TV Binge Watch (Part 2)

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8001

Should have been fired a long time ago, but somehow kept their job

  1. Linda (Shawnee Smith) - Becker
  2. Les Nessman (Richard Sanders) - WKRP in Cincinnati
  3. Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta) - The Simpsons
8002

Should have been fired a long time ago, but somehow kept their job

  1. Linda (Shawnee Smith) - Becker
  2. Les Nessman (Richard Sanders) - WKRP in Cincinnati
  3. Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta) - The Simpsons
  4. Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) - Community
8003

Should have been fired a long time ago, but somehow kept their job

  1. Linda (Shawnee Smith) - Becker
  2. Les Nessman (Richard Sanders) - WKRP in Cincinnati
  3. Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta) - The Simpsons
  4. Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) - Community
  5. Ted Baxter (Ted Knight) - The Mary Tyler Moore Show
8004

Should have been fired a long time ago, but somehow kept their job

  1. Linda (Shawnee Smith) - Becker
  2. Les Nessman (Richard Sanders) - WKRP in Cincinnati
  3. Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta) - The Simpsons
  4. Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) - Community
  5. Ted Baxter (Ted Knight) - The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  6. Gilligan (Bob Denver) - Gilligan’s Island

Real castaways would have either crucified or cut off his arms and legs and eaten him raw after the tenth time he blew everyone’s escape from the island. If their jobs were to get off the island, Gilligan failed everyone spectacularly.

8005

Should have been fired a long time ago, but somehow kept their job

  1. Linda (Shawnee Smith) - Becker
  2. Les Nessman (Richard Sanders) - WKRP in Cincinnati
  3. Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta) - The Simpsons
  4. Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) - Community
  5. Ted Baxter (Ted Knight) - The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  6. Gilligan (Bob Denver) - Gilligan’s Island
  7. Ava Coleman (Janelle James) - Abbott Elementary

Should never have been hired, and does get fired. Or does she?

8006

Should have been fired a long time ago, but somehow kept their job

  1. Linda (Shawnee Smith) - Becker
  2. Les Nessman (Richard Sanders) - WKRP in Cincinnati
  3. Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta) - The Simpsons
  4. Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) - Community
  5. Ted Baxter (Ted Knight) - The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  6. Gilligan (Bob Denver) - Gilligan’s Island
  7. Ava Coleman (Janelle James) - Abbott Elementary
  8. Barney Fife (Don Knotts) - The Andy Griffith Show

It’s established early in the series that Barney and Andy are cousins. It doesn’t get a lot of play as the show goes on, and I think that whole thing was eventually dropped altogether, but it would go a long way toward explaining how Barney can keep his job. Even so, one would expect that the mayor or town council or someone influential would have enough juice to force him out if they felt strongly enough about it. The real saving grace for him is probably that there’s no significant amount of truly important stuff for a deputy to do, day to day, in Mayberry.

8007

Everyone likes Barney and being Deputy gives him a sense of purpose and keeps him out of trouble so why rock the boat?

Should have been fired a long time ago, but somehow kept their job

  1. Linda (Shawnee Smith) - Becker
  2. Les Nessman (Richard Sanders) - WKRP in Cincinnati
  3. Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta) - The Simpsons
  4. Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) - Community
  5. Ted Baxter (Ted Knight) - The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  6. Gilligan (Bob Denver) - Gilligan’s Island
  7. Ava Coleman (Janelle James) - Abbott Elementary
  8. Barney Fife (Don Knotts) - The Andy Griffith Show
  9. John Martin (Herbert Edelman) -Big John Little John

This ones’ a bit obscure but the premise is that teacher John Martin drank from the fountain of youth and so sometimes turns into a boy who is enrolled in his class. Which means that either the teacher isn’t doing his job half the time or the boy is truant half the time. In either case there is no way this could be sustainable.

8008

Should have been fired a long time ago, but somehow kept their job

  1. Linda (Shawnee Smith) - Becker
  2. Les Nessman (Richard Sanders) - WKRP in Cincinnati
  3. Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta) - The Simpsons
  4. Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) - Community
  5. Ted Baxter (Ted Knight) - The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  6. Gilligan (Bob Denver) - Gilligan’s Island
  7. Ava Coleman (Janelle James) - Abbott Elementary
  8. Barney Fife (Don Knotts) - The Andy Griffith Show
  9. John Martin (Herbert Edelman) -Big John Little John
  10. Toby Ziegler (Richard Schiff) - The West Wing

He’s one of the best in the world at speech-writing, but has a real attitude problem. Eventually, he does get fired for leaking classified information about the military Space Shuttle. Bartlet ultimately pardons him from prosecution on the way out the door, though.

New category:

Very long episode titles

  1. “Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges” - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
8009

Very long episode titles

  1. “Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges” - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  2. “For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky” - Star Trek
8010

I’ll readily concede that point. Firing him would most definitely be a massively unpopular decision in the town.

8011

Very long episode titles

  1. “Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges” - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  2. “For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky” - Star Trek
  3. “The One Where Monica and Richard Are Just Friends” - Friends
8012

ekedolphin, I hated Toby on The West Wing too. A talented wordsmith but rude, arrogant, self-righteous and curt. In his very first scene, he’s giving a flight attendant a hard time.

Very long episode titles

  1. “Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges” - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  2. “For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky” - Star Trek
  3. “The One Where Monica and Richard Are Just Friends” - Friends
  4. “Our Father Whose Art Ain’t Heaven” - Frasier
8013

Very long episode titles

  1. “Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges” - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  2. “For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky” - Star Trek
  3. “The One Where Monica and Richard Are Just Friends” - Friends
  4. “Our Father Whose Art Ain’t Heaven” - Frasier
  5. “A Solar Calculator, a Game Ball, and a Cheerleader’s Bosom” - Young Sheldon
8014

Very long episode titles

  1. “Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges” - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  2. “For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky” - Star Trek
  3. “The One Where Monica and Richard Are Just Friends” - Friends
  4. “Our Father Whose Art Ain’t Heaven” - Frasier
  5. “A Solar Calculator, a Game Ball, and a Cheerleader’s Bosom” - Young Sheldon
  6. “The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification” - The Big Bang Theory
8015

Very long episode titles

  1. “Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges” - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  2. “For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky” - Star Trek
  3. “The One Where Monica and Richard Are Just Friends” - Friends
  4. “Our Father Whose Art Ain’t Heaven” - Frasier
  5. “A Solar Calculator, a Game Ball, and a Cheerleader’s Bosom” - Young Sheldon
  6. “The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification” - The Big Bang Theory
  7. “Somebody’s Going to Emergency, Somebody’s Going to Jail” - The West Wing
8016

Very long episode titles

  1. “Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges” - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  2. “For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky” - Star Trek
  3. “The One Where Monica and Richard Are Just Friends” - Friends
  4. “Our Father Whose Art Ain’t Heaven” - Frasier
  5. “A Solar Calculator, a Game Ball, and a Cheerleader’s Bosom” - Young Sheldon
  6. “The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification” - The Big Bang Theory
  7. “Somebody’s Going to Emergency, Somebody’s Going to Jail” - The West Wing
  8. “Dante and Randal and Jay and Silent Bob and a Bunch of New Characters and Lando, Take Part in a Whole Bunch of Movie Parodies Including But Not Exclusive To, The Bad News Bears, The Last Starfighter, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Plus a High School Reunion” - Clerks: The Animated Series
8017

Very long episode titles

  1. “Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges” - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  2. “For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky” - Star Trek
  3. “The One Where Monica and Richard Are Just Friends” - Friends
  4. “Our Father Whose Art Ain’t Heaven” - Frasier
  5. “A Solar Calculator, a Game Ball, and a Cheerleader’s Bosom” - Young Sheldon
  6. “The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification” - The Big Bang Theory
  7. “Somebody’s Going to Emergency, Somebody’s Going to Jail” - The West Wing
  8. “Dante and Randal and Jay and Silent Bob and a Bunch of New Characters and Lando, Take Part in a Whole Bunch of Movie Parodies Including But Not Exclusive To, The Bad News Bears, The Last Starfighter, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Plus a High School Reunion” - Clerks: The Animated Series
  9. “Peter Pan, the Backup Plan, Adventures in Babysitting and a River Runs Through It” - The Conners

Many of their episode titles are wordy lists of items.

8018

Very long episode titles

  1. “Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges” - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  2. “For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky” - Star Trek
  3. “The One Where Monica and Richard Are Just Friends” - Friends
  4. “Our Father Whose Art Ain’t Heaven” - Frasier
  5. “A Solar Calculator, a Game Ball, and a Cheerleader’s Bosom” - Young Sheldon
  6. “The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification” - The Big Bang Theory
  7. “Somebody’s Going to Emergency, Somebody’s Going to Jail” - The West Wing
  8. “Dante and Randal and Jay and Silent Bob and a Bunch of New Characters and Lando, Take Part in a Whole Bunch of Movie Parodies Including But Not Exclusive To, The Bad News Bears, The Last Starfighter, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Plus a High School Reunion” - Clerks: The Animated Series
  9. “Peter Pan, the Backup Plan, Adventures in Babysitting and a River Runs Through It” - The Conners
  10. “I Don’t Want to Wait for Our Lives to Be Over, I Want to Know Right Now, Will It Be… Sorry. Do Do Doo Do Do, Do Do Doo Do Do, Do Do Doo Do Do, Doo…” - King of the Hill

Next: Very short episode titles

  1. “Fire” - The A-Team
8019

Very short episode titles

  1. “Fire” - The A-Team
  2. “33” - Battlestar Galactica

Relentless pursuit by the Cylons forces the Colonial Fleet to make a hyperspace jump every 33 minutes (hence the episode title).

8020

Very short episode titles

  1. “Fire” - The A-Team
  2. “33” - Battlestar Galactica
  3. “Han” - The West Wing