# TV Binge Watch (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 4, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711 "2022-10-04T16:51:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 459
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9161 "2025-09-02T15:26:28Z")
**TV clip show episodes** 1. “Shades of Gray”, _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ 2. “So It’s Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show,” _The Simpsons_ 3. “The Gang Does a Clip Show”, _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_ ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9162 "2025-09-02T15:27:11Z")
**TV clip show episodes** 1. “Shades of Gray”, _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ 2. “So It’s Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show,” _The Simpsons_ 3. “The Gang Does a Clip Show”, _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_ 4. “Clip Show” and “Clip Show 2,” _Malcom in the Middle_ ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9163 "2025-09-02T15:37:01Z")
**TV clip show episodes** 1. “Shades of Gray”, _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ 2. “So It’s Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show,” _The Simpsons_ 3. “The Gang Does a Clip Show”, _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_ 4. “Clip Show” and “Clip Show 2,” _Malcom in the Middle_ 5. “Athens City Academy of the Performing Bards”, _Xena: Warrior Princess_ ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9164 "2025-09-03T01:03:21Z")
**TV clip show episodes** 1. “Shades of Gray”, _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ 2. “So It’s Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show,” _The Simpsons_ 3. “The Gang Does a Clip Show”, _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_ 4. “Clip Show” and “Clip Show 2,” _Malcom in the Middle_ 5. “Athens City Academy of the Performing Bards”, _Xena: Warrior Princess_ 6. " The American Family," _Family Ties_ They did a clip or flashback episode _ever season._ It was especially irksome in syndication, because they’d come around so often. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9165 "2025-09-03T03:51:33Z")
I remember reading once that there was a TV comedy which did a clip show for its second freakin’ episode; Google has failed me, alas. **TV clip show episodes** 1. “Shades of Gray”, _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ 2. “So It’s Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show,” _The Simpsons_ 3. “The Gang Does a Clip Show”, _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_ 4. “Clip Show” and “Clip Show 2,” _Malcom in the Middle_ 5. “Athens City Academy of the Performing Bards”, _Xena: Warrior Princess_ 6. " The American Family," _Family Ties_ 7. “Paradigms of Human Memory,” _Community_ A clip show [with a difference.](https://collider.com/community-perfect-clip-show-episode/) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9166 "2025-09-03T04:06:27Z")
**TV clip show episodes** 1. “Shades of Gray”, _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ 2. “So It’s Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show,” _The Simpsons_ 3. “The Gang Does a Clip Show”, _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_ 4. “Clip Show” and “Clip Show 2,” _Malcom in the Middle_ 5. “Athens City Academy of the Performing Bards”, _Xena: Warrior Princess_ 6. “The American Family,” _Family Ties_ 7. “Paradigms of Human Memory,” _Community_ 8. “Michelle Rides Again”, second half, _Full House_ It was the second part of the series finale. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9167 "2025-09-03T05:44:55Z")
**TV clip show episodes** 1. “Shades of Gray”, _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ 2. “So It’s Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show,” _The Simpsons_ 3. “The Gang Does a Clip Show”, _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_ 4. “Clip Show” and “Clip Show 2,” _Malcom in the Middle_ 5. “Athens City Academy of the Performing Bards”, _Xena: Warrior Princess_ 6. “The American Family,” _Family Ties_ 7. “Paradigms of Human Memory,” _Community_ 8. “Michelle Rides Again”, second half, _Full House_ 9. “The Chronicle”, _Seinfeld_ ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9168 "2025-09-04T09:16:35Z")
> [@](#): > > **TV clip show episodes** 1. “Shades of Gray”, _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ 2. “So It’s Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show,” _The Simpsons_ 3. “The Gang Does a Clip Show”, _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_ 4. “Clip Show” and “Clip Show 2,” _Malcom in the Middle_ 5. “Athens City Academy of the Performing Bards”, _Xena: Warrior Princess_ 6. “The American Family,” _Family Ties_ 7. “Paradigms of Human Memory,” _Community_ 8. “Michelle Rides Again”, second half, _Full House_ 9. “The Chronicle”, _Seinfeld_ 10. “The Stockholm Syndrome,” first half, _The Big Bang Theory_ Next: **Famous people who played themselves on TV, for good or bad** 1. Walter Cronkite on _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ (very good) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9169 "2025-09-04T10:14:20Z")
**Famous people who played themselves on TV, for good or bad** 1. Walter Cronkite on _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ (very good) 2. Sparky Anderson on _WKRP in Cincinnati_ (very good) Anderson, as himself, is interviewed on WKRP, but it quickly becomes apparent that nobody at the station knows how to interview a sports star. Anderson’s acting is good, not great, but it’s the other actors’ acting, and how he feeds off that, that raises his performance to “very good.” ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9170 "2025-09-04T12:23:35Z")
**Famous people who played themselves on TV, for good or bad** 1. Walter Cronkite on _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ (very good) 2. Sparky Anderson on _WKRP in Cincinnati_ (very good) 3. Steven Hawking on _The Big Bang Theory_ (good) Hawking’s acting was limited, due to his infirmity, but he played a whimsical foil to Sheldon Cooper in seven episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9171 "2025-09-04T12:50:16Z")
**Famous people who played themselves on TV, for good or bad** 1. Walter Cronkite on _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ (very good) 2. Sparky Anderson on _WKRP in Cincinnati_ (very good) 3. Steven Hawking on _The Big Bang Theory_ (good) 4. Redd Foxx on _Sanford and Son_ (bad) Fred Sanford enters a Redd Foxx lookalike contest. They appear “together” in an unfunny scene. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9172 "2025-09-04T12:54:23Z")
**Famous people who played themselves on TV, for good or bad** 1. Walter Cronkite on _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ (very good) 2. Sparky Anderson on _WKRP in Cincinnati_ (very good) 3. Steven Hawking on _The Big Bang Theory_ (good) 4. Redd Foxx on _Sanford and Son_ (bad) 5. Lady Gaga on _The Simpsons_ (bad) There are funny moments but it feels like the whole episode stops whatever it’s doing whenever Lady Gaga is shown. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9173 "2025-09-04T18:40:00Z")
**Famous people who played themselves on TV, for good or bad** 1. Walter Cronkite on _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ (very good) 2. Sparky Anderson on _WKRP in Cincinnati_ (very good) 3. Steven Hawking on _The Big Bang Theory_ (good) 4. Redd Foxx on _Sanford and Son_ (bad) 5. Lady Gaga on _The Simpsons_ (bad) 6. President Barack Obama on _Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee_ (good) Not sure if this counts, it’s more like a talk show. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9174 "2025-09-04T18:51:20Z")
**Famous people who played themselves on TV, for good or bad** 1. Walter Cronkite on _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ (very good) 2. Sparky Anderson on _WKRP in Cincinnati_ (very good) 3. Steven Hawking on _The Big Bang Theory_ (good) 4. Redd Foxx on _Sanford and Son_ (bad) 5. Lady Gaga on _The Simpsons_ (bad) 6. President Barack Obama on _Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee_ (good) 7. Lou Ferrigno on _The King of Queens_ (good) A recurring role; he just happens to be the main characters’ next-door neighbor. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9175 "2025-09-04T19:26:13Z")
**Famous people who played themselves on TV, for good or bad** 1. Walter Cronkite on _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ (very good) 2. Sparky Anderson on _WKRP in Cincinnati_ (very good) 3. Steven Hawking on _The Big Bang Theory_ (good) 4. Redd Foxx on _Sanford and Son_ (bad) 5. Lady Gaga on _The Simpsons_ (bad) 6. President Barack Obama on _Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee_ (good) 7. Lou Ferrigno on _The King of Queens_ (good) 8. Hillary Clinton on _Broad City_ (ehh) Did she do a good job of playing herself? Sure. Did it help her win the presidency? It did not. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9176 "2025-09-04T20:41:01Z")
**Famous people who played themselves on TV, for good or bad** 1. Walter Cronkite on _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ (very good) 2. Sparky Anderson on _WKRP in Cincinnati_ (very good) 3. Steven Hawking on _The Big Bang Theory_ (good) 4. Redd Foxx on _Sanford and Son_ (bad) 5. Lady Gaga on _The Simpsons_ (bad) 6. President Barack Obama on _Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee_ (good) 7. Lou Ferrigno on _The King of Queens_ (good) 8. Hillary Clinton on _Broad City_ (ehh) 9. Adam West on “Family Guy” (good) Well, kind of a version of himself. He’s the mayor of the town named Adam West, and he plays it like his version of Batman. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9177 "2025-09-04T21:00:57Z")
**Famous people who played themselves on TV, for good or bad** 1. Walter Cronkite on _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ (very good) 2. Sparky Anderson on _WKRP in Cincinnati_ (very good) 3. Steven Hawking on _The Big Bang Theory_ (good) 4. Redd Foxx on _Sanford and Son_ (bad) 5. Lady Gaga on _The Simpsons_ (bad) 6. President Barack Obama on _Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee_ (good) 7. Lou Ferrigno on _The King of Queens_ (good) 8. Hillary Clinton on _Broad City_ (ehh) 9. Adam West on _Family Guy_ (good) 10. Joe Biden on _Parks and Recreation_ (good) He was Vice President at the time, and was actually pretty funny in dealing with Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) as she had an immediate and total fangirl meltdown upon meeting him. Let’s keep it going!: **Even more famous people who played themselves on TV, for good or bad** 1. Richard Nixon on _Laugh-In_ (good) “Sock it to _me_?” ---
**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:** [September 4, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9178 "2025-09-04T21:07:24Z")
**Even more famous people who played themselves on TV, for good or bad** 1. Richard Nixon on _Laugh-In_ (good) 2. Kylie Minogue on _The Residence_ (good) She was at the White House to sing at the state dinner. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9179 "2025-09-04T21:56:41Z")
**Even more famous people who played themselves on TV, for good or bad** 1. Richard Nixon on _Laugh-In_ (good) 2. Kylie Minogue on _The Residence_ (good) 3. James Earl Jones and Carrie Fisher on _The Big Bang Theory_ (very good) After Sheldon timidly approaches James Earl Jones in a restaurant, to ask the _Star Wars_ star if he’d consider appearing at a small fan convention, Jones befriends Sheldon, and takes him out for a night on the town, including an amusement park, a karaoke bar, a sauna, and going to Carrie Fisher’s house in the middle of the night to play “Ding Dong Ditch” on her (“she’s a little crazy”). (Though Fisher and Jones had both been in the three original _Star Wars_ films, because Jones’ role was that of a voice actor, they had not ever actually met in-person until filming this episode.) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9180 "2025-09-04T22:08:18Z")
**Even more famous people who played themselves on TV, for good or bad** 1. Richard Nixon on _Laugh-In_ (good) 2. Kylie Minogue on _The Residence_ (good) 3. James Earl Jones and Carrie Fisher on _The Big Bang Theory_ (very good) 4. Kevin Hart on _Abbott Elementary_ (good) Jeanine thinks he could be her absent father; he calls her to squelch that idea. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711.md?page=458) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711.md?page=460)