.

thx andrew, the other videos on that channel are totally awesome as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh_nZiuFC4o

wait til 0:55 for the goods

damn man designer drugs are weird
i would totally buy my kid weed on the street rather than let them fuck around with online chemistry set shit

the choice every parent must make

"whats your name?"
"ayuuyonoahaooaoaahahahahaa"

http://i.imgur.com/ttFw6.png