Table of Contents
Introduction 1
1 I Love Lucy: "Lucy Does a TV Commercial" 7
2 The Honeymooners: "Better Living Through TV" 25
3 The Phil Silvers Show: "Doberman's Sister" 39
4 Leave It to Beaver: "Beaver Gets 'Spelled" 53
5 The Dick Van Dyke Show: "Forty-Four Tickets" 67
6 Gilligan's Island: "St. Gilligan and the Dragon" 79
7 The Mary Tyler Moore Show: "Chuckles Bites the Dust" 95
8 All in the Family: "The First and Last Supper" 113
9 M*A*S*H: "Yankee Doodle Doctor" 129
10 Taxi: "Latka the Playboy" 143
11 Cheers: "Strange Bedfellows, Pt. 2" 159
12 The Cosby Show: "Pilot" 175
13 Roseanne: "Terms of Estrangement, Part 1" 191
14 The Simpsons: "22 Short Films About Springfield" 207
15 Seinfeld: "The Pitch" 225
16 The Larry Sanders Show: "The Mr. Sharon Stone Show" 243
17 Friends: "The One with the Embryos" 259
18 Sex and the City: "My Motherboard, My Self" 273
19 Freaks and Geeks: "Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers" 291
20 Curb Your Enthusiasm: "Seinfeld" 309
21 Arrested Development. "S.O.B.s" 325
22 The Office: "Casino Night" 341
23 30 Rock: "Rosemary's Baby" 355
24 Community: "Modern Warfare" 369
Acknowledgments 385
Bibliography 387
Index 391