# Shows with emphasis on banter

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-emphasis-on-banter/827108>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 2, 2019, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-emphasis-on-banter/827108 "2019-01-02T19:15:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-emphasis-on-banter/827108/21 "2019-01-04T16:24:45Z")

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I second _MAS_H\*\*\*, especially any scene where Klinger and Potter exchange such witticisms as “Fear not, O Great One!” and “Horseapples!”

For those who remember the short-lived series _ **Barbary Coast** _, the banter between William Shatner and his co-star Doug McClure (Dennis Cole in the pilot) reached epic proportions. They were obviously directed to be as cute as bugs.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-emphasis-on-banter/827108/22 "2019-01-06T00:50:02Z")

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_Taxi_ episodes that focused on Tony.

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**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-emphasis-on-banter/827108/23 "2019-01-06T01:42:00Z")

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> [@terentii](#):
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> I second _MAS_H\*\*\*, especially any scene where Klinger and Potter exchange such witticisms as “Fear not, O Great One!” and “Horseapples!”
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> For those who remember the short-lived series _ **Barbary Coast** _, the banter between William Shatner and his co-star Doug McClure (Dennis Cole in the pilot) reached epic proportions. They were obviously directed to be as cute as bugs.

Folks if I ever die, just mix Terentii’s and Burpos DNA please.

Of course I remember Barbary Coast! I once fooled my sister that Star Trek had been renewed and this was a time travel ep

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**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-emphasis-on-banter/827108/24 "2019-01-06T03:44:43Z")

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Absolutely Fabulous…

_Sweetie_

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**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-emphasis-on-banter/827108/25 "2019-01-06T05:00:43Z")

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Veronica Mars  
Buffy the Vampire Slayer  
Firefly  
Community

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-emphasis-on-banter/827108/26 "2019-01-06T05:06:33Z")

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> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#):
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> M_A_S\*H
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> I would define banter as lots of witty back-and-forth, not just an occasional _bon mot_.

Yeah, Mash and its movie nailed banter.

> [@Omar\_Little](#):
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> Arrested Development…and the further into the series you get, the further back the banter references go. By the 3rd season, pretty much the entire show is one inside joke after another.

And yet, they still make new inside jokes even in the third season and after.

My wife and I still call Googling “something search” and that joke came out in season 4, one of the Netflix ones.

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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-emphasis-on-banter/827108/27 "2019-01-06T05:23:18Z")

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> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> _Taxi_ episodes that focused on Tony.

I want you to sit in the corner now and think about what you’ve done.

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