Now that takes balls.
Man, that show must have really jumped the shark at some point
Well, yeah. 
The whole “pregnant woman giving birth on a stuck elevator” was used in at least half a dozen shows, but I think it’s full flowering came on Night Court, when Markie Post had her baby as her labor coach(the female bailiff, the black one) had to holler her instructions down the elevator shaft.
“You’re at the royal wedding. Doesn’t Di look beautiful? And isn’t the Queen Mother wearing a butt-ugly hat?”
I was a little disappointed when I discovered that a splendidly written show such as “Joan of Arcadia” felt the need to use this plot, but it turned out OK – it didn’t really overwhelm the episode, and nobody involved had any ridiculously maudlin revelations about the wonderfulness of the miracle of birth.
Didn’t she end up turning him down when he came to his ‘well, she’s not really so bad’ revelation?
Correction: the aliens breathed water. And I think the walnuts contained some substance that turned you into an alien.
Or as they would call it in some circles, his bitch.
I know Sex and the City was a fantasy (esp. the part about four working friends having time to lunch together more than once every five years!), but two episodes really got under my skin:
Carrie’s computer crashes and she loses all her work, because she’s never heard of backing up. She’s a professional writer, and this is the first anyone has told her about putting her work on a disc? Jesus, I put mine on three discs and keep one at the office!
Carrie–who writes a sex column–totally freaks out because she’s dating a bisexual and a girl tries to kiss her at a party.
And then they finally make it out of the elevator, where it turns out her long-lost babydaddy is waiting to propose to her.
It was used on “The Nanny”, too. The “twist” in this one is that Fran is stuck in the elevator with her long-time nemesis (forgot her name).
Ooh, ooh, I have one.
The tough authority figure with a heart of gold asks his subordinantes to do him a personal favor. They totally foul it up and try to cover their tracks with a reasonable facsimile of what it was supposed to be. The authority figure is fooled, but when he tries to use it, he ends up embarassing himself in front of someone important (Superintended Chalmers’ Law).
See: Mr. Belding, Mr. Kotter, Arnold, etc.
Grr, I mean Superintendent.
It’s easier just to call him Super Nintendo Chalmers.
One of my software deveopers called me from home to tell me that his hard drive crashed and he lost all of his home information and side projects. When I asked him if he had it all backed up, he said that the back up requirements weren’t as strict at his home as they were for my team… He should know better.
How about the fact that Colonel Potter was born around 1900 (based on his WWI recollections), but was in his early 60’s?
Wellll…it was 1952 or thereabouts in the show. So what’s the problem? Perhaps he was born in 1896 or so.
- He states (in quite a few episodes) that he was 17 or 18 when he fought in France in WWI.
- That gives him a birthdate of 1900 or so, with a varient of only a year or so.
- The Korean War took place between 1950 and 1953.
- He also states that he’s in his early 60’s (62, in at least one episode).
- However, he can only be in his early 50’s, based on the evidence in 1) and 3).
- See the problem now?
Maybe he volunteered to fight for the British or French before the US got involved? That could push him back in age at least 4 years. I know, it’s a reach, but given the really ridiculous things in that series, I guess this one is a minor point.
Not to mention that Aaron somehow has aged 20 years, looking like he might in, oh, 1980.
There was a Walker: TR episode in which he got on very well with a woman in a wheelchair (it must be about the only episode I saw more than half of). I thought it would be cool for the producers and writers to work her in as the communications and computer expert (or anything you can do expertly from a wheelchair), but IIRC, she disapeared.