# Becker Appreciation Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 10, 2001, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becker-appreciation-thread/86581 "2001-10-10T15:07:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becker-appreciation-thread/86581/1 "2001-10-10T15:07:20Z")
Anyone here love **Becker** as I do? It’s started it’s fourth season (I believe) and yet it’s a show that no one really talks about. It seems like me and my mom are the only one who watch it, 'cause I try talking to others about it and they don’t watch it. Or maybe I’ve always been a fan of rude characters (Oscar the Grouch comes to mind). I know that if I were Linda, I would have been fired a loooong time ago. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becker-appreciation-thread/86581/2 "2001-10-10T15:29:25Z")
So _you’re_ the one that likes that show. It seems like every time I flip by CBS, Becker is on. I just don’t get it myself. I would’ve strangled Becker years ago if he were my doctor. The only reason I’ll occasionally watch it is to see Terry Farell, she’s a hottie. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becker-appreciation-thread/86581/3 "2001-10-10T15:32:20Z")
I like it a lot, but I rarely catch it anymore. I did get hooked in the first season, though; flipping through the channels, I happened upon it and stopped to watch. It was the episode where, as I recall, he went out on a blind date someone had set him up with. And OH MY GOD, he was so mean and nasty to the waiter, I laughed my ass off. I got a couple other people hooked the next week. Unfortunately, when I’ve watched lately, he seems less mean than he was at the beginning. Examples: in the first season, Jake (the blind guy), responding to some insult from Becker, says, “That’s funny. Almost as funny as that jigsaw puzzle you bought me for my birthday.” Another mean one: Jake got a good line off at Becker’s expense. Becker tips over a (closed) bottle of ketchup on the counter and hollers, “Jake! Look out! Hot coffee!” Oh, he was soooo wicked back then… ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becker-appreciation-thread/86581/4 "2001-10-10T15:38:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pcubed \* > **I would’ve strangled Becker years ago if he were my doctor.** Well, Jake’s grandmother slapped him in one episode. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becker-appreciation-thread/86581/5 "2001-10-10T16:12:38Z")
I like the Shawnee Smith character, Linda. Hubba Hubba. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becker-appreciation-thread/86581/6 "2001-10-10T19:35:08Z")
Question for all you Becker fans: One of the only episodes I’ve ever seen involved Leonard Nimoy, as Becker’s favorite professor and former mentor. It drives Becker nuts that his old professor doesn’t remember him at all. I never saw the ending. How did that episode turn out? Did Nimoy ever remember him, or did Becker just have to deal with the fact that he didn’t mean as much to his mentor as his mentor meant to him? ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becker-appreciation-thread/86581/7 "2001-10-11T00:11:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astorian \* > \*\*Question for all you Becker fans: > > One of the only episodes I’ve ever seen involved Leonard Nimoy, as Becker’s favorite professor and former mentor. It drives Becker nuts that his old professor doesn’t remember him at all. > > I never saw the ending. How did that episode turn out? Did Nimoy ever remember him, or did Becker just have to deal with the fact that he didn’t mean as much to his mentor as his mentor meant to him? \*\* Becker kept on hounding him. At the end, Becker is still pestering him in the diner, and Nimoy gets into the “Oh, yes I **do** remember you…” Becker is thrilled and then leaves. But it turns out to be fake (through a set up by Reggie, I think) to make Becker feel better (Becker never finds this out, though). ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becker-appreciation-thread/86581/8 "2001-10-11T00:27:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bean\_shadow \* > \*\*Anyone here love **Becker** as I do? It’s started it’s fourth season (I believe) and yet it’s a show that no one really talks about. It seems like me and my mom are the only one who watch it, 'cause I try talking to others about it and they don’t watch it. Or maybe I’ve always been a fan of rude characters (Oscar the Grouch comes to mind). > > I know that if I were Linda, I would have been fired a loooong time ago. \*\* I love **Becker** too! I think the entire cast is wonderful, and although I sometimes want to actually slap Becker, I’ve found he grown on me in an annoying yet funny way. On the other hand, I don’t watch it every week because sometimes I find him more annoying than funny. When that happens, I’ll watch every other week or so – somehow his nastiness is better appreciated in smaller doses 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![k.os](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@k.os](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k.os)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becker-appreciation-thread/86581/9 "2001-10-11T04:17:51Z")
I enjoy most of the episodes I see. The characters are such caricatures that it becomes one of its strong points, IMHO. I wouldn’t want him as a doctor, but then again, I can’t think of a sitcom character I’d like to meet. Most characters in sitcoms are completely neurotic, and it’s one of the ways they are funny, Ie: having trouble relating to their environement, having overblown personalities that cause them to be in completely unrealistic situations, etc… Becker does that perfectly. Whenever it’s on (where I live, I get it once a week) I watch it. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becker-appreciation-thread/86581/10 "2001-10-11T13:22:22Z")
I don’t think Becker is a bad doctor, and if I had to have him as a doctor, I wouldn’t really care. I think he’s only a jerk to the idiots, because that’s all we ever see. Like that guy who couldn’t understand why he was so unhealthy but it was because he was overweight and a huge smoker. That same guy would later have a heart-attack and sue Becker because of it. I hated that guy.