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my favorite 1990s episodic TV thing is when a guest character would be introduced after like 6 seasons as a main character’s best and most important friend, but we never saw them before and would never hear from them again after they were killed or kidnapped or arrested or w/e
Walker Texas Ranger did this all the time. It would be like Walker’s god son Carlos who Walker helped raise from birth and you’d be like, ‘wait, who?’ He’d be attacked by a gang and be in the hospital and Walker would swear revenge for this random kid we’d never seen before
TV got too serious and mature. No more throw away episodes or contrived characters From Out of Town. There was a whole Fraiser episode where they founded a restaurant, designed it, made a menu, opened it and it tanked in like 15 mins of screen time. This would never happen today
Make 👏 TV 👏 dumb 👏 again 👏
Many #onhere have lamented how Prestige TV killed the dumb throw away episode, typically a genre piece that would either be a ton of fun or a total bomb, but it was a risk. Anyway Jennifer Anniston is wrong, it’s not PC sensibilities that ruined TV it’s that everyone is Too Smart
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