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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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?”
