TV (was RE: [CT] Armchair Physics)

[Dan Moran]

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Moran [mailto:Jimbo@QueenOfAngels.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 8:15 PM
> > To: continuing-time@ralf.org
> > Subject: RE: TV (was RE: [CT] Armchair Physics)
> >
> > Simply the greatest sitcom in the history of television. It made me
> > laugh so hard once I passed out. My wife and I just rewatched
> > the entire
> > thing on DVD (Christmas present for her) -- and EXPECTING the
> > scene that
> > made me pass out last time, I laughed so hard I got red spots in
front
> > of my eyes.
> 
> 
> You're talking about Natalie's cure for Dan's writer's block, I
presume?
> 
> One of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life.

No -- "swallow, Jeremy."

> I keep the boxed set setting right next to by DVD player, and cue up
> Episode 7 whenever I get depressed.  I agree with you.  Sports Night
is
> the best sitcom in the history of television.

Yep. I got suckerpunched by the episode where Jeremy finds out his Dad's
been having an affair for 20 years -- my dad had just passed as we were
watching that, and I couldn't finish that one. The loss Jeremy was
dealing with, the discovery that his happy family wasn't, was a little
too close to the loss I was dealing with at the time. It's not merely
funny, it's occasionally profound -- the bit where Natalie doesn't want
to turn over the tapes of the Madison Square Garden riot, and finding
out what's really behind that -- the kiss between Casey and Dana at the
start of Season 2, one of the most romantic things I've ever seen on
television -- the scene from Season One, where Dana tells Casey he's
"cracking her up," and he stands there looking sucker-punched -- man,
just brilliant. In that same episode Dan gets a date with the girl he's
been obsessing over --

Dan: "You know, sometimes it's worth it - taking all the pies in the
face. Sometimes you come through it feeling good."
Casey: "Yes."
Dan: "And how was your day?"
Casey: "Sometimes you just stand there, hip-deep in pie."

It's so perfect I'm almost not envious as a writer -- occasionally
envious, but mostly just blown away.

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