History YMMV / NightCourt

* {{Tearjerker}}: Quite a few, the first episode after Selma Diamond's death has an especially poignant one.

--->"Believe me, in 20 minutes, I spent my time in Hell. It was a courtroom like this, and he sat right there. You would've thought he could've blinked or... something. He could've reached out and slapped me, or yelled at me, or beat me, but... dammit, he just sat there and looked at me. And then when it was all over, all he said was, 'You disappointed me, Harold.' When a boy loves his father, you would rather get knocked across the head with a two-by-four than hear that kind of stuff. Anyway, not too long after that, he just... sort of... died. It always kind of bugged me, y'know? That he never found out. That... ''(tugs on his robe)'' that I hadn't made a habit out of stealing cars."

* TheScrappy: Leon is not liked by fans at all.

** This Troper put this CMOA in the YMMV page because not everybody likes Dan.

---> '''Judge Drayton:''' There was once this girl who came through my courtroom, carrying a baby. Beautiful girl, seventeen or eighteen. Long, dark hair, dark complexion... and a big black eye where her husband had hit her. She asked me to make him stop. I said, fine, I'll send him to jail. I gave him two years...then she changed her testimony, she said she was lying! She didn't want her husband to go to jail! He was a good provider, he brought home money so the family could eat! All she wanted, was ''for him to stop hitting her!'' And...and I couldn't make him stop! In twenty-five years, I couldn't make ''anybody'' stop!

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: One episode had an actor who played a [[Franchise/TheLoneRanger Lone Ranger]]-esque character who was upset about a new, grittier movie that went completely against what his show/movies were about. He threatened to kill himself with a suspended air conditioner. In the end, it all worked out because the movie bombed with audiences, so the old guy wins a moral victory. In 2013, a DarkerAndEdgier [[Film/TheLoneRanger film adaptation]] of ''The Lone Ranger'' was made by Disney, and is on track to becoming one of the biggest {{Box Office Bomb}}s of all time.

--> '''Dan:''' You hate me. You all hate me. Everybody hates me! For the first time in my life, I'm taking advantage of being '''[[[=Jerkass=]] me]]'''.

--> '''Dan:''' You hate me. You all hate me. Everybody hates me! For the first time in my life, I'm taking advantage of being '''[[JerkAss me]]'''.

* EpilepticTrees: One popular theory among fans of ''Night Court'' and ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' is that Harry Stone is an alias for con-man Harry The Hat and the reason for the latter character disappearing from Boston for the better part of a decade was that he was busy running a long-con playing judge in New York City. The ''{{Cheers}}'' writers actually alluded to this when the Harry the Hat character appeared on that show after ''Night Court'' began. Someone asked where he'd been, and he replied, "[[LampshadeHanging I got a night job]].".

** Near the end of the episode, after Harry's CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming with Leon the shoeshine boy (offering to be his foster father for the time being), a field representative from the novelty gag company pies Dan in the face (with a chocolate-flavored pie, Dan's favorite flavor that Flo asked about earlier). Flo confesses about paying a pie thrower from the same firm from ''[[BrickJoke earlier in the episode]]''. Harry then tells Flo to stop covering for him; ''he's'' the one that paid the pie thrower. Christine Sullivan then confesses that she paid for the pie gag and so does Mac.

* [=Tearjerker=]: Quite a few, the first episode after Selma Diamond's death has an especially poignant one.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome[=/=]MagnificentBastard: Dan gets one in "Harry and Leon" (Season 3, Episode 14).

* EpilepticTrees: One popular theory among fans of NightCourt and {{Cheers}} is that Harry Stone is an alias for con-man Harry The Hat and the reason for the latter character disappearing from Boston for the better part of a decade was that he was busy running a long-con playing judge in New York City. The ''{{Cheers}}'' writers actually alluded to this when the Harry the Hat character appeared on that show after ''NightCourt'' began. Someone asked where he'd been, and he replied, "[[LampshadeHanging I got a night job]].".

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: One episode had an actor who played a [[TheLoneRanger Lone Ranger]]-esque character who was upset about a new, grittier movie that went completely against what his show/movies were about. He threatened to kill himself with a suspended air conditioner. In the end, it all worked out because the movie bombed with audiences, so the old guy wins a moral victory. In 2013, a DarkerAndEdgier [[Film/TheLoneRanger film adaptation]] of ''The Lone Ranger'' was made by Disney, and is on track to becoming one of the biggest {{Box Office Bomb}}s of all time.

* TearJerker: Quite a few, the first episode after Selma Diamond's death has an especially poignant one.

-->'''Dan:''' (from serious to a tad maniacal) I made a deal out with the guy in the hall. I said if he took the money just for ''one hit'' and gave me the rest, I wouldn't sue him!

** To explain, the episode starts as a sort of BigLippedAlligatorMoment with an employee from a "novelty entertainment" company named Paul Hodo (played by Lorry Goldman), who's the first case on the docket, being charged with "assault with a deadly weapon" ([[PieInTheFace throwing a pie]] that was frozen in a man's face, causing facial injury and a pending divorce). After the case ends as usual ("$50 fine and time served"), then-bailiff Florence telling the man that his price of USD$100 for pieing somebody in the face is too steep. Dan then insults Flo, and Flo is suddenly OK with the price, asking if the man took Visa credit cards.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: One episode had an actor who played a [[TheLoneRanger Lone Ranger]]-esque character who was upset about a new, grittier movie that went completely against what his show/movies were about. He threatened to kill himself with a suspended air conditioner. In the end, it all worked out because the movie bombed with audiences, so the old guy wins a moral victory. In 2013, a DarkerAndEdgier [[Film/TheLoneRanger film adaptation]] of ''The Lone Ranger'' was made by Disney, and is on track to becoming one of its biggest bombs ever.

* NightmareFuel VanityPlate: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_vdLRtLxUU This]] played after the closing credits after the second season, and was only used for Night Court. This troper remembers this show more for the horrifying laughter in the closing logo than for the show itself.

* {{Flanderization}}: Dan, from a DeadpanSnarker who had good luck with the ladies into a full-on ChivalrousPervert.
** Bull, who went from a GeniusBruiser to a CloudCuckooLander with increasingly infrequent moments of being a GeniusDitz.

* TearJerker: Quite a few, the first episode after Selma Diamond's death has an especially poignant one.

-->(Having trapped a rival prankster judge in a giant balloon) "Cleaver, you may be younger. You may be faster. You may even be smarter. But you will NEVER, EVER, be crazier ... than me." (pulls out a pin)

* EpilepticTrees: One popular theory among fans of NightCourt and {{Cheers}} is that Harry Stone is an alias for con-man Harry The Hat and the reason for the later character disappearing from Boston for the better part of a decade was that he was busy running a long-con playing judge in New York City. The ''{{Cheers}}'' writers actually alluded to this when the Harry the Hat character appeared on that show after ''NightCourt'' began. Someone asked where he'd been, and he replied, "[[LampshadeHanging I got a night job]].".