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* Johnny, who was fired from another radio station for saying "booger" on the air, gets one in the first episode when he's told he no longer has to follow the "beautiful music" format, and "you can say booger if you want to." In response, he develops the personality of "Dr. Johnny Fever" on the spot, and interrupts the rock song he just started playing with "And I almost forgot, fellow babies...''BOOGERRRRRRRR''!"

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* One of the all-time great {{Establishing Character Moment}}s in sitcom history comes right in the first episode. Johnny, who was fired from another radio station for saying "booger" on the air, gets one in the first episode a new lease on life when he's told Andy tells him he no longer has to follow the "beautiful music" format, and "you can say booger if you want to." In response, With a menacing grin, he tears a record right off the player, puts on a rock & roll record, and then takes the mic and develops the personality of "Dr. Johnny Fever" on the spot, spot.
-->'''Johnny:''' All right, Cincinnati, it's time for this town to get ''down!!!'' You got Johnny..... ''Dr. Johnny Fever,''
and I am burning up in here, ''wooo!'' We ''all'' in critical condition, babies, but you tell me where it hurts, 'cause I got the healing prescription here from the big KRP musical medicine cabinet! Now I am talkin' about your 50,000 watt intensive care unit, babies! So just sit right down, relax, open your ears real wide, and say '''"give it to me straight, Doctor, I can take it!!!"'''
** And just as the icing on the cake, he
interrupts the rock song he just started playing with "And this:
--->'''Johnny:''' And
I almost forgot, fellow babies...''BOOGERRRRRRRR''!" babies... ''BOOGERRRRRRRR''!!!



* ''Herb'' of all people gets one in "Pills," where after unwittingly getting the station to advertise a man selling legalized amphetamines disguised as "diet pills," he decides to take responsibility for the whole mess by personally reading on the air a breaking news story of a boy who had died of an overdose.

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* ''Herb'' of all people Herb gets one in "Pills," where after unwittingly getting the station to advertise a man selling legalized amphetamines disguised as "diet pills," he decides to take responsibility for the whole mess by personally reading on the air a breaking news story of a boy who had died of an overdose.
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* One of Herb's defining moments is in season 3's "A Mile In My Shoes." When Herb's doing jury duty, Andy fills in on sales, and as he keeps hounding a local car salesman to pay his debt for advertising -- and failing -- it soon becomes apparent that he just isn't the smooth-talker required to deal with Cincinnati's hucksters. As soon as Herb finds out what happened, Herb smirks, picks up the phone, calls the car salesman, and with a little charm and a thick layer of bullshit, he gets the debt settled in a minute flat. Herb may be a sleazebag, but ''this'' is why the station needs him.
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* With his quiet, folksy personality intact and armed only with the lyrics to John Lennon's "Imagine", Arthur Carlson, generally known for being spineless, managed to reveal the hypocrisy of Richard Paul's anti-rock televangelist. Dr. Bob, a Jerry Falwell clone, was trying to strong-arm the station into banning songs that were on his religious-right organization's blacklist. He seems to object mostly to the obscene or sexual content. Dr. Bob boasted that his organization was made of millions of people who could boycott the station, and stated that the list was created by a group of religious leaders, not just by himself, and that those leaders speak for thousands of offended listeners. Arthur Carlson gets him to read the lyrics to John Lennon's "Imagine," asking if it would be added to the Blacklist or not.

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* With his quiet, folksy personality intact and armed only with the lyrics to John Lennon's "Imagine", Arthur Carlson, generally known for being spineless, managed to reveal the hypocrisy of Richard Paul's anti-rock televangelist. Dr. Bob, Bob Halyers, a Jerry Falwell clone, was trying to strong-arm the station into banning songs that were on his religious-right organization's blacklist. He seems to object mostly to the obscene or sexual content. Dr. Bob boasted that his organization was made of millions of people who could boycott the station, and stated that the list was created by a group of religious leaders, not just by himself, and that those leaders speak for thousands of offended listeners. Arthur Carlson gets him to read the lyrics to John Lennon's "Imagine," asking if it would be added to the Blacklist or not.
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** This troper ''still'' thinks of the atom the way Venus taught it.

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