TV Binge Watch (Part 2)

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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
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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
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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
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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
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  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)
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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?”

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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.

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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.)

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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.