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* AwardSnub: The show got a handful of UsefulNotes/EmmyAward nominations in its run (including Outstanding Comedy Series in its final three seasons) but never won any. Amazingly, despite the strong cast, only Howard Hesseman and Loni Anderson (both going 0 for 2 in the Supporting category) got acting nominations.
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* AwardSnub: The show got a handful of UsefulNotes/EmmyAward nominations in its run (including Outstanding Comedy Series in its final three seasons) but never only won any.a third season Emmy for Video Editing. Amazingly, despite the strong cast, only Howard Hesseman and Loni Anderson (both going 0 for 2 in the Supporting category) got acting nominations.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Original broadcasts would play honest-to-God rock and popular music. The show would use songs with meaningful lyrics to underscore the plots of each episode. Of course, [[ExecutiveMeddling most rebroadcasts or home video releases]] [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks won't have the same songs]]... though as of 2016 Creator/AntennaTV is rerunning the episodes ''with the songs.'' They showed "Turkeys Away" with full Pink Floyd scene restored, and it was glorious.
-->'''Carlson:''' Do I hear dogs barking on that thing?
-->'''Johnny:''' ''I'' do.
-->'''Carlson:''' Do I hear dogs barking on that thing?
-->'''Johnny:''' ''I'' do.
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** Original broadcasts would play honest-to-God rock and popular music. The show would use songs with meaningful lyrics to underscore the plots of each episode. Of course, [[ExecutiveMeddling most rebroadcasts or home video releases]] [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks won't have the same songs]]... though as of 2016 Creator/AntennaTV is rerunning the episodes ''with the songs.'' They showed "Turkeys Away" with full Pink Floyd scene restored, and it was glorious.
-->'''Carlson:''' --->'''Carlson:''' Do I hear dogs barking on that thing?
-->'''Johnny:''' --->'''Johnny:''' ''I'' do.
** Original broadcasts would play honest-to-God rock and popular music. The show would use songs with meaningful lyrics to underscore the plots of each episode. Of course, [[ExecutiveMeddling most rebroadcasts or home video releases]] [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks won't have the same songs]]... though as of 2016 Creator/AntennaTV is rerunning the episodes ''with the songs.'' They showed "Turkeys Away" with full Pink Floyd scene restored, and it was glorious.
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: The famous turkey drop scene. Dropping a live turkey from a helicopter to its death: unforgivable. Dropping dozens if not hundreds of turkeys from a helicopter onto the streets causing thousands of dollars worth of damages, the streets to be littered with turkey carcasses, and patrons running for safety because the idea man forgot turkeys are flightless birds: absolute gut buster.
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** The famous turkey drop scene. Dropping a live turkey from a helicopter to its death: unforgivable. Dropping dozens if not hundreds of turkeys from a helicopter onto the streets causing thousands of dollars worth of damages, the streets to be littered with turkey carcasses, and patrons running for safety because the idea man forgot turkeys are flightless birds: absolute gutbuster.buster.
** Les's occasional uninformed and outdated comments regarding blacks towards Venus, including repeatedly referring to him as a Negro. In any other context and from anyone else, it would be racist and awful. From Les, who always treats Venus as an equal, genuinely thinks he's being friendly and supportive, and is shown repeatedly to be incredibly naive and innocent? Combined with Venus's bewildered reactions, they become outright hilarious.
** The famous turkey drop scene. Dropping a live turkey from a helicopter to its death: unforgivable. Dropping dozens if not hundreds of turkeys from a helicopter onto the streets causing thousands of dollars worth of damages, the streets to be littered with turkey carcasses, and patrons running for safety because the idea man forgot turkeys are flightless birds: absolute gut
** Les's occasional uninformed and outdated comments regarding blacks towards Venus, including repeatedly referring to him as a Negro. In any other context and from anyone else, it would be racist and awful. From Les, who always treats Venus as an equal, genuinely thinks he's being friendly and supportive, and is shown repeatedly to be incredibly naive and innocent? Combined with Venus's bewildered reactions, they become outright hilarious.
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: The famous turkey drop scene. Dropping a live turkey from a helicopter to its death: unforgivable. Dropping dozens if not hundreds of turkeys from a helicopter onto the streets causing thousands of dollars worth of damages, the streets to be littered with turkey carcasses, and patrons running for safety because the idea man forgot turkeys are flightless birds: absolute gut buster.
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** Essentially the entire plot of ''Rumors''. Bailey allows Johnny to stay at her place while his is fumigated (after literally everyone else turned him down). The rest of the episode involves the staff either being shocked that Bailey would allow a man to stay with her or certain that the reason for her doing so must be lewd. These days, such an arrangement would hardly warrant mention in an office, even if (or especially if) the arrangement was permanent. Few people would bother making assumptions, and most would consider it none of their business anyway. And yet Bailey becomes the talk of the office for letting him use the couch.
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** Tim Reid (Gordon "Venus Flytrap" Sims) is also best known for playing Lt. Marcel "Downtown" Brown on ''Series/SimonAndSimon'', Mike Hanlon in the ''Literature/{{It}}'' miniseries, and Ray Campbell on ''Series/SisterSister''.
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** Tim Reid (Gordon "Venus Flytrap" Sims) is also best known for playing Lt. Marcel "Downtown" Brown on ''Series/SimonAndSimon'', Frank Parrish in ''Frank's Place'', Mike Hanlon in the ''Literature/{{It}}'' miniseries, and Ray Campbell on ''Series/SisterSister''.
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** The closing credits song, a hard rock number composed and performed by Jim Ellis, an Atlanta musician who recorded some of the incidental music for the show. According to people who attended the recording sessions, Ellis didn't yet have lyrics for the closing theme, so he sang nonsense words to give an idea of how it would sound. Hugh Wilson, however, decided to use the words anyway, since he felt that it would be funny to use lyrics that were deliberately gibberish, as a satire on the incomprehensibility of many rock songs. Also, because CBS always had an announcer talking over the closing credits, and they would often mute the closing theme during said closing announcement, Wilson knew that no one would actually hear the closing theme lyrics anyway.
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** The closing credits song, a hard rock number composed and performed by Jim Ellis, an Atlanta musician who recorded some of the incidental music for the show. According to people who attended the recording sessions, Ellis didn't yet have lyrics for the closing theme, so he sang nonsense words to give an idea of how it would sound. Hugh Wilson, however, decided to use the words anyway, since he felt that it would be funny to use lyrics that were deliberately gibberish, as a satire on the incomprehensibility of many rock songs. Also, Wilson noted that because CBS always had an announcer talking over the closing credits, and they would often mute fade the closing theme during said closing announcement, Wilson knew that no one would actually music down, most people couldn't hear the closing theme lyrics anyway.
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** Howard Hesseman (Dr. Johnny Fever) is also best known for playing Charlie Moore on ''Series/HeadOfTheClass''.
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** Howard Hesseman (Dr. Creator/HowardHesseman as Dr. Johnny Fever) is also best known for playing Charlie Moore on ''Series/HeadOfTheClass''.Fever.
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* FanPreferredCutContent: "Another Merry Mix-Up" and "Jennifer's Wedding", the two episodes that were never filmed due to ExecutiveMeddling, have defenders who think that the early script drafts had some good jokes and that the episodes would have made plot twists in subsquent episodes come across more believably.
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* FanPreferredCutContent: "Another Merry Mix-Up" and "Jennifer's Wedding", the two episodes that were never filmed due to ExecutiveMeddling, have defenders who think that the early script drafts had some good jokes and that the episodes would have made plot twists in subsquent subsequent episodes come across more believably.
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* OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight: Hugh Wilson was not involved in ''The New WKRP'', which was widely looked down upon in comparison (Bill Dial, the writer of "Turkeys Away", was that program's showrunner, and the final product is seen as an extension of that episode).
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* FanPreferredCutContent: "Another Merry Mix-Up" and "Jennifer's Wedding", the two episodes that were never filmed due to ExecutiveMeddling, have defenders who think that the early script drafts had some good jokes and that the episodes would have made plot twists in subsquent episodes come across more believably.
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*** Similarly, Les' insistence on referring to Venus and other black characters as "negroes" even after Venus corrects him would probably result in some kind of discrimination suit.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In "Bailey's Show", Johnny is standing in the booth with his whole head buried in a bucket that he's sifting around in. He and Bailey and Travis have a whole conversation with him returning every now and then to his bucket. Before they leave, he asks "Hey, can either of you explain this?" and he dumps a bunch of toy tiki boats on the floor. Bailey and Andy leave without comment and the moment is never brought up again.
** A result of the show being edited for syndication. In the uncut broadcast version, the origin of the bucket and the tiki toys is explained.
** A result of the show being edited for syndication. In the uncut broadcast version, the origin of the bucket and the tiki toys is explained.
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-->'''Carlson:''' Do I hear dogs?!dogs barking on that thing?
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** Max Wright was half a decade away from his breakout role as Willie Tanner on ''Series/{{ALF}},'' when he showed up on this show, in a couple of episodes, as Mr. Carlson's lawyer.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Series/NewsRadio''.
** The show itself was also considered a SpiritualSuccessor to MTM's ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow''; Grant Tinker called it "a radio station cousin to Mary's show," and critic Tom Shales called Gary Sandy "Gary Tyler Moore". The Magazine/{{MAD}} parody ''WKRAP in Cincinati'' even ends with Mama Carlson firing all the station employees (including her son) and replacing them with the recently fired WJM staff.
** The show itself was also considered a SpiritualSuccessor to MTM's ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow''; Grant Tinker called it "a radio station cousin to Mary's show," and critic Tom Shales called Gary Sandy "Gary Tyler Moore". The Magazine/{{MAD}} parody ''WKRAP in Cincinati'' even ends with Mama Carlson firing all the station employees (including her son) and replacing them with the recently fired WJM staff.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the first few episodes, the theme tune was preceded by a fake news bulletin, where an announcer says, "...but the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity." Weirdly, many years later Jan Smithers (Bailey) would get into a traffic accident while inexplicably -- allegedly -- driving in the nude.
** Johnny's rant about the "phone cops" is a comedy classic, but the subtext--that "the phone company knows everything you do" is a lot less funny in light of the [[http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/07/nsa-phone-records-program-illegal-court NSA's mass phone surveillance]] scandal.
** Johnny's rant about the "phone cops" is a comedy classic, but the subtext--that "the phone company knows everything you do" is a lot less funny in light of the [[http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/07/nsa-phone-records-program-illegal-court NSA's mass phone surveillance]] scandal.
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* HarsherInHindsight: In the first few episodes, the theme tune was preceded by a fake news bulletin, where an announcer says, "...but the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity." Weirdly, many years later Jan Smithers (Bailey) would get into a traffic accident while inexplicably -- allegedly -- driving in the nude.
** Johnny's rant about the "phone cops" is a comedy classic, but the subtext--that "the phone company knows everything you do" is a lot less funny in light of the [[http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/07/nsa-phone-records-program-illegal-court NSA's mass phone surveillance]] scandal.
** Johnny's rant about the "phone cops" is a comedy classic, but the subtext--that "the phone company knows everything you do" is a lot less funny in light of the [[http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/07/nsa-phone-records-program-illegal-court NSA's mass phone surveillance]] scandal.
