# Night Court reboot (potential spoilers once the series is launched) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [November 21, 2022, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-reboot-potential-spoilers-once-the-series-is-launched/975297 "2022-11-21T05:56:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-reboot-potential-spoilers-once-the-series-is-launched/975297/161 "2024-02-01T21:49:58Z")
If there’s anyone left still watching the show, you may have noticed in the 1/20 episode that John Larroquette spent much of the episode in full Kingon regalia for Comic Con. Okay, may kinda cute, since [Larroquette played a Klingon in _Star Trek III._](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/0/08/Maltz.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110113214309&path-prefix=en) However, the teaser for the next episode reveals “Special Guest” Kunaal Nayyar, who woos, and apparently wins Judge Abby. In other words, Raj finally gets Bernadette to play his clarinet. This kind of stunting two episodes in a row is a sure sign even the producers have conceded the show is circling the drain and are willing to throw anything in. Perhaps before the show withers to the white dwarf stage they’ll have Melissa Rauch recreate her gymnastics routine from _The Bronze._ [![](https://tvline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/night-court-kunal-nayyar-2.jpg?w=1240&h=840&crop=1) ](https://tvline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/night-court-kunal-nayyar-2.jpg?w=1240&h=840&crop=1) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-reboot-potential-spoilers-once-the-series-is-launched/975297/162 "2024-02-16T17:52:30Z")
> [@janis\_and\_c0](#): > > I hope Bob Wheeler makes an appearance! > **[Night Court: Marsha Warfield; Spiner & O'Donnell's Wheelers Returning](https://bleedingcool.com/tv/night-court-marsha-warfield-spiner-odonnells-wheelers-returning/)** > > Marsha Warfield's Roz and Brent Spiner & Annie O'Donnell's The Wheelers (with Kate Micucci as their daughter) are set for NBC's Night Court. Roz is scheduled for the season finale, no word on the Wheelers. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-reboot-potential-spoilers-once-the-series-is-launched/975297/163 "2024-03-29T02:23:26Z")
I stopped watching by the beginning of season two, but I just watched the Wheelers episode. This show is really, really, really terrible. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-reboot-potential-spoilers-once-the-series-is-launched/975297/164 "2024-03-29T02:41:16Z")
So not even Data could save it, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-reboot-potential-spoilers-once-the-series-is-launched/975297/165 "2024-03-29T12:31:10Z")
Yes. My husband keeps putting it on, so I keep watching it, and it keeps sucking. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-reboot-potential-spoilers-once-the-series-is-launched/975297/166 "2025-01-17T17:41:00Z")
We had to get five episodes into this season, but the show has started showing flashes of funny. The first was getting Wendie Malick, first seen as a crazy woman who went to jail for stalking Larroquette, back into the cast in a recurring role as a prosecutor who’s just this side of insane. She and Larroquette actually play well off of each other. The second was another stunt episode, this one featuring Mayim Bialik. Abby is thrilled to have the actress who played Blossom in her courtroom, and Mayim is thrilled to meet a fan. Maybe a little too thrilled, as Mayim seems to develop an unhealthy attachment to the judge. This ep[isode had a number of met-jokes that actually were funny, and both Rauch and Bialik were clearly enjoying themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-reboot-potential-spoilers-once-the-series-is-launched/975297/167 "2025-01-17T18:33:27Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > Maybe a little too thrilled, as Mayim seems to develop an unhealthy attachment to the judge. This ep[isode had a number of met-jokes that actually were funny, and both Rauch and Bialik were clearly enjoying themselves. I haven’t watched since the first season, but this sounds like a reference to The Big Bang Theory. Amy Farrah Fowler (Bialik) had an unhealthy attachment to Penny, and to a lesser extent, Bernadette (Rauch). ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-reboot-potential-spoilers-once-the-series-is-launched/975297/168 "2025-05-13T02:17:52Z")
Just to put a final period at the end of the sentence, Night Court was officially cancelled by NBC. The show had pretty much degenerated into a series of stunt guest stars (as I noted upthread, the one with Mayim Bialik was funny, but the rest were meh) and disjointed attempts at cheap laughs rather than anything resembling plots. I’m re-watching the original. It holds up pretty well, and they did tone down Dan Fielding’s blatant sexism in later seasons. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-reboot-potential-spoilers-once-the-series-is-launched/975297/169 "2025-05-13T02:31:01Z")
On the plus side, this frees up JL for the new “Librarians” series. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-reboot-potential-spoilers-once-the-series-is-launched/975297/170 "2025-05-13T13:43:55Z")
Every time I see this thread pop back up I think “Is that still on?” I was starting to wonder if it was going to be another “Gray’s Anatomy” kind of thing where 20 years later I’m still asking “Is that still on?” ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-reboot-potential-spoilers-once-the-series-is-launched/975297/171 "2025-05-13T16:26:08Z")
I stuck with my abandoning, haven’t watched since that March 2024 post. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-reboot-potential-spoilers-once-the-series-is-launched/975297/172 "2025-05-13T16:44:26Z")
I don’t remember when I abandoned it, time-wise, but after sitting through that dreadful “Justice Buddies” episode, that was it for me. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-reboot-potential-spoilers-once-the-series-is-launched/975297/173 "2025-05-13T16:50:31Z")
I watched maybe the first two episodes and realized I didn’t enjoy any of it. I maybe chuckled a couple of times per episode but the show didn’t work. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-reboot-potential-spoilers-once-the-series-is-launched/975297.md?page=8)