And to be lighter, of course I appreciated the much funnier mind-screw of the last episode of Newhart. (I'd heard, and I wonder if this is true, that to keep people from finding out how Newhart ended the producers planted a story that Newhart would die, go to Heaven and meet God, who'd be played, of course, by George Burns.) The actual ending, in the bedroom with Suzanne Pleshette, collapsed me. "I was the innkeeper in this...this crazy town in Vermont! Nothing about it made sense! The maid was an heiress! Her boyfriend spoke in alliteration! The handyman kept missing the point of things! Then there were these three woodsmen...but only one of them talked."

(And to dredge out more memories, I remember that Newhart then did a special that took the conceit of that last episode even further: Newhart goes back to his The Bob Newhart Show psychiatric office to reorient himself to his old reality. Meta, dude!)