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Night Court	comment	A supremely zany sitcom created by Reinhold Weege (a former Barney Miller writer/producer), produced by his company, Starry Night Productions (alongside Warner Bros.), and aired on NBC from 1984â€“92, Night Court followed the goings-on of a night-shift Manhattan arraignment court populated by a madcap band of lawyers, judges, and bailiffs, including (by the end of the series): Harold T. "Harry" Stone (Harry Anderson), the laid-back judge, Mel TormÃ© fanatic, and amateur magician, who only got the job as a night court judge because he was the only one who answered the call on a Sunday. Reinhold "Dan" Fielding (John Larroquette), the womanizing, selfish, pigheaded, but always witty and acid-tongued assistant district attorney. Christine Sullivan (Markie Post), the public defender, who despite being a beautiful and independent woman is an utterly naive, morally-upright prude. Nostradamus "Bull" Shannon (Richard Moll), the huge, certifiably brilliant but ditzy bailiff. Mac Robinson (Charlie Robinson), court clerk and Vietnam veteran, the accomplice to most of Judge Stone's pranks, his verbal foil and his closest friend. Roz Russell (Marsha Warfield), a deadpan-snarking, tough-as-nails bailiff whose strength is the fodder for many jokes.The show is usually considered a satire and subversion of the Law Procedural genre, featuring bizarre, wacky crimes, such as groups of rival ventriloquists and their dummies assaulting each other (although the show was also praised for its refusal to deal with violent and "glamorous" crime and called "The most realistic law show on the air" by Time Magazine, no less). Logic and realism were frequently abandoned for the sake of a joke: cartoon animal Wile E. Coyote once appeared in a brief gag as a defendant. Notwithstanding this, many legal professionals confide that Night Court is far more realistic than most straight Law Procedurals.The show featured regular guest appearances by John Astin (of The Addams Family fame) as Buddy Ryan, Judge Stone's certifiably insane birth father. Harry Stone's idol Mel TormÃ© made frequent guest spots, as did Brent Spiner (later famous for his role as Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation) as Bob Wheeler, patriarch of a family of Yugoslavians who pretended to be a hick family from West Virginia and, at one point, even ran a concession stand in the courthouse.A revival series premiered on NBC January 17, 2023. Owing to Harry Anderson's death in 2018, it's a Spin-Offspring series featuring Harry's daughter Abby (Melissa Rauch) as the new judge and John Larroquette reprising his role as Dan Fielding.
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Night Court / int_10021cbc	type	Frozen Dinner of Loneliness
Night Court / int_10021cbc	comment	Frozen Dinner of Loneliness: In the two-parter "Dan's Operation", Dan goes into the hospital to have surgery for an ulcer, and winds up slipping into a coma. After Harry upbraids Dan for his reckless lifestyle (Dan went into a coma after trying to have sex in his hospital bed), Dan reveals his inner hurt, talking about how he had a frozen dinner alone on Thanksgiving.
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Night Court / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
Night Court / int_10134c97	comment	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety: In "The Hostage" a mentally unstable defendant gets free and takes a firearm from the evidence table. Mac tells Harry that the gun isn't loaded; but then says he isn't sure about that. Any confiscated firearm would be unloaded well before it makes it to court; this shouldn't even be a question. In "The Cop and the Lady" Tony casually hands his service revolver off to Christine who promptly loses it to the psycho of the week. No cop, especially one who's served long enough to be promoted to detective, would hand off his weapon to a civilian for any reason. One of the many things that gets Rhoda kicked out of the bailiff training program is that she lost her service revolver. Bull handles Roz's new gun and ends up shooting himself in the toe because he was carrying it improperly. Even considering it's Bull, a bailiff with over ten years of experience and training should know better. In "Still Another Day In the Life" a defendant is allowed to appear in court brandishing a loaded shotgun and wearing a bandolier of spare ammunition.
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Night Court / int_1042bae6	type	Limited Advancement Opportunities
Night Court / int_1042bae6	comment	Limited Advancement Opportunities: They all spend years working in a shabby night court. One wonders why Dan and Christine, both highly competent lawyers, can't get promoted. Averted at the end of the series when Christine wins election to Congress. Dan does try several times to get elected to higher office, but never succeeds. In one election, he loses to an opponent who was known to have died before the election took place. Season 6 has a Story Arc about Dan running for state assembly. The election ends in an exact tie (forcing a run-off election) due to a suicidal man who voted for Dan then killed himself, leaving a note explaining that the world was so screwed up it deserved "a man like Fielding." His opponent in the run-off turns out to be a gorgeous woman, and the two of them spend the night of the run-off in a hotel together. Dan's description of the run-off results: "Honey, you're kicking my head in." Dan is also shown trying to get a promotion sometimes, usually hampered by his being a sleazebag.
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Night Court / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
Night Court / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: Mac was an Army Ranger (or possibly a Marine) in Vietnam before working as a clerk.
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Night Court / int_120d0e3f	type	Adam Westing
Night Court / int_120d0e3f	comment	Adam Westing: Mel TormÃ© in his later appearances, for instance, it turned out his home was literally filled with awards including a keyring of keys to the cities, and that every year he would sneak into the bailiff's Christmas choir in disguise and scat his way through carols.
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Night Court / int_126ce03c	type	I Was Quite a Looker
Night Court / int_126ce03c	comment	In "Branded, Part I", Dan makes the mistake of laughing his head off at a picture of Roz in her younger years. She responds by pulling Dan's trousers up to his armpits, whereupon Dan apologizes in a very squeaky voice.
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Night Court / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Night Court / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: The female defendant in "Auntie Maim" was clearly based on Zsa Zsa Gabor. Another episode had a character who was clearly based on Andrew "Dice" Clay, right down to repurposing a nursery rhyme as an off-color joke. "Amour or Less" featured two feuding twin sister advice columnists Anna and Vanna Landers, obviously patterned after Esther and Pauline Friedman, AKA Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren.
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Night Court / int_135d58f9	type	Man of Wealth and Taste
Night Court / int_135d58f9	comment	Man of Wealth and Taste: Dan very much wants to be one, he just never had the money.
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Night Court / int_137ef87b	type	Yodel Land
Night Court / int_137ef87b	comment	Yodel Land: In "My Life As A Dog Lawyer", the antagonist is an arrogant diplomat from the fictional European nation of Rogash, which despite its tiny population is eagerly courted by the United States because it is ideally poised for spying on Switzerland. When Harry threatens to deport the diplomat home, the man protests that "listening to the Swiss" is his country's only pastime, industry or national activity. Harry says he can stay in New York if he signs a pledge promising to respect the City's laws and waive his diplomatic immunity if he ever steps out of line:
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Night Court / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
Night Court / int_137f2d7	comment	In one episode it was shown that Harry was this to Dan. It was the episode where it's shown what would happen if Harry was never born. Dan goes full-blown Card-Carrying Villain and takes over New York.
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Night Court / int_1462f0d7	type	Season Finale
Night Court / int_1462f0d7	comment	Season Finale: Night Court had some of the greatest Cliffhanger ones: Season 4 ended with Harry being fired, Christine being appointed a judge in his stead, and Harry planning the biggest practical joke of all time in retaliation. Season 5 ended with Dan â€“ who was in the US Army Reserves â€“ getting called up and presumed dead after his plane crashed into the Arctic Ocean. Season 8 ended with Harry and Christine having apparently confessed their love for one another and Dan having mysteriously disappeared. Apparently, this was planned to have been the Series Finale, with Christine and Harry getting married and Dan joining the priesthood. A last-minute renewal forced them to make some sudden changes to restore the Status Quo at the start of Season 9, with Christine and Harry quickly agreeing they were better off as friends and Dan quickly being cleared of the criminal charges that drove him insane at the end of Season 8. Season 9 ended with Christine being elected to high office, Dan resigning his post to follow after her having realized his true love for her, and Bull being abducted by aliens. While this turned out to be the show's final episode, it was not intended to be the Series Finale, for obvious reasons. Most accounts say that the decision to cancel the series was handed down the same Friday the final episode was filmed, and that the cast was informed their belongings would be thrown out if their dressing rooms were not cleaned Monday morning.
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Night Court / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Night Court / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: Several examples. The Season 5 Episode "Who Was That Mashed Man?" was based on the now infamous court battle between The Lone Ranger star Clayton Moore and the owner of The Lone Ranger copyright, Lew Grade.note When Grade (the guy who brought us Thunderbirds and The Muppet Show) attempted a Darker and Edgier reboot called The Legend of the Lone Ranger, lawyers forced the original Lone Ranger actor to stop touring with his costume; legal stuff ensued, the public got wind of this and supported the actor, resulting in the movie dying quickly at the box office (the fact that the movie was terrible didn't help). This was pretty much the nail in the coffin for Grade's movie-making aspirations; his previous film, the notorious flop Raise the Titanic!, as well as the Village People movie Can't Stop the Music had killed the ITC/EMI joint venture AFD (Associated Film Distribution) and forced him to sell the remainder of the AFD films to Universal. Night Court used an Expy called The Red Ranger in the same situation. The Season 8 Episode "It's Just a Joke" featured a character who was based on comedian Andrew "Dice" Clay and a plot that was based upon his court battles regarding his right to Free Speech.
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Night Court / int_1849f58e	type	Comedic Work, Serious Scene
Night Court / int_1849f58e	comment	Comedic Work, Serious Scene: This is a comedic look at a New York City arraignment court (which, ironically enough, was once called the most realistic court show on t.v. at the time). Harry's frequent pronouncement of "Fifty Dollars and time served" was almost his catchphrase. One case even featured Wile E. Coyote put on trial for harrassing the Road Runner (it was that kind of show). However, lest anyone think it was all laughs: One early episode had Harry reveal that he'd once stolen a car and taken it for a joyride. He'd intended to take it back, but he lost control and crashed into a liquor store. His (we would later learn) adoptive father never lived long enough to see that Harry matured and became a judge, instead of a hoodlum. Harry is left with no choice by existing law but to evict a mother and son from their apartment. The son is subsequently shot trying to rob a liquor store. Harry is nearly driven to quit. It's ultimately Dan who convinces Harry not to quit with a rather moving speech about how Harry is a good, impartial, and fair judge and the justice system would suffer greatly without him. Hooker with a Heart of Gold Carla B thinks Harry is interested in her because he's nice to her, and waits for him in his chambers in a state of undress. When she thinks she's been made a fool of, she threatens to jump from the window. It takes a sincere and heartfelt talk from Harry to bring her back down again.
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Night Court / int_186c2c62	type	Diet Episode
Night Court / int_186c2c62	comment	Diet Episode: In the two-parter where Dan was facing disbarment, a subplot revolved around Roz going on a diet. Christine decides to join her as a diet buddy, but it proves to be a turbulent relationship as they both get on each other any time either one tries to cheat, or when Roz appears to be losing weight more rapidly than Christine. In the end, Christine is the one who ends up snapping, gorging herself on junk food in the cafeteria.
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Night Court / int_19661850	type	Just the Introduction to the Opposites
Night Court / int_19661850	comment	Just the Introduction to the Opposites: Everything, and everyone, is different in the Day Court. The cases are standard fare with no nuts. The crummy cafeteria is turned into a posh restaurant where reservations are required. Perhaps most worrying... Roz is a cheerful, friendly person. And Bull rides around the building selling Fruzen Schnitzel from his bicycle cart.
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Night Court / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Night Court / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: A con-man works out a scheme where he sent checks of a few dollars to the city as a tender offer for famous city landmarks; when the city cashed the check, it was a de facto acceptance of his offer, giving him ownership of the landmarks. His plan was to blackmail the city into paying him market value to reclaim the landmarks. Instead, the city decided to leave his claim uncontested and instead bill him for the taxes and upkeep on the properties, a ruinous sum. The man winds up begging the city to invalidate his claims.
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Night Court / int_1a368bd5	type	Reluctant Retiree
Night Court / int_1a368bd5	comment	Reluctant Retiree: Florence, in the episode "Flo's Retirement". Averted after the only existing copy of her birth certificate mysteriously burns to ashes, leaving no definitive proof of her age.
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Night Court / int_1b73fd6c	type	The Danza
Night Court / int_1b73fd6c	comment	Yakov Smirnoff made several appearances as Yakov Korolenko.
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Night Court / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Night Court / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: Dan's reaction to Judge Cleaver's "presto mammario!"
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Night Court / int_1dd14f5a	type	I Surrender, Suckers
Night Court / int_1dd14f5a	comment	I Surrender, Suckers: Harry gets into a pranking duel with a new judge, with his judge's robe on the line, and is thoroughly beaten when Judge Cleaver rigs his bench to collapse at the end of the day. Harry concedes defeat, forfeits his robe, and leaves in a sulk; then reveals to Christine that he had to lose, to lure the little twerp right into his trap. Cue a remote control, and a scream in the next room.
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Night Court / int_1e0b0143	type	Job's Only Volunteer
Night Court / int_1e0b0143	comment	Job's Only Volunteer: Subverted when Harry explains how he became a judge. A judge position has just opened up and had to be filled immediately. The official in charge had a list of judge candidates and started calling up people on the list. However, this happened on the weekend and almost everyone on the list could not be reached by phone. Harry was at the bottom of the list but was the first candidate who was home and able to pick up the phone, so he was offered the job. Harry than points out to everyone that he might have been at the bottom of the list and gotten the job through weird luck but he was still on the list, thus he was vetted and considered competent enough to be a judge.
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Night Court / int_1e4a1e0e	type	I Owe You My Life
Night Court / int_1e4a1e0e	comment	I Owe You My Life: Dan saves Christine from choking and exacts a night of passion in a hotel as a way of repayment. A Moment Killer came (much to Christine's relief) in the form of a jumper on a ledge outside their window. Mac's old Vietnam war buddy who saved his life shows up in court and wants him to lose a file so that he won't go back to prison for breaking parole. He later releases Mac from the debt, not wanting to taint the most noble thing he ever did.
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Night Court / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Night Court / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Dan sells his soul for the princely sum of $100.00. Turns out it was just a prank set up by Mac.
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Night Court / int_21718ffc	type	Deep South
Night Court / int_21718ffc	comment	Deep South: Dan was originally from there and his parents were (in Dan's mind, anyway) one step removed from Ma and Pa Kettle. Actor John Larroquette is in fact from Louisiana, so this is Truth in Television to a certain extent. When Dan's dad shows up, he confirms that Dan's descriptions of his home town and its inhabitants have been pretty accurate. The Wheeler family was originally portrayed as being from West Virginia, until outcry over stereotyping revealed them to truly be from Yugoslavia. Per Rule of Funny, neither their names nor their accents changed after this revelation.
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Night Court / int_217a1adf	type	I Love the Dead
Night Court / int_217a1adf	comment	I Love the Dead: In the episode, "Fire", when the staff are driven to the morgue in the courthouse's basement; then the power goes out:
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Night Court / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Night Court / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The world in which Harry Stone was never born in "Hey, Harry, F'Crying Out Loud — It's a Wonderful Life ...Sorta". Apparently Harry's friendship was the only thing keeping Dan Fielding from becoming a Card-Carrying Villain and taking over New York City from behind the scenes.
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Night Court / int_21e714c6	type	Invincible Classic Car
Night Court / int_21e714c6	comment	Invincible Classic Car: The 1949 Buick that Christine's father gave her. It does indeed protect her in a massive crash.
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Night Court / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Night Court / int_224c9aef	comment	Laugh Track: Actually a Studio Audience, where the same person (sometimes identified as creator Reinhold Weege's father) is often heard laughing uproariously.
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Night Court / int_22ebf5bc	type	Japanese Tourist
Night Court / int_22ebf5bc	comment	Japanese Tourist: Courtesy of one of the fly-through cases:
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Night Court / int_240fd641	type	Long-Runner Cast Turnover
Night Court / int_240fd641	comment	Long-Runner Cast Turnover: Only three regulars made it all the way through the show's nine-year run: Harry Anderson as Judge Harry Stone, Richard Moll as Bull the bailiff, and John Larroquette as prosecutor Dan Fielding. Three different actresses filled the role of the second bailiff (as different characters). Karen Austin, who played the court clerk and was Judge Stone's original love interest, left before the first season was over and was eventually replaced by Charles Robinson as Mac. Four different actresses played public defenders—Gail Strickland in the pilot, Paula Kelly for the rest of Season 1, Ellen Foley for Season 2, and Markie Post for Seasons 3-9.
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Night Court / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Night Court / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Mac. Even his spotlight episodes tended to be far less weird than the others. This was slightly averted in the last few seasons when he became an aspiring filmmaker who specialized in pretentious schlock.
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Night Court / int_246330ec	type	Noir Episode
Night Court / int_246330ec	comment	Noir Episode: "Hey, Harry, F'Crying Out Loud — It's a Wonderful Life ...Sorta", where most of the episode is shot in the style of a 1940s Warner Bros. gangster flick.
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Night Court / int_247228a9	type	Subverted Catch-Phrase
Night Court / int_247228a9	comment	Subverted Catchphrase: Bull in one early episode:
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Night Court / int_25b5600	type	Captain Ersatz
Night Court / int_25b5600	comment	Captain Ersatz: Monte "Potty-Man" Potter for Andrew "Dice" Clay. The same year "It's Just a Joke" aired, Diceman became the first comedian to sell out Madison Square Garden.
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Night Court / int_2612a967	type	It Has Been an Honor
Night Court / int_2612a967	comment	It Has Been an Honor: In "Crossroads: Part 2", when the whole cast are quarantined in the courtroom, believing they've been exposed to a deadly biological weapon, Mac says that, no matter what happens, he wouldn't have given up his job or his friendship with the rest of them; everyone reciprocates warmly, except (of course) Dan:
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Night Court / int_264b8f4c	type	Balloon Belly
Night Court / int_264b8f4c	comment	Dovetailed with Balloon Belly the time Bull attempted to stop the drip from a leaky pipe. Having used both fingers to plug the holes, he simply opened his mouth below a third drip. Later, Harry and Christine are horrified upon seeing his distended physique. Bull blithely walks away, sloshing as he goes, headed for a restroom.
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Night Court / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
Night Court / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: Lampshaded in "Harry On Trial", when Judge Landis (Ray Walston) invites Billie out for a drink.
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Night Court / int_26852e3d	type	Persona Non Grata
Night Court / int_26852e3d	comment	Persona Non Grata: In "My Life as a Dog Lawyer", an arrogant European diplomat invokes Diplomatic Impunity and Harry admits he has no power to fine or imprison him, but he can send him home; given the choice between staying in The Big Apple and returning to his flyspeck of a country (where the only pastime, industry or national political activity seems to be "listening to the Swiss"), he immediately promises to be a good boy from then on.
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Night Court / int_2719ab04	type	Special Guest
Night Court / int_2719ab04	comment	Special Guest: Harry's idol, Mel TormÃ©, made periodic cameo appearances as himself. Also, John Astin as Buddy. Yakov Smirnoff made several appearances as Yakov Korolenko. Johnny Carson had a brief cameo in one episode. On one occasion, Wile E. Coyote turned up as a defendant. Yes, in cartoon form. Michael J. Fox (then known primarily as Alex Keaton in Family Ties) played a shoplifter in the first season's Christmas episode (which, strangely enough, was only the show's the second episode).
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Night Court / int_27c09b00	type	Camp Straight
Night Court / int_27c09b00	comment	Camp Straight: In the early seasons, Dan's snobbish and slightly prissy behaviour and love of the finer things meant he skirted the edges of this, so much so that he was Mistaken for Gay once. This aspect of his character pretty much vanished from season 3 onwards, as he became much more over the top and his womanizing was emphasized.
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Night Court / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Night Court / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Frederick Streiko, the ambassador from the tiny European nation of Rogash, is so outraged over being arrested for a minor traffic offense that he declares a state of war between the two countries. Harry has trouble taking this seriously, until the State Department informs him that Rogash (population approximately 13) is in possession of both a nuclear warhead and several cruise missiles (gifts from the U.S. government in gratitude for allowing them to spy on the Swiss).
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Night Court / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Night Court / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Harry finds out this was the case when Buddy Ryan confesses to being his real father. In fairness to Buddy, he was totally prepared to do the honorable thing. But Harry's mother was released from the mental institution first and married another man when it looked like Buddy might not be released. When Buddy did get out and he tracked her down again, it was agreed by all three of them that it would be best to wait until Harry Jr. was older before they told him the truth. But then Buddy and Harry's mother both relapsed and were recommitted, leaving Harry Stone Sr. to raise his son alone, dying before he could tell Harry the truth of his birth or why his mom had disappeared. Later, when Buddy and Harry's mom were both out again, she sent him a letter to try and reconnect, and assumed he didn't want to know her when it wasn't answered. After she died (which was after he was appointed a judge, as she had been in the gallery to see him work), the letter finally arrives at the court ("Mac, I should have gotten this letter three Presidents ago!" "They said they were sorry.") and calls the number in it, learns she's dead, and brings Buddy into his life.
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Night Court / int_2937826d	type	Hurricane of Puns
Night Court / int_2937826d	comment	Hurricane of Puns: Frequent. Surprisingly, Dan was more often to blame for this than Harry. When Dan was in a coma and a bosomy prostitute was being arraigned, Dan's flunky Phil jumped up and made an appropriate pun, sadly explaining that Dan would've wanted it that way. Another time he was gone, the others gathered around Harry's bench to talk about an overweight transvestite that had been on the docket earlier, and one of them comments they could just hear Dan calling him "Puff the Magic Drag Queen."
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Night Court / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Night Court / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Many non-American characters would speak their native languages with no subtitles with humor being mined from the main characters' attempts to communicate. The staff's efforts to find appropriate interpreters make the subplots of several episodes.
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Night Court / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
Night Court / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: As with Christmas, there was one almost every year. The elaborate, funny, and clever costumes were a kind of Running Gag.
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Night Court / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Night Court / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Frederick Streiko, the ambassador from the tiny European nation of Rogash, flaunts the laws of the City with abandon, invoking diplomatic immunity. Harry admits that he has no authority to fine Streiko or put him in jail, but he does have the authority to deport him back to Rogash. Streiko protests that in Rogash (population approximately 13), there is "no shopping, no good Chinese takeout, no Playboy Channel." Harry invites him to sign a pledge agreeing to abide by the City's laws, and he does so immediately.
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Night Court / int_2b9e3fb0	type	Give Me a Sign
Night Court / int_2b9e3fb0	comment	Give Me a Sign: Done frequently; just about every character has a soliloquy where they look to the sky and talk to "God" or someone deceased at least once.
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Night Court / int_2bdb6280	type	The Big Rotten Apple
Night Court / int_2bdb6280	comment	The Big Rotten Apple: Zig-zagged. On the one hand, New York City is portrayed as a filthy, crime-infested dump, as it often is in fiction. But most of the criminals are either harmless Stupid Crooks or semi-sympathetic Cloudcuckoolanders, rather than genuinely evil or dangerous.
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Night Court / int_2c3ec06e	type	Better as Friends
Night Court / int_2c3ec06e	comment	Better as Friends: Harry and Christine start dating at the end of Season 8. Midway through season 9, they split amicably, remaining friends. Lampshaded in the same episode where they break up, where Harry invites her to a symposium, which Christine says sounds "really boring" and says no. Instead of being disappointed, Harry is actually giddy:
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Night Court / int_2dc96e6c	type	Police Code for Everything
Night Court / int_2dc96e6c	comment	Police Code for Everything: The Wheelers are brought in on a 509b violation.
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Night Court / int_2eac5753	type	Narrative Profanity Filter
Night Court / int_2eac5753	comment	Narrative Profanity Filter: The defendant in "Death Threat" who claims to be God is brought in over an altercation he started at a deli. Some strong words were exchanged, which Dan liberally paraphrases for the court.
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Night Court / int_2f52c0af	type	Accidental Pervert
Night Court / int_2f52c0af	comment	In "Undressed For Success", Mac takes an underwear modeling gig for extra money. While he's changing in Harry's office, the women walk in just as he's taken off his shirt and all stop in their tracks.
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Night Court / int_2f62653b	type	Borrowed Catchphrase
Night Court / int_2f62653b	comment	Borrowed Catchphrase: Wanda borrows Bull's "O-okay" at their wedding.
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Night Court / int_2fd1d68a	type	Cool-Down Hug
Night Court / int_2fd1d68a	comment	Cooldown Hug: In the second episode, Harry delivers one to an angry, runaway teen, played by Michael J. Fox.
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Night Court / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Night Court / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Genderflipped: Roz is a scary black woman whom even the gargantuan Bull fears. Mac's not above intentionally invoking this when he has to. Aversion: Bull is a Scary White Man.
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Night Court / int_30de7a51	type	Chivalrous Pervert
Night Court / int_30de7a51	comment	Chivalrous Pervert: Dan Fielding, despite his protests to the contrary. Protesting the "chivalrous" part, that is.
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Night Court / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Night Court / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Mac and Roz are revealed to be this for Harry and Christine in "A Modest Proposal".
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Night Court / int_32e05e5e	type	The Prankster
Night Court / int_32e05e5e	comment	The Prankster: Harry took professional pride in it. Cleaver, to the point where he challenged Harry. And lost, big time.
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Night Court / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
Night Court / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: Several instances where the law or related legal process were misinterpreted or entirely made up and manipulated for drama or comedy purposes.
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Night Court / int_35543514	type	Just Eat Gilligan
Night Court / int_35543514	comment	Just Eat Gilligan: Invoked, it turns out Buddy spent 1971 coming up with ten thousand ways to get Gilligan off the island.
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Night Court / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
Night Court / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: Bull Shannon, who worked with Big Brothers and attempted to write a children's book despite being incredibly intimidating.
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Night Court / int_377effa6	type	My Own Private "I Do"
Night Court / int_377effa6	comment	My Own Private "I Do": Two examples. Christine and Tony were married in an improvised ceremony in an Italian restaurant the night before Tony was due to go overseas for a DEA operation. Bull - sick of how all of his friends and family were at each other's throats regarding plans for his wedding - improvised a more quiet, personal ceremony on the roof of the courthouse.
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Night Court / int_37a6a66a	type	Instrumental Theme Tune
Night Court / int_37a6a66a	comment	Instrumental Theme Tune: A bass- and saxophone-heavy number composed by Jack Elliott.
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Night Court / int_38621649	type	Prodigal Family
Night Court / int_38621649	comment	Prodigal Family: Resident Casanova Wannabe Dan Fielding prided himself on his suave, urbane image; an unexpected visit from his parents collapsed the lies he'd been feeding his co-workers and friends, revealing his bayou-country background and (in Dan's mind, at least) the most embarrassing first name ever.
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Night Court / int_38b48685	type	Born in the Wrong Century
Night Court / int_38b48685	comment	Born in the Wrong Century: Harry is basically a relic from The '40s, despite having been born in The '50s and living in The '80s. Christine's old fashioned sensibilities and prudish behavior are also out of place in the late-80's/early-90's. One of the reasons the two are a popular shipping pair.
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Night Court / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Night Court / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: One of the many, many people who have taken the court hostage over the years was a woman with a grenade who couldn't distinguish television shows from reality. She was played by Marion Ross, aka Mrs. Cunningham. She lists her many friends which were fictional TV characters and it included "The Fonz". Another one: Dan is being held hostage by an insane woman who acts out scenes from horror movies. When the TV announces that The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is about to begin, he says, "Seen that already." John Larroquette was the narrator for the original film. John Larroquette's character Dan, is a Captain in the Army Reserves, and is punished by having to serve in Alaska (see Reassigned to Antarctica below for the details). At the end of the movie Stripes, John Larroquette's character, a Captain in the Army, is punished by having to serve in Alaska.
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Night Court / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
Night Court / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Christine suffers frequently from this; in the episode "Giving Thanks", Dan frankly tells her that, although there are boundaries he will not cross (such as coercing or guilting her into sleeping with him), she will never be entirely "safe" from his advances; In "The Law Club", Dan is appalled to learn that Christine has been named the ultimate prize in a "sexual scavenger hunt" by a Manhattan lawyer's club, not only because of her looks, but because her prudish reputation makes seducing her a real challenge; In "Passion Plundered", an attractive reporter comes to the courthouse to interview Harry, and has Harry and Dan falling over each other trying to seduce her, neither of them knowing she's a lesbian; even male viewers wince at Dan's jerkass reaction to finding out:
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Night Court / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Night Court / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Buddy's life is a string of these (but he's feeling much better now!). Bull has also had his share of these. Dan's sex life qualifies too.
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Night Court / int_3c2c4f9a	type	Flame War
Night Court / int_3c2c4f9a	comment	Flame War: Actually Lampshaded when Judge Stone had to deal with an argument between fans of the old series and The Next Generation - literally. The TNG fans teleported away, which impressed everyone, while a fan said, "Oh, but can they do this?" (Vulcan Salute).
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Night Court / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Night Court / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: Occasionally pieces of super-technology such as teleporters, a handheld laser weapon or a sentient AI appeared, at a time when things like the internet and analogue cell phones were cutting-edge marvels.
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Night Court / int_3cd3a0f1	type	Femme Fatalons
Night Court / int_3cd3a0f1	comment	Femme Fatalons: The female lawyers made use of these on a couple of occasions, Billie Valentine once left visible scars in Harry's door with hers.
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Night Court / int_3d038b36	type	Rhetorical Question Blunder
Night Court / int_3d038b36	comment	Rhetorical Question Blunder: in "Here's To You, Mrs. Robinson":
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Night Court / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Night Court / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: In "Night Court of the Living Dead", Dan tries his hand at talking down a suicidal jumper on the ledge outside Harry's office:
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Night Court / int_3e0a0709	type	Fur and Loathing
Night Court / int_3e0a0709	comment	Fur and Loathing: During his Heelâ€“Face Turn in Season Eight, Dan becomes something of a hyper-environmentalist. He then turns down a hot date with an old girlfriend because she's wearing a mink coat.
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Night Court / int_3e74b72e	type	The Pollyanna
Night Court / int_3e74b72e	comment	The Pollyanna: Christine is infamous in the court for being a cheerful goody-two-shoes. When her personal life runs into turmoil, she becomes a Stepford Smiler.
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Night Court / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Night Court / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: Subverted, Tony and Christine's marriage ends the way you'd expect a marriage in which the couple had known one another less than six months and got married before one of them went away for six months to end. Notable because in the 80's sitcom world this was a well-executed, harsh reality check.
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Night Court / int_407e5ed1	type	Mistaken for Flirting
Night Court / int_407e5ed1	comment	Mistaken for Flirting: Harry Stone is nice to everyone. Hooker with a Heart of Gold Carla B. isn't used to being treated nice by people unless they want her "professional" services. So she mistakes Harry's friendliness for flirting with her. When she learns this isn't the case, she's devastated, but Harry still treats her kindly and lets her down easy.
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Night Court / int_41435fc2	type	Pie in the Face
Night Court / int_41435fc2	comment	Pie in the Face: The entire cast pays to have this done to Dan in "Harry and Leon" (Season 3, Episode 14); in that same episode, Bull pays to have it done to Harry. Also, in "Top Judge" (Season 5, Episode 20), the rival prankster judge Jimmy Cleaver (played by former SNL cast member Gary Kroeger [from 1982-1985]) hits Harry with this prank (pie coming from a briefcase with a clown hand throwing it), causing Harry to accept Cleaver's prank/joke war challenge.
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Night Court / int_41d5f145	type	Fluffy the Terrible
Night Court / int_41d5f145	comment	Fluffy the Terrible: Bull somehow ends up with an alligator he names "Muffin".
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Night Court / int_42008602	type	Story Arc
Night Court / int_42008602	comment	Season 6 has a Story Arc about Dan running for state assembly. The election ends in an exact tie (forcing a run-off election) due to a suicidal man who voted for Dan then killed himself, leaving a note explaining that the world was so screwed up it deserved "a man like Fielding." His opponent in the run-off turns out to be a gorgeous woman, and the two of them spend the night of the run-off in a hotel together. Dan's description of the run-off results: "Honey, you're kicking my head in."
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Night Court / int_437e70f5	type	What a Piece of Junk
Night Court / int_437e70f5	comment	What a Piece of Junk: Christine's Buick Roadmaster.
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Night Court / int_43ff290e	type	Revolving Door Casting
Night Court / int_43ff290e	comment	Revolving Door Casting: A whole bunch. Four actresses played the public defender: Gail Strickland (pilot only), Paula Kelly (the rest of Season 1), Ellen Foley (Season 2) and Markie Post (Seasons 3-9). Three female bailiffs: Selma Diamond, Florence Halop and Marsha Warfield for the last six seasons. Karen Austin, who played the court clerk and was the original romantic foil for Judge Stone, departed after only ten episodes. The show eventually settled on Charles Robinson in Season 2.
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Night Court / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Night Court / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: A subtle example with the Red Ranger mentioned above, as the episode goes on it becomes clear he's been playing his character for so long he no longer differentiates between his persona and his real self; when talking about the show he refers to his character as "I" and "me", as if he really did have those adventures, and frequenly refers to himself as "Red Ranger" as if it was actually his name. He hasn't even taken off his costume in thirty years. It takes Harry point-blank telling him he's just an actor to snap him out of it.
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Night Court / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
Night Court / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: Mac had one, revealing that he was astonishingly buff for a man his age.
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Night Court / int_45cec696	type	God Guise
Night Court / int_45cec696	comment	God Guise: There was more than one occasion involving people claiming to be God. One instance involved two men both claiming to be God (and then assaulting each other with turkey rolls), followed by another case involving dueling Moses. Another one had a crazy guy attempting to run for the position of God as if it were a political office.
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Night Court / int_45da2076	type	Improbably High I.Q.
Night Court / int_45da2076	comment	Improbably High I.Q.: Bull Shannon, who outscored everybody else in the cast at 181. Then he realized he was holding the paper upside down.
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Night Court / int_460e77de	type	Eskimo Land
Night Court / int_460e77de	comment	Eskimo Land: Dan finds himself there after his Army plane crashes in the Arctic.
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Night Court / int_47060811	type	Screaming Birth
Night Court / int_47060811	comment	Screaming Birth: The Season 3 Finale feature four simultaneous screaming births with our heroes having to handle the deliveries themselves because the courthouse is locked down. The highlight is Christine delivering triplets as the Spanish-speaking father begs God to stop giving him children.
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Night Court / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Night Court / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Dan was usually rude, condescending, arrogant, and self-centered, but he was capable of truly astounding levels of sincerity and sensitivity. He also risked his life, multiple times, to save both his friends and total strangers. Bernie, the concession stand operator mentioned above in Abhorrent Admirer, is also this to Selma as well. In many of his appearances with Selma, he would also often, in a very kindly and paternal way, try to persuade her to give up smoking.
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Night Court / int_47b21ca6	type	Stress Vomit
Night Court / int_47b21ca6	comment	Stress Vomit: Christine is so stressed out over whether she should accept a marriage proposal that she throws up in Dan's briefcase - we don't see it, but Bull figures out how to use his instant camera right then and captures it.
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Night Court / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Night Court / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Despite frequently deserving the bad things that happened to him, Dan Fielding suffered several indignities that not even he deserved. Chief among these were him losing all his savings after his accountant dropped dead at an IRS Audit after Dan was hit with a Gypsy Curse. Mel Torme, who suffered pain and humiliation at the hands of the cast in almost every appearance.
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Night Court / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
Night Court / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: On four separate occasions, and for four different reaons, Harry and his staff must get through an absurdly huge caseload by midnight Could actually be justified. Harry often spends more time than other judges would trying to get to the bottom of a problem, helping the involved parties come to a mutually agreeable solution/working through their issues, which slows down the courtroom, meaning cases can get built up to the point that they get dinged by their "managers" for having too much of a backlog, and have to work fast to clear it.
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Night Court / int_499499e6	type	Written-In Absence
Night Court / int_499499e6	comment	Written-In Absence: Harry Anderson does not appear in the Season 9 episode "Guess Who's Listening to Dinner?" It's explained that Judge Stone had to take time off after contracting food poisoning.
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Night Court / int_49d5f48f	type	Of Corpse He's Alive
Night Court / int_49d5f48f	comment	Of Corpse He's Alive: In one episode an important Japanese man dies in the court and his body ends up lost and riding around on an electric wheelchair around the courthouse.
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Night Court / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Night Court / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In the episode "Her Honor, Part 2," Harry has lost his job. Christine is trying to convince him not to give up hope and says, "There has got to be a way we can get your job back" Harry responds, "Like what? Like it turns out I'm on Dallas and I've been dreaming all this?"
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Night Court / int_4b25ddd8	type	Prenup Blowup
Night Court / int_4b25ddd8	comment	Prenup Blowup: When Harry is about to get married, Dan brings him what looks like a condom. When Harry turns it down, Dan expertly unfolds what then turns out to be a multiple pages long document, saying it's really a pre-nup, to Harry's even greater dismay.
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Night Court / int_4c0b402a	type	Crazy Workplace
Night Court / int_4c0b402a	comment	Crazy Workplace: Judge Harry Stone is almost the textbook example of a Bunny-Ears Lawyer. The Assistant District Attorney, Dan Fielding is a Handsome Lech. Bailiff Nostradamus "Bull" Shannon is a shaven-headed giant. Many of the Public Defenders who come through are unprepared for the assorted oddballs and loons whom they have to represent, or they are the Love Interest for Judge Stone. A trio of cantankerous Bailiffs served as Bull's partners over the years, two of them being cases of Actor Existence Failure, and many of their clients were very reasonably "held over for psychiatric evaluation". The common sentence for the plethora of Hooker with a Heart of Gold characters that came through was "Fifty dollars and time served". And, at one point, this was described as the most realistic law show on television. In addition to the regular cast, whose characters are, at best, eccentric, and at worst, Bunny Ears Lawyers, the defendants brought through include Yakov Korelenko, played by Yakov Shmirnov, who once tried to light himself on fire, a pair of rival gangs... based on Star Trek: The Original Series and then new Star Trek: The Next Generation, with the latter literally beaming out, and Wile E. Coyote.
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Night Court / int_4ec86e6f	type	Clark Kent Outfit
Night Court / int_4ec86e6f	comment	Clark Kent Outfit: One that took years to set up. Everyone thinks it's cute, if not laughable, when Mac is asked to appear in an underwear ad, until he strips down and reveals that under his sensible, unflattering clothes, he's pretty ripped.
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Night Court / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Night Court / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Dan is originally much more straightlaced and is portrayed as a snob with a bit of a lascivious side. Midway through the first season, his sexual appetite becomes more and more prominent and his characterization becomes much more animated. Bull is just a little sterner in early episodes. He also has a thin trace of hair rather than being completely bald. His quasi-mother/son relationship with Selma is also notable. As discussed elsewhere, Chuck Cunningham Syndrome runs rampant within the first two seasons, but it's especially strange since even between the first and second episodes, they go from one public defender to another. For that matter, Christine's appearance in the second episode of season two in which she plays a substitute public defender before handing the reins over to a character named Billie only to return in season 3 after Billie's departure, is a little weird, though at least when Christine comes and goes, it's explained that they're using subs and her being one is important to the plot. The original court clerk, Lana, seemed to originally be part of a sort of "will they/won't they" with Harry despite being engaged. In one episode, she's replaced with a perky, pretty clerk, yet there's no romantic tension with Harry or any particular dynamic with anyone. Eventually, Mac Robinson becomes Court Clerk, and since he's a dude, his relationship with Harry is a far cry from Lana's. Early on, Harry was a complete buffoon who didn't take his job seriously, and his unconventional courtroom methods didn't even work. While he would never lose his goofy, fun-loving side, he would become all-business in the courtroom and his "hunches" on how to resolve various cases usually worked well. The first episode was about a group of straight-laced professionals unsure how to rein in their wacky judge. Before too long, they were the wacky ones and Harry was the one trying to rein ''them'' in.
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Night Court / int_4f6d87f7	type	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
Night Court / int_4f6d87f7	comment	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Mac and Quon Le. Bull and several of his love interests qualify too. Pretty much any girl the male characters hooked up with qualified as the entire male cast was uncommonly tall (at one point even holding the world record for "tallest regular cast").
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Night Court / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
Night Court / int_500ecfb7	comment	The Big Guy: The series at one time held the Guinness World Record for the tallest sitcom cast, with all four male cast members well over six feet tall,note In ascending order, Charles Robinson was 6'3", Harry Anderson was 6'4", John Larroquette is 6'4.5", and Richard Moll was 6'8". Marsha Warfield is nearly six feet tall at 5'11", and even Markie Post at 5'6" was above the average height for American adult women. but Bull is a giant among giants. He is so tall that the door frame to his apartment has a special hole cut into the top so that he can go in and out without having to stoop. Subverted for laughs in "Nuts About Harry", when a group of mental patients enters, led by the 7'4" Kevin Peter Hallnote Hall's official height was 7'3", but his character's is described as 7'4": Since one of the other mental patients is played by James Cromwell (6'7"), this is probably the only thing he has ever appeared in which makes him appear of short or average height. Another beanpole, Michael Richards (6'3"), whose height makes him shorter than all of the male cast members, appeared in a different episode as a man who believes himself invisible.
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Night Court / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
Night Court / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: Harry and Christine's interaction was heavily laced with this.
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Night Court / int_510e5a9	type	Sassy Black Woman
Night Court / int_510e5a9	comment	Sassy Black Woman: Averted, Roz is incredibly deadpan, and generally alternates between stoicism and rage.
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Night Court / int_5190aa9b	type	Theatre Phantom
Night Court / int_5190aa9b	comment	Theatre Phantom: In the episodes "A Guy Named Phantom (Part 1)" and "A Guy Named Phantom (Part 2)", Harry and Christine are both confused over their feelings for each other, but before they can work them out, the deranged Dan (referring to himself as "The Phantom," wearing a mask and cape, and living in hiding) kidnaps Christine at a courthouse costume party.
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Night Court / int_54428f7b	type	Ashes to Crashes
Night Court / int_54428f7b	comment	Ashes to Crashes: A man named Herb dies, and his two daughters get into a fight over his ashes, ending up in Harry's court. They eventually resolve their differences and agree to stand by whatever arrangement Harry decides upon. Herb's remains are left at court, in Harry's office, and they eventually disappear, leading to the following dialog:
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Night Court / int_54f38833	type	PostScriptSeason
Night Court / int_54f38833	comment	Post-Script Season: Season 8 is over. Dan quits his job and loses the Phil Foundation fortune. More importantly, Harry and Christine have professed their love to one another. OK, that's the end. What's that? We've been renewed? Oh, crap!
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Night Court / int_551c5085	type	It's a Wonderful Plot
Night Court / int_551c5085	comment	It's a Wonderful Plot: The episode "Hey, Harry, F'Crying Out Loud — It's a Wonderful Life ...Sorta", in which a guardian angel shows Harry what the world would have been like without him.
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Night Court / int_554063c6	type	If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!
Night Court / int_554063c6	comment	If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Used in "Dan the Walking Time Bomb" to convince Dan's psychotic ex-classmate not to kill him.
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Night Court / int_55554032	type	Irrational Hatred
Night Court / int_55554032	comment	Irrational Hatred: Harry towards Barry Manilow, to the point that he nearly had a stroke when Christine told him that Mel TormÃ© recorded some music with Manilow.
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Night Court / int_566f1565	type	10-Minute Retirement
Night Court / int_566f1565	comment	10-Minute Retirement: In season 3's "Wheels of Justice" 2-parter, Harry briefly quits his job after being unable to stop a family from being evicted from their apartment, and said family's son chastising him, and the law in general, for failing them. It takes a passionate appeal from Dan that is equal parts "Reason You Suck" and "You Are Better Than You Think You Are" to get Harry to take up the gavel again.
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Night Court / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
Night Court / int_5798bfbf	comment	This almost literally happened to Dan, who was in the US Army Reserves. He was Reassigned To The Arctic Circle to help give physicals to polar bears, after he was caught faking an injury in order to avoid being called into active duty. Ironically, Dan only did that because he thought he was being sent into combat; his actual orders involved doing reconnaissance work with his Action Girl commanding officer in a Banana Republic, posing as a couple at some exotic resort.
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Night Court / int_58626d87	type	Genius Ditz
Night Court / int_58626d87	comment	Genius Ditz: Bull Shannon, in the later seasons, after his Flanderization into a technically brilliant but often oblivious Cloud Cuckoo Lander. His IQ was tested at 181. Then he realized he was holding the results upside down...
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Night Court / int_5a71be2d	type	Bad Santa
Night Court / int_5a71be2d	comment	In the episode "Let It Snow", a guy dressed as Santa Claus is brought before the court for something involving a prostitute, and there's a kid present as a witness, so Harry asks them all to be mindful of this. The term "Unusual Euphemism" gets strained to the breaking point:
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Night Court / int_5b88d4c4	type	A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted
Night Court / int_5b88d4c4	comment	A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: "Mac's Millions." Mac's grandfather dies and leaves all his money to Mac, who naturally quits his job at the courthouse. Then he loses most of his newfound wealth when he's sued over damages caused by a restaurant he bought in a previous episode.
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Night Court / int_5b92d2f	type	Virgin-Shaming
Night Court / int_5b92d2f	comment	Virgin-Shaming: In "Giving Thanks", Dan's "romantic assignation" with Christine is interrupted by a jumper outside their hotel room: The others' reactions as they enter are scarcely more helpful:
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Night Court / int_5dd191ec	type	Wife Husbandry
Night Court / int_5dd191ec	comment	Wife Husbandry: Averted, as Mac and Quon Le first met when she was a child in Vietnam and he was in his twenties, but he didn't fall in love with her until she was an adult.
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Night Court / int_5ecdd585	type	Renegade Splinter Faction
Night Court / int_5ecdd585	comment	Renegade Splinter Faction: Played for Laughs in "The Mugger":
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Night Court / int_5f1999a0	type	Building of Adventure
Night Court / int_5f1999a0	comment	Building of Adventure: The action very rarely leaves the 18th floor of the courthouse. In fact most of the scenes take place between the courtroom, the cafeteria, Harry's chambers, or the adjoining hallways thereof.
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Night Court / int_5f6ac848	type	Wrong Bathroom Incident
Night Court / int_5f6ac848	comment	Wrong Bathroom Incident: "Harry and the Rocker" has a Downplayed example. Due to Harry dating the titular Rocker of the episode, the courthouse is inundated by hundreds of the musician's screaming (and highly androgynous) fans. Liz and Selma position themselves outside of the restroom area and begin taking bets on whether the person entering is a man or a woman. At one point, a person enters the restroom. Liz bets "Male" and "Selma" bets "Female". The individual turns to the left at the junction, heading for the Women's Room. Liz hands Selma a buck. But then the individual returns to the junction, proceeds to the men's room, and Selma has to return Liz's dollar and also fork over another to settle her incorrect wager.
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Night Court / int_60426489	type	Citizenship Marriage
Night Court / int_60426489	comment	Citizenship Marriage: Mac and Quon Le started out as this. Subverted later on as it blossomed into actual love.
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Night Court / int_605b8f40	type	Bumbling Sidekick
Night Court / int_605b8f40	comment	Phil the Bum is perhaps the best example of this. Originally introduced in Season Two as one of the many background characters in the gallery of the courtroom, he became Bumbling Sidekick to Dan in Season Three and continued to make semi-regular appearances up through the middle of Season 8, where his accidental death facilitated Dan's Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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Night Court / int_60a66fb1	type	Head-Tiltingly Kinky
Night Court / int_60a66fb1	comment	Head-Tiltingly Kinky: Dan's boss' niece (played by Teri Hatcher) is attempting to seduce Dan (who feared the boss's wrath), and shows him pictures she took of herself in a photo booth ("Think about shot #3!"). Dan yelps when he sees the picture, then turns it upside down and yelps AGAIN! In another episode, Harry learns his Girl of the Week is secretly a porn star. He and Dan watch one of her movies in chambers, and both tilt their heads, then Dan stands up and leans over to tilt his head further.
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Night Court / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Night Court / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: During Season 8, Dan made an honest attempt at becoming a better person after being placed in charge of a charitable organization. It was a slow transformation but by the end of the season he was as nauseatingly cheerful and pure as he used to be sarcastic and sleazy.
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Night Court / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
Night Court / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One: In "Dan's Escort" a wealthy older woman wants to pay Dan for sex to try and forget her late husband. She wants "one sleazy, meaningless encounter with a nondescript, morally bankrupt gigolo." Also from "A Modest Proposal"
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Night Court / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Night Court / int_61b8f9e2	comment	In addition to the regular cast, whose characters are, at best, eccentric, and at worst, Bunny Ears Lawyers, the defendants brought through include Yakov Korelenko, played by Yakov Shmirnov, who once tried to light himself on fire, a pair of rival gangs... based on Star Trek: The Original Series and then new Star Trek: The Next Generation, with the latter literally beaming out, and Wile E. Coyote.
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Night Court / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Night Court / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: This is pretty much Roz's default facial expression. Anyone caught in it had best step carefully. Though he rarely uses it, Bull has a pretty good one, too.
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Night Court / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Night Court / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: Inverted; the show primarily centered on the courtroom and the floor it was on. Leaving there was a special occasion. The two-part episode "Crossroads" is a partially straight example. The main cast is quarantined in the courtroom after being exposed to a virus and each person passes the time telling stories of what they did before working for the courthouse. But since their flashbacks are dramatized the flashback settings don't make it a complete bottle episode.
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Night Court / int_6377d6e6	type	Grievous Harm with a Body
Night Court / int_6377d6e6	comment	Grievous Harm with a Body: Two examples, both in Season 5: In "Hit the Road, Jack", a riot is started in the cafeteria that involves Christine's father "knock[ing] Harry cold": In "Mac's Dilemma", Dan describes the actions of the defendant in a bar fight as getting into an argument with someone "...and then attacked him with a blunt instrument. Specifically, the manager."
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Night Court / int_639aa0cd	type	Did You Just Have Sex?
Night Court / int_639aa0cd	comment	Did You Just Have Sex?: In "Jail Bait", Christine winds up having a one-night-stand with a young street artist she defended. The next day, she is smiling a little more than usual, leading Dan to realize and announce loudly "You boffed the kid?!?"
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Night Court / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Night Court / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Harry, not so much in terms of physical strength, but his ability to get in people's heads and resolve tense, violent situations peacefully.
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Night Court / int_661d7909	type	Maligned Mixed Marriage
Night Court / int_661d7909	comment	Maligned Mixed Marriage: Quon Le and Mac faced difficulties winning the approval of both Mac's rich grandfather and Quon Le's father.
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Night Court / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Night Court / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Harry. He thought he had been abandoned by his mother for years until Buddy Ryan came to him and revealed that Harry's mother had been in and out of mental institutions for years. She had avoided contact after being released for fear that public knowledge that his mother was a mental patient might hurt Harry's career. She attempted contact by mail once, but the letter was lost in the mail for three Presidents.
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Night Court / int_67fedd35	type	Bizarrchitecture
Night Court / int_67fedd35	comment	Bizarrchitecture: The layout of the courtroom suffered from this in the early seasons. The same door could lead to Harry's chambers, Mac's office, another courtroom, etc. By season three, the doors which led to the usual places (the courtroom, Harry's chambers, the canteen) were pretty consistent, but the courtroom is explicitly and repeatedly said to be on the 18th floor even though the only elevator ever shown has a topmost limit of 12. Assuming the building in the opening credits is the one they work in, it doesn't look like it has even 12 floors.
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Night Court / int_694da243	type	At the Opera Tonight
Night Court / int_694da243	comment	At the Opera Tonight: "A Night Court at the Opera".
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Night Court / int_6a2c358d	type	A Death in the Limelight
Night Court / int_6a2c358d	comment	A Death in the Limelight: Dan's lackey, Phil the Bum, has significant screen time and backstory in the episode where he is killed off.
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Night Court / int_6b1013ef	type	Paranormal Episode
Night Court / int_6b1013ef	comment	Paranormal Episode: In an episode, Harry used his magic hobby to convince another character that he was exorcising some evil spirits, at one point using a book gimmicked to shoot flames when you open it. After it's all over, Art (the janitor) comes in saying "sorry I'm late" and gives Harry the prop burning book. So... what was up with that other book? The show liked gags like this, designed to yank the audience's collective chain. Other episodes had Bull somehow bring Harry's stuffed armadillo to life, and Bull turn into a child.
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Night Court / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Night Court / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Santa Claus in the first season Christmas Episode "Santa Goes Downtown". Not only does he know the real names of the teenage runaways in Harry's court (played by Michael J. Fox and Olivia Barash) even though they are using fake IDs, but a certain antlered member of his crew shows up to meet him (Selma refuses to deal with the "deposit" said animal leaves behind). Oddly averted in later seasons, when Bull has to be reassured by Roz that Santa is real, after Dan says that the last words he spoke to his younger sister two decades earlier were "There is no Santa."
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Night Court / int_6f0012b3	type	Speaks in Shout-Outs
Night Court / int_6f0012b3	comment	Speaks In Shoutouts: Nana Visitor plays a homicidal crazy woman with Multiple Personalities. Her personalities are taken from various movies.
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Night Court / int_71a3a3c0	type	Fully Absorbed Finale
Night Court / int_71a3a3c0	comment	Fully Absorbed Finale: The 30 Rock episode "The One with the Cast of Night Court".
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Night Court / int_722171e7	type	Straw Character
Night Court / int_722171e7	comment	Straw Character: Dan is a Republican, not uncommon in the Reagan era. It's mostly used for one liners and to create conflict with Harry, who is a Democrat. Christine was a stereotypical "bleeding heart", often displaying inordinate amounts of compassion and trust towards her clients. During her brief stint as a judge she is visibly distraught at having to bound over a convenience store robber for trial, and she once let a group of transients stay in her apartment, who subsequently robbed her blind. One episode featured a lamaze class which included an aggressively independent Straw Feminist single mother (Dan pretends to spot several well-known male chauvinists in a successful bid to use her anger to get through the last stages of childbirth) and a stereotypical "limousine liberal" yuppie couple (who ask Harry and Mac to marry them seconds before their child is born, doubling back on their previous indifference toward marriage). The show also regularly featured straw conservative Rabid Cops, and several members of the Secret Service, who were depicted as trigger-happy paranoiacs.
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Night Court / int_7485b8b1	type	Accidental Adultery
Night Court / int_7485b8b1	comment	Accidental Adultery: One case concerns a Vietnam veteran who went MIA and eventually came home to find his wife remarried. This proves to be a hard choice for the wife because she loves both of her husbands.
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Night Court / int_74e2ef76	type	Orphaned Punchline
Night Court / int_74e2ef76	comment	Orphaned Punchline: A Running Gag had characters saying "so the nun says, $20, same as in town!" This is actually the punchline to a Real Life dirty joke, which the writers couldn't tell in full on the show.
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Night Court / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Night Court / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Original court clerk Lana (Karen Austin) and public defenders Liz (Paula Kelly) and Billie (Ellen Foley) had all come and gone by the end of the second season; their departures were unexplained. Harry's girlfriend Margaret (Mary Cadorette) and Christine's husband Tony (Ray Abruzzo) had their departures explained; Margaret had to go into witness protection, while Christine and Tony divorced when they were unable to make their marriage work around their professional obligations. The fact that they had very little in common other than mutual sexual attraction didn't help either.
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Night Court / int_76d233f9	type	Straw Feminist
Night Court / int_76d233f9	comment	One episode featured a lamaze class which included an aggressively independent Straw Feminist single mother (Dan pretends to spot several well-known male chauvinists in a successful bid to use her anger to get through the last stages of childbirth) and a stereotypical "limousine liberal" yuppie couple (who ask Harry and Mac to marry them seconds before their child is born, doubling back on their previous indifference toward marriage).
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Night Court / int_76e631bf	type	Mattress-Tag Gag
Night Court / int_76e631bf	comment	Mattress-Tag Gag: At the start of "Russkie Business" Yakov shows up claiming to be a criminal and produces the mattress and pillow tags he's removed as proof.
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Night Court / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Night Court / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: A lot of these came through Harry's courtroom. Many of them came back so often the staff seemed to regard them as friends. One even turned out to be a highschool classmate of Christine's father. ("She was voted 'Girl Most Likely To.'")
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Night Court / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
Night Court / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: During Santa Goes Downtown while dealing with a couple of shoplifting juveniles (who also refuse to give their names)
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Night Court / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
Night Court / int_78c895c8	comment	Most of Bull's Amusing Injuries when the cast sees them. Especially when the explanation was that he had angered Roz in some way. One notable inversion, after Bull drinks water from a busted pipe to mitigate flood damage, Harry and Christine are shocked at how bloated he's become. Bull, being Bull, just goes about his business as usual.
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Night Court / int_792fef74	type	Cute, but Cacophonic
Night Court / int_792fef74	comment	Cute, but Cacophonic: "High pitched squeal" was pretty much Lisette's default setting.
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Night Court / int_79b5990c	type	Mr. Vice Guy
Night Court / int_79b5990c	comment	Mr. Vice Guy: Dan Fielding. Lech, pervert, he-slut—but also a man who cares about his friends and the law. And also surprisingly health-conscious. He always carries latex gloves and condoms in his briefcase, and once has a key prosecution witness who wanted to be all over him but was rebuked thusly:
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Night Court / int_7a2d9301	type	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure
Night Court / int_7a2d9301	comment	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: In "New Year's Leave," an Inspector Girard shows up to take an escaped convict back to prison. As soon as Mac hears the name, he's instantly prompted to ask if the Inspector is looking for a one-armed man. Not only does Girard not get the joke, he claims he's never watched TV. Seconds later, Harry enters and makes the exact same joke upon hearing Girard's name.
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Night Court / int_7ade0c2	type	Not in Front of the Kid
Night Court / int_7ade0c2	comment	Not in Front of the Kid: In the episode "Let It Snow", a guy dressed as Santa Claus is brought before the court for something involving a prostitute, and there's a kid present as a witness, so Harry asks them all to be mindful of this. The term "Unusual Euphemism" gets strained to the breaking point: In a later episode when a couple are brought in for performing a live sex act while a group of schoolchildren are visiting the courthouse-
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Night Court / int_7b3ebb57	type	Buxom Beauty Standard
Night Court / int_7b3ebb57	comment	A busty new hire (Jennifer Richards) in the DA's office pretended to be a Brainless Beauty to discourage Dan from trying to get her in bed.
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Night Court / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Night Court / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Dan has been unjustly accused of corruption and suspended and thus making ends meet working as a waiter. At the same time, Roz has been put on a new diet due to her diabetes and hates being unable to enjoy sweets so declares she's just going to go for it. She tells Dan that he has to fight back as she picks up a piece of cake and snaps on how you can't just give it up when the going gets tough, "you have to stick it out." Just as she's about to bite into the cake, Dan dryly asks, "You mean like you're sticking with your diet?" Roz freezes as she realizes he has a point.
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Night Court / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
Night Court / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: "Yet Another Day in the Life" had a case involving a fight between fans of Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation. The latter series starred Brent Spiner, who played recurring character Bob Wheeler on Night Court.
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Night Court / int_7cb9e33	type	Dying Declaration of Hate
Night Court / int_7cb9e33	comment	Dying Declaration of Hate: played for hilarious effect in Season 5's "Fire", when a man casts his vote for Dan in the State Assembly Race (making the race a tie and calling for a runoff election), then commits suicide.
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Night Court / int_7f9b4510	type	Human Knot
Night Court / int_7f9b4510	comment	Human Knot: Bull does this to Dan Fielding in one episode when Dan tries to stop him from leaving Harry's office.
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Night Court / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Night Court / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: In "World War III",American and Soviet arms negotiators have been at each other's throats for most of the night, until Harry orders them to wait in his office to cool down. The American has a tense phone call with his wife, who is refusing to follow the doctor's advice, leading the Soviet to grudgingly ask after her health. They're sitting beside each other on the couch, staring straight ahead, not moving a muscle in their faces... before they crack up and fall over each other laughing.
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Night Court / int_80a1d98f	type	Missed the Call
Night Court / int_80a1d98f	comment	Missed the Call: How Harry got his judgeship in the first place. The outgoing mayor was trying to stack the bench on his last day in office, a Sunday. He had a long list of candidates of which Harry was the bottom of the list. Being a Sunday afternoon, the majority of the people on the list weren't home to take the mayor's calls. (This was well before cell phones were common, obviously.) His Honor got to the bottom of the list and... Harry was home. Which is how a young, goofy guy like Harry got to be a judge.
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Night Court / int_81bdc398	type	He's Back!
Night Court / int_81bdc398	comment	He's Back!: In "Puppy Love" Dan's do-gooder ways have turned him into a simpering wimp with women, going to petting zoos and getting emotional about hand-holding and "cute" things. The woman he's dating gets frustrated that she went to the trouble of attracting the "great Dan Fielding," and got this wimp. After some name-calling and a couple of slaps Dan carries her off to the maintenance closet and has sex with her. As the pair of them exit, walking funny and putting various items of clothing back on, Dan turns to Christine and says, "I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack." In another episode, Dan struggles with a long bout of impotence. He eventually manages to shake it off by ravishing an attractive female lawyer over his lunch break. Having regained his confidence he swaggers over to Christine's desk and leans over to her:
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Night Court / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Night Court / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: There are some colorful personalities on this show. It'd border on World of Ham if there weren't people like Roz and Mac to level things out. Basically, just give Dan a bowl of scenery and stand back. For someone who prefers a dry wit, he sure is thin-skinned... and gets extremely animated when things don't go his way (and because it's Dan, that's most of the time). Harry himself — a consummate jokester who makes big, goofy faces to go with all his gags. Bull might not be on Harry and Dan's level, but he's an utterly guileless Cloud Cuckoolander with his heart always on his sleeve, so he tends to be a bit hammy at times. And speaking of hearts on sleeves, that also describes Billie Young, the public defender from season 2 (before Christine was a regular). Very animated, very passionate, extremely hammy. A lot of the cases Harry has to judge involve some really strange, and really loud, characters. Many of them enter the court arguing at the top of their lungs.
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Night Court / int_829b958e	type	Embarrassing First Name
Night Court / int_829b958e	comment	Embarrassing First Name: Two examples. Daniel "Dan" R. Fielding, who had his name legally changed from Reinhold Fielding Elmore. "Bull" Shannon's real first name was Nostradamus. This was revealed in Season 8, although much earlier episodes seemed to imply his real first name actually was Bull. This is doubly embarrassing for Bull, as his mother named him that because "she was always crazy about that hunchback!" He is quick to stop any attempts to correct her. His mother also gave him his nickname; not because of his size but because of her reaction to the news she was pregnant: "Bull!"
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Night Court / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Night Court / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: According to Reinhold Weege, the story Harry tells about how he became judge, that is, he got his assignment because the outgoing mayor of New York City made a huge number of appointments on his last day, and Harry was the only person on the judges' list who was home and was able to receive the call and accept his nomination, was actually a very true story involving former Los Angeles mayor Sam Yorty. Per Weege, Yorty was so angry that he lost his re-election bid to Tom Bradley, that he decided to hurt Bradley, whom he personally hated, by filling all of the judicial openings with unqualified or under qualified personnel.note Amusingly, Bradley was actually relatively unscathed by this action, and actually served 20 years in office, eight more than Yorty, and only ended up leaving office in 1993 due to low popularity points in response to the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Lana actually points this out at the beginning of the pilot episode, in which she mentions that she doesn't know anything about "Judge Stone" because the mayor filled all the vacancies at the last minute.
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Night Court / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Night Court / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Harry gets an epic one when he wins the prank war against the upstart Judge Cleaver:
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Night Court / int_87ab7f69	type	Sharp-Dressed Man
Night Court / int_87ab7f69	comment	Sharp-Dressed Man: Dan Fielding always comes into court with a nice suit. He talked up one particular suit as his best and most expensive yet, so of course, it was irreparably damaged by episode's end.
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Night Court / int_87d7e9fa	type	Surreal Humor
Night Court / int_87d7e9fa	comment	Surreal Humor: The entire show is a parade of one inexplicable, credulity defining premise after another.
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Night Court / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
Night Court / int_88cee6e2	comment	Bernie, the concession stand operator mentioned above in Abhorrent Admirer, is also this to Selma as well. In many of his appearances with Selma, he would also often, in a very kindly and paternal way, try to persuade her to give up smoking.
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Night Court / int_89d001bf	type	Do Wrong, Right
Night Court / int_89d001bf	comment	Do Wrong, Right: Several examples, usually from Dan: Season Five's "Her Honor, Part 3": Then in the same season's "Ladies Night", when Christine and "Big Maggie" get into a Cat Fight at a male strip club:
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Night Court / int_8a07e085	type	Denser and Wackier
Night Court / int_8a07e085	comment	Denser and Wackier: Even The Other Wiki acknowledges that the writers started making the plot secondary to the jokes as the series went on. Most people who remember the show remember it for being like this.
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Night Court / int_8b4f2a4f	type	'80s Hair
Night Court / int_8b4f2a4f	comment	'80s Hair: Christine until the seventh season.
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Night Court / int_901dbf9a	type	Cliff Hanger
Night Court / int_901dbf9a	comment	Cliffhanger: Multiple episodes, including a good portion of the Season Finales.
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Night Court / int_90507020	type	TheForties
Night Court / int_90507020	comment	Harry is basically a relic from The '40s, despite having been born in The '50s and living in The '80s.
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Night Court / int_91ba56d2	type	Friendly Scheming
Night Court / int_91ba56d2	comment	Friendly Scheming: One Halloween episode has Dan casually "selling his soul" to a man claiming to be the devil, but then getting more and more frantic when the guy starts displaying encyclopedic knowledge of Dan's past misdeeds. It turns out that it's all a prank on Mac's part and Dan faints in relief.
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Night Court / int_9350a0b9	type	The Tape Knew You Would Say That
Night Court / int_9350a0b9	comment	The Tape Knew You Would Say That: Harry uses this on a delusional, gun-toting woman (played by Marion Ross) who was holding the courtroom hostage.
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Night Court / int_944cd768	type	Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up
Night Court / int_944cd768	comment	Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up: Harry's grade school bully showed up as a defendant in one episode.
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Night Court / int_950329d8	type	Dynamic Entry
Night Court / int_950329d8	comment	Dynamic Entry: When Christine is being sexually harassed by a judge in his chambers, Bull puts a stop to it by knocking down the man's office doors and giving him a Death Glare. The man takes the hint.
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Night Court / int_95b875b1	type	Not Me This Time
Night Court / int_95b875b1	comment	Not Me This Time: When Florence was being forced into retirement after reaching the mandatory age, Bull drove out to Albany and somehow managed to acquire Florence's original birth certificate in hopes that they could possibly change it somehow. When it looks like Florence is going to retire anyway, the birth certificate randomly goes up in flames, destroying the evidence of her age. All eyes went to Harry, expecting this to be one of his magic tricks, but he was just as surprised as everyone else, not that anyone believed him. Turns out Christine was the one responsible.
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Night Court / int_97069d40	type	Harmless Electrocution
Night Court / int_97069d40	comment	Harmless Electrocution: In "Death of a Bailiff", Bull is hit by lightning. Although his heart stops briefly, he recovers quickly and claims he's ready to get back to work.
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Night Court / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
Night Court / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: Dan fancied himself something of one. Ironically, Harry and Bull were much better at attracting women with far less effort, if not particularly successful at maintaining lasting relationships.
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Night Court / int_9970d26b	type	Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality
Night Court / int_9970d26b	comment	Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: An old lady holds the court hostage to save an unjustly imprisoned man, not realizing the guy was just a character in a Soap Opera. Harry uses a TV news film crew to employ The Tape Knew You Would Say That (although she thinks it's The Television Talks Back) to show her the difference between reality and TV.
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Night Court / int_997d5872	type	"Ass" in Ambassador
Night Court / int_997d5872	comment	"Ass" in Ambassador: Frederick Streiko in Season Nine's "My Life As A Dog Lawyer".
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Night Court / int_9af42bed	type	Appeal to Tradition
Night Court / int_9af42bed	comment	Appeal to Tradition: In Season Three's "The Apartment", Quon Le's large extended Vietnamese family comes to live with her and Mac, driving him to homicidal rage, until her grandfather (Keye Luke) suffers a heart attack and Mac saves his life. Said grandfather then reveals that he speaks English, and is actually wealthy enough to put the whole family up at a luxury hotel. Mac asks why then they chose to stay with him and Quon Le?
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Night Court / int_9b2923bc	type	Mooning
Night Court / int_9b2923bc	comment	Mooning: A rare female version. Billie does this out the window of Harry's chambers in "The Computer Kid". Why? To convince a stodgy, stick-in-the-mud family to get out and live a little. The episode ends with quite a few people in the building across from Harry's office mooning back. The others look stunned, but Billie looks pleased as punch at this development.
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Night Court / int_9bf3470e	type	Santa Claus
Night Court / int_9bf3470e	comment	Even in the early, more serious seasons, Santa Claus was depicted as a real person.
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Night Court / int_9dd2cbc2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Night Court / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Bull, for most of the show's run. Later, Lisette the stenographer. Everybody in the show thinks Harry is one of these. Buddy was DEFINITELY one of these. But he's feeling MUUUUUUUUUUCH better now.
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Night Court / int_a05522e3	type	Alien Abduction
Night Court / int_a05522e3	comment	Bull experiences an Alien Abduction in the final episode.
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Night Court / int_a46eb25d	type	Election Day Episode
Night Court / int_a46eb25d	comment	Election Day Episode: One episode revolves around a local election which Dan was participating in. A fire forces everyone to take shelter in the morgue. After they're rescued, it's revealed that Dan initially lost the election, but this became a tie shortly afterward due to an uncounted vote. This leads to a second example.
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Night Court / int_a47278a0	type	Niceness Denial
Night Court / int_a47278a0	comment	Niceness Denial: "Dan's Boss": Dan learns that his new boss is a midget named Vincent Daniels. Dan spends the majority of the episode denigrating and insulting Vincent, until he ends up rather predictably fired. Harry gives Dan a What the Hell, Hero? lecture, which Vincent overhears. He relates the story of his Disappeared Dad, and Dan has a Jerkass Realization and sincerely apologizes. Vincent rehires him, leading to this moment: "Dan's Operation Pts. 1 & 2": Two particularly heartbreaking moments from the two parter. In the first half, Harry is trying to give Dan some sound, heartfelt advice, and Dan, in no mood, snaps at him, saying, "Has it ever occurred to you that the only reason I listen to you is that it is my job! I have to!" After Dan goes into a coma and then comes out of it, he and Harry have another heart to heart where Dan expands on that, saying that of the many, many women he's slept with, none of them have ever said to him "I love you", and he says that it's because in order to be loved, on must be able to give, and he cannot give. Harry, however, gives Dan a You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech. "Earthquake". Dan is trapped in an elevator with Roz and two sumo wrestlers (It Makes Sense in Context), after an earthquake immobilizes it between floors. Dan is panicking due to claustrophobia, until Roz slaps him. But when they're freed, Roz tells everyone that Dan was a real cool customer who handled himself well. When Dan asks her about it, later, she gives us this gem:
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Night Court / int_a49914aa	type	Bowdlerization
Night Court / int_a49914aa	comment	Bowdlerization: The season 8 episode "Bringing Down Baby" saw Roz's supervisor chew her out over her "inappropriate footwear" (purple socks). In the original airing, Roz's reply was "I can kick ass in bunny slippers!" Subsequent airings changed "ass" to "butt".
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Night Court / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
Night Court / int_a5e0c01	comment	Harry's idol, Mel TormÃ©, made periodic cameo appearances as himself.
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Night Court / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
Night Court / int_a60e3252	comment	The Wheeler family was originally portrayed as being from West Virginia, until outcry over stereotyping revealed them to truly be from Yugoslavia. Per Rule of Funny, neither their names nor their accents changed after this revelation.
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Night Court / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Night Court / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Phil the Bum is perhaps the best example of this. Originally introduced in Season Two as one of the many background characters in the gallery of the courtroom, he became Bumbling Sidekick to Dan in Season Three and continued to make semi-regular appearances up through the middle of Season 8, where his accidental death facilitated Dan's Heelâ€“Face Turn. Art The Repairman also qualifies, having first appeared in Season One, continuing to appear up through the Grand Finale. In the time between, he had an entire episode devoted to his efforts to woo Christine, gave away the bride at Bull's wedding and eventually began dating Bull's mother. Lisette Hocheiser, the ditzy stenographer that was featured in the later seasons. She appeared in nearly every episode of those seasons (although usually only had a line or two), but later was treated like one of the gang, to the point that she was the focus of some B-plots. Christine Sullivan, who was originally only intended to be a one-time guest character in Season 2 while Bille Young was intended to be the permanent public defender character. After Ellen Foley left the series Markie Post became available, so Christine returned to the show in Season 3 as a series regular and remained that way for the rest of the show's run.
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Night Court / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
Night Court / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: The show did follow the standard Sitcom mold of having everything go back to normal, if not by the end of the episode, than almost always before the end of the season. Most of the cast's romantic relationships were short-lived and didn't last long. Even Christine's marriage ended part-way through the following season and Harry's longest-lasting relationship was only half a season. The most notable exception was Mac and Quon Le, whose marriage lasted the entire run of the show. Numerous episodes depicted cast members quitting or being forced from their position in the Night Court only to wind up back in their old job by the episode's end. During Season 8, Dan's lackey Phil died, Dan inherited his hidden fortune and used it for altruism, reforming into a truly virtuous and noble man, and at the end of the season Phil's brother Will stole the money and Dan vanished. After the first two episodes of Season 9, Dan was back at the court and back to his old self, Will reformed and took Phil's place, and Phil's money was given to someone else to manage for the causes Dan had planned it for and nothing else was said of it. Despite Mac being set up to inherit his family's money very early on, when it finally happens, Mac ends up being sued for an incident involving the restaurant he bought causing a fire, leaving him broke. Ironically, he's quite happy with this chain of events, as he ended up only being broke; he was deeply in debt before becoming rich. He was initially much worse off after the fire, until Quon Lee talked the building owner into settling for the damages... which happened to be all the money they had. This was a change from her previous ways, as she was the one who actually accumulated all that debt, mostly because she just didn't have the background to understand about credit cards when she first showed up.
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Night Court / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Night Court / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Harry's favorite M.O.; Dan has used it a time or two as well. A busty new hire (Jennifer Richards) in the DA's office pretended to be a Brainless Beauty to discourage Dan from trying to get her in bed.
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Night Court / int_a806691d	type	Casanova Wannabe
Night Court / int_a806691d	comment	Casanova Wannabe: Dan Fielding. His luck with the ladies tended to be Depending on the Writer. Generally, they went whichever route would be funnier.
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Night Court / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
Night Court / int_a8217606	comment	Sweet Polly Oliver: Andy, the boy Bull was assigned as part of a Big Brothers program, turned out to be a girl named Stella (portrayed by Pamela Adlon, natch). Stella disguised herself as a boy purely to be able to experience what it was like to have a father, since all of the men in the Big Brothers program wanted to be paired with boys instead of girls.
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Night Court / int_a8de2a46	type	Eccentric Millionaire
Night Court / int_a8de2a46	comment	Eccentric Millionaire: It was revealed in Season 8 that Phil The Bum was one. In addition to living on the streets as a homeless man, he also possessed a crippling fear of musical instruments and had a life insurance policy that paid an insanely large sum if he was killed by one. note Which, as it turned out, he was, crushed by a piano outside Carnegie Hall.
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Night Court / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
Night Court / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship:
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Night Court / int_ab511101	type	Old Friend, New Gender
Night Court / int_ab511101	comment	Old Friend, New Gender: A season two episode had Dan learning an old friend of his from high school had now become a woman. He had trouble dealing with it at first.
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Night Court / int_ab729e43	type	Disappointed in You
Night Court / int_ab729e43	comment	Disappointed in You: When Harry's past as a juvenile delinquent surfaces, he decides to tell about what had happened. Taking a car for a joyride, he crashes into a liquor store. He notes the two nights in jail and a couple of weeks in reformatory were nothing compared to his trial, where his father just sat there staring at him, and after it was all over, all he could tell his son was, "You disappointed me, Harold." It has haunted Harry ever since, especially since his father dies before he could see him turn his life around.
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Night Court / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Night Court / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Dan, after insulting the little person who turns out to be his new boss, Vincent Daniels: After Dan was mistakenly forced to abstain from sex for two weeks, upon finding out - "I haven't had sex in two weeks!" and starts looking around at everyone in the cafeteria. Roz, typically the least likely to be intimidated shouts "Run for your lives girls!" and they all rush out. Dan's still looking around, prompting Harry to shout "Better safe than sorry, guys!" and then they also run out.
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Night Court / int_ad3d8092	type	Heartbroken Badass
Night Court / int_ad3d8092	comment	Heartbroken Badass: Harry, several times. But the worst was when his girlfriend Margaret had to go into witness protection. Dan has an affair with a female political rival. They end up having to part ways, and she gives him her old girl-scout compass in case he wants to find her again. Later, Dan turns down a date with one of his airhead girlfriends with "Not tonight, I've got a heartache" and looks at the compass.
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Night Court / int_add729b8	type	Nobody's That Dumb
Night Court / int_add729b8	comment	Nobody's That Dumb: Harry gives a very convincing tirade to convince Leon that Harry doesn't give a damn about him, finally convincing Leon to shape up and look for a caring foster family. Afterwards, Christine says she was entirely convinced, and Harry, surprised, says he thought everybody except Leon knew he was faking it.
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Night Court / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Night Court / int_ae3d6438	comment	Dan, from a Deadpan Snarker who had good luck with the ladies into a full-on Chivalrous Pervert. A rare example of this being done right, as Dan's later, more extreme characterization was far more popular.
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Night Court / int_aec37df9	type	Spring Cleaning Fever
Night Court / int_aec37df9	comment	Spring Cleaning Fever: Christine in Season 7's "Still Another Day In The Life." She's heavily pregnant and going through her nesting phase, so she spends the whole episode obsessively sanitizing the entire courtroom. By the end, she's driving a Zamboni through it.
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Night Court / int_aec43c5f	type	Thanksgiving Episode
Night Court / int_aec43c5f	comment	Thanksgiving Episode: "Harry and the Madam", "The Last Temptation of Mac"
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Night Court / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Night Court / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Several. Bull has one - "Ooo-kay." Harry's standard-issue sentence ("$50 fine and time served"). Lampshaded and parodied in Season 9. Replacement prosecutor Gilbert Gottfried suggests, just to break up the monotony, $55. Christine objects, Harry decides to split the difference at $52.50, and it prompts a tear from Bull, "the end of an era". Harry says "(name), if that is your real name..." when questioning a stranger on several occasions. "What's wrong with this picture?" (Harry, upon being presented with an utterly ridiculous situation) "Thank you, Nani Darnell." Said by Harry after someone makes a great show of giving him an item he needs. Darnell was the wife and assistant of American magician Mark Wilson. Several characters use "Say, that is good news" over the course of the show. Dan's "Ciao, baby!" Mac's "Oh my dear lord!" And, of course, Buddy's standard conclusion to most of his stories regarding his hospital stay or past strange behavior, "But I'm feeling muuuuch better now" (delivered with a big crooked grin).
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Night Court / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Night Court / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: The Wheelers really were intended to be from West Virginia, but after a number of people from that state complained, it was later revealed that they had actually come from Yugoslavia (where presumably the show had fewer viewers).
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Night Court / int_b267535d	type	Asian Babymama
Night Court / int_b267535d	comment	Asian Baby Mama: Double Subversion with Quon Le, who didn't become pregnant until after she and Mac were already married. And Mac, in defiance of the standard Asian Baby Mama trope, is a Black American soldier who served in Vietnam.
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Night Court / int_b2b16a23	type	Holding in Laughter
Night Court / int_b2b16a23	comment	Holding in Laughter: When Bull is reading some of his poetry out loud, Mac gets up and shoves a donut in his mouth to keep from laughing. It doesn't work for long.
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Night Court / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Night Court / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Dan is an arrogant, smug, womanizing jerk, but he has very strong morals and ethics when it comes to the law, and is proud of it. At least three separate storylines centered upon someone attempting to bribe Dan and being reported to the authorities. When a private law firm offered him a more glamorous and higher paying job, Dan found out that the woman doing the hiring didn't consider him the most qualified, she just wanted to sleep with him — Dan boasted to her that he has the highest conviction rate and fewest overturns on appeals of any prosecutor in the city. And while he did sleep with her, it was only because she was attractive; he refuses the job. In The Night Court Before Christmas, Dan spends a whole minute ranting at a toy company executive about what an unfeeling bastard he is for taking back the stolen toys accidentally donated to an orphanage on Christmas Eve, coolly finishing off with "And if you knew exactly who was saying this to you, you'd appreciate the full measure of that insult". In Guess Who's Listening To Dinner, Dan finds out that the woman he is dating is the daughter of a notorious mob boss note Played by the late Tony Jay, although speaking with a New York accent . Before he can end the relationship, he is invited to dinner at her house, being told that "Dad" is anxious to talk with Dan about his future with her. Everyone expects this to be an attempt by the Mafia to bring Dan "into the family", so they'll have an "in" with the NYC District Attorney's office. The truth is that dad knows about Dan's reputation ("To put it mildly, you have the morals of a rutting pig.") and he's so desperate to avoid a society scandal he's willing to pay Dan to discreetly break up with his daughter. In Giving Thanks, Dan saves Christine's life by performing the Heimlich Maneuver on her when she's choking during lunch; when she asks how she can repay him, he demands that she sleep with him. In the end, however, Dan is unable to go through with it because he knows Christine doesn't really want him, and releases her from her promise.
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Night Court / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Night Court / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: In "Once in Love With Harry," Dan Fielding loses an election to a dead man. This later happened in real life in the 2000 U.S. Senate election in Missouri.
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Night Court / int_b4f47048	type	Toon Physics
Night Court / int_b4f47048	comment	Toon Physics: Used in several places on the show, more often in later seasons, especially around Bull and his supposed indestructibility. In one episode, Bull sits directly next to a briefcase of TNT going off, but only has his uniform ripped up a little. Another time Bull uppercuts Dan a good fifteen feet into the air and into a perfectly Dan-shaped hole in the wall. Bull once glued his fingers to his head trying to fix something of Roz's he had broken. She pulled his fingers free, resulting in comedically stretched fingers. When Harry receives a piece of shocking news, his 40+-year-old picture of Mel Torme changes to a wide-eyed-jaw-dropped expression of shock. Roz once folded Dan neatly in half and stuffed him into a trash can. Bull gets stuck in an elevator that descends 18 stories to the ground floor and is compressed to half his normal height as he walks out of it. Dovetailed with Balloon Belly the time Bull attempted to stop the drip from a leaky pipe. Having used both fingers to plug the holes, he simply opened his mouth below a third drip. Later, Harry and Christine are horrified upon seeing his distended physique. Bull blithely walks away, sloshing as he goes, headed for a restroom.
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Night Court / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
Night Court / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: Season 5's "Hit The Road, Jack" has bag lady Papaya Patty brought before Harry. Leading to this:
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Night Court / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Night Court / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Several examples. In "Dan's Parents": In Season Two's "World War III", Bull asks Yakov if life in the Soviet Union is really that bad. Yakov asks Bull to imagine that he's "in the middle of Milwaukee", and will stay in the middle of Milwaukee no matter how far he goes in any direction. Bull runs off screaming. In The Mugger: "The Constitution (Part Two)" leveled a few at Ronald Reagan, who was the United States President at the time. One episode featured a jab at then Vice President Dan Quayle's youth and foolishness, as a boy in a suit was mistaken for Vice President Quayle by his own Secret Service detail. Another episode has a defendant who can't be more than 10 who is a practicing surgeon and called Loogie. A couple is put before Judge Stone accused burning books in public — 1,200 copies of the same book. Judge Stone goes on an angry tirade expressing his disgust toward anyone who would perform such an act. After Mac reads that the book is titled The Genius of Barry Manilow, Harry gives the couple a hefty penalty of one dollar.
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Night Court / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
Night Court / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: What the hell was Harry building with all of those things he had delivered in "Her Honor Pt. 3"? Not everything he ordered wound up on those glasses. Most of the things Dan keeps in his briefcase. Buddy once went looking for dice and a salami for a party game.
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Night Court / int_b892dd2d	type	Girl of the Week
Night Court / int_b892dd2d	comment	In another episode, Harry learns his Girl of the Week is secretly a porn star. He and Dan watch one of her movies in chambers, and both tilt their heads, then Dan stands up and leans over to tilt his head further.
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Night Court / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
Night Court / int_ba236071	comment	"Earthquake". Dan is trapped in an elevator with Roz and two sumo wrestlers (It Makes Sense in Context), after an earthquake immobilizes it between floors. Dan is panicking due to claustrophobia, until Roz slaps him. But when they're freed, Roz tells everyone that Dan was a real cool customer who handled himself well. When Dan asks her about it, later, she gives us this gem:
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Night Court / int_ba3b41d6	type	Ironic Echo Cut
Night Court / int_ba3b41d6	comment	Ironic Echo Cut: When a magician performs a trick in which sees Dan experiencing Breast Expansion.
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Night Court / int_bb30961	type	Born Unlucky
Night Court / int_bb30961	comment	Born Unlucky: The Wheelers are misfortune magnets.
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Night Court / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Night Court / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Bull Shannon, in the earlier seasons, when his character was meant to look like dumb muscle but was actually quite well-read and insightful. One episode even had his intelligence being discovered by a group of research scientists who recruit him to help in their work... until he reveals that he hates doing research full time, loves being a bailiff, and goes back to his old job (but still helps them out on occasion). To a lesser degree, Mac Robinson. Although it wasn't played up as much, Mac was in phenomenally good shape for a man his age and could hold his own in a fight. He was also an understated genius, being reluctant to start using a computer as part of his job but eventually being capable enough with them to write his own programs at a time when that required some know-how.
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Night Court / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Night Court / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Do not insult Mel TormÃ© around Harry.
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Night Court / int_bcb452a9	type	Weirdness Magnet
Night Court / int_bcb452a9	comment	Weirdness Magnet: The courtroom.
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Night Court / int_be0f728	type	Shoo Out the New Guy
Night Court / int_be0f728	comment	Shoo Out the New Guy: In season 3, Harry adopted an orphan named Leon. Leon was only shown actually living with Harry for one episode, and he was Put on a Bus before the season ended.
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Night Court / int_be981edb	type	Anti-Hero Substitute
Night Court / int_be981edb	comment	Anti-Hero Substitute: The defendant on one episode's case was an actor who played an extremely cheesy but popular Wild West hero called the Red Ranger (no, not that one), a stereotypical family friendly, Aesop-spouting fifties Chaste Hero, who was arrested for boycotting a new movie starring a much "edgier" and more historically accurate Red Ranger.
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Night Court / int_bee8baee	type	Faint in Shock
Night Court / int_bee8baee	comment	Faint in Shock: In one episode, Dan keels over in relief after learning that he's just been the victim of Mac's elaborate prank, and hasn't literally sold his soul to the devil.
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Night Court / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Night Court / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Dan, who was rather notorious for this.
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Night Court / int_c06ec61e	type	Corpsing
Night Court / int_c06ec61e	comment	They're sitting beside each other on the couch, staring straight ahead, not moving a muscle in their faces... before they crack up and fall over each other laughing.
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Night Court / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Night Court / int_c33ba0a8	comment	As discussed elsewhere, Chuck Cunningham Syndrome runs rampant within the first two seasons, but it's especially strange since even between the first and second episodes, they go from one public defender to another. For that matter, Christine's appearance in the second episode of season two in which she plays a substitute public defender before handing the reins over to a character named Billie only to return in season 3 after Billie's departure, is a little weird, though at least when Christine comes and goes, it's explained that they're using subs and her being one is important to the plot.
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Night Court / int_c3b51bb3	type	You Are Better Than You Think You Are
Night Court / int_c3b51bb3	comment	"Dan's Operation Pts. 1 & 2": Two particularly heartbreaking moments from the two parter. In the first half, Harry is trying to give Dan some sound, heartfelt advice, and Dan, in no mood, snaps at him, saying, "Has it ever occurred to you that the only reason I listen to you is that it is my job! I have to!" After Dan goes into a coma and then comes out of it, he and Harry have another heart to heart where Dan expands on that, saying that of the many, many women he's slept with, none of them have ever said to him "I love you", and he says that it's because in order to be loved, on must be able to give, and he cannot give. Harry, however, gives Dan a You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech.
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Night Court / int_c435ec5d	type	Aesop Amnesia
Night Court / int_c435ec5d	comment	Aesop Amnesia: Exactly how many times did Dan have to learn not to be a closed-minded Jerkass?
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Night Court / int_c498c82b	type	Cracks in the Icy FaÃ§ade
Night Court / int_c498c82b	comment	Cracks in the Icy FaÃ§ade: Dan Fielding is introduced as a self-interested jerk with a perverse streak a mile wide. Several episodes point to him having a hidden soft side, though. The first major example is when he falls in love with a wealthy but homely woman, and then decides he still wants to be with her when her father threatens to cut her off if she's with Dan. Unfortunately, she decides she can't live without the money, and leaves him. Over the course of the series he becomes a much more selfless and philanthropic person.
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Night Court / int_c4b0faae	type	Can't Hold His Liquor
Night Court / int_c4b0faae	comment	Can't Hold His Liquor: Christine is a female version; it takes very little to get her drunk, and in one episode, it took nothing; it was eventually revealed to her that the drink she was consuming had no alcohol, and she was being wild and crazy all on her own.
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Night Court / int_c631f304	type	We Want Our Jerk Back!
Night Court / int_c631f304	comment	We Want Our Jerk Back!: The cast's reaction to Season 8's Do-Gooder Dan.
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Night Court / int_c69902e7	type	Church of Happyology
Night Court / int_c69902e7	comment	Church of Happyology: While it was intended as a parody of pop psychology rather than cults, the support group Christine starts going to after her divorce has a lot of Happyology-esque traits.
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Night Court / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Night Court / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: During one of the "Day in the Life" episodes, one of the cases involved a children's author called "Dr. Wiggles", a Dr. Seuss esque children's writer. The entire case was done in Seussian verse. In one of the Halloween episodes, Harry starts dating a girl who turns out to be a self-confessed witch. When she tells him, he pauses and asks "Are you a good witch or a bad witch?"
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Night Court / int_c7d69d0e	type	Born in an Elevator
Night Court / int_c7d69d0e	comment	Born in an Elevator: Christine's son in the seventh season finale. Harry was born in a mental institution. Explains a lot, doesn't it?
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Night Court / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
Night Court / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Buddy eventually reveals that he's Harry's biological father.
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Night Court / int_c9d9a85f	type	Hot Witch
Night Court / int_c9d9a85f	comment	Hot Witch: Christine wore this costume during one of the Halloween episodes. In that same episode, Harry dated an attractive woman who turned out to be an actual witch. Speaking of Christine, she was once shown to be able to make pieces of paper burst into flames with a snap of her fingers, including things she couldn't possibly have rigged beforehand. And it was never mentioned again.
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Night Court / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Night Court / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: In "Santa Goes Downtown", one of the defendants in Harry's court is a man who claims to be Santa Claus. Two other defendants are a pair of teenage runaways, Eddie and Mary, and "Santa" tells Harry that he might be able to persuade them to return home if he appears to know things about them that he wouldn't ordinarily know. So he looks at the missing persons file on Harry's desk, and surprises Mary by knowing her full name and her parents' names, and Eddie by knowing his name and address. Then a doctor from a mental hospital shows up and identifies "Santa" as John Stevens, a patient who goes missing every Christmas, sometimes for weeks. After Harry is able to persuade Eddie and Mary that their families miss them in spite of the deception, they ask Stevens how he knew so much about them, and Harry admits he looked at the missing persons file on them, and opens the folder... only to discover the file is for Ben Kurosawa and Nancy Tanaka. Whether or not Stevens really is Santa is left ambiguous, although Harry does see a reindeer in the hallway later in the evening...
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Night Court / int_cd8c578c	type	My Eyes Are Up Here
Night Court / int_cd8c578c	comment	My Eyes Are Up Here: Markie Post was quite busty, and several gags revolve around Christine's bust size; usually around her disgusted reactions to lecherous admiration of her breasts.
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Night Court / int_cdd676a3	type	Hyper-Competent Sidekick
Night Court / int_cdd676a3	comment	Hypercompetent Sidekick: Mac, though downplayed in that his boss wasn't incompetent.
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Night Court / int_ce70175b	type	Sociopathic Soldier
Night Court / int_ce70175b	comment	Sociopathic Soldier: In "Nuts About Harry":
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Night Court / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
Night Court / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Christine seems almost incapable of swearing, it takes three days of mental torture taking care of a neighbor's baby to get her to the point where she'd even consider it. In a nearly verbatim example: When she is furious at Harry for voting for Dan instead of his female opponent in the State Assembly race: Mac has one when Harry springs his ultimate prank in his prank war with another judge.
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Night Court / int_d143edf2	type	Everybody Did It
Night Court / int_d143edf2	comment	Everybody Did It: In Season Three's "Harry and Leon", a "field representative" of a "novelty entertainment" firm hits Dan in the face with a chocolate cream pie. Inverted in that everyone hired the firm to pie Dan, but none of them realized it except Dan, who arranged in advance for the firm to keep one "hit" fee, and give him the rest in exchange for not getting sued.
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Night Court / int_d2c125f3	type	Gypsy Curse
Night Court / int_d2c125f3	comment	Gypsy Curse: The entire court was hit with one in Season Two. Bull fell into a deep trance and Dan lost all his savings after his accountant, who was in the middle of an IRS audit at the time, dropped dead.
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Night Court / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Night Court / int_d39e327f	comment	"Dan's Boss": Dan learns that his new boss is a midget named Vincent Daniels. Dan spends the majority of the episode denigrating and insulting Vincent, until he ends up rather predictably fired. Harry gives Dan a What the Hell, Hero? lecture, which Vincent overhears. He relates the story of his Disappeared Dad, and Dan has a Jerkass Realization and sincerely apologizes. Vincent rehires him, leading to this moment:
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Night Court / int_d42626f9	type	Fake Boobs
Night Court / int_d42626f9	comment	Fake Boobs: Dan is given a literal pair — of the inflatable sort — during the prank war between Judge Stone and Judge Cleaver.
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Night Court / int_d45bdfee	type	Locked in a Freezer
Night Court / int_d45bdfee	comment	Locked in a Freezer: There was never a literal freezer, but various episodes did center upon the cast being trapped due to various hazards, including... ... a fire, which forced the cast to take refuge in the courthouse morgue. ...a hurricane. ...the release of a deadly virus. ...stuck elevators. At least twice. ...snowed in. Twice. Once with no food and once with no working heat. Harry also once locked himself in a safe. Christine and Tony got trapped in a boiler room, though that could be considered Sauna of Death.
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Night Court / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Night Court / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Bull might not be on Harry and Dan's level, but he's an utterly guileless Cloud Cuckoolander with his heart always on his sleeve, so he tends to be a bit hammy at times.
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Night Court / int_d5dfb30a	type	Professional Butt-Kisser
Night Court / int_d5dfb30a	comment	Professional Butt-Kisser: Dan sucked up to anyone with any kind of authority, whether it be political, legal or even religious.
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Night Court / int_d6519b1b	type	Rabid Cop
Night Court / int_d6519b1b	comment	The show also regularly featured straw conservative Rabid Cops, and several members of the Secret Service, who were depicted as trigger-happy paranoiacs.
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Night Court / int_d67aae8f	type	It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
Night Court / int_d67aae8f	comment	It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: In "Clipshow: Part 1", Bull begins this way when relating the events of "Death of a Bailiff", when he was struck by lightning.
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Night Court / int_d7ecbd57	type	You're Insane!
Night Court / int_d7ecbd57	comment	You're Insane!: Said frequently to Harry, usually with the same response: In "Billie and the Cat: In "Caught Red Handed": In "Pen Pal":
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Night Court / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Night Court / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Most of the cast with each other, although the best example would be Harry and Dan. Although Dan's respect for Harry as his superior is begrudging as best, and Harry doesn't always approve of Dan's less-then-moral tendencies. However the two have had some zany moments together, and when the situation requires it, they have each other's backs.
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Night Court / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Night Court / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: When Yakov's wife Sonya is coming from the Soviet Union he mentions being "excited", which is technically accurate, though he really means he's "horny". When Sonya is delayed entering the country, Christine tells him not to get excited and he says, "Enough with that dirty talk."
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Night Court / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Night Court / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Wile E. Coyote being arraigned. The reaction of the original Trekkies when the TNG fans beam away. Most of Bull's Amusing Injuries when the cast sees them. Especially when the explanation was that he had angered Roz in some way. One notable inversion, after Bull drinks water from a busted pipe to mitigate flood damage, Harry and Christine are shocked at how bloated he's become. Bull, being Bull, just goes about his business as usual.
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Night Court / int_da72023b	type	Back to School
Night Court / int_da72023b	comment	Back to School: Harry is forced to retake a high-school history class in "A Family Affair". This is a more justified example than most as it was revealed that he received an incomplete in the class, which would have invalidated his high school diploma and law degree and gotten him kicked off the bench unless he passed the exam.
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Night Court / int_da76ae0b	type	Dead End Job
Night Court / int_da76ae0b	comment	Dead End Job: The series went through three female bailiffs over the course of its run. This wasn't entirely intentional as the first two, Selma and Florence, were elderly women who both passed away when their actresses passed in real life. The third bailiff, Roz, made it to the end of the series, though one episode focused on her having a diabetes scare.
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Night Court / int_db99b292	type	Mondegreen Gag
Night Court / int_db99b292	comment	Mondegreen Gag: "Death of a Bailiff", Bull gives away all his possessions after a near-death experience in which he thinks God said to him "Give to the poor, and thou shalt have riches in heaven." It was actually Art whom Bull was feeding cable to, who said over a walkie-talkie, "Give me some more; I'll shout when it reaches eleven."
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Night Court / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Night Court / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Harry thinks the fact that he and Buddy both had an allergic reaction to some au gratin potatoes is proof that Buddy's his biological father (as he had suspected for a while). Turned out that Buddy was allergic to the potato, Harry to the cheese. Later, Buddy does fess up to being Harry's dad.
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Night Court / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Night Court / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Harry, who combined this trope with a large dash of Benevolent Boss. Later seasons challenged this a bit, as it was established that he frequently used his authority to force the court staff to do various activities (e.g. birthday parties, forming a bowling team). His intentions were good, but it caused some minor resentment in later episodes.
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Night Court / int_dceccabf	type	Cat Fight
Night Court / int_dceccabf	comment	Then in the same season's "Ladies Night", when Christine and "Big Maggie" get into a Cat Fight at a male strip club:
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Night Court / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Night Court / int_dda99fa8	comment	Harry is left with no choice by existing law but to evict a mother and son from their apartment. The son is subsequently shot trying to rob a liquor store. Harry is nearly driven to quit. It's ultimately Dan who convinces Harry not to quit with a rather moving speech about how Harry is a good, impartial, and fair judge and the justice system would suffer greatly without him.
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Night Court / int_df6f7dcd	type	Overly Long Airplane Banner Gag
Night Court / int_df6f7dcd	comment	Overly Long Airplane Banner Gag: "Constitution" actually does it without an airplane. Bull puts up a "Welcome Home Roz" banner that runs the entire length to the courtroom: eighteen floors. Plus six feet.
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Night Court / int_e0d0fb13	type	Please Put Some Clothes On
Night Court / int_e0d0fb13	comment	Please Put Some Clothes On: On the episode "Prince of a Guy," a woman who has been arrested for swimming nude in Central Park claims to be a princess from a tropical island. While standing in Harry's office, he asks her to just relax. She obliges by removing her bikini top with her back to the camera, forcing Harry to say, "I've never actually said this to anyone before, but could you put your top back on?" It becomes even funnier since Roz was in the room with the two of them. When Harry said relax and the princess disrobed, Roz says, "I'm your witness sir. You did absolutely nothing to provoke this." After Harry continues to stare for a couple of seconds, Roz quips, "Of course, you are doing nothing to stop it, either."
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Night Court / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Night Court / int_e2d457	comment	Lisette Hocheiser, the ditzy stenographer that was featured in the later seasons. She appeared in nearly every episode of those seasons (although usually only had a line or two), but later was treated like one of the gang, to the point that she was the focus of some B-plots.
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Night Court / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
Night Court / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Phil, to Dan. Not at first, but Dan took Phil's death very hard and it was clear that he cared about Phil a lot more than he would ever dare let on. In one episode it was shown that Harry was this to Dan. It was the episode where it's shown what would happen if Harry was never born. Dan goes full-blown Card-Carrying Villain and takes over New York.
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Night Court / int_e48b8fb9	type	Best Woman
Night Court / int_e48b8fb9	comment	Best Woman: Roz was this to Bull at his wedding.
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Night Court / int_e4c89b67	type	Attending Your Own Funeral
Night Court / int_e4c89b67	comment	Attending Your Own Funeral: Dan does this after everyone thinks he died when his Army plane crashed in the Arctic.
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Night Court / int_e5a11ab1	type	Stopped Dead in Their Tracks
Night Court / int_e5a11ab1	comment	Stopped Dead in Their Tracks: "The Wheels of Justice pt. 2", after Harry was forced to evict a family and the son was shot trying to hold up a liquor store, Harry quits. The reason it's only a brief pause for him? They track him down to a pool hall where he's hustling pool, and after the others leave, Dan tears into him, in one of his greatest Jerk with a Heart of Gold moments. He tells Harry he'd just broken him in and now he was going to have to deal with a new guy. When that doesn't sway Harry, he says he'll give Harry's respects to the downtrodden. Harry accuses Dan of not playing fair, and tries to walk off. Dan stops him dead in his tracks by going into Sincerity Mode and telling him he was just and fair, and that he admired him for it.
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Night Court / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
Night Court / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: Dan, from a Deadpan Snarker who had good luck with the ladies into a full-on Chivalrous Pervert. A rare example of this being done right, as Dan's later, more extreme characterization was far more popular. Bull, who went from a Genius Bruiser to a Cloud Cuckoo Lander with increasingly infrequent moments of being a Genius Ditz.
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Night Court / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Night Court / int_e71db2e	comment	Depraved Kids' Show Host: Emil Dutton, aka Mr. Froufrou, a clown and defendant in Season 1, who even Dan called a "fallen idol of children everywhere".
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Night Court / int_e78c698f	type	In Prison with the Rogues
Night Court / int_e78c698f	comment	In Prison with the Rogues: Lampshaded in "Her Honor":
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Night Court / int_e7dfebe8	type	I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!
Night Court / int_e7dfebe8	comment	I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: In Another Day In The Life, Christine flashes a millionaire to distract him so Harry can win an arm-wrestling contest and save an orphanage.
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Night Court / int_e7fd5cdc	type	Brain Bleach
Night Court / int_e7fd5cdc	comment	Brain Bleach: Everyone became sick to their stomachs when they found out that Art was planning to marry Bull's mother.
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Night Court / int_e87d741f	type	Lamaze Class
Night Court / int_e87d741f	comment	Lamaze Class: Two instances. The Season 3 finale, "Hurricane", focused upon the cast having to deliver several babies after a Lamaze class becomes trapped in the courthouse during the titular hurricane. Season 7 episode "My Three Dads" centers upon Dan, Bull and Harry all trying to help Christine at hers.
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Night Court / int_e8b295de	type	PlayedWith
Night Court / int_e8b295de	comment	Played With as Sonia weeps and begs her husband to still love her, even after she has been horribly "disfigured" by her surgery, prompting Flo to wonder if they've been dropped into some alternate universe.
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Night Court / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Night Court / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: In a Season One episode, a group of beauty contestants are brought in for attacking their pageant coordinator: Narrowly averted in "Chrizzi's Honor": the gang is trapped in Christine's apartment with a professional hitman stalking one of the guests. Dan says the simplest solution is just to scream for help out the window: In "Hit the Road, Jack", Christine's father Jack surprises her with "guess who?" hands over her eyes; she responds by elbowing him in the sides and grabbing him in a headlock, before realizing who he is; naturally, he is very proud: Hilariously lampshaded in "Heart of Stone", when the courthouse handyman returns Harry's suit of medieval armor; whne the codpiece falls off, he says it just needs some "minor adjustment", and hits it with a hammer - hard, and repeatedly. In "Branded, Part I", Dan makes the mistake of laughing his head off at a picture of Roz in her younger years. She responds by pulling Dan's trousers up to his armpits, whereupon Dan apologizes in a very squeaky voice.
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Night Court / int_eb6912	type	Pretty Fly for a White Guy
Night Court / int_eb6912	comment	Pretty Fly for a White Guy: During one of the "Day in the Life" episodes, Harry adjudicates a dispute between three young black men and three rapping Hasidic Jews.
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Night Court / int_eb6da8ef	type	Crossover
Night Court / int_eb6da8ef	comment	Crossover: Night Court was introduced to a new generation from the crossover/Shout-Out in 30 Rock. There's also the fan theory that con-man Harry The Hat from Cheers moved from Boston and is currently masquerading as a judge in New York City. Judge Wilbur from My Two Dads showed up from time to time.
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Night Court / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Night Court / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	In "Passion Plundered", an attractive reporter comes to the courthouse to interview Harry, and has Harry and Dan falling over each other trying to seduce her, neither of them knowing she's a lesbian; even male viewers wince at Dan's jerkass reaction to finding out:
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Night Court / int_ece6f910	type	Moment Killer
Night Court / int_ece6f910	comment	Dan saves Christine from choking and exacts a night of passion in a hotel as a way of repayment. A Moment Killer came (much to Christine's relief) in the form of a jumper on a ledge outside their window.
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Night Court / int_ee9fc22	type	I Broke a Nail
Night Court / int_ee9fc22	comment	I Broke a Nail: In an episode featuring Christine's meddling father, he buys her a big 1949 Buick on the grounds that it's safer than modern cars. She blows up at him for trying to take over her life, but they reconcile shortly afterward. The next day news comes that Christine was in a horrific car crash and her car went end over end.
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Night Court / int_ef20dac5	type	Servile Snarker
Night Court / int_ef20dac5	comment	Servile Snarker: After Dan saved Christine's life he tried to bed her in a hotel run by a sarcastic, snobby British manager. (No, not that one.) Mac plays this role for Harry very often, when he's not doing regular snark at everyone else.
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Night Court / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
Night Court / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Christine appeared in one episode of Season Two before becoming a main character in Season Three and for the rest of the show's run. This was because the producers desperately wanted Markie Post to be a regular but she was already under contract to play Terri Shannon on The Fall Guy and was only available for that one episode. The character of Christine was created specifically with the intention of being brought back once Post's schedule cleared up.
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Night Court / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Night Court / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Christine flashes Otis in "Another Day in the Life" to swing his arm wrestling match with Harry at the end. In "Undressed For Success", Mac takes an underwear modeling gig for extra money. While he's changing in Harry's office, the women walk in just as he's taken off his shirt and all stop in their tracks.
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Night Court / int_f2dadf81	type	Evil Twin
Night Court / int_f2dadf81	comment	Evil Twin: Con-man Will Sanders, to bum Phil Sanders.
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Night Court / int_f41b26d	type	Breast Expansion
Night Court / int_f41b26d	comment	Breast Expansion: Done to Dan Fielding.
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Night Court / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Night Court / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Bailiff Selma Hacker was replaced by Florence Kleiner in Season 3. Bull even lampshades their similarities by describing Selma to Florence as short, angry, and having a funny voice. Averted in Season 4 on with Roz, part of the reason being that since Florence Halop only lasted a year as Selma Diamond's replacement before having her own health problems, they decided to retool the replacement to be markedly younger.
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Night Court / int_f68f2745	type	Shoe Shine, Mister?
Night Court / int_f68f2745	comment	Shoe Shine, Mister?: For a little while there's a shoeshine stand that's an important place in the courthouse, with the shiner as a recurring character.
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Night Court / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
Night Court / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: Anytime anyone convinces Harry of being crazy, they're met with him affirming their assertation. Anyone accusing Dan of being a depraved, immoral pervert will usually get indifference or enthusiastic agreement from him. Dan did stick up for himself when he was accused of being unethical, which he wasn't. He may be a perpetually horny gigolo with the libido of a teenager, but he is an ethical and law-abiding one.
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Night Court / int_f7dc8339	type	City People Eat Sushi
Night Court / int_f7dc8339	comment	City People Eat Sushi: Inverted in one episode, where two Sumo wrestlers from Japan are disgusted by sushi, but do seem to like American food, including McDonalds.
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Night Court / int_f92c808	type	Sauna of Death
Night Court / int_f92c808	comment	Christine and Tony got trapped in a boiler room, though that could be considered Sauna of Death.
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Night Court / int_f9375414	type	FacePalm
Night Court / int_f9375414	comment	Face Palm: Bull might be one of the earliest regular users of the gesture in pop culture. Though he usually did it when he realized the implications of something stupid he'd done.
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Night Court / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Night Court / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Any time that Mel Torme guest-starred he and Judge Stone would spend the entire episode managing to (unintentionally) avoid each other. Almost as often, Mel would be accidentally abused in some way while at the courthouse, causing him to dislike Harry, his biggest fan.
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Night Court / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
Night Court / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: In the episode "The Trouble Isn't in Your Set," Dan tells a woman (played by Marion Ross) to get lost by saying "go suck on a tea bag." Sounds a bit dirtier today....
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Night Court / int_fb6666b4	type	The Comedy Drop
Night Court / int_fb6666b4	comment	The Comedy Drop: When Christine faints under the mistaken belief that Bull fell from the roof, Bull carries her down to Harry's office. He tells everyone she's not as light as she looks before dumping her on Harry's sofa.
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Night Court / int_fb724048	type	Real After All
Night Court / int_fb724048	comment	Real After All: Santa Claus in the first season Christmas Episode "Santa Goes Downtown". Not only does he know the real names of the teenage runaways in Harry's court (played by Michael J. Fox and Olivia Barash) even though they are using fake IDs, but a certain antlered member of his crew shows up to meet him (Selma refuses to deal with the "deposit" said animal leaves behind). Oddly averted in later seasons, when Bull has to be reassured by Roz that Santa is real, after Dan says that the last words he spoke to his younger sister two decades earlier were "There is no Santa." Then there was Bull's reaction after Harry used anatomically correct paper dolls, scissors and a stapler to explain how Dan's best friend as a boy had become a woman.
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Night Court / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Night Court / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Bull, frequently. Take season 3's "Monkey Business," for example — Bull tries to save an orangutan from its owner's potentially lethal experiments, but Harry has to remind him what the consequences are.
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Night Court / int_fc0b5019	type	Stepping Out to React
Night Court / int_fc0b5019	comment	Stepping Out to React: After hearing the details of an mishap involving sideshow performers at a child's birthday party, Judge Harry Stone reminds the court this is a very serious manner, ducks down behind his bench to laugh hysterically, then reappears with a sober expression.
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Night Court / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
Night Court / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: This exchange from Bob & June Wheeler:
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Night Court / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Night Court / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones:
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Night Court / int_fcefb552	type	Ugly Slavic Women
Night Court / int_fcefb552	comment	Ugly Slavic Women: This trope became a running gag for Yakov Smirnoff's character. In his first appearance on the show, Smirnoff's character (also named Yakov) is an immigrant from Soviet Russia who speaks almost no English, and Harry is forced by circumstance to befriend him despite the language barrier (It Makes Sense in Context). At one point, Harry gets to see the inside of Yakov's wallet and see photos of his loved ones. Harry is initially confused as to why Yakov has a photo of Soviet Premier Breshnev in his wallet, until Yakov explains that's his wife, Sonia. Since then, each time Yakov made an appearance, reference is made to how painfully ugly Sonia is, until the episode where finally we get to meet Sonia... and she's absolutely gorgeous. Naturally, Yakov thinks she's a KGB impostor, even as she claims her new appearance is due to Magic Plastic Surgery, required due to an accident. Played With as Sonia weeps and begs her husband to still love her, even after she has been horribly "disfigured" by her surgery, prompting Flo to wonder if they've been dropped into some alternate universe.
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Night Court / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Night Court / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: The man who takes an original copy of The US Constitution hostage in Constitution (Part 2) His motivation? He just wanted thirty seconds to speak about how important the document was in the midst of a tacky television special celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Constitutional Convention.
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Night Court / int_fdee2c8f	type	Singing Telegram
Night Court / int_fdee2c8f	comment	Singing Telegram: Dan goes off on an assignment with the army and the staff at the court receives a telegram. Harry pays the delivery boy some extra money to have him sing it to them. So, he sings to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" "The U.S. Army sadly states/sometime yesterday/Captain Fielding's plane went down/north of Hudson Bay."
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Night Court	hasFeature	It Tastes Like Feet / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	It's a Costume Party, I Swear! / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	I've Got an X, and I'm Not Afraid to Use It! / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Japanese Tourist / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Job's Only Volunteer / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Lamaze Class / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Language of Love / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Legally Dead / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Locked in a Freezer / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	"London, England" Syndrome / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Long-Runner Cast Turnover / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Loony Laws / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Lovable Sex Maniac / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Lover's Ledge / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Marathon Running / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Marriage of Convenience / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Maternity Crisis / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Mathematician's Answer / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Mattress-Tag Gag / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Maximum Capacity Overload / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Men Are the Expendable Gender / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Midseason Replacement / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Mistaken for Flirting / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Money, Dear Boy / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Mooning / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	My Own Private "I Do" / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Napoleon Delusion / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	New Child Left Behind / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Niceness Denial / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	No Party Given / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	No-Tell Motel / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Non Sequitur, Thud / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Non-Verbal Miscommunication / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Not Big Enough for the Two of Us / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Not in Front of the Kid / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	"Not Wearing Pants" Dream / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Odd Name, Normal Nickname / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Old Friend, New Gender / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Once More, with Volume! / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	One-Line Anxiety / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Only the Creator Does It Right / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Open Heart Dentistry / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Orphaned Punchline / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Our Nudity Is Different / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Out with a Bang / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Piano Drop / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Place Worse Than Death / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Playing Games at Work / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Please Put Some Clothes On / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Police Code for Everything / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Polka Dork / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Porn Names / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Post-Script Season / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Power is Sexy / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Prenup Blowup / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Pressure Point / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Pro Wrestling Episode / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Prodigal Family / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Promotion to Opening Titles / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Race Against the Clock / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Rattling Off Legal / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Recap by Audit / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Reckless Gun Usage / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Relationship Upgrade / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Reluctant Retiree / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Repeat After Me / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Rescue Sex / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Restrained Revenge / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Right Hand Versus Left Hand / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Royalties Heir / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Ruptured Appendix / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Rushmore Refacement / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Sassy Black Woman / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Saving the Orphanage / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Sawed-Off Shotgun / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Scales of Justice / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Screaming Birth / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Screw the Money, I Have Rules! / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Second Episode Substitute / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Secretly Wealthy / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Sequel Gap / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Sharp-Dressed Man / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Shifting Voice of Madness / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Shoe Shine, Mister? / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Short-Distance Phone Call / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Show Some Leg / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Shutting Up Now / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Singing Telegram / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Skeleton Key Card / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Skip to the End / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Smart Ball / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Smoking Hot Sex / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	So Unfunny, It's Funny / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Sock Slide Rink / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Sold His Soul for a Donut / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Speaks in Shout-Outs / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Special Guest / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Spiteful Spit / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Stepping Out to React / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Sticky Situation / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Stopped Dead in Their Tracks / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Stress Vomit / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Talking in Bed / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Tall Is Intimidating / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	The Big Rotten Apple / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	The Cast Showoff / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	The Comedy Drop / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	The Commies Made Me Do It / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	The Danza / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	The Ditz / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	The Glasses Gotta Go / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	The Judge / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	The Loins Sleep Tonight / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	The Pete Best / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	The Pornomancer / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	The Prankster / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	The Problem with Pen Island / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	The Quincy Punk / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	The Tape Knew You Would Say That / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	The Un-Smile / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	The Vietnam Vet / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	The Wonka / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Theatre Phantom / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	They Called Me Mad! / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Three Stooges Shout-Out / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Too Annoyed to Be Afraid / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Toplessness from the Back / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Trekkie / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Trivially Obvious / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Twin Threesome Fantasy / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Two-Headed Coin / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Undisclosed Funds / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Unlucky Extra / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Unpleasant Parent Reveal / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Unsuspectingly Soused / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Vanity Plate / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Vanity Publishing / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Ventriloquism / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Victoria's Secret Compartment / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Vomit Discretion Shot / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Wanted a Son Instead / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	What Have We Ear? / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	When Harry Met Svetlana / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Where No Parody Has Gone Before / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	"Which Restroom?" Dilemma / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Wise Fool / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	With This Ring / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Work Com / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Worse with Context / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Wrestling Doesn't Pay / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Wrong Bathroom Incident / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	You Do NOT Want to Know / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	"You!" Exclamation / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Zany Scheme Chicken / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Hypno Fool / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Late to the Punchline / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Locked in a Room / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Paranormal Episode / int_ff7b68ba
Night Court	hasFeature	Walk-In Chime-In / int_ff7b68ba

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