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** Pat Corley (Phil) died in 2006, so the relaunch has Tyne Daly as Phil's sister running the bar.
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** Pat Corley Creator/PatCorley (Phil) died in 2006, so the relaunch has Tyne Daly as Phil's sister running the bar.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** If any sitcom can be said to be an ''intentional'' period piece, it's the unabashedly topical ''Murphy Brown''. An early ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode poked fun at the show's tendencies by having its characters engage in a conversation where the ''only intelligible words'' are references to then-current events, all of which were hilariously dated ''in 2000'', less than ten years after the show's heyday.
** There's also the fact that the show's entire tone seemed geared to Baby Boomers. Alongside the Motown soundtrack and the heavy protest-era nostalgia, the Boomers Murphy and Frank come off a lot better than Jim (the senior anchor, who is an [[TheComicallySerious old fuddy-duddy]]) and Corky (the Gen-Xer, who starts off a [[BrainlessBeauty total moron]]).
** The revival takes place in 2018, with rapid-fire skewering of the presidency of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump (including Brown's BigNo reaction towards his election, the presidency's denial of climate change, and his use of social media to attack media personalities he doesn't agree with -- and that's just the first episode) and the modern state of cable news (with CNC and Wolf being parodies of CNN and Fox News Channel).
** If any sitcom can be said to be an ''intentional'' period piece, it's the unabashedly topical ''Murphy Brown''. An early ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode poked fun at the show's tendencies by having its characters engage in a conversation where the ''only intelligible words'' are references to then-current events, all of which were hilariously dated ''in 2000'', less than ten years after the show's heyday.
** There's also the fact that the show's entire tone seemed geared to Baby Boomers. Alongside the Motown soundtrack and the heavy protest-era nostalgia, the Boomers Murphy and Frank come off a lot better than Jim (the senior anchor, who is an [[TheComicallySerious old fuddy-duddy]]) and Corky (the Gen-Xer, who starts off a [[BrainlessBeauty total moron]]).
** The revival takes place in 2018, with rapid-fire skewering of the presidency of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump (including Brown's BigNo reaction towards his election, the presidency's denial of climate change, and his use of social media to attack media personalities he doesn't agree with -- and that's just the first episode) and the modern state of cable news (with CNC and Wolf being parodies of CNN and Fox News Channel).
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** Brilliantly played with when Murphy actually lands a hypercompetent secretary, named Carol, played by Marcia Wallace. For the entire episode, viewers assume this is a take on Wallace's character of Carol from ''Series/TheBobNewhartShow''...and then at the end of the episode, in walks Bob Hartley (Newhart) begging Carol to return as "the office is a mess without you!"
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* ActorAllusion: Four allusions in one. In one episode, Jim laments that television journalists are more interested in selling cold medicine, long distance telephone plans, television sets and satellite dishes than they are in reporting the news. At that time, those products were being endorsed in real life television commercials by Charles Kimbrough, Candace Bergen, Faith Ford and Joe Regabulto respectively.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Creator/TheBBC, not CBS. The series wasn't bought for showing on British terrestrial television until after the Dan Quayle affair, several years after it had started. [=BBC2=] then dumped it in the same early evening slot that played host to ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' and ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh'', and pulled it after the first eight episodes had been shown. (Reviewers making unflattering comparisons to ''Series/DropTheDeadDonkey'' didn't help... interestingly, [[AmericansHateTingle that series flopped when it was shown in America]].)
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Creator/TheBBC, not CBS. The series wasn't bought for showing on British terrestrial television until after the Dan Quayle affair, several years after it had started. [=BBC2=] then dumped it in the same early evening slot that played host to ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' and ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh'', and pulled it after the first eight episodes had been shown. (Reviewers making unflattering comparisons to ''Series/DropTheDeadDonkey'' British WorkCom ''Series/DropTheDeadDonkey'', which is set in a newsroom, didn't help... interestingly, [[AmericansHateTingle that series flopped when it was shown in America]].)
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** The revival takes place in 2018, with rapid-fire skewering of the presidency of Creator/DonaldTrump (including Brown's BigNo reaction towards his election, the presidency's denial of climate change, and his use of social media to attack media personalities he doesn't agree with -- and that's just the first episode) and the modern state of cable news (with CNC and Wolf being parodies of CNN and Fox News Channel).
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** The revival takes place in 2018, with rapid-fire skewering of the presidency of Creator/DonaldTrump UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump (including Brown's BigNo reaction towards his election, the presidency's denial of climate change, and his use of social media to attack media personalities he doesn't agree with -- and that's just the first episode) and the modern state of cable news (with CNC and Wolf being parodies of CNN and Fox News Channel).
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** When Murphy Brown became a single mother, Dan Quayle used her as a [[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975627,00.html condemnation of single parents]]. An entire episode addressed Quayle's attack (including the [[RippedFromTheHeadlines actual New York Daily News]] "[[http://www1.dailynewspix.com/sales/sales_image.php?name=50U0VKMT.jpg&id=155474&lb=10_390092&size=small QUAYLE TO MURPHY BROWN: YOU TRAMP!]]" headline), taking the angle that in the show's universe, Quayle was talking about "real" television journalist Murphy Brown, as opposed to Murphy Brown the fictional character. Followed by a TakeThat of Murphy Brown dumping potatoes on the White House lawn.
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** When Murphy Brown became a single mother, Dan Quayle used her as a [[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975627,00.html condemnation of single parents]]. An entire episode addressed Quayle's attack (including the [[RippedFromTheHeadlines actual New headline]] from the ''New York Daily News]] "[[http://www1.dailynewspix.com/sales/sales_image.php?name=50U0VKMT.jpg&id=155474&lb=10_390092&size=small News'', "[[https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/Q2EO7VWA4MI6RH2PUG326JK2UU.jpg QUAYLE TO MURPHY BROWN: YOU TRAMP!]]" headline), TRAMP!]]"), taking the angle that in the show's universe, Quayle was talking about the "real" television journalist Murphy Brown, as opposed to Murphy Brown the fictional character. Followed character, followed by a TakeThat of Murphy Brown dumping a truckload of potatoes on the White House lawn.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Oh, seasons 2 through 10, will you ever see the light of day on DVD?
** Highly unlikely, given the poor sales for the season 1 set and the high cost of licensing the vintage Motown music used on the show.
** Highly unlikely, given the poor sales for the season 1 set and the high cost of licensing the vintage Motown music used on the show.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Oh, Will seasons 2 through 10, will you 10 ever see the light of day on DVD?
**DVD? Highly unlikely, given the poor sales for the season 1 set and the high cost of licensing the vintage Motown music used on the show.
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