# I think we can assume 20 Good Years is gone **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 26, 2006, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-can-assume-20-good-years-is-gone/377964 "2006-10-26T11:59:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-can-assume-20-good-years-is-gone/377964/1 "2006-10-26T11:59:20Z")
From a daily trade e-mail publication called Cynopsis: > [@](#): > > Starting November 30, NBC will revamp its Thursday primetime schedule as Scrubs returns and 30 Rock is added, making a two-hour comedy block. The Thursday night line-up will be My Name Is Earl at 8p, The Office at 830p, Scrubs at 9p and 30 Rock at 930p and ER at 10p. Beginning November 22, NBC will air various specials on Wednesday nights from 8-9p that will soon be announced. Also on November 16, NBC will air super-sized 40-minute episodes of My Name Is Earl, The Office and 30 Rock. Without any further mention of 20 Good Years, one has to assume it will not be returning to the schedule after it gets bumped on 11/22. But, **Scrubs** is coming back!!! [www.cynopsis.com](http://www.cynopsis.com). I don’t see today’s edition however. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-can-assume-20-good-years-is-gone/377964/2 "2006-10-26T12:17:06Z")
It was dead on arrival. Rather than Schiavoing the poor thing, they’re pulling the plug. It’s a mercy killing, really… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-can-assume-20-good-years-is-gone/377964/3 "2006-10-26T15:13:54Z")
This show should never have been conceived, much less birthed. Good riddance. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-can-assume-20-good-years-is-gone/377964/4 "2006-10-26T15:42:52Z")
I feel bad for John Lithgow and Jeffery Tambor. Such a waste. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-can-assume-20-good-years-is-gone/377964/5 "2006-10-26T16:08:06Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] I feel bad for John Lithgow and Jeffery Tambor. Such a waste. [/QUOTE] Absolutely. It was like getting Olivier and Gielgud to star in a 2nd-grade production of “The 3 Little Pigs”. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-can-assume-20-good-years-is-gone/377964/6 "2006-10-26T16:49:15Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] But, **Scrubs** is coming back!!! [/QUOTE] Yay! ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-can-assume-20-good-years-is-gone/377964/7 "2006-10-26T18:15:19Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] But, **Scrubs** is coming back!!! [/QUOTE] No kidding… NBC is going to own my Thursdays. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-can-assume-20-good-years-is-gone/377964/8 "2006-10-26T18:17:00Z")
[QUOTE=Troy McClure SF] No kidding… NBC is going to own my Thursdays. [/QUOTE] They keep doing that, did you notice? First with The Cosby Show, then Cheers, Seinfeld, Friends…they do love Thursdays, don’t they? ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-can-assume-20-good-years-is-gone/377964/9 "2006-10-26T18:52:31Z")
[What do I win?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7859604&postcount=49) ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-can-assume-20-good-years-is-gone/377964/10 "2006-10-26T19:26:06Z")
Show didn’t have 20 good seconds. Waste of talent. Lithgow and Tambor should each grab the other’s agent, and beat him mercilessly. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-can-assume-20-good-years-is-gone/377964/11 "2006-10-26T23:02:00Z")
However, Scrubs and 30 Rock, good as they may be (and Scrubs is truly awesome), will simply get trounced by Gray’s Anatomy and CSI at the 9 PM time slot on Thursdays. I feel like NBC has never really done right by Scrubs, or known what to do with it or how to market it (like a less extreme example of Fox’s treatment of Arrested Development).