Season 9 Discussion

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Originally Posted by TVFactFan

Found it and it matches.

32 isn’t actually crazy horrible, but I’m assuming the Newhart and Benson surrounding it were reruns?

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by opus

32 isn’t actually crazy horrible, but I’m assuming the Newhart and Benson surrounding it were reruns?

yup it aired June 1 1984

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Big game 7 hockey tonight so I went ahead and rewatched Dear Max earlier.


I’ll just leave my tears here ahead of time

[TVFactFan]

Watched Dear Max and noticed that sam is the only one not in the episode. Max reads the letter and everyone is said Julie is not coming back. And then schneider with his bad timing bust in the door all goofy to celebrate Grandmom romano birthday. The scene in the kitchen with max and mark staring at each other looked like a scene they had to do over and over because it looked like they was trying not to laugh. And of course when Max decides that he is not moving to texas the episode ends without the viewers seeing Max tell everyone he is not moving to Texas.

[TVFactFan]

The second ep.......Never hire a relative was pointless. The whole episode dealt with francine and sam wanting a bigger office and not ann and then sam agrees not to go along with the bigger office. I was going to ask after the episode do we see the new office after this episode but it turned out it wasnt a new office.

This ep was almost as bad as bedtime story. schneider trying to hit on the female furniture mover who wasnt even attractive was the only funny thing in this ep

[Bonniegirl]

Originally Posted by opus

Big game 7 hockey tonight so I went ahead and rewatched Dear Max earlier.


I’ll just leave my tears here ahead of time

Yeah. Poor Max !

[Bonniegirl]

Originally Posted by TVFactFan

Watched Dear Max and noticed that sam is the only one not in the episode. Max reads the letter and everyone is said Julie is not coming back. And then schneider with his bad timing bust in the door all goofy to celebrate Grandmom romano birthday. The scene in the kitchen with max and mark staring at each other looked like a scene they had to do over and over because it looked like they was trying not to laugh. And of course when Max decides that he is not moving to texas the episode ends without the viewers seeing Max tell everyone he is not moving to Texas.

Very sad episode. But a good episode. Somehow it had to be explained where Julie was. She couldn't always be at work at the donut shop . It didn't make her look very good though. Leaving your Husband is one thing but leaving your baby is another. Not cool.

I'm glad Max decided to stay.

Birthdays are always doomed for them. A store robbery and being locked in a storeroom on Barbara's birthday . Than on Schneider's birthday , Barbara finds out she can't have children. Than this sad event on Grandma's birthday 0

[Bonniegirl]

Originally Posted by TVFactFan

The second ep.......Never hire a relative was pointless. The whole episode dealt with francine and sam wanting a bigger office and not ann and then sam agrees not to go along with the bigger office. I was going to ask after the episode do we see the new office after this episode but it turned out it wasnt a new office.

This ep was almost as bad as bedtime story. schneider trying to hit on the female furniture mover who wasnt even attractive was the only funny thing in this ep

Yes a very pointless and boring episode.

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Originally Posted by Bonniegirl

Very sad episode. But a good episode. Somehow it had to be explained where Julie was. She couldn't always be at work at the donut shop . It didn't make her look very good though. Leaving your Husband is one thing but leaving your baby is another. Not cool.

I'm glad Max decided to stay.

Birthdays are always doomed for them. A store robbery and being locked in a storeroom on Barbara's birthday . Than on Schneider's birthday , Barbara finds out she can't have children. Than this sad event on Grandma's birthday 0

Now you know why Ann hated birthdays.

At least they kept Julie alive. Just in case there was a 10th season there was still the possibility of the big reconciliation episode. Multi parter, of course.

And didn’t Ann say Julie considered taking the baby? How do think that would have played with the audience?

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Originally Posted by TVFactFan

The second ep.......Never hire a relative was pointless. The whole episode dealt with francine and sam wanting a bigger office and not ann and then sam agrees not to go along with the bigger office. I was going to ask after the episode do we see the new office after this episode but it turned out it wasnt a new office.

This ep was almost as bad as bedtime story. schneider trying to hit on the female furniture mover who wasnt even attractive was the only funny thing in this ep

It’s in my bottom 10.

[Bonniegirl]

Originally Posted by opus

Now you know why Ann hated birthdays.

At least they kept Julie alive. Just in case there was a 10th season there was still the possibility of the big reconciliation episode. Multi parter, of course.

And didn’t Ann say Julie considered taking the baby? How do think that would have played with the audience?

They could have had Julie just move out and leave Max, but just to an apartment in Indy.( maybe in Ann & Schneider's building) And Julie and Max have joint custody of Annie. That would be far less dramatic and make Julie seem less crazy .

[Bonniegirl]

Originally Posted by opus

Now you know why Ann hated birthdays.

At least they kept Julie alive. Just in case there was a 10th season there was still the possibility of the big reconciliation episode. Multi parter, of course.

And didn’t Ann say Julie considered taking the baby? How do think that would have played with the audience?

Oh yeah and to add to the doomed birthdays, Ann always got very Debbie Downer on her birthday.

[Bonniegirl]

They could have had Julie fall in love with another man. That would explain why she was always fighting with Max. If she wanted to be with another man. Maybe a cop she met at the donut shop. You know the stereotype that cops are always at the donut shop. Esp.it seemed she worked night time hours. So leaving Max, moving in with the new man , and co parenting Annie.

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Originally Posted by Bonniegirl

They could have had Julie fall in love with another man. That would explain why she was always fighting with Max. If she wanted to be with another man. Maybe a cop she met at the donut shop. You know the stereotype that cops are always at the donut shop. Esp.it seemed she worked night time hours. So leaving Max, moving in with the new man , and co parenting Annie.

People like to write that they did what they did to Julie because they were mad at Mackenzie. But I don’t think they’d be that heartless. Addiction is a disease. You can’t be mad at someone for having a disease.

They had to write out Julie, and being from the Norman Lear factory, they just took the dramatic way out.

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by opus

People like to write that they did what they did to Julie because they were mad at Mackenzie. But I don’t think they’d be that heartless. Addiction is a disease. You can’t be mad at someone for having a disease.

They had to write out Julie, and being from the Norman Lear factory, they just took the dramatic way out.

They destroyed the Julie character the same way they did Mike stivic

leaving their family