It took months, but Night Court Season 1 Episode 12 finally switched on a plot device light bulb for me. Abby’s Upstate stories are an updated version of Rose Nylund’s St. Olaf tales on Golden Girls. Or Sophia’s Sicilian parables. If a show’s going to borrow sitcom elements, the OG GG is one of the
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For a textbook sitcom, Night Court Season 1 Episode 9 is practically Shakespearean in its savagely dramatic irony and role reversals. Guest star Stephnie Weir chews up the scenery as the surgically precise podcast journalist, Remecca, whose plan to expose the dirty secrets of our good-hearted — if curmudgeonly narcissistic — public defender nearly succeeds.