no thread for tv's "night court"?!?!?!

burned into my memory are the tv ads for the TV film version of Elmore Leonard's novel "glitz", only because the ads featured markie post and the promises of more markie post than you've ever seen before. I never did see it unfortch.

http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/17/57/1757a45f0f1fee19a0041301cbc1ca5b.jpg?itok=oqvVH4rO

I remember the first dozen or so episodes of this show had a character played by another actress who was the court clerk and almost seemed to act as an audience surrogate into this crazy world of "the night court" but she made little impression and they cut her quickly.

they cut her quickly

Sadly, no one dreamed about her jugs.

Mac's cardigans
Yakov Smirnov
Harry's fedora
Roz's deadpan sass

Laroquette's double-breasted suits

A guy I went to middle/high school with was pen pals with Harry Anderson to the point where he was almost a substitute father.

My grandma had a crush on John Laroquette, so she would let me watch Night Court with her sometimes. I have zero recollection of any of the storylines or anything but I remember thinking it was the greatest show. I also was a big fan of Manimal and Buck Rodgers so my 8 yo opinion may not count for a lot.

I remember Ellen foley on this and when markie took over
Solid B sitcom that I barely remember

loved this show. and yeah this was part of this whole world of sitcoms (going back into the early '70s) which felt like they were populated with genuine weirdos, sometimes veering close to the type of character you might find in a Tom Waits song. Barney miller, all in the family, etc.

Laroquette's own show was a valiant attempt to try to maintain this tradition. He played an ex-alkie (His AA sponsor was David Crosby playing someone who wasn't David Crosby!) who managed a bus station populated with character actors: Chi McBride, Liz Torres, Elizabeth Berridge, Daryl "Chill" Mitchell, Gigi Rice. But then NBC retooled it...

Holy Crap, there's a bunch of full Larquette eps up on youtube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtL88PGVGv4

yeah it hasn't aged super well but i loved The John Larroquette Show at the time. i kinda feel like that, Roc, early Roseanne, etc. were kinda the last vestiges of the era of sitcoms that were about blue collar down on their luck types, before Friends came along.

one of my favorite Night Court episodes was the one where they were trying to save someone's property or something, but it was at the very end of a stack of cases and they had to hear it by midnight or the bank retained the property or some shit.

the scene with John Laroquette speed reading through the minutes in order to get through one of the cases faster is all-time hilarious.

delightful that Jaymc started a night court thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvqWA04wMo0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvqWA04wMo0

horrible quality but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6iTfWBy-sA

i kinda feel like that, Roc, early Roseanne, etc. were kinda the last vestiges of the era of sitcoms that were about blue collar down on their luck types, before Friends came along.

Yup. I'd also add Dear John, which taps into the formula of Taxi: Judd Hirsch as a sensible, somewhat disillusioned guy surrounded by lonely New York City eccentrics.

haha i watched every episode of Dear John too. i watched all these shows while visiting my recently divorced and bankrupted father, so the world of these kinds of shows felt a little familiar to me.

every time i see Jere Burns show up in stuff like Justified and Breaking Bad to this day i'm still like "hey it's dude from Dear John!"

Ha, me too.

the only episode of Dear John I remember is the one where Ricky Fortune was trying to resurrect his fledging musical career.

and that the song went "Ooooh-ooooh-ooooh...you know I love you".

and that Kirk came in and asked where he was at the end and asked "Where's Ricky" and John says "He's gone", and Kirk starts wailing "OH GOD, WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM", thinking he is dead, and John quietly saying "Kirk - he LEFT".

I loved john laroquette on this (and his later sitcom which was totally dark)

I feel like parts of my psyche were sculpted by my enjoyment of Laroquette's character at a young age

I have often wondered - are there actual cities with courts open at night? Cuz every time anybody I know has been arrested at night, they had to spend a night in jail and wait to be arraigned in the morning. And nobody serves on night jury...

Yeah, one time I got a ticket on the hiway loop that goes around Atlanta and coincidentally the area I was driving in had just become a city, and I ended up with two court dates for this one ticket, one in Atlanta and one in Dunwoody (or something simliar). It was for an expired tag and the Atlanta date was first so I went and showed that I had renewed the tag and they said ok you are free to go and you don't own any fees but OH you still have to go to that second court date. Second court date was held in an office building cos the city was so new they didn't have a court house and was at like 5pm. It took me 3 hours and I was the absolutely LAST person called and the judge took at a look at my paperwork and said oh yeah you can go, no fines, etc. Thanks a lot dudes.

I step outside and it is dark and I think "Oh, cool, I was at Night Court". And it was the only glimmer of goodness that came out of the whole ordeal.

They've cycled back to the first season on LAFF. Michael J. Fox & Olivia Barash play teenage shoplifters in the second ep!

We did a poll: NIGHT CORUT

This show was on when I was like 7 yrs old and I really have no distinct memory of it other than the theme song and "bald man funny"

caught a good one surfing around the other week. a lady's husband died, supposedly because of some special sex move she did. dan, of course, was DYING to experience this special move. finally, she invited him into the elevator to experience it for himself. he came out quite disheveled, let me tell you! but he survived.

if i had to venture a WILD guess, i'd say it involved pegging.

sounding imo

Why Not Both?

https://media2.giphy.com/media/26n6Wn0Qngsqwi1s4/giphy.gif

at work or i'd look up sounding. i'm just a bit naive i guess.

I am surprised I haven't posted I LOVED THIS SHOW SO MUCH on this thread before now

They just got into the first Ellen Foley ep today, which came after a one-off introducing Markie Post as Christine, who of course would return and replace Foley the next season.

It's kind of interesting that the recognized 'Classic Cast' wasn't cemented until the fourth season. Charles Robinson joined in the second, Post in the third, and Marsha Warfield came aboard in the fourth. Can't think of many other long-running shows you can say the same of.

So there's a reboot in the works with Laroquette, and the just-announced Melissa Rauch as Harry's judge daughter...

a whole lotta talent would need to come together to make a reboot more than a mediocre curiosity.

You may have missed it but “Laroquette” above is referring to John Laroquette, of Night Court fame…

The amount of talent you describe resides in his pinky finger.

Yep. For me, a reboot with Markie Post, Richard Moll, Roz and everyone still alive they could rope into but, no Laroquette? I'd probably pass, though honestly I'd check it out of morbid curiosity.

But a reboot with Laroquette as the only returning cast member? Good enough for me!

both OTM

Hope his son does a guest spot

John Larroquette is really good at playing a jerk, that was pretty much his thing.

They needed to make a movie with John Larroquette vs. Charles Grodin.

Would you believe that one of his post-Larroqutte Show gigs was in an American adaptation of Fawlty Towers w/JoBeth Williams & Julie Benz?

📺DEBUT: ‘Payne’ starring JoBeth Williams & John Larroquette premiered 20 years ago tonight, March 15, 1999, on CBS pic.twitter.com/UJwaXpYiBR

— RetroNewsNow (@RetroNewsNow) March 16, 2019

Was yesterday years old when I learned that Charlie Robinson was (A) from Houston, and (B) a member of (a possibly counterfeit version of) Archie Bell & The Dress.

DRELLS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xBq06udsNo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrPZFioRjn8

RIP Markie Post

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/markie-post-night-court-fall-guy-actor-dies-70-n1276299

https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/254785351242_/TV-Guide-Magazine-June-20-26-1987-Markie-Post.jpg

Rowr

It's Happening

https://deadline.com/2021/09/night-court-sequel-melissa-rauch-john-larroquette-series-order-nbc-1234843950/

i watched the first 2 eps of the reboot and i genuinely laughed at many lines, most of them Larroquette but still - it’s kinda charming somehow still so far

some nice nods to harry as well

RIP KING

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2d/cf/9a/2dcf9a310f1c98b784545344ef4b97d4.jpg

😭

NO I WONT ALLOW IT