February 2012
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GET SMART – “The Groovy Guru”
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SHOW: Get Smart EPISODE: “The Groovy Guru” FIRST AIRED: Jan. 13, 1968
The opening scene of “The Groovy Guru” finds our hero Maxwell Smart sporting an unfortunate mushroom coif and color-clashed getup that makes him look like a Monkee caught in a thrift store explosion. He meets up with an agent undercover as a hippie...
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THE WONDER YEARS – “Math Class” / “Goodbye”
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SHOW: The Wonder Years EPISODES: “Math Class”/”Goodbye” FIRST AIRED: Oct. 10, 1989/Apr. 24, 1990
Broken into its Greek roots, “nostalgia” literally means “the ache of coming home.” It’s no great mystery, then, that the word comes to mind for virtually anyone who ponders The Wonder Years, a show that, technically...
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THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW – “Coast-to-Coast Big...
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SHOW: The Dick Van Dyke Show EPISODE: “Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth” FIRST AIRED: Sept. 15, 1965
Most enduring sitcoms stick in our collective consciousness because their central concepts play on some sort of universal yearning. The king and queen of social issue comedy, All in the Family and Roseanne, reigned due to...
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FRIENDS – “The One with Five Steaks and an...
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SHOW: Friends EPISODE: “The One with Five Steaks and an Eggplant” FIRST AIRED: Oct. 19, 1995
Friends fans are legion and vocal, eager to belt the words to “Smelly Cat” or see if they can still name the Chandler Bing misnomer on his TV Guide subscription. But for every fan, it seems there’s someone in the vicinity just as...
