Boss and secretary played brilliantly together, we learned, and Jack elected to continue playing with Finch even after Allie got well, lying about working late. At the outset, Finch had substituted for Jack’s sick wife, Allie, in their couples game. At 12 years old, I sat with my family for our usual appointment and watched an episode centering on Finch’s and Jack’s bridge partnership. I delighted in seeing repeat episodes and knowing what was coming and, later, in understanding the nuance of the humor. Had a sensitive side mined less often than Nina’s, about every eight or nine episodes. A lothario and occasional courter (and brief fiancé) of Maya.
Considered himself an artist, sometimes wore a beret. Provided the final emotional flourish to some episodes, about one in every five or six, by showing self-doubt and vulnerability stemming from a fear of aging and losing her beauty. Drank to excess, came to the office hungover, left for liquid lunches. Nina Van Horn, former model, fashion correspondent.Called Finch by everyone but Jack, who called him Dennis. Decidedly did not think of Maya as a sister. Thought of himself as an essential partner to Jack, and thought of Jack as a father. Slight, sarcastic, and sexually frustrated. Played by David Spade, the biggest name involved with the series. A dork-as indicated by turtleneck sweaters, frizzy hair, a gap between the front teeth, and occasional glasses-but conventionally attractive, albeit purposely less so than the models that roamed Blush’s office. Estranged from her father for the years predating the show’s first season. Politically liberal, a trait at odds with her father’s gleeful capitalistic tendencies and the magazine’s perpetuation of an unrealistic feminine ideal.
Capable of efficient soul-searching, when the script called for it. Office lined on one wall with an expensive bar. Pursued diversion with a child’s singlemindedness. Promiscuous, especially for a man of his age. Wealthy, and possessing the precise type of happiness we might hope wealth would bring. By the time I had seen 20 episodes, I was the leader of the fan club, my dad proudly in second place, my mom and sister tied for acquiescing third. I didn’t get the joke when the character Nina, whose underdeveloped vocabulary proved a steady source to the show, said of an upcoming dinner date, “…and for dessert we’ll be having coitus, whatever that is!” but I smiled anyway and the laugh track sounded good against the rain pinging the window.
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I watched at dusk, my butt on the kitchen table and my feet on a seat, staring fixedly at our small white kitchen TV with gray buttons and a convex screen, a screen that gave a thick, glassy ring if I rapped it with my knuckles. The very attributes keeping it from critical glory made the show wonderful. Here was a world void of dread, danger, and anxiety. When I started watching, at around nine or ten years old, most of grownup media was foreign to me, but the show’s steady presence in our home allowed reassurance to substitute for the comedy I didn’t fully comprehend. Its ubiquitous presence on our two television screens started with my dad-my mom watched little TV save for “The News Hour” and Masterpiece Theater-but I, mimicking him at first, quickly became hooked. In my childhood household, though, Just Shoot Me! was an undeniable hit.
PRANK ME NOT FINAL REVIEW FULL
Full episodes, split into three parts, can be found on YouTube, NBC evidently having elected not to waste its lawyers’ time defending this particular bit of copyright. It has, by now, fallen out of syndication, and only three seasons have been made available on DVD. It hit its marks and pulled solid ratings. It started Seinfeld was winding down, spent its prime in Frasier’s shadow, and ended as ER and Will & Grace were ascending. Not a critical darling-it piled secondary nominations but never won a Golden Globe or Emmy- Just Shoot Me! traipsed on as a workhorse in an era of NBC’s mass appeal. It was set in that place that every child of my generation knows intimately: the ‘90s TV office, with its heavy elevator doors and patterned carpet, populated with pastel shirts and shoulderpadded suits. It traded in pranks, euphemisms, snappy retorts, and ill-planned deceit. It centered on the staff of Blush Magazine, a fashion glossy, and it usually gave roughly 19 of its 22 minutes to A- and B-plot hijinks and the final three to major-network heartstring-tugging. Just Shoot Me! ran for seven seasons, from 1997 to 2003, totaling 148 episodes.
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