Night Court Boned the Fish When...

[biffbronson]

Inspired by the current Who's the Boss discussion of Alyssa Milano's hair, let's have a look at the late, lovely Markie Post

From Buck Rogers, some gorgeous length, curl, & color:


Here we see the familiar Night Court style, also I believe about the same as she'd been wearing on The Fall Guy:


A jaw-dropping photo of a fun curly style, love the length for her -- HOT


The cut during Night Court's run, some have called "super-short":


Lots of growth afterward on Night Court with nice fullness, and here we see how she looked on Hearts Afire:


Normally I'm a fan of long bangs but this last cut I've shown seems a little off. Anyway, of course I've studied Markie for purely academic reasons, not prurient ones... LOL

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Originally Posted by biffbronson

Inspired by the current Who's the Boss discussion of Alyssa Milano's hair, let's have a look at the late, lovely Markie Post

From Buck Rogers, some gorgeous length, curl, & color:
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Here we see the familiar Night Court style, also I believe about the same as she'd been wearing on The Fall Guy:
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A jaw-dropping photo of a fun curly style, love the length for her -- HOT
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The cut during Night Court's run, some have called "super-short":
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Lots of growth afterward on Night Court with nice fullness, and here we see how she looked on Hearts Afire:
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Normally I'm a fan of long bangs but this last cut I've shown seems a little off. Anyway, of course I've studied Markie for purely academic reasons, not prurient ones... LOL

I think that I said in the Hearts Afire board after Markie Post passed that I actually thought that she looked more attractive on that later show than she did on Night Court. I don't know how to explain it other than she by that point had a more timeless and flattering hairstyle:

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Originally Posted by billybatts

When Christine married that jerk cop i was done.

The whole Christine gets married arc seemed like the writers were trying to mine from Who's the Boss? In other words, let's get an upright, prudish, blonde-haired career woman (Christine instead of Judith Light's character) involved with a macho, Italian, very New York, blue collar guy (Tony Giuliano instead of Tony Danza's character).

[cpmaz]

Like many other sitcoms that hung on too long (think: The Big Bang Theory), the last few seasons sucked because they had to soften the characters too much; there was nowhere else to go with the characters.

John Larroquette? Great actor. Dan Fielding? Not a great human being.
Marsha Warfield? Very funny person. Roz Russell? More mean than funny. Except that the meanness was very funny.

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Originally Posted by jessm78

I agree with you. It did seem too sanctimonious and PC (and this show had a history of being very un-PC). I was about 12-13 when this episode aired and I was pretty aware of who Andrew Dice Clay was, so I recognized what they were trying to do with that. Even then I didn't appreciate the whole "Ooh, you can't say that about people who are [fill in the blank]. That's just horrible!" thing. The only thing I got a laugh at was the way the newsstand guy started laughing at him and said "I'm just wondering if you look as stupid as you sound." Sure, these guys' humor might just come of as stupid and low-brow to people, but the way they tried to show it was like hitting the audience over the head with an anvil. They could have been a bit more subtle and not made the whole episode about it.

Season 8 definitely saw a marked decline in quality to me.

The Vice channel has this new show called Dark Side of Comedy, and one episode focused on the rise and fall so to speak of Andrew Dice Clay. I bring this up because back in May 1990, "The Dice Man" guest hosted Saturday Night Live. The episode ahead of time, created a huge controversy with cast-member Nora Dunn and the musical guest, Sinead O'Connor, boycotting it.

So I naturally wonder if the "It's Just a Joke" episode, being that Night Court was also an NBC show like SNL, was inspired in no small part due to Dice's appearance on SNL several months prior.

From TV Tropes:

Nearly everyone on the cast gets one in "It's Just a Joke", in which Politically Incorrect Comedian Monte "Potty Man" Potter tries to score free publicity for his act by staging a First Amendment Battle over his right to Free Speech in Harry's court with a televangelist accomplice fanning the flames of censorship to increase donations to his church. After opening by getting the evangelist to admit that he doesn't have a church, just a "very large" PO box, and threatening to expose him to the press if he ever tries another money-grubbing publicity stunt in his court, Harry winds up turning the tables on Potty Man by arranging for the comedian to perform his act in front of the courtroom and...

• Christine tells the guy off and leaves after the first joke (a sexist one-liner about how to stop an overweight woman from attacking you).
• Lizette, the mousy court stenographer whose major defining characteristic was not standing up for herself, actually stands up to the comedian when he tells a joke about women being hurt, saying "Violence isn't funny, it's sick."
• Roz's response to the quip about how the large number of African Americans in the audience suggests "they need more security around here". "Actually, I AM security around here."
• Former soldier Mac and his understated punchline to the joke "What do you call an African American man in a uniform?" "A Veteran?"
• Even blind vendor Jack - who was only on the show during Season 8 - gets one after the comedian spins a recitation of "Three Blind Mice" into a crack about blind people stealing his job because it was "Hire the Handicapped Week"note and Jack laughs.
• Potter: (defensively) Aha! See! See, it's funny! The blind guy laughed!
• Jack: Yeah, I was just wondering if you look as stupid as you sound!
• Potter argues that Harry just pulled these people off the street and that "These people aren't real Potty Man fans!" Harry retorts that these people were standing in line for tickets to his show to see what all the fuss was about, thus exposing Potty Man as the money-grabbing fraud he really is.
• When Potter's idea of a parting shot at Harry is a trite Your Mom joke, Dan, who has been defending the comedian's style of humor as satire throughout the episode, finally has enough and tells the guy off when he realizes that he honestly believes the backward things he is saying. This leads to a Funny Moment and one of the few occasions when Dan was ever at a loss for words after the comedian - unable to think of any other comeback - accuses Dan of being gay, saying he bets he likes show tunes. A muscular audience member stands up and says he likes show tunes... and he doesn't like Potter, whereupon Potter flees with the man in hot pursuit.
• Crosses over into heartwarming too when one remembers that Harry's mom is a very tender spot for him. Dan's breaking point wasn't an insult against himself; it was insulting Harry's mom.