The Clerks Cartoon had its 2nd episode as a clip show as a joke. The network showed the episodes out of order so that ruined the joke.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 12:12 AM Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. I actually deleted a reference in my original post clarifying that > "series retrospectives" didn't count. My bad. > > 2. Shameful admission time: I have struggled to watch new series for a > long time now. The last series I tried to binge watch was Brooklyn > Nine-Nine, which I absolutely enjoyed. What I've found is that it's a > challenge to block off time to really focus on an episode of television. > This sounds pathetic, but I'd rather put on a Simpsons episode I've seen a > half million times as background noise while I do something else than to > sit down for 25 minutes to absorb an episode I've never seen before. > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 22:51 PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Seinfeld of course had a clip show, years before The Office. I bring it >> up because it seems even in the current environment there could be another >> clip show at the end of the run of a much loved show (unlike the previously >> fairly common practice of doing a clip show to give the production team and >> cast a break). I hope not though, I always hate them (though I did like >> Seinfeld’s). >> >> Also, dude, what are you doing with your lockdown time? Binge The Office >> already. >> >> On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 8:08 PM Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm lying in bed tonight watching old Simpsons episodes when a thought >>> crossed my mind. >>> >>> In 2002, the show aired Gump Roast, which is considered the last clip >>> show the series aired. >>> >>> After some light perusal of Wikipedia, I was directed to "The Banker" >>> from the sixth season of The Office, which calls the episode a clip show. >>> That aired in 2010. I'll take its word for it, since I've never seen the >>> series. >>> >>> I can't imagine, in an on-demand/streaming environment, that any show >>> could get away with trying to pull an old-school clip show as a traditional >>> episode. Can the panel think of any moderately known US series done a clip >>> show since then? Or was The Banker fundamentally the last clip show? >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2BdWgvOvS%3DvSce3VnpVKxA-EjXzuYZtSMD2FeOsL7k0JMQ%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2BdWgvOvS%3DvSce3VnpVKxA-EjXzuYZtSMD2FeOsL7k0JMQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> Sent from Gmail Mobile >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2BXtd48T74uFP6B535Wae_pFv0fJbDx-nPSXQjrGFSKDg%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2BXtd48T74uFP6B535Wae_pFv0fJbDx-nPSXQjrGFSKDg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2Bckc2cYo1dkJeBouDK_ho%2BaU6kX27YjbW9O7axk%3DA5Mdg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2Bckc2cYo1dkJeBouDK_ho%2BaU6kX27YjbW9O7axk%3DA5Mdg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CA%2BD%2BokSnnuZJy2Q55T6BGXSkVLBXJTw%2BM4n-vM_jXipc4te4UA%40mail.gmail.com.
