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Taxi

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269 feature instances
154 referencing feature instances

Taxi	type	TVTItem
Taxi	label	Taxi
Taxi	page	Taxi
Taxi	comment	This seminal Work Com co-created by James L. Brooks, which aired for four seasons on ABC (1978–82) and one on NBC (1982–83), was set in the grungy New York City headquarters of the Sunshine Cab Company.The show's cast included: Divorced everyman Alex Reiger (Judd Hirsch). Bombshell divorced mom and art-gallery receptionist Elaine O'Connor-Nardo (Marilu Henner). Struggling actor Bobby Wheeler (Jeff Conaway). Perennially losing (and possibly brain-damaged) boxer Tony Banta (Tony Danza). Wide-eyed immigrant mechanic Latka Gravas (Andy Kaufman). '60s survivor and uber-burnout "Reverend" Jim Ignatowski (Christopher Lloyd). Their vile toad of a dispatcher Louie De Palma (Danny DeVito).Extremely well-acted and written, the show remains a high point in American sitcom history. As listed below, if you want to see just about any standard sitcom Trope done right, this is the place to come.The series has now a character and a recap sheet under construction.For other works named Taxi, click here.
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Taxi / int_11077b27	type	EyeColorChange
Taxi / int_11077b27	comment	Eye Color Change: The boys take a while to know what color are Jim's eyes. They settle for brown.
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Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_11077b27
Taxi / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Taxi / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Assistant Director Carlo Quinterio appeared in an episode as the new husband of Alex's ex-wife, Phyllis. Also, grumpy Mr. Walters in the logo for the production company was played by co-creator/co-Executive Producer Ed. Weinberger (and yes, he spells his first name with a period, which he calls an 'affectation').
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Taxi / int_13e693f4	type	Calling Your Bathroom Breaks
Taxi / int_13e693f4	comment	Calling Your Bathroom Breaks: In the very first episode, Alex is being a wiseguy while "helping" Latka with his English lessons. "Give me a minute while I go to the can," indeed. Hilarity Ensues.
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Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_13e693f4
Taxi / int_1484dba1	type	Foreshadowing
Taxi / int_1484dba1	comment	Foreshadowing / Future Shadowing: When Jim is offered the "funny brownie" he objects that it would lead him to harder drugs, and guess what happened...
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Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_1484dba1
Taxi / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Taxi / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Once Louie said he regularly inspected Elaine's locker, though he also mentioned he had the keys for all the lockers.
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Taxi / int_14ed6ab7	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_14ed6ab7
Taxi / int_15b09af9	type	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam
Taxi / int_15b09af9	comment	Heel–Face Door-Slam: Louie tried to turn over a new leaf after suffering a heart attack and praying that he'd pull through, promising to be "the best man he could be if his surgery went okay. He did, and amazingly, he did start acting nicer. Unfortunately, Bobby made a bet with Alex, thinking Louie couldn't keep it up. Even after Bobby played hardball by telling Louie the one word that's usually guaranteed to make him blow his top ("accident") Louie didn't get mad. But then Louie found out about the bet, and then he blew his top, worse than he ever did before. He did get a bit of comfort from Alex later, when he was worried about going back on what he had promised to do in a prayer; Alex said that he had claimed to be "the best man he could be", so "maybe the best man you can be is... a rat?"
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Taxi / int_172c04fb	type	The Old Country
Taxi / int_172c04fb	comment	The Old Country: Details about Latka's fictional homeland are kept vague for the sake of comedy.
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Taxi / int_19660a62	type	Non-Specifically Foreign
Taxi / int_19660a62	comment	Non-Specifically Foreign: It's implied that Latka and Simka come from Eastern Europe, but "the old country" is never mentioned by name.
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Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_19660a62
Taxi / int_19df659c	type	Gone Horribly Wrong
Taxi / int_19df659c	comment	Averted with Alex, who in his opinion, his fantasies end really bad.
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Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_19df659c
Taxi / int_19e41d8f	type	And This Is for...
Taxi / int_19e41d8f	comment	And This Is for...: Simka slaps Latka for each family member of hers he unknowingly mocked with his jokes in "Guess Who's Coming for Brefnish" ("I hope you have a small family...").
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Taxi / int_1aa30797	type	Single Woman Seeks Good Man
Taxi / int_1aa30797	comment	Single Woman Seeks Good Man: In her re-encounter with Latka, Simka tells she was "used and thrown away like and old shoe" when referring to the relationships she had after the events of "Guess Who's Coming For Brefnish".
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Taxi / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Taxi / int_1b596e24	comment	The Beard: Latka once wanted to have a "paper marriage" with Elaine to stay in the US. Subverted as he wanted to sleep with her.
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Taxi / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Taxi / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Several examples over the course of the show.
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Taxi / int_1b91335f	type	Waiting for a Break
Taxi / int_1b91335f	comment	Waiting for a Break: Bobby, the aspiring actor who spends the series driving a cab while waiting to get a (in-universe) Star-Making Role. Most of the cabbies except Alex claim that they're only driving to support themselves until they get a break in their dream jobs (boxing, art).
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Taxi / int_1bf0adc6	type	Did You Think I Can't Feel?
Taxi / int_1bf0adc6	comment	Did You Think I Can't Feel?: In "A Grand Gesture," the newly-wealthy Jim decides to show the rest of the group how rewarding sharing money can be by gifting them each a thousand dollars on the condition that they immediately give it to someone else. The gang accepts, but everyone suspects that Louie will simply pocket the cash for himself, so he promises to give it to Jeff Bennett (the assistant dispatcher), who they all know. When Louie offers the $1,000 to Jeff, he immediately turns it down and says there must be some catch or trick, because Louie couldn't possibly be generous or kind. Louie is stunned by Jeff's response and angrily asks if the younger man really thinks of him as a heartless jerk with no capacity for emotion—he really does like and respect Jeff, and it genuinely pains him to hear such harsh words coming from someone he considers a close friend.
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Taxi / int_1bf94a24	type	The Movie
Taxi / int_1bf94a24	comment	The Movie: The Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon featured scenes recreating memorable Taxi segments with most of the original surviving cast, who unfortunately looked 20 years older, especially when contrasted with Jim Carrey as Kaufman. And Danny DeVito is forced to be He Who Must Not Be Seen as he played another role in the film. Tony Danza doesn't appear in the film either due to scheduling conflicts. Some time ago, DeVito said his intentions to make a movie adaptation.
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Taxi / int_1d47b2b7	type	Unable to Cry
Taxi / int_1d47b2b7	comment	Unable to Cry: When his father died, Jim was quite upset for not crying yet. Then he realised he was crying all along.
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Taxi / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
Taxi / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: Jeff (not counting when he was a Living Prop) Latka was often this early on.
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Taxi / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
Taxi / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: Louie's cage was a frequent source of lampshading.
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Taxi / int_20a18a93	type	I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham
Taxi / int_20a18a93	comment	I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham: Alex watches E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial to get Jim to quit pestering him for not seeing it. In spite of not liking sci-fi movies, he admits to have liked the movie.
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Taxi / int_20c73e98	type	Creepy Cockroach
Taxi / int_20c73e98	comment	Creepy Cockroach: Apparently, the garage doubles as a boarding house for roaches.
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Taxi / int_24ec14c7	type	Crappy Holidays
Taxi / int_24ec14c7	comment	Crappy Holidays: The Season 5 Christmas Episode "Get Me Through the Holidays" has Alex's ex-wife Phyllis spending the holidays with him so she doesn't have to be alone, and putting a damper on things with her relentlessly downbeat attitude.
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Taxi / int_2538a3c9	type	Big Little Man
Taxi / int_2538a3c9	comment	Big Little Man: In the first episode, Louie spends most of his time in the dispatcher's cage. When he exits it for the first time to yell at someone and we see how short he really is, it gets a big laugh from the audience.
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Taxi / int_256eaa53	type	Prophetic Fallacy
Taxi / int_256eaa53	comment	Prophetic Fallacy: One memorable episode featured Jim predicting Alex's death. Namely, that right before it happened, he would do the cancan while wearing a green shirt and a baseball catcher's mask. Alex actually does it to show he's not afraid of Jim's 'prediction,' and then the doorbell rings...
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Taxi / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Taxi / int_260926c3	comment	Failure Is the Only Option: Of a sort; most of the characters have dreams of stardom or glory outside of the cab garage, and view driving cabs as something temporary, but it's pretty clear that ultimately they aren't going anywhere. Part of Alex being the Only Sane Man is that he's really the only one who accepts that he's a cabbie, and not a boxer / actor / artist (and so on)-in-waiting.
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Taxi / int_26764512	type	I Just Want to Have Friends
Taxi / int_26764512	comment	I Just Want to Have Friends: In "Reverend Jim, A Space Odyssey", Iggy is clearly desperate to find a friend. It's implied that Louie has been this since he was in high school, though he usually acts as if he was better off as a loner.
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Taxi / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
Taxi / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: Alex's father Joe has some traits of a Casanova Wannabe.
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Taxi / int_2828fd9a	type	Promotion to Opening Titles
Taxi / int_2828fd9a	comment	Promotion to Opening Titles: Christopher Lloyd (Season 2), Carol Kane (Season 5).
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Taxi / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Taxi / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Subverted. Elaine's ex-husband Doug (Nardo?) is actually mentioned, and in quite a few occasions.
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Taxi / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Taxi / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus Latka's name is Yiddish for "potato pancake", while Simka's name means "happiness". A non-Yiddish example: The name of Latka's friend Bachi, is Polish for "grandmother".
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Taxi / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Taxi / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: According to Alex, his ex-wife Phyllis told him that if he really loved his daughter Cathy, he should lose all contact with her.
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Taxi / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
Taxi / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: Louie and Jim are rarely seen without their usual outfits. Louie's case is lampshaded in a late episode.
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Taxi / int_2b65aa76	type	Straw Critic
Taxi / int_2b65aa76	comment	Straw Critic: Bobby tangles with one in "Bobby and the Critic".
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Taxi / int_2bbcd1c2	type	Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest
Taxi / int_2bbcd1c2	comment	Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: Happened to Louie when he started dating Zena.
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Taxi / int_2bdb6280	type	The Big Rotten Apple
Taxi / int_2bdb6280	comment	The Big Rotten Apple/ Wretched Hive: Averted, taking in mind that living in a metropolitan area during The '70s was compared to living in Hell.
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Taxi / int_2be15316	type	Ambiguously Jewish
Taxi / int_2be15316	comment	Ambiguously Jewish: Alex, for the most part. A couple of characters finally mentioned his being Jewish toward the end of the series.
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Taxi / int_2f62653b	type	Borrowed Catchphrase
Taxi / int_2f62653b	comment	Borrowed Catchphrase: At the end of "Mr. Personalities", Alex says Latka's "T'ank you veddy much" line, down to imitate his accent.
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Taxi / int_2f644f46	type	Feng Schwing
Taxi / int_2f644f46	comment	Feng Schwing: Latka briefly rented an apartment full of hidden appliances and furniture.
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Taxi / int_311bcac6	type	Beard of Sorrow
Taxi / int_311bcac6	comment	Beard of Sorrow: Louie has grown one in a few occasions.
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Taxi / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Taxi / int_34579385	comment	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: When the gang goes to pay a visit to a hairstylist to unsuccessfully demand an apology for the hideous hairdo he did to Elaine, she considers dumping a bowlful of hair dye on him but decides that it wasn't necessary. But before they leave, Louie dumps the bowl over the stylist, gleefully admitting he's no better than the stylist.
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Taxi / int_370aad9	type	Split Personality
Taxi / int_370aad9	comment	Split Personality: In the last episode of Season 3, Latka reinvents himself as suave-but-smug Vic Ferrari to be more attractive to women. Eventually, Vic finds it hard to remember who he once was. While Alex helps Latka out of this, this becomes the basis of a Half-Arc Season in Season 4 as Latka struggles with multiple personalities, climaxing in "Simka Returns" when Latka has to fight Vic for her affections. From there, Latka is cured and free to propose to her. One notable personality Latka develops (in "Mr. Personalities") is that of Alex himself — not only is it a dead-on imitation (props to Andy Kaufman), but Alex finds out Latka lives his life better than he does!
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Taxi / int_372027ea	type	Stalker Shrine
Taxi / int_372027ea	comment	Stalker Shrine: Somehow the cabbies think that Louie's pasting of a photo of Zena's face over a bikini-clad calendar girl seems to be quite weird (that's how Jim knows of Zena in "Louie Meets The Folks").
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Taxi / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Taxi / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Generally, the series is quite optimistic (especially by late-'70s standards); Seasons 1 and 5 are a touch more cynical, with some dramatic themes in the latter especially.
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Taxi / int_37499c8	type	OnceAnEpisode
Taxi / int_37499c8	comment	Once an Episode: During the first three seasons, whenever Latka appeared, there would be always a joke about his culture/language or naivete, even both. Lampshaded by Latka himself, as he said everybody thought that he was just "that cute little foreigner"; his attempts to become something more desirable lead to him developing the Vic Ferrari alter ego at the end of Season Three (in "Latka the Playboy") and from there a full-blown multiple personality problem that bedevils him over the course of Season Four.
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Taxi / int_37a6a66a	type	Instrumental Theme Tune
Taxi / int_37a6a66a	comment	Instrumental Theme Tune: Bob James's "Angela", originally written for a character of that name in the Season 1 episode "Blind Date" before being bootstrapped for the series itself. An extended version of the tune was included on James's 1979 album Touchdown.note The title track of which was originally planned as the Taxi theme before the producers decided they liked "Angela" better.
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Taxi / int_38d3a0f7	type	Pac-Man Fever
Taxi / int_38d3a0f7	comment	Pac Man Fever: The subplot of "The Unkindest Cut" involved Iggy becoming addicted to the Trope Namer after Louie installs the console in the garage. Actually an aversion, as Pac-Man debuted only a couple of years before.
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Taxi / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Taxi / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: With lots of de-Flanderizations included.
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Taxi / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Taxi / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Tony's years at Vietnam. Once Simka told Louie that he wouldn't be welcome anymore in the Gravas residence, but she doesn't give a clear explanation.
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Taxi / int_3cb68bd3	type	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon
Taxi / int_3cb68bd3	comment	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: When Alex gets attracted to an old acquaintance of Jim, Louie does an over-the-top Parody of a soap opera narration (he even calls it "As The Loser Turns"). Then, Alex interrupts him threatening to put the microphone down his throat.
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Taxi / int_3e74b72e	type	The Pollyanna
Taxi / int_3e74b72e	comment	The Pollyanna: Played for Laughs with Latka, who maintains this attitude despite growing up in a miserable homeland.
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Taxi / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
Taxi / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: Latka and Simka's wedding ceremony climaxes with a set of questions they have to answer correctly. When Latka gets the last one wrong, Simka declares she will marry him anyway even if she has to defy their religion. Thus, they pass the true test of the strength of their love.
Taxi / int_3f7a958b	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_3f7a958b	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_3f7a958b
Taxi / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Taxi / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Subverted. Almost every week the cabbies lose in their attempts to fulfill their dreams and get out of the garage, but there's usually a moment of hope at the very end. "Latka's Revolting" ends with the revolution in Latka's home country destined to go down in defeat, although the narrative is more concerned with Latka deciding to stay in the US.
Taxi / int_40cc0c7e	featureApplicability	-0.3
Taxi / int_40cc0c7e	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_40cc0c7e
Taxi / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Taxi / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: The soap opera Bobby was hired for starred an actress known for crying at every possible occasion.
Taxi / int_415b3315	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_415b3315	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_415b3315
Taxi / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
Taxi / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: Latka.
Taxi / int_4192763e	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_4192763e	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_4192763e
Taxi / int_4330f7eb	type	Sitcom Character Archetypes
Taxi / int_4330f7eb	comment	Sitcom Character Archetypes Alex: Square and Sage Louie: Bully Latka, Jim, and Tony: Goofball Bobby: Charmer
Taxi / int_4330f7eb	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_4330f7eb	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_4330f7eb
Taxi / int_4394b4be	type	Messy Hair
Taxi / int_4394b4be	comment	Messy Hair: Jim's hair is hardly combed.
Taxi / int_4394b4be	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_4394b4be	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_4394b4be
Taxi / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Taxi / int_44606d14	comment	"Elaine's Strange Triangle" culminates with Alex getting dragged into dancing with several men at a gay bar. At first he resists, but then gives in and starts having fun. The next day we learn he actually won a prize for dancing.
Taxi / int_44606d14	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_44606d14	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_44606d14
Taxi / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
Taxi / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: The characters would pick up a few rich ladies as customers.
Taxi / int_44f5d199	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_44f5d199	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_44f5d199
Taxi / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Taxi / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Very rarely, Louie would show traits of this. As an example, he once helped Elaine after she got an ugly makeover, so she could confront the hairdresser.
Taxi / int_4781adbb	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_4781adbb	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_4781adbb
Taxi / int_4782e60f	type	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
Taxi / int_4782e60f	comment	Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk: Louie in regards to Bobby. Jim's brother Tom, although he gets sort of a redeeming moment at the end of "Jim's Mario's" when he finally believes his brother has accomplished something.
Taxi / int_4782e60f	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_4782e60f	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_4782e60f
Taxi / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
Taxi / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: Most of the core characters clearly matured during the series' five-year run.
Taxi / int_479f9ad0	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_479f9ad0	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_479f9ad0
Taxi / int_47bf7e16	type	Local Hangout
Taxi / int_47bf7e16	comment	Local Hangout: Any time the cabbies aren't at the station, they're at Mario's restaurant. "Of Mice and Tony" ends with Alex and Tony getting $5000 each for a fighter's contract, and they decide to celebrate by having the greatest meal of their lives... at Mario's, the only restaurant they know.
Taxi / int_47bf7e16	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_47bf7e16	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_47bf7e16
Taxi / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
Taxi / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: Most of the interstitials were filmed in 1978, however between then and when the show ended in 1983, New York changed very little.
Taxi / int_4856ac40	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_4856ac40	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_4856ac40
Taxi / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
Taxi / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: Jim goes to a costume party without a disguise other than a pair of novelty glasses. Nobody at the party notices, however.
Taxi / int_48b9731f	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_48b9731f	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_48b9731f
Taxi / int_48ca7c29	type	Broken Ace
Taxi / int_48ca7c29	comment	Broken Ace: In "Blind Date", Bobby sets a date for Alex with Angela, who in spite of her voice, she turned out to be quite a sourpuss.
Taxi / int_48ca7c29	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_48ca7c29	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_48ca7c29
Taxi / int_4968ed35	type	Door-Closes Ending
Taxi / int_4968ed35	comment	Door-Closes Ending: The first act of "Louie's Rival" ended this way.
Taxi / int_4968ed35	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_4968ed35	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_4968ed35
Taxi / int_499499e6	type	Written-In Absence
Taxi / int_499499e6	comment	Written-In Absence: Judd Hirsch had to miss one episode ("What Price Bobby") due to his role in the film Ordinary People. It's explained that Alex is away on a skiing trip.
Taxi / int_499499e6	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_499499e6	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_499499e6
Taxi / int_4a57732a	type	Friendless Background
Taxi / int_4a57732a	comment	Friendless Background: Louie was picked on by everyone at high school.
Taxi / int_4a57732a	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_4a57732a	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_4a57732a
Taxi / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Taxi / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Bobby. He always comes closer than anyone to getting out of the garage, and always has his dreams crushed in the most humiliating way possible. Louie delights in reminding Bobby what a failure he is.
Taxi / int_4b316d47	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_4b316d47	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_4b316d47
Taxi / int_4b39a18	type	Hope Springs Eternal
Taxi / int_4b39a18	comment	Hope Springs Eternal: Zig-zagged. As seen in the fantasy episode, everybody but Alex wants to get out from the garage, which is (for them) a literal Crapsack World.
Taxi / int_4b39a18	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_4b39a18	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_4b39a18
Taxi / int_4d8ff0c	type	Snowed-In
Taxi / int_4d8ff0c	comment	Snowed-In: "The Call of the Mild" has the gang attending a wilderness retreat and getting trapped in their cabin by a blizzard.
Taxi / int_4d8ff0c	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_4d8ff0c	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_4d8ff0c
Taxi / int_4df647d9	type	Billed Above the Title
Taxi / int_4df647d9	comment	Billed Above the Title: Judd Hirsch in... "TAXI". The billing was to originally have read Judd Hirsch and Jeff Conaway in..."TAXI", but when Hirsch found out about this, he was on the phone to his agent, who immediately contacted Paramount, and Conaway had to settle for the first billing under 'Also Starring'. note Interestingly, Jeff Conaway wasn't too annoyed about this, and freely conceded to Judd Hirsch that "I rather that top billing being on your head than mine!" which got a laugh out of Judd.
Taxi / int_4df647d9	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_4df647d9	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_4df647d9
Taxi / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Taxi / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The final scene of "Alex's Old Buddy". The ending to "Louie's Fling" can be seen as one, even though Louie deserves it. Zena breaks up with Louie after he cheats on her with her friend Emily, and then it turns out Emily was only attracted to Louie because she was drunk and is now horrified by his looks.
Taxi / int_4e3d253b	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_4e3d253b	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_4e3d253b
Taxi / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Taxi / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "Could I please just say one word in my defense? SELTZER!" ("Jim's Mario's")
Taxi / int_4e7c4536	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_4e7c4536	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_4e7c4536
Taxi / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Taxi / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The first season. Not only because of the absence of Reverend Jim, but also Alex was more of a sarcastic wisecracker and Louie had practically no redeeming qualities.
Taxi / int_4f4372e9	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_4f4372e9	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_4f4372e9
Taxi / int_4ff19e3d	type	Defenestrate and Berate
Taxi / int_4ff19e3d	comment	Defenestrate and Berate: Elaine had the strange habit of having the boys painting her apartment every time she broke up with some guy. It was even lampshaded in a couple of occasions.
Taxi / int_4ff19e3d	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_4ff19e3d	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_4ff19e3d
Taxi / int_500696c6	type	Seinfeldian Conversation
Taxi / int_500696c6	comment	Seinfeldian Conversation: Briefly happens when the drivers are trying to figure out who their shop steward is in "Shut It Down."
Taxi / int_500696c6	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_500696c6	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_500696c6
Taxi / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
Taxi / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: A couple of episodes suggest that Alex and Elaine might have a thing for each other, but the series was unfortunately cancelled before anything came of it.
Taxi / int_50ca4422	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_50ca4422	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_50ca4422
Taxi / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Taxi / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: When Latka needs a styptic pencil, Jim reveals that he's wearing one behind his ear.
Taxi / int_50f66629	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_50f66629	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_50f66629
Taxi / int_535865be	type	I Resemble That Remark!
Taxi / int_535865be	comment	I Resemble That Remark!: One of the Trope Codifiers. Actually series co-creator/co-executive producer/writer/director Stan Daniels gave his name to an alternative denomination for this, the "Daniels' Turn". A famous example/subversion happened when Alex called his ex-wife after she didn't invite him to their daughter's wedding. Then the unheard voice of hers (of at least her secretary) tells Alex he's yelling even if he just raised his voice, he then repeatedly rebuffed that he wasn't yelling, even if he was yelling at the end.
Taxi / int_535865be	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_535865be	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_535865be
Taxi / int_53c37f0c	type	Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers!
Taxi / int_53c37f0c	comment	Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers!: Alex's general pessimism abouth things is often frowned upon, being also a plot point in "Nina Loves Alex".
Taxi / int_53c37f0c	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_53c37f0c	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_53c37f0c
Taxi / int_53c5f30e	type	Happy Ending Override
Taxi / int_53c5f30e	comment	Happy Ending Override: The Season 3 finale "Latka the Playboy" has Latka managing to remember his original personality after Vic had a sort of Heel Realization, though there was a tease that Vic was still somewhere in him. Early in Season 4 with "Mr. Personalities", it's revealed that Latka not only didn't fully recover, but also developed a full-blown personality disorder and was now slipping into and out of Vic and other personae at the drop of a hat. Fortunately this Half-Arc Season was fully resolved by the start of "The Wedding of Latka and Simka".
Taxi / int_53c5f30e	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_53c5f30e	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_53c5f30e
Taxi / int_5473668f	type	Logo Joke
Taxi / int_5473668f	comment	Logo Joke: For the Christmas Episodes the Vanity Plate was changed to the young lady saying "Merry Christmas, Mr Walters!", but she still got the grumble in response.
Taxi / int_5473668f	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_5473668f	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_5473668f
Taxi / int_54d5074	type	Speaking Simlish
Taxi / int_54d5074	comment	Speaking Simlish: Latka speaks in a gibberish language interspersed with broken English.
Taxi / int_54d5074	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_54d5074	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_54d5074
Taxi / int_55365db5	type	City Mouse
Taxi / int_55365db5	comment	City Mouse: Elaine sternly opposed to the idea of the guys taking a week-long retreat to the mountains. A literal city mouse appears in the tag of the episode "Jim Joins the Network".
Taxi / int_55365db5	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_55365db5	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_55365db5
Taxi / int_5571b706	type	I Work Alone
Taxi / int_5571b706	comment	I Work Alone: In an early episode, Louie says he doesn't like to fraternize with his employees. Alex responds by saying that the cabbies themselves decided that.
Taxi / int_5571b706	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_5571b706	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_5571b706
Taxi / int_5642c768	type	Horrible Camping Trip
Taxi / int_5642c768	comment	Horrible Camping Trip: "The Call of the Mild" combines this with Snowed-In.
Taxi / int_5642c768	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_5642c768	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_5642c768
Taxi / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
Taxi / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: Simka often stood up to Louie for Latka Elaine to Alex in regards to his gambling addiction.
Taxi / int_565106b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_565106b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_565106b3
Taxi / int_5679208c	type	No Bisexuals
Taxi / int_5679208c	comment	No Bisexuals: Averted: Elaine dates a man who is more interested in Tony then her, unfortunately, but the episode makes very clear he's Bi, not gay.
Taxi / int_5679208c	featureApplicability	-1.0
Taxi / int_5679208c	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_5679208c
Taxi / int_5860c090	type	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis
Taxi / int_5860c090	comment	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Louie and Stanley, his high school's Jerk Jock and his main abuser. However Bobby (disguised as Louie) gets a hold of him by dancing with the class' Alpha Bitch (who was Louie's teenage crush and implied ex-wife of Stanley, as he promptly ran off sobbing after seeing them).
Taxi / int_5860c090	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_5860c090	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_5860c090
Taxi / int_58962105	type	White-and-Grey Morality
Taxi / int_58962105	comment	White-and-Grey Morality: Sort of, while Jim, Latka and John are some of the most naive guys in the taxi business, most of the antagonists (specially Louie) are just amoral and not genuinely evil.
Taxi / int_58962105	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_58962105	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_58962105
Taxi / int_5abe5b74	type	Everybody Must Get Stoned
Taxi / int_5abe5b74	comment	Everybody Must Get Stoned: The effects of Latka's cookies, which the entire main cast (except for Louie, who feeds them to Elaine to keep her interested in him) ingests before Alex learns from Jim what's in them. And this was how James Caldwell turned into Reverend Jim Ignatowski.
Taxi / int_5abe5b74	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_5abe5b74	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_5abe5b74
Taxi / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Taxi / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Elaine, at least until Simka became a semi-regular in Season 5 (which coincided with Latka making fewer appearances).
Taxi / int_5d753b19	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_5d753b19	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_5d753b19
Taxi / int_5d777251	type	That's All, Folks!
Taxi / int_5d777251	comment	That's All, Folks!/ Vanity Plate: "Good night, Mr. Walters!" [grumbles]
Taxi / int_5d777251	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_5d777251	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_5d777251
Taxi / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
Taxi / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Latka's alter ego Vic Ferrari; the former once referred to the latter as "that two-bit bossa nova!"
Taxi / int_5e2e55e4	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_5e2e55e4	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_5e2e55e4
Taxi / int_5f207a1a	type	Courtroom Episode
Taxi / int_5f207a1a	comment	Courtroom Episode: "Louie Bumps Into an Old Lady".
Taxi / int_5f207a1a	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_5f207a1a	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_5f207a1a
Taxi / int_5f6c6cc1	type	Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
Taxi / int_5f6c6cc1	comment	Can't Get Away with Nuthin': A single marijuana-laced brownie sent son-of-wealth-and-privilege Jim spiraling down his life-path.
Taxi / int_5f6c6cc1	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_5f6c6cc1	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_5f6c6cc1
Taxi / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Taxi / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Latka tended to be this. His wife Simka (portrayed by the petite Carol Kane) is also described as this by Latka.
Taxi / int_5fcedca	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_5fcedca	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_5fcedca
Taxi / int_5ff56a1f	type	Long List
Taxi / int_5ff56a1f	comment	Long List: In one episode Latka starts to tell the other characters how there's only one thing you need in life to make you happy, and that's friends...but then he remembers that you also need food and clothes...and a nice car...and a home...with a pool...and a beautiful woman "to make you foam at the mouth"...and finally concludes that if you have all that other stuff, "the friends would only get in the way."
Taxi / int_5ff56a1f	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_5ff56a1f	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_5ff56a1f
Taxi / int_60426489	type	Citizenship Marriage
Taxi / int_60426489	comment	Citizenship Marriage: Latka got this in Season 1 ("Paper Marriage", the first episode to focus on him) before finally marrying Simka in Season 4.
Taxi / int_60426489	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_60426489	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_60426489
Taxi / int_60cc14ba	type	Ruritania
Taxi / int_60cc14ba	comment	Ruritania: Latka and Simka's homeland resembles the mostly rural Central and Eastern Europe.
Taxi / int_60cc14ba	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_60cc14ba	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_60cc14ba
Taxi / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Taxi / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Jim was quite straight-laced before tasting that fateful weed-laced brownie. Subverted if taking in mind he's fairly informed about many things (He even rounded out how many Brazilians are served by said South American nation's postal service) In addition, Alex sure acted strange when he was given the "uppers". Then there's Latka; see Split Personality below.
Taxi / int_62434fe2	featureApplicability	-0.3
Taxi / int_62434fe2	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_62434fe2
Taxi / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Taxi / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: Inverted with the plane and the Class Reunion episodes, with no scenes taking place at the garage.
Taxi / int_62907b90	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_62907b90	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_62907b90
Taxi / int_629de9ad	type	'70s Hair
Taxi / int_629de9ad	comment	'70s Hair: Most of the guys in the early seasons. Louie's girlfriend Zena had an afro, specially notorious in her first appeareances.
Taxi / int_629de9ad	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_629de9ad	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_629de9ad
Taxi / int_6339e2bd	type	Disabled Love Interest
Taxi / int_6339e2bd	comment	Disabled Love Interest: Judy, a blind woman, for Louie in Season 5.
Taxi / int_6339e2bd	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_6339e2bd	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_6339e2bd
Taxi / int_639aa0cd	type	Did You Just Have Sex?
Taxi / int_639aa0cd	comment	Did You Just Have Sex?: A split second after walking in the door Simka immediately yells at Latka, "You did it with another woman!"
Taxi / int_639aa0cd	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_639aa0cd	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_639aa0cd
Taxi / int_647e8c	type	Big Ego, Hidden Depths
Taxi / int_647e8c	comment	Big Ego, Hidden Depths: Louie is discovered to have this in "Louie Goes Too Far"
Taxi / int_647e8c	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_647e8c	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_647e8c
Taxi / int_6627e429	type	Children Are a Waste
Taxi / int_6627e429	comment	Children Are a Waste: All the male cabbies think that way after having to watch after Elaine's children. Louie declares that after knowing that Alex was not invited to his daughter's wedding.
Taxi / int_6627e429	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_6627e429	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_6627e429
Taxi / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Taxi / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: Subverted in the form of not having a cut at all. At first, Alex refused to play the piano at "Jim's Mario's", but changes his mind after a beautiful woman sidles up.
Taxi / int_680f950	featureApplicability	-0.3
Taxi / int_680f950	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_680f950
Taxi / int_6b3c357e	type	Ivy League for Everyone
Taxi / int_6b3c357e	comment	Ivy League for Everyone: Jim once attended Harvard.
Taxi / int_6b3c357e	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_6b3c357e	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_6b3c357e
Taxi / int_6dcfd275	type	Theme Tune Extended
Taxi / int_6dcfd275	comment	An extended version of the tune was included on James's 1979 album Touchdown.note The title track of which was originally planned as the Taxi theme before the producers decided they liked "Angela" better.
Taxi / int_6dcfd275	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_6dcfd275	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_6dcfd275
Taxi / int_6e872753	type	Sexiness Score
Taxi / int_6e872753	comment	Sexiness Score: In "A Woman Between Friends", Tony asks Elaine to rate him On a Scale from One to Ten where "Louie's one and Robert Redford's number ten." Elaine then jokes that there are much more than nine numbers between those two.
Taxi / int_6e872753	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_6e872753	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_6e872753
Taxi / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Taxi / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: Seasons 1 and 5 each had one.
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Taxi / int_6ef9d3fe	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_6ef9d3fe
Taxi / int_702c2de3	type	Line-of-Sight Alias
Taxi / int_702c2de3	comment	Line-of-Sight Alias: Alex ends up having to pretend to be named "Bill Board" when Elaine desperately makes up a name for an imaginary boyfriend. Better that than Carman Gea. Alex later jokes: "Well, I'm better off than my brothers: Switch and Clip."
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Taxi / int_702c2de3	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_702c2de3
Taxi / int_725583e8	type	Good Feels Good
Taxi / int_725583e8	comment	Good Feels Good: In one later episode, after coming into his inheritance, Jim would sometimes give money to needy people, simply because it made him feel good to help others. To prove his point, he gave each of his fellow cabbies a thousand dollars, with the stipulation that they give the money to someone they felt deserved it. By the end of the episode, the other cabbies found that they enjoyed giving the money away as well.
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Taxi / int_725583e8	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_725583e8
Taxi / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
Taxi / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: Averted with Latka, even if Simka is much more sensible than him.
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Taxi / int_72852a93	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_72852a93
Taxi / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Taxi / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Jim is prone to be this from time to time.
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Taxi / int_7286e96d	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_7286e96d
Taxi / int_734a416a	type	Dinner Order Flub
Taxi / int_734a416a	comment	Dinner Order Flub: "He insisted on ordering the meal in French. My main course was ten pats of butter."
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Taxi / int_734a416a	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_734a416a
Taxi / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Taxi / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Jeff Conaway left the show after the third season, so for most of Season 4 Bobby's only appearances were in leftover episodes produced for Season 3. Eventually he returned for a departure episode where he moved away to try his luck in Hollywood.
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Taxi / int_754df088	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_754df088
Taxi / int_7580e1bb	type	Straw Loser
Taxi / int_7580e1bb	comment	Straw Loser: Tony. In fact, Louie has built his whole living room by betting against him, to the extreme of pointing out what he bought with the money he won from which fight he bet on. (Inverted in the same episode, "The Reluctant Fighter", when Tony actually wins, shattering Louie's wishes of having a 23-inch color TV.)
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Taxi / int_7580e1bb	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_7580e1bb
Taxi / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
Taxi / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: The main trait of Alex throughout the whole series.
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Taxi / int_76b4b7dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_76b4b7dd
Taxi / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Taxi / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: Many episodes had Tony being annoyed by Latka. These developed from a real life dislike Tony Danza had for Andy Kaufman that ultimately lead to Danza refusing to cameo as himself in the 2000 biopic Man on the Moon (although he was also busy with the Broadway production of A View from the Bridge).
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Taxi / int_786bf97f	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_786bf97f
Taxi / int_797d10	type	Celebrity Star
Taxi / int_797d10	comment	Celebrity Star: Subverted by the fact most of them had very little screentime and weren't vital to the plot.
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Taxi / int_797d10	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_797d10
Taxi / int_799d05eb	type	Not Listening to Me, Are You?
Taxi / int_799d05eb	comment	Not Listening to Me, Are You?: Becomes a Running Gag in "Alex Tastes Death and Finds A Nice Restaurant" after Alex gets shot in one of his ears
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Taxi / int_799d05eb	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_799d05eb
Taxi / int_7a21fc07	type	New Old Flame
Taxi / int_7a21fc07	comment	New Old Flame: Latka and Simka initially dated in the latter's first appearance (with Latka blowing it with a few inadvertently-offensive jokes). Some time later, both begun a serious relationship that led to marriage.
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Taxi / int_7a21fc07	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_7a21fc07
Taxi / int_7ba00b55	type	Superstition Episode
Taxi / int_7ba00b55	comment	Superstition Episode: "Jim the Psychic". Reverend Jim had a strange dream involving Alex doing some odd things which culminate in him dying, Alex laughs off his concerns, and Louie spends the rest of the episode pointing out how all of the events happening to him match what Jim dreamed of. The climax of the episode involved Alex Tempting Fate by donning a weird costume (including a catcher's mask) and dancing around his apartment, when the doorbell rings. They open the door, revealing the dread spectre of a....Girl Scout selling cookies.
Taxi / int_7ba00b55	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_7ba00b55	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_7ba00b55
Taxi / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
Taxi / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Alex considered himself to be this, explaining why he didn't want to see his father after he had a heart attack.
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Taxi / int_7c9dcc1	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_7c9dcc1
Taxi / int_7ce3bb6d	type	Breathless Non Sequitur
Taxi / int_7ce3bb6d	comment	Breathless Non Sequitur: How Jim's girlfriend at college tried to hide from him the "secret ingredient" for some brownies.
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Taxi / int_7ce3bb6d	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_7ce3bb6d
Taxi / int_7e38ea1	type	Dead Artists Are Better
Taxi / int_7e38ea1	comment	Dead Artists Are Better: The cabbies try to no avail to buy a painting of a dying artist (whom Elaine knows) who kicks the bucket inmediately after the painting is sold to someone else.
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Taxi / int_7e38ea1	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_7e38ea1
Taxi / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
Taxi / int_7fbe9a30	comment	Freak Out: After knowing that Alex and Bobby gambled about if he would really change after an operation, Louie has a fit of rage and hooks Bobby (who doubted that he would really change) to a tow truck.
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Taxi / int_7fbe9a30	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_7fbe9a30
Taxi / int_808b6d16	type	Sdrawkcab Name
Taxi / int_808b6d16	comment	Sdrawkcab Name: The main reason Jim took Ignatowski as a second name was because he thought that was "Star Child" spelled bacwards.
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Taxi / int_808b6d16	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_808b6d16
Taxi / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Taxi / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Jim once mentioned finding stuff that fares often leave behind: Old magazines, gloves and meat (chewy meat).
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Taxi / int_808cbaeb	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_808cbaeb
Taxi / int_80d0d980	type	The Generic Guy
Taxi / int_80d0d980	comment	The Generic Guy: According to Randall Carver himself, his character (John Burns) was practically identical to Tony, explaining why he was written out after the series' inaugural season.
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Taxi / int_80d0d980	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_80d0d980
Taxi / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
Taxi / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: Jim's family. His brother Tom is a stuffy Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk while his sister is quite a sex addict.
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Taxi / int_820ac3c5	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_820ac3c5
Taxi / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
Taxi / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: The most visible effect of the "uppers" on Alex.
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Taxi / int_82518cf7	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_82518cf7
Taxi / int_835d1b46	type	Boyfriend Bluff
Taxi / int_835d1b46	comment	Boyfriend Bluff: Alex having to act as "Bill Board".
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Taxi / int_835d1b46	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_835d1b46
Taxi / int_83f0971b	type	Mexican Standoff
Taxi / int_83f0971b	comment	Mexican Standoff: Bobby faced a burglar trying to rob him with a gun. Bobby then pulls a larger gun he had in the cab, after some eight hours both exchange guns. Then, the thief reveals his gun was unloaded. Bobby then proceeds to stick them by their cannons and charges $48 to the robber (Bobby had left the taximeter running), who gets out after paying them.
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Taxi / int_83f0971b	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_83f0971b
Taxi / int_83fb6177	type	First-Episode Twist
Taxi / int_83fb6177	comment	First-Episode Twist: For most of "Like Father, Like Daughter", Louie is in his dispatcher's booth perched above the garage floor, making his usual insults and sleazy comments. When Alex announces his intent to take a cab out of town for personal reasons (and to Miami, no less), Louie decides he has to lay down the law — and comes out of his cage, showing the audience just how short Danny DeVito, then a mostly unknown theater and film actor, really was.
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Taxi / int_83fb6177	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_83fb6177
Taxi / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Taxi / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: At the start of "Shut It Down," the brakes fail on Tony's cab. Alex asks why he didn't pull the emergency brake.
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Taxi / int_8409a385	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_8409a385
Taxi / int_8527b5da	type	Advice Backfire
Taxi / int_8527b5da	comment	Advice Backfire: Once, Alex encouraged Tony to be a referee, but Tony said it was a bad idea. It gets corroborated by Latka (acting as Alex himself). During the time Sunshine Cabs was broke, Elaine worked as a secretary. There she encouraged her boss so he could take a few decisions he had thought of for some time. Those sunk the company as soon as Elaine lost her job after her boss was fired.
Taxi / int_8527b5da	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_8527b5da	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_8527b5da
Taxi / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Taxi / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Tony gets to adopt Brian after he initially chose a wealthy couple, but it's never seen thereafter. Who ends up with Hamlet, the abused dog from "Bobby's Acting Career"? Presumably Alex takes him until he can find him a better home.
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Taxi / int_863fa679	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_863fa679
Taxi / int_8713e490	type	If You Taunt Him, You Will Be Just Like Him
Taxi / int_8713e490	comment	If You Taunt Him, You Will Be Just Like Him: Subverted by Louie in an episode where he avenges Elaine's shabby treatment at the hands of an arrogant hairdresser: "She may be better than you, but I ain't!"
Taxi / int_8713e490	featureApplicability	-0.3
Taxi / int_8713e490	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_8713e490
Taxi / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Taxi / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Once, Jim walked into the phone and Bobby told him that he was expecting an important call, but it turned out that Jim was actually going to the bathroom. In a later episode, it looks that the giant cockroach who invaded Louie's cage has been exterminated. But it turns out (via a moving sandwich) that either the roach survived or another one took its' place. Another case overlaps with Damned by Faint Praise after Louie watches a TV commercial in which Bobby appears:
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Taxi / int_8797239c	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_8797239c
Taxi / int_87ee897	type	Crazy Cultural Comparison
Taxi / int_87ee897	comment	Crazy Cultural Comparison: The traditions from Latka and Simka's unnamed country.
Taxi / int_87ee897	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_87ee897	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_87ee897
Taxi / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
Taxi / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: Latka's dialect. It's supposedly a mix between gibberish and broken English.
Taxi / int_8829dfa0	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_8829dfa0	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_8829dfa0
Taxi / int_88472ef3	type	Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life
Taxi / int_88472ef3	comment	Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Most of the cabbies actually work part-time, Waiting for a Break in their ambitions.
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Taxi / int_88472ef3	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_88472ef3
Taxi / int_8a07e085	type	Denser and Wackier
Taxi / int_8a07e085	comment	Denser and Wackier/ Lighter and Softer: Seasons Two through Four stand out over the more down-to-earth seasons One and Five for this, apart from being considered the best of the series. A good example of the Denser and Wackier stuff is the story arc of Latka's multiple personality disorder in Season Four.
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Taxi / int_8a07e085	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_8a07e085
Taxi / int_8b4f2a4f	type	'80s Hair
Taxi / int_8b4f2a4f	comment	'80s Hair: Simka in the last season.
Taxi / int_8b4f2a4f	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_8b4f2a4f	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_8b4f2a4f
Taxi / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Taxi / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Tony is dismayed when he finds out that Denise (the girlfriend he wants to get rid of) got a job as a cabbie, just to be close to him. Tony is so desperate that he puts Louie, of all people, as the hypotenuse in a bogus love triangle.
Taxi / int_8b68d9a7	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_8b68d9a7	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_8b68d9a7
Taxi / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Taxi / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: "Coming Home" revealed that Jim comes from a wealthy family from Boston.
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Taxi / int_8e20979	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_8e20979
Taxi / int_8e20b0f7	type	Private Detective
Taxi / int_8e20b0f7	comment	Private Detective: Mr. Caldwell hired one to find Jim.
Taxi / int_8e20b0f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_8e20b0f7	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_8e20b0f7
Taxi / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Taxi / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: "Bobby Doesn't Live Here Anymore" was the farewell episode for Jeff Conaway as Bobby, who had actually left the show as a regular a year earlier. "Simka Returns" took place almost two years after "Guess Who's Coming For Brefnish" aired.
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Taxi / int_927b2f11	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_927b2f11
Taxi / int_99f2522e	type	Hit Me, Dammit!
Taxi / int_99f2522e	comment	Hit Me, Dammit!: When Tony breaks Jim's relationship with his sister Monica, he asks Jim to punch him, however in spite of Tony's insistence, Jim kisses him.
Taxi / int_99f2522e	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_99f2522e	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_99f2522e
Taxi / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Taxi / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: In "Reverend Jim: A Space Odyssey", Jim only remembers the time he first met the cabbies when he hears Latka speaking his own idiom. In an early episode, Alex gets shot and quits to become a waiter in a French restaurant, which was often seen on later episodes. Gary, the horse Jim once owned was mentioned in "Alex Gets Burned by an Old Flame".
Taxi / int_9dab0a6e	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_9dab0a6e	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_9dab0a6e
Taxi / int_9dca8373	type	Reunion Revenge
Taxi / int_9dca8373	comment	Reunion Revenge: Actor-cabbie Bobby attends Louie's class reunion as Louie.
Taxi / int_9dca8373	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_9dca8373	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_9dca8373
Taxi / int_9edfdf1f	type	Studio Audience
Taxi / int_9edfdf1f	comment	Studio Audience
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Taxi / int_9edfdf1f	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_9edfdf1f
Taxi / int_9f62723d	type	Get Out!
Taxi / int_9f62723d	comment	Get Out!: Louie does this when he finds out that Jim burnt his apartment.
Taxi / int_9f62723d	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_9f62723d	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_9f62723d
Taxi / int_a036d3df	type	Sarcastic Confession
Taxi / int_a036d3df	comment	Sarcastic Confession: In "Crime and Punishment", after the boss not only doesn't believe Louie's confession, but laughs hysterically at it, he decides to invite Louie to play golf with him, at which Louie sarcastically confesses that he cheats at the score. In fact, while Louie confessing was not meant to be a sarcastic confession, after his boss agrees to rehire Jeff and drop charges and it becomes clear he won't believe that Louie is really behind it, Louie has fun confessing over and over again.
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Taxi / int_a036d3df	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_a036d3df
Taxi / int_a0774be0	type	Forgotten First Meeting
Taxi / int_a0774be0	comment	Forgotten First Meeting: Jim had almost completely forgotten when he was brought for Latka's wedding.
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Taxi / int_a0774be0	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_a0774be0
Taxi / int_a07afea2	type	Random Events Plot
Taxi / int_a07afea2	comment	Random Events Plot: Occasionally, an episode will be this, with each of the main characters getting their own scenes. Various two-part episodes focusing on everybody's flashbacks or fantasies would count. In "A Substantial Gift", after learning that Jim regularly gives large sums of money from his inheritance to the needy because it makes him feel good, Alex objects and threatens to call his estate, but Jim makes a deal to give everybody in the garage two thousand dollars that they must give to somebody by the end of their shift, and if any one of them does not feel good from the experience, then he will stop. The only real running plots involve Alex planning to give his money to a passenger with a down-on-their-luck story (but like the other cabbies, this only takes up one scene, before the end), and Louie, who had wanted to take part to show Jim that he won't feel good about giving that kind of money away, trying to give the money to Jeff, who rejects it because he does not trust Louie.
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Taxi / int_a07afea2	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_a07afea2
Taxi / int_a1575551	type	Living Prop
Taxi / int_a1575551	comment	Jeff (not counting when he was a Living Prop)
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Taxi / int_a1575551	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_a1575551
Taxi / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
Taxi / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly-Long Gag: Jim's famous "What does a yellow light mean?"
Taxi / int_a188ac4b	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_a188ac4b	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_a188ac4b
Taxi / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Taxi / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: For such a humorous show, Jim's horse eulogy is quite touching. Lampshaded by Louie, who asks Jim to do that same speech once his mother dies.
Taxi / int_a4c37cbe	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_a4c37cbe	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_a4c37cbe
Taxi / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Taxi / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Alex's father Joe was more busy chasing girls than caring for his own family.
Taxi / int_a54534a0	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_a54534a0	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_a54534a0
Taxi / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
Taxi / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself Herve Villechaize appeared in "Fantasy Borough: Part 1". Wally "Famous" Amos appeared to Latka in a vision at the end of "Latka's Cookies". Dr. Joyce Brothers was the one to cure Latka of his Split Personality in "The Wedding of Latka and Simka". Jim was set up on a date with his celebrity crush Marcia Wallace in "The Schloogel Show". Penny Marshall was rejected as a potential tenant by the exclusive high-rise Louie was trying to get into in "Louie Moves Uptown".
Taxi / int_a5e0c01	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_a5e0c01	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_a5e0c01
Taxi / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Taxi / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: It's easy to forget that Jim Ignatowski was originally not a member of the main cast. Christopher Lloyd was brought in for a one-shot role as "Reverend Jim", an apparent Cloudcuckoolander officiating Latka's wedding in Season 1. Lloyd's performance impressed the showrunners so much that he was brought back in the second season, being upped to main status (and becoming one of the most prominent characters in the series) in the process. Louie's Beleaguered Assistant, Jeff. Although he never quite made "regular" status, he did get to be the focus of one episode where he's accused of selling auto parts on the black market. Behind the scenes, his actor was Andy Kaufman's stand-in for rehearsals, which Kaufman himself didn't attend (he got away with this due to having a photographic memory; he had lines, etc. down cold when it was time to film).
Taxi / int_a65288e2	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_a65288e2	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_a65288e2
Taxi / int_a66b0789	type	Fingertip Drug Analysis
Taxi / int_a66b0789	comment	Fingertip Drug Analysis: When it comes to coca leaves, Jim is a true expert, able to pinpoint their exact origin (Southern Peru, 1974, before the rains.)
Taxi / int_a66b0789	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_a66b0789	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_a66b0789
Taxi / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Taxi / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Louie in "Crime and Punishment". He convinces Jeff to take the blame for illegally selling car parts (which he did, but he didn't know that Louie was keeping all the profits for himself), but after Jeff gets arrested, Louie decides to confess that he did it. the boss doesn't believe him and laughs hysterically over his confession, though he does agree to rehire Jeff and drop charges. Not only does Louie get away with embezzling, but the experience also earns him a chance to play golf with the boss. As Louie says after thinking about what's happened, "crime pays!" The closest to Louie getting any retribution in the episode comes at the very end when Alex takes away the ladder Louie climbed to get to his secret safe,leaving him stuck all night.
Taxi / int_a70223	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_a70223	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_a70223
Taxi / int_a757d9a0	type	Quirky Girl, Quirky Tux
Taxi / int_a757d9a0	comment	Quirky Girl, Quirky Tux: An episode had Elaine have an Imagine Spot where all the characters including herself were dressed in tuxedos and performing "The Lullaby of Broadway". Her tux is not quite the fishnet variety. Her tights are more sheer with sequins.
Taxi / int_a757d9a0	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_a757d9a0	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_a757d9a0
Taxi / int_a806691d	type	Casanova Wannabe
Taxi / int_a806691d	comment	Casanova Wannabe: Louie acts like he's a ladies man, but women (especially Elaine) mostly find him to be a Abhorrent Admirer.
Taxi / int_a806691d	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_a806691d	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_a806691d
Taxi / int_a861560f	type	The Friend Nobody Likes
Taxi / int_a861560f	comment	The Friend Nobody Likes: Although the "friend" part is questionable, whenever Louie hung out with the cabbies, he was this.
Taxi / int_a861560f	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_a861560f	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_a861560f
Taxi / int_a8b5a55e	type	Welcome Episode
Taxi / int_a8b5a55e	comment	Welcome Episode: Although Alex is the closest thing the show has to a central character, the first episode is Elaine's first day at the company.
Taxi / int_a8b5a55e	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_a8b5a55e	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_a8b5a55e
Taxi / int_aa07ca54	type	Obfuscating Disability
Taxi / int_aa07ca54	comment	Obfuscating Disability: Subverted when Louie thinks a woman in a wheelchair is scamming him and pushes her down a flight of stairs. It turns out she wasn't faking this time.
Taxi / int_aa07ca54	featureApplicability	-0.3
Taxi / int_aa07ca54	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_aa07ca54
Taxi / int_aab624e5	type	Is That a Threat?
Taxi / int_aab624e5	comment	Is That a Threat?: After Alex rips the front of Louie's cage.
Taxi / int_aab624e5	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_aab624e5	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_aab624e5
Taxi / int_ab9311f0	type	Closer to Earth
Taxi / int_ab9311f0	comment	Closer to Earth: Alex, while Elaine and Simka had some traits of this towards the end of the series.
Taxi / int_ab9311f0	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_ab9311f0	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_ab9311f0
Taxi / int_abbda0ea	type	Intelligible Unintelligible
Taxi / int_abbda0ea	comment	Intelligible Unintelligible: While he doesn't understand what Latka says, Tony knows about what Latka's talking about.
Taxi / int_abbda0ea	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_abbda0ea	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_abbda0ea
Taxi / int_ac4fcf2b	type	Work Com
Taxi / int_ac4fcf2b	comment	Work Com: Which of course involves The Taxi.
Taxi / int_ac4fcf2b	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_ac4fcf2b	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_ac4fcf2b
Taxi / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
Taxi / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Louie always wants to be the first to taste Baby Ruth chocolate bars every time the vending machine is refilled.
Taxi / int_ad641426	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_ad641426	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_ad641426
Taxi / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Taxi / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Louie, and frequently Alex (especially in earlier episodes) and Elaine.
Taxi / int_ae3d6438	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_ae3d6438	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_ae3d6438
Taxi / int_af921409	type	Accidental Marriage
Taxi / int_af921409	comment	Accidental Marriage: John Burns gets into one of these, and it actually sticks.
Taxi / int_af921409	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_af921409	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_af921409
Taxi / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Taxi / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "Tank you veddy much" for Latka, though it predated the show via Andy Kaufman's stage act (Latka was a redressed version of his Foreign Man persona).
Taxi / int_b01abe4f	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_b01abe4f	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_b01abe4f
Taxi / int_b0a529cb	type	Extreme Doormat
Taxi / int_b0a529cb	comment	Extreme Doormat: Jim, of all people was this in college.
Taxi / int_b0a529cb	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_b0a529cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_b0a529cb
Taxi / int_b26477dc	type	Reactive Continuous Scream
Taxi / int_b26477dc	comment	Reactive Continuous Scream: Happens at the end of "Jim the Psychic" between Louie and Death.. well, actually Louie and a Girl Scout.
Taxi / int_b26477dc	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_b26477dc	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_b26477dc
Taxi / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Taxi / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: When Bobby returned for a visit, Latka at first bought a beach ball for him, but he returns it when he's told that the pilot Bobby starred in hasn't been picked up yet. Then he gives Bobby a pair of earmuffs, but he tells Latka his pilot became a series. Finally, Latka returned with the beach ball, only to learn that Bobby plans to return to NY after his part had been recast.
Taxi / int_b4eff8a8	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_b4eff8a8	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_b4eff8a8
Taxi / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
Taxi / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: Louie tries to be good to an elderly con artist after running her over, but the old lady says her lawyers forced her to sue him for a million dollars.
Taxi / int_b5b3599d	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_b5b3599d	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_b5b3599d
Taxi / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Taxi / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Bobby when it came to women, while Tony became this after Jeff Conaway left the show. Broken Ace: In "Blind Date", Bobby sets a date for Alex with Angela, who in spite of her voice, she turned out to be quite a sourpuss.
Taxi / int_b5b4b077	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_b5b4b077	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_b5b4b077
Taxi / int_b5b4b485	type	The Bet
Taxi / int_b5b4b485	comment	The Bet: When Louie made a bargain with God before an operation, Alex and Bobby made a bet regarding if Louie would genuinely change his ways. Alex is strangely optimistic, while Bob thinks that Louie will quickly revert to his old ways. Bobby finally wins, but after Louie overhears them about the bet and has a massive Freak Out.
Taxi / int_b5b4b485	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_b5b4b485	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_b5b4b485
Taxi / int_b76f2a49	type	Class Reunion
Taxi / int_b76f2a49	comment	Class Reunion: Louie has Bobby attend one in his place. Hilarity Ensues.
Taxi / int_b76f2a49	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_b76f2a49	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_b76f2a49
Taxi / int_b7bc7d28	type	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
Taxi / int_b7bc7d28	comment	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: When Jim tries to tell Louie that he did injure a scam artist:
Taxi / int_b7bc7d28	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_b7bc7d28	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_b7bc7d28
Taxi / int_b807833c	type	Are You Sure You Can Drive This Thing?
Taxi / int_b807833c	comment	Are You Sure You Can Drive This Thing?: Louie doubts that Jim can drive a cab.
Taxi / int_b807833c	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_b807833c	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_b807833c
Taxi / int_b871de85	type	Annoying Laugh
Taxi / int_b871de85	comment	Annoying Laugh: James L. Brooks' famous cackle shows up in the background of most episodes.
Taxi / int_b871de85	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_b871de85	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_b871de85
Taxi / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Taxi / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: John had a few episodes focused on him early in the series but he became less and less important by the end of the first season.
Taxi / int_b8e3f20a	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_b8e3f20a	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_b8e3f20a
Taxi / int_b8fa003b	type	Once More, with Volume!
Taxi / int_b8fa003b	comment	Once More, with Volume!: Used in one episode when Reverend Jim was taking the test to get a driver's license ...
Taxi / int_b8fa003b	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_b8fa003b	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_b8fa003b
Taxi / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
Taxi / int_ba236071	comment	In "Generous Iggy", Jim gives each cabby, as well as Louie, a thousand dollars to give away (It Makes Sense in Context). Since Louie can't be trusted (but actually wants to take part in it), Louie agrees to give the money to Jeff, who has been in need of more money, so they have somebody to ask. But Jeff turns it down, believing there has to be a catch if it comes from Louie.
Taxi / int_ba236071	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_ba236071	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_ba236071
Taxi / int_ba7c307f	type	Captive Date
Taxi / int_ba7c307f	comment	Captive Date: The second part of "Shut It Down" focuses on Elaine reluctantly having to go on a date with Louie. She even called her children for a hilariously tearful "farewell message".
Taxi / int_ba7c307f	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_ba7c307f	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_ba7c307f
Taxi / int_bbb150a8	type	Celebrity Is Overrated
Taxi / int_bbb150a8	comment	Celebrity Is Overrated: Subverted. "I'd like to tell you there are more important things than being rich and famous... I'd like to tell you, but it's a crock. Being famous is great." This coming from Famous Amos, no less.
Taxi / int_bbb150a8	featureApplicability	-0.3
Taxi / int_bbb150a8	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_bbb150a8
Taxi / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Taxi / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Never say to Louie the word "accident" or make an analogy to Alex that involves pelicans. But most of all: Never, ever mention "Vic" or anything related to him, to Latka.
Taxi / int_bc74ef27	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_bc74ef27	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_bc74ef27
Taxi / int_bd29e069	type	PreciousPuppies
Taxi / int_bd29e069	comment	Precious Puppies: The focus of two Very Special Episodes: The subplot of "Bobby's Acting Career" involved Alex stealing a dog from his abusive owner, while "Alex's Old Buddy" centered on Alex and his old dying dog.
Taxi / int_bd29e069	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_bd29e069	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_bd29e069
Taxi / int_bdf0640e	type	You're Not My Father
Taxi / int_bdf0640e	comment	You're Not My Father: Subverted with Cathy telling it to Alex, her natural father.
Taxi / int_bdf0640e	featureApplicability	-0.3
Taxi / int_bdf0640e	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_bdf0640e
Taxi / int_bed53353	type	Mate or Die
Taxi / int_bed53353	comment	Mate or Die: Almost leads to the end of Latka and Simka's marriage: Latka sleeps with a female cabbie to stay warm in a snowstorm; according to their reverend, to right this infidelity Simka has to have sex with one of the male cabbies. When Alex refuses, they divorce - but then Jim asks why they can't just remarry...
Taxi / int_bed53353	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_bed53353	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_bed53353
Taxi / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Taxi / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: The ensemble, especially in later seasons. The Official Fan's Guide even says that most of the cast was like this off the set, too. The key exception was Andy Kaufman, who had to be pressured into doing the show. Due to his shy Cloudcuckoolander nature and special contract provisions, he befuddled and/or annoyed the other cast members, especially during the first season when his Alter-Ego Acting persona Tony Clifton derailed the "A Full House for Christmas" shoot and had to be fired and escorted off of the Paramount lot. The climax of this struggle was when Jeff Conaway physically assaulted Kaufman at a post-Golden Globes party in early 1979, whereupon Kaufman never attended cast events again. That said, he was a Consummate Professional on set and the other cast members came to appreciate him in their way. After his death in 1984, Carol Kane attended his funeral service in Great Neck, Long Island while the others attended a Los Angeles memorial service, and 15 years later most of them appeared as themselves in the Kaufman Biopic Man on the Moon. The key exceptions were Tony Danza because he had a stage commitment at the time, and Danny DeVito because he was already playing Kaufman's agent George Shapiro, the film's key secondary character.
Taxi / int_c313d43a	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_c313d43a	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_c313d43a
Taxi / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Taxi / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: John Burns (Randall Carver), who was written out after Season 1.
Taxi / int_c33ba0a8	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_c33ba0a8	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_c33ba0a8
Taxi / int_c35d837f	type	Loves My Alter Ego
Taxi / int_c35d837f	comment	Loves My Alter Ego: Happens to Latka in "Simka Returns" where Simka sleeps not with him but with his suave alter ego Vic Ferrari.
Taxi / int_c35d837f	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_c35d837f	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_c35d837f
Taxi / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Taxi / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Jim, Latka, and John.
Taxi / int_c5249b29	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_c5249b29	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_c5249b29
Taxi / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
Taxi / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: Jim in regards to Louie, to the point of considering him as one of his heroes.
Taxi / int_c5385ad9	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_c5385ad9	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_c5385ad9
Taxi / int_c5caf1e5	type	Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids!
Taxi / int_c5caf1e5	comment	Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids!: Louie considers himself the only person alive that knows the true meaning of love: "Love is the end of happiness!".
Taxi / int_c5caf1e5	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_c5caf1e5	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_c5caf1e5
Taxi / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Taxi / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Louie references Phil Donahue in a few episodes. The Bee Gees were mentioned in a couple of occasions. I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners were the most popular shows in Latka's homeland when he left for America. Also doubles as Parental Bonus. The 1981 noir movie Body Heat gets mentioned by Louie in "Simka Returns". "A Yoda puppet .... For a beautiful lady." In Season Five Jim is obsessed with E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (which came out the previous summer), even wearing an E.T. button on his jacket. One episode even has a B-plot in which Jim busies himself convincing Alex, who isn't into science fiction, to finally see the movie! Alex once said that his dog complained that there were too many commercials during Late Night with David Letterman. In one of the earlier episodes, Louie calls out the name Belson during the call-out for cabbies. Jerry Belson was to have been part of the production team, but dropped out before the series started. The names Nardo and Banta were taken from Pat Nardo and Gloria Banta, a team of writers for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, on which most of Taxi's creative team got their start.
Taxi / int_c75df49a	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_c75df49a	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_c75df49a
Taxi / int_c9e20e01	type	Unexpected Kindness
Taxi / int_c9e20e01	comment	Unexpected Kindness: One episode has a newly-rich Reverend Jim teach the rest of the crew about charity by granting each of them one thousand dollars on the condition that they immediately spend it on or share it with someone else. The cabbies agree, but suspect that Louie will just keep his $1,000, so Louie offers to give it to Jeff, his junior dispatcher, who they all know. When Louie presents Jeff with the money, though, he refuses to take it, saying that it's obviously a trick because Louie isn't capable of genuine kindness. Louie's genuinely hurt by this and declares that he really did want to do something nice for Jeff, who he truly views as a friend.
Taxi / int_c9e20e01	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_c9e20e01	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_c9e20e01
Taxi / int_cb57df2	type	Fate Drives Us Together
Taxi / int_cb57df2	comment	Fate Drives Us Together.
Taxi / int_cb57df2	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_cb57df2	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_cb57df2
Taxi / int_cbe3d017	type	Damned by Faint Praise
Taxi / int_cbe3d017	comment	Another case overlaps with Damned by Faint Praise after Louie watches a TV commercial in which Bobby appears:
Taxi / int_cbe3d017	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_cbe3d017	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_cbe3d017
Taxi / int_cd0637d2	type	Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
Taxi / int_cd0637d2	comment	Extra! Extra! Read All About It!: Bob's dismayed after the theatre critic of the fictional Long Island Bulletin declares that Bobby should have had a bad stomachache from "all his scenery chewing". He then says that nobody reads that paper, only to find Louie giving away a whole bundle of the Bulletin.
Taxi / int_cd0637d2	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_cd0637d2	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_cd0637d2
Taxi / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Taxi / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: In "Crime and Punishment", when Louie admits to his boss that Jeff knew nothing about the parts he sold being stolen and that Louie is to blame, his boss thinks that Louie is just covering for Jeff because Louie thinks he'd go easier on him. While he doesn't believe this truth, he does at least drop the charges and rehires Jeff, on the belief that Louie liked him enough to take the blame. In "Generous Iggy", Jim gives each cabby, as well as Louie, a thousand dollars to give away (It Makes Sense in Context). Since Louie can't be trusted (but actually wants to take part in it), Louie agrees to give the money to Jeff, who has been in need of more money, so they have somebody to ask. But Jeff turns it down, believing there has to be a catch if it comes from Louie.
Taxi / int_cf92fea8	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_cf92fea8	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_cf92fea8
Taxi / int_d080f396	type	The Napoleon
Taxi / int_d080f396	comment	The Napoleon: Louie.
Taxi / int_d080f396	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_d080f396	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_d080f396
Taxi / int_d0bf8a6d	type	No Periods, Period
Taxi / int_d0bf8a6d	comment	No Periods, Period: "Simka's Monthlies" reveals her PMS is so crippling that it's enough to cause her to miss an appointment with the immigration board that she must appear at in order to become an American citizen. Edges into Very Special Episode territory; Simka even asks Alex why, if it's such a common problem, there hasn't been a movie of the week about it.
Taxi / int_d0bf8a6d	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_d0bf8a6d	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_d0bf8a6d
Taxi / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Taxi / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: The series is simply called Taxi.
Taxi / int_d0f0a80d	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_d0f0a80d	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_d0f0a80d
Taxi / int_d2096ad9	type	Aborted Declaration of Love
Taxi / int_d2096ad9	comment	Aborted Declaration of Love: In "Simka Returns", Latka tries more than once to tell Simka "I love you" — but he turns into Vic Ferrari before he can complete his speech. It takes her rejection of Vic in favor of Latka to free the latter from this crisis.
Taxi / int_d2096ad9	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_d2096ad9	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_d2096ad9
Taxi / int_d2fb51b5	type	Blind and the Beast
Taxi / int_d2fb51b5	comment	Blind and the Beast: Louie and his girlfriend Judy during the last season. In a late episode, she undergoes an operation to restore her sight, horrifying Louie who thinks she will reject him. Fortunately for him, he's exactly what Judy expected, except that she thought Louie had more hair between his eyebrows (Louie plucked a few hairs of them in the meantime).
Taxi / int_d2fb51b5	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_d2fb51b5	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_d2fb51b5
Taxi / int_d60c2915	type	Staged Pedestrian Accident
Taxi / int_d60c2915	comment	Staged Pedestrian Accident: "Louie Bumps Into An Old Lady" dealt with one.
Taxi / int_d60c2915	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_d60c2915	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_d60c2915
Taxi / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Taxi / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Alex and Louie. Subverted with Louie and Jim in the final season.
Taxi / int_d7fc9fd0	featureApplicability	-0.3
Taxi / int_d7fc9fd0	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_d7fc9fd0
Taxi / int_d99864da	type	When It All Began
Taxi / int_d99864da	comment	When It All Began: This was the first time Judd Hirsch starred on a TV series produced by Paramount Television. He would later go on to star in the American remake of Dear John, George & Leo, and NUMB3RS (a Paramount production only in its first two seasons) for the studio.
Taxi / int_d99864da	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_d99864da	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_d99864da
Taxi / int_da0eeab5	type	Breakout Character
Taxi / int_da0eeab5	comment	Breakout Character: Jim, to the point he became a regular during the second season.
Taxi / int_da0eeab5	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_da0eeab5	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_da0eeab5
Taxi / int_dba4ae4f	type	Arc Welding
Taxi / int_dba4ae4f	comment	Arc Welding: The war between Latka and his alter-ego Vic Ferrari escalated in "Tony's Lady" because Vic considers that the engines are dirty because there's grease and oil in them. Things got even worse in the following episode, "Simka Returns" when Latka finds out that Vic has spent the night with Simka.
Taxi / int_dba4ae4f	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_dba4ae4f	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_dba4ae4f
Taxi / int_dbc337cd	type	Disney Dog Fight
Taxi / int_dbc337cd	comment	Disney Dog Fight: Between an amoral (and abusive) showman and cabbie Alex for the showman's Great Dane that Alex took to the garage after throwing out his owner from the cab. The dog finally goes over to the man... to maul him.
Taxi / int_dbc337cd	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_dbc337cd	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_dbc337cd
Taxi / int_dca97045	type	Just Following Orders
Taxi / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: In "Crime and Punishment", Louie had Jeff sell parts under the pretense that it was for the company as opposed to Louie. When Louie finally confesses that he was behind it all, he says that Jeff was just following orders.
Taxi / int_dca97045	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_dca97045	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_dca97045
Taxi / int_e236af66	type	Who Would Want to Watch Us?
Taxi / int_e236af66	comment	Who Would Want to Watch Us?: In "Hollywood Bound", the movie director who comes to Sunshine Cab for research on a film feels that Alex's stories about his job are more appropriate for television.
Taxi / int_e236af66	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_e236af66	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_e236af66
Taxi / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
Taxi / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Louie only calls the cabbies by their last name. Inverted with Jeff. Actually, Louie doesn't remember his last name.
Taxi / int_e28f88b8	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_e28f88b8	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_e28f88b8
Taxi / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Taxi / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Tony, John, Jim (Justified since he used to be a drug addict), and Latka at times (although that was arguably more a case of Obfuscating Stupidity and often naivety rather than stupidity).
Taxi / int_e2d457	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_e2d457	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_e2d457
Taxi / int_e323e01a	type	Cultural Stereotypes
Taxi / int_e323e01a	comment	Cultural Stereotypes: Latka and his nameless fictional crapsack homeland, where postage stamps are issued commemorating barbed wire. The homeland makes its "mountain people" the butt of jokes; Latka and Simka's initial relationship in the Season 2 episode "Guess Who's Coming for Brefnish" was brought to an end by this (she's from the mountains).
Taxi / int_e323e01a	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_e323e01a	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_e323e01a
Taxi / int_e37f19	type	Disguised in Drag
Taxi / int_e37f19	comment	Disguised in Drag: Alex, Tony and Latka went to a costume party dressed as The Andrews Sisters.
Taxi / int_e37f19	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_e37f19	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_e37f19
Taxi / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
Taxi / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Latka is often this for Louie.
Taxi / int_e3b0cd87	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_e3b0cd87	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_e3b0cd87
Taxi / int_e3c20140	type	As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Taxi / int_e3c20140	comment	As Long as It Sounds Foreign: The fictional language spoken by Latka, and later his fellow immigrant/wife Simka.
Taxi / int_e3c20140	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_e3c20140	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_e3c20140
Taxi / int_e52a0cac	type	He Who Must Not Be Seen
Taxi / int_e52a0cac	comment	And Danny DeVito is forced to be He Who Must Not Be Seen as he played another role in the film.
Taxi / int_e52a0cac	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_e52a0cac	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_e52a0cac
Taxi / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Taxi / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: After Zena broke up with him in "Louie's Rival", Louie expected her to "crawl back" to him. Unfortunately, this never happened.
Taxi / int_e567510d	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_e567510d	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_e567510d
Taxi / int_e63270bc	type	Mr. Imagination
Taxi / int_e63270bc	comment	Mr. Imagination: Latka and Jim (though he sees himself as a "down-to-earth" man). Averted with Alex, who in his opinion, his fantasies end really bad.
Taxi / int_e63270bc	featureApplicability	-1.0
Taxi / int_e63270bc	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_e63270bc
Taxi / int_e7f2ed66	type	Grandma's Recipe
Taxi / int_e7f2ed66	comment	Grandma's Recipe: After several batches of chocolate chip cookies made from his grandmother's recipe are hugely popular with the cabbies, Latka decides to sell the cookies commercially — only to find out grandma's secret ingredient was ground coca leaf.
Taxi / int_e7f2ed66	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_e7f2ed66	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_e7f2ed66
Taxi / int_e825295c	type	End-of-Episode Silliness
Taxi / int_e825295c	comment	End-of-Episode Silliness: The last scene of "What Price Bobby" featured Alex in a log cabin calling the rest of the gang. "Elaine's Strange Triangle" culminates with Alex getting dragged into dancing with several men at a gay bar. At first he resists, but then gives in and starts having fun. The next day we learn he actually won a prize for dancing.
Taxi / int_e825295c	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_e825295c	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_e825295c
Taxi / int_e8e3807	type	Aside Glance
Taxi / int_e8e3807	comment	Aside Glance: Alex did this when Latka impersonated him, and Louie mistakes him for Alex himself.
Taxi / int_e8e3807	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_e8e3807	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_e8e3807
Taxi / int_e9db9908	type	Younger Than They Look
Taxi / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Louie looked like he was in his early forties (he graduated from high school around 1959) though Danny DeVito was some ten years younger, even if he inverts this nowadays.
Taxi / int_e9db9908	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_e9db9908	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_e9db9908
Taxi / int_ea5c413d	type	Biting-the-Hand Humor
Taxi / int_ea5c413d	comment	Biting-the-Hand Humor: Subverted in a Saturday Night Live episode hosted by Danny DeVito just days after Taxi's cancellation by ABC. During his monologue he reads a letter supposedly from his mother asking God to forgive the network for canceling the show, then adding "But I'll understand if you don't." In a filmed sketch from the same episode, DeVito decides to blow up the ABC building while driving through NYC. (Coincidentally or otherwise, SNL network NBC picked up Taxi for one more season shortly thereafter.)
Taxi / int_ea5c413d	featureApplicability	-0.3
Taxi / int_ea5c413d	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_ea5c413d
Taxi / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
Taxi / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Louie is among the archetypal examples, although we're occasionally given hints that it's at least somewhat of a facade.
Taxi / int_eb8e4fa8	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_eb8e4fa8	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_eb8e4fa8
Taxi / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Taxi / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	When Louie's Jerkass antics finally cause Alex to snap, he rips the front off of Louie's wire-mesh dispatcher cage with his bare hands.
Taxi / int_eb8ec7c8	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_eb8ec7c8	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_eb8ec7c8
Taxi / int_ec4585b2	type	Delivery Guy
Taxi / int_ec4585b2	comment	Delivery Guy: Alex had to assist a childbirth in his cab. The child's parents wanted to call him after Alex... until he tells them his name.
Taxi / int_ec4585b2	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_ec4585b2	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_ec4585b2
Taxi / int_ed05cfee	type	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer
Taxi / int_ed05cfee	comment	Naïve Newcomer: John Burns in Season 1. Elaine, sort of, in the pilot episode.
Taxi / int_ed05cfee	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_ed05cfee	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_ed05cfee
Taxi / int_ee77d3e2	type	Dead Pet Sketch
Taxi / int_ee77d3e2	comment	Dead Pet Sketch: With a pair of goldfish. The owner, Tony, can actually tell the difference between his fish and a replacement.
Taxi / int_ee77d3e2	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_ee77d3e2	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_ee77d3e2
Taxi / int_eea921b7	type	Late to the Punchline
Taxi / int_eea921b7	comment	Late to the Punchline: Sort of. Once, Louie made some flattering jokes about Bobby, with Jim being the only one laughing besides Louie himself. The problem, Jim was laughing at his previous joke.
Taxi / int_eea921b7	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_eea921b7	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_eea921b7
Taxi / int_eef90616	type	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
Taxi / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: In "A Full House for Christmas", Louie lists his reasons for collecting his life savings over the years:
Taxi / int_eef90616	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_eef90616	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_eef90616
Taxi / int_f15c2859	type	NO INDOOR VOICE
Taxi / int_f15c2859	comment	No Indoor Voice: Louie enjoys to use the microphone he has on his cage.
Taxi / int_f15c2859	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_f15c2859	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_f15c2859
Taxi / int_f165cf2c	type	Last-Second Word Swap
Taxi / int_f165cf2c	comment	Last-Second Word Swap: Louie: (to Latka) "You dumb fffff... foreigner!" Also, "No, now is the time for you to kiss my yaktabe."
Taxi / int_f165cf2c	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_f165cf2c	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_f165cf2c
Taxi / int_f19e8a55	type	Bad "Bad Acting"
Taxi / int_f19e8a55	comment	Bad "Bad Acting": Bobby's plays were plagued with this.
Taxi / int_f19e8a55	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_f19e8a55	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_f19e8a55
Taxi / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
Taxi / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: The company's taxis never exploded, but they did everything short of that. Truth in Television: Taxis in major cities can cover as much mileage in a few weeks as the average personal car does in a year; naturally, breakdowns are more frequent.
Taxi / int_f237981e	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_f237981e	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_f237981e
Taxi / int_f247d841	type	Intoxication Ensues
Taxi / int_f247d841	comment	Intoxication Ensues: Latka's cookies turn out to have a very special extra ingredient. Another time Alex is given uppers as a headache remedy before being summoned to see the boss. Yet another time Jim slips something into Louie's coffee.
Taxi / int_f247d841	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_f247d841	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_f247d841
Taxi / int_f4158af7	type	Everybody Owns a Ford
Taxi / int_f4158af7	comment	Everybody Owns a Ford: Subverted; the Checker A11 taxis were not supplied by the manufacturer (who, as makers of the then-memetic NYC taxi and with very low sales to the general public, had no need for the Product Placement publicity).
Taxi / int_f4158af7	featureApplicability	-0.3
Taxi / int_f4158af7	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_f4158af7
Taxi / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Taxi / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Tony (perhaps improbably for a boxer of his status) occaisonally fought at Madison Square Garden, an asset which was also owned by Paramount's then-owners Gulf + Western.
Taxi / int_f511ea9b	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_f511ea9b	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_f511ea9b
Taxi / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Taxi / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: The main point of Alex's farewell speech for Bobby. Though he couldn't make it at the first try, Bob has already set foot in Hollywood and he'll just relinquish his dreams and his efforts by returning to drive cabs for Louie in NY.
Taxi / int_f64a9cf7	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_f64a9cf7	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_f64a9cf7
Taxi / int_f6cc8758	type	Star-Making Role
Taxi / int_f6cc8758	comment	Bobby, the aspiring actor who spends the series driving a cab while waiting to get a (in-universe) Star-Making Role.
Taxi / int_f6cc8758	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_f6cc8758	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_f6cc8758
Taxi / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
Taxi / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire:
Taxi / int_f6f2ff1	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_f6f2ff1	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_f6f2ff1
Taxi / int_f792ffe4	type	Beleaguered Assistant
Taxi / int_f792ffe4	comment	Louie's Beleaguered Assistant, Jeff. Although he never quite made "regular" status, he did get to be the focus of one episode where he's accused of selling auto parts on the black market. Behind the scenes, his actor was Andy Kaufman's stand-in for rehearsals, which Kaufman himself didn't attend (he got away with this due to having a photographic memory; he had lines, etc. down cold when it was time to film).
Taxi / int_f792ffe4	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_f792ffe4	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_f792ffe4
Taxi / int_f7d11c61	type	Spirited Competitor
Taxi / int_f7d11c61	comment	Spirited Competitor: Discussed in "One Punch Banta", when Bobby, Alex and Elaine go to watch Tony's boxing match with the champ, not expecting him to win, but just thinking the experience with a better fighter might make him better.
Taxi / int_f7d11c61	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_f7d11c61	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_f7d11c61
Taxi / int_f7d4f121	type	Mushroom Samba
Taxi / int_f7d4f121	comment	Mushroom Samba: Latka sees Famous Amos when trying to recover from cookies his grandmother sent him that turned out to have coca leaves (the basis for cocaine).
Taxi / int_f7d4f121	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_f7d4f121	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_f7d4f121
Taxi / int_f912a750	type	Immune to Drugs
Taxi / int_f912a750	comment	Immune to Drugs: Jim, though it's really more a case of them having had a permanent effect on him that is indistinguishable from any further ingestion.
Taxi / int_f912a750	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_f912a750	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_f912a750
Taxi / int_f9a3fedc	type	Vignette Episode
Taxi / int_f9a3fedc	comment	Vignette Episode: The two-part "Memories of Cab 804," which consists primarily of flashbacks to each of the driver's having an usual experience in the titular car.
Taxi / int_f9a3fedc	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_f9a3fedc	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_f9a3fedc
Taxi / int_f9c3ecc6	type	Series Fauxnale
Taxi / int_f9c3ecc6	comment	Series Fauxnale: The two-part/hour-long episodes "On the Job" (Season 3, when the Sunshine Cabs Co. goes bankrupt and the cabbies look for other jobs) and "The Road Not Taken" (Season 4, when Elaine gets a job offer in Seattle) were filmed as provisional series finales just in case the show wasn't picked up for renewal. (The Season 2 two-parter "Fantasy Borough" could probably be considered one of these, as well, given how the ratings dropped that year.) Ironically, the show ended with a relatively normal episode ("Simka's Monthlies").
Taxi / int_f9c3ecc6	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_f9c3ecc6	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_f9c3ecc6
Taxi / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Taxi / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Louie's eternal war against the cockroaches who often invade his "cage".
Taxi / int_f9f2c33	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_f9f2c33	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_f9f2c33
Taxi / int_fb4c41b4	type	"Friends" Rent Control
Taxi / int_fb4c41b4	comment	"Friends" Rent Control: Subverted in an episode where Louie considers moving into a huge, very expensive, apartment. Less dramatically, the apartments that Alex, Bobby, etc. live in seem awfully nice for somebody drawing a cabbie's pay, even given an admittedly cheaper '70s NYC. Subverted/Lampshaded by an episode in which Latka accidentally puts an unrefundable deposit on a luxury apartment (he thought it was a year's rent when it was only a month's) and the cabbies chip in to help him pay for the place in exchange for using it as a hangout. Also subverted in Jim's residence: a condemned building which eventually gets torn down.
Taxi / int_fb4c41b4	featureApplicability	-0.3
Taxi / int_fb4c41b4	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_fb4c41b4
Taxi / int_fb7bc4a8	type	Never Trust a Title
Taxi / int_fb7bc4a8	comment	Never Trust a Title: "Alex Gets Burned By An Old Flame" is misleading as the "old flame" is actually Jim's.
Taxi / int_fb7bc4a8	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_fb7bc4a8	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_fb7bc4a8
Taxi / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Taxi / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: When the boys go to the mountains, they find themselves without refrigeration for their food, with Bobby mentioning they'd probably be dead in a couple days in those circumstances. Cue Jim's uncontrollable laughing.
Taxi / int_fbd285b7	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_fbd285b7	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_fbd285b7
Taxi / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Taxi / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: When Louie's Jerkass antics finally cause Alex to snap, he rips the front off of Louie's wire-mesh dispatcher cage with his bare hands. In "Fantasy Borough", Latka's attempt to share his fantasy with the others is cut short by Louie forcing him to go back to work. In Latka's subsequent daydream he and Louie have switched roles, costumes, and personalities, and it climaxes with Latka about to execute Louie by firing squad.
Taxi / int_fccd06b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_fccd06b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_fccd06b6
Taxi / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Taxi / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: At the beginning of "Thy Boss' Wife", Bobby shows his fellow cabbies what he learned in a pantomime class, including a glass wall which Jim thinks its real. At the very end of said episode, Jim asks Bobby to take the glass wall out. Made even funnier taking that three days had passed since Louie was last seen after going with Mrs. McKenzie to her home.
Taxi / int_fe0330fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_fe0330fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_fe0330fb
Taxi / int_name	type	ItemName
Taxi / int_name	comment
Taxi / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
Taxi / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
Taxi	hasFeature	Taxi / int_name
Taxi / int_name	itemName	Taxi

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Taxi	hasFeature	Above the Influence / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Accidental Marriage / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Acquired Situational Narcissism / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Afraid of Doctors / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	All Periods Are PMS / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Amoral Attorney / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	And This Is for... / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Are You Sure You Can Drive This Thing? / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Aroused by Their Voice / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Ate It All / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Automobile Opening / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Better than Sex / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Big Applesauce / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Big Ego, Hidden Depths / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Big Little Man / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Blind and the Beast / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Blind Date / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Blunt Metaphors Trauma / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Bolt of Divine Retribution / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Bootstrapped Theme / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Boyfriend Bluff / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	But I Would Really Enjoy It / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Calling Your Bathroom Breaks / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Can't Get Away with Nuthin' / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Casanova Wannabe / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Casualty in the Ring / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Child Naming Request / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Citizenship Marriage / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Class Reunion / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Clean, Pretty Childbirth / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Continuity Porn / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Crazy Cultural Comparison / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Dead Artists Are Better / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Dead Pet Sketch / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Delivery Guy / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Deranged Taxi Driver / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Did You Just Have Sex? / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Dinner Order Flub / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Disabled Love Interest / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Disney Dog Fight / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Edgy Backwards Chair-Sitting / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Erudite Stoner / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Everybody Must Get Stoned / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Fake Memories / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Fantasy Twist / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Feng Schwing / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Fictional Currency / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	First-Episode Spoiler / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Flopsy / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Formerly Fat / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Fourth-Date Marriage / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Fully Absorbed Finale / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Gag Haircut / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Gag Nose / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Ghost Extras / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Good Feels Good / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Grandma's Recipe / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Hippie Name / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Hit Me, Dammit! / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Horrible Camping Trip / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	I Always Wanted to Say That / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	I Got Bigger / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	I Just Want to Have Friends / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	If We Survive This / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	If You Taunt Him, You Will Be Just Like Him / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Immigrant Patriotism / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Immune to Drugs / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Insignia Rip-Off Ritual / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Instrumental Theme Tune / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Intelligible Unintelligible / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Intoxication Ensues / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Irrevocable Message / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Is That a Threat? / int_8d84ebc5
JamesCaan	seeAlso	Taxi
Taxi	hasFeature	Kicking My Own Butt / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Last-Second Word Swap / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Let Us Never Speak of This Again / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Line-of-Sight Alias / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Living Prop / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Long List / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Lounge Lizard / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Madonna-Whore Complex / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Marijuana Is LSD / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Marriage Before Romance / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Mate or Die / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Mean Boss / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Messy Hair / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Miniature Senior Citizens / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Mooning / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Nobody Touches the Hair / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Non-Specifically Foreign / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Not Hyperbole / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Obfuscating Disability / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Once More, with Volume! / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Pac-Man Fever / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Percussive Maintenance / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Photographic Memory / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Pointy-Haired Boss / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Post-Kiss Catatonia / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Prank Date / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Promotion to Opening Titles / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Prophetic Fallacy / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Quirky Girl, Quirky Tux / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Rant-Inducing Slight / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Reactive Continuous Scream / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Reunion Revenge / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Ruritania / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Secret Test / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Series of the 1970s / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Sexiness Score / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Signature Line / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Sore Loser / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Squeamish About Slaughter / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Staged Pedestrian Accident / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Stock Footage / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Stoners Are Funny / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Strike Episode / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Suddenly Always Knew That / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Superstition Episode / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Talking with Signs / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	The Cameo / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	The Casanova / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	The Danza / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	The Generic Guy / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	The Illegal / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	The Joy of X / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	The Napoleon / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	The Nose Knows / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	The Peeping Tom / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	The Tape Knew You Would Say That / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Theme Tune Extended / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Theme Tune Roll Call / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Throwing Off the Disability / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Throwing the Fight / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Traveling Salesman / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Unable to Cry / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Unexpected Kindness / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Vanity Plate / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Wager Slave / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Waiting for a Break / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	What's a Henway? / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Why Are You Looking at Me Like That? / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Wild Hair / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Work Com / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Wraparound Background / int_8d84ebc5
Taxi	hasFeature	Written-In Absence / int_8d84ebc5

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