Of all the gut punch episodes, I found that the ones centered around Dr Cox ended up being the best. Not to diminish other ones revolving around different characters, but John C McGinley really brought it when it was his turn at bat.

> Despite guidance from Disney that Hulu won't achieve profitability until 2023, Moffett estimates the that the streaming service has been profitable for the last two quarters

Doesn’t sound that cut and dry

God damn that show had some real tear jerkers. I’m not a big cryer but this episode and the transplant episode get me every fucking time.

Gutfeld better watch out. The more popular he gets, the more time he takes off. He's worse than Johnny Carson back in the day. Tyrus would make a great host.

You show some respect! That space turle is Gan!

I would say yes. I had no intention of ever even watching the show for reasons like you just described. Then I was talked into it and was surprised at how entertaining it is, it’s not what I expected.

I think they are talking about the episode which is also titled "Once more with feeling"

As written by Natasha Lyonne!

That's kind of awkward.. Basically starting where he was a major character to ending with episodes where he barely appears. Apparently that was Belzer's own decision since he wanted to spend more time with his family, but still kind of weird to see from in a "Munch-a-thon"

I think you're overlooking 2 things about today's market place compared to the 90s when most of these shows premiered. Today, through either a streaming service or piracy everything is on demand. Today I choose not to watch a show whereas in the past if I wasn't making sure I was in front of my television at a certain hour I didn't have a second chance to see that shows episode. You can argue VCRs solved that problem, but juggling blank tapes, video store rentals and porn really made that too much of a hassle.

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The second thing is 20+ episode seasons that told episodic stories doesn't really exist today. Today all 8 to 12 episodes for that season are written before the cameras starts rolling. These shows you're talking about had a crew in preproduction for a future episode while a separate crew is filming a different episode. And there's a crew that's working post production on an episode that just got finished filming. Today actors have ample time to rehearse everything, but the writers don't have time and opportunity to change a plot mid season or realize two actors have shit chemistry and a whole season shouldn't be wasted trying to get the audience to ship them.

Breaking Bad and Xfiles could survive, IMHO, in this era. Seinfeld could maybe survive with the Netflix model but it seems hard for a 20 minute comedy to survive in a weekly release model, but I do keep checking to see if a new Ghosts has been released. (which reminds me to turn on my TV)

TNG would be doomed if the original creative team had to write 12 episodes, film them all and then release them either all at once or weekly. So many fans of TNG would drop in to watch a episode of TNG in the first couple of years (remember TNG was on multiple channels in each city before Congress changed syndication rules) and not come back for months. Nothing like that exists in todays market.

Scrubs had quite a few gut punch episodes but I still think that one hurt the most. Damn good show.

Said so confidently, yet so wrong.

If you're only watching an episode a night and you're into podcasts, you might enjoy their (Zach/JD & Donald/Turk) rewatch podcast Fake Doctors, Real Friends. Gives some extra background and they often have guests on

https://www.nexttv.com/news/hulu-is-already-profitable-will-grow-to-65-million-subscribers-by-2024-analyst-predicts

In a well-written traditional musical (so excluding sung-through ones like Les Miserables and Hamilton) music numbers are used to express feelings and emotions that the characters couldn’t or wouldn’t express through words alone. Making that part of the actual conceit of the episode and its dramatic fallout was a stroke of brilliance.

Wonder if it’ll have a special announcement presented by Ice Spice

Is there a link to this?

Does it?

The first one is fantastic

Getting a Disney+ subscription solely for this show

So good. You’ve got so many amazing episodes coming up. Hope you enjoy steak night!

Which cable companies?

American Dad was a bit shaky in season 1

WPIX 11 use to show this after South Park at like 3 am. The theme song has a real nostalgic hit and that it was far past bed time.

In that case Rian Johnson is burning some bridges in a TV format!

I'm excited to do that! I watch only one episode a night so I can make the show last, but tomorrow I'm going to rewatch this one instead of move on to the next new one.