If you had a friend with you that never saw NewsRadio before and they agreed to watch three episodes with you, which three would you choose to impress your friend? This of course assuming that you would hang out with someone who hadn't seen NewsRadio. I'd choose:

"Pilot" It would give the friend a chance to see Dave's first day, and afterall it impressed me since it was the first episode I ever saw.

"Smoking" This episode is just hilarious. It also is the first time Dave and Bill really interact.

"Planbee" This episode shows just how much the staff really cares about one another. The lengths they all go through to keep Matthew from getting fired. When Andrea mentioned Bill, Dave got nervous thinking she wanted to fire him. It's just a great episode in my opinion.

Only three episodes? Hmmm, I'll have to think about this one. There are so many great episodes to choose from. I agree with Smoking being one of their best.

That's easy:


The Secret of Management

The Public Domain

Towers

thats exactly whats happenng with me, my friend has never seen newsradio before and my other friend who i showed it to didnt like it, so i want this friend to like it. what episode should i show her? help please. i can decide! thanks

so what episode should i show to my friend? help please i still dont know! :)

Originally posted by Kimbo
thats exactly whats happenng with me, my friend has never seen newsradio before and my other friend who i showed it to didnt like it, so i want this friend to like it. what episode should i show her? help please. i can decide! thanks

Well let's think aloud. We can rule out season five. There were a couple of good ones, but "NewsRadio" to me is with both Bill and Catherine in the cast. So that's episodes 1-60. I'll do my 2 favorites from each season:

1. "Smoking" & "Sweeps Week"

2. "The Breakup" & "In Through the Out Door"

3. "Our Fiftieth Episode" & "Sleeping"

4. "Planbee" & "French Diplomacy"

Out of all of those, I would go with these 3,
"Smoking" & "In Through the Out Door" & "Planbee"

Out of those 3, I would go with these 2,
"Smoking" & "Planbee"

Okay, I'd go with "Smoking"

Wasn't that a fun experience?

But seriously, I think any one of those episodes does the show justice. Although "Our Fiftieth Episode" had Matthew in only one scene. "Sleeping" was without Beth. And "French Diplomacy" was without Catherine. Those were all well made episodes, anyways.

yah i think ill go with 'smoking', or maybe ill just make my friends watch all of them! in my opinion they are all great episodes, but i think i laughed the hardest in Innapropriate <- not sure if i spelt that right , but yah that was halarious.

Smoking is one of my favorites. I also love the one with the poker game and the one when they're all daydreaming. I think there are so many great episodes.

yah it was funny, when lisa went to play poker and then didnt even know how to play, dave was like paranoid with lisa's lieing! ahahha! :) so funny

Jimmy: "I lost... Bill."
Bill: "What?"
Jimmy: "Bill."
Bill: "Right here, Jimmy."
Jimmy: "I don't think you're understanding me. I lost Bill!"

:lol: :lol: :lol:

do u have a least favourite episode?
im gonna think about this one, i dont even know if i have a least favourite......

I didn't care for a lot of the episodes in the last season, especially the hippie episode.

oh yah i remember that one, it was funny when mathew would turn in to a chicken then back to a person and say wasup'? ahah it was so funny

The only episode I really don't like is "Movie Star". I don't care for the James Caan scenes. Catherine and Beth fighting for some basketball tickets didn't get me laughing. The only saving grace of this episode was the plot about Dave buying Lisa a TV set. The rest I like.

Also,

Matthew: Mr. James

Mr. James: Present.

Matthew: Buttafuoco.

Mr. James: Well, Buttafuoco to you too, and if you had said it that way this morning on the air, we wouldn't have lost two sponsors.

Even when I was out of NewsRadio in 1997, I still remembered that Buttafuoco joke fondly. Thank goodness I'm back into the show now.

that was halarious! i loved that part. and in the movie star episode, i didnt care for the james caanpart or the beth and catherine part with the tickets either, but i thought the tv part was really funny, i loved lisa and dave they were soo funny!

The Buttafucco episode is great too :lol: Also, the desk/subway disaster episode, the one when Bill gets thrown in the mental ward, Jumper, the fire, and quite a few others. <sigh> How this show went so underrated while Friends stays on for 10 years is beyond me. (Sorry, Friends fans, but I really can't stand that show.)

i like friends, but newsradio comes out on top.
do u like the new show good morning, miami? people think it copies newsradio, but i dont think so. some of the characters have the same characteristics as newsradio characters but are also different. its a funny show.

Originally posted by Kimbo
i like friends, but newsradio comes out on top.
do u like the new show good morning, miami? people think it copies newsradio, but i dont think so. some of the characters have the same characteristics as newsradio characters but are also different. its a funny show.

As for GMM, I saw the episode where that guy made a pro and con list. It really didn't impress me much. I can see why it would have some fans, but it's just not for me. The only current show (although I think it's been canceled again) is Andy Richter Controls the Universe.

Even though, earlier, I said to me "NewsRadio" was with both Bill and Catherine in the cast, I still enjoyed the fourth season without Catherine. There some great episodes without her before Max joined. I just meant that if it had to be one episode to show your friend, it should be an episode with the original cast.

The hippie episode has got to be the WORST episode of NR ever, that & "Space." I also don't care for "The Shrink"--John Ritter is just so creepy in that episode.