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Sure, the CHARACTERS on your favorite show have inside jokes and running gags, but what about gags you only get if you've already seen the whole show? Or ones that you'll only understand if you have a whole LOT of fandom context? There are deep dive jokes on shows like The Office and Brooklyn 99 that only active superfans will get.

On track, stay the course, a thousand points of light, stay the course. >> governor dukakis, rebuttal? >> i cant believe im losing to this guy. [ phone rings ] >> ill get it. >> its the garry shandling show. >> people were taking the old principles of comedy and trying to turn them into something new. we spent years and years watching sitcoms and dramas and talk shows by then, we knew them by heart, that if somebody played on that and parodied it, we got it instantly. >> i appreciate you coming ...

But you cant cut all comedies from the same cookie cutters. all you can hope is every night turns out like thursday. >> yo, angela! >> next! >> how rude. >> hes quick, ill give him that. >> all of television said, oh, well, maybe the sitcoms are alive again. and thats all that it took. it took one success. >> a few years from now, something new may tempt the people who pick what we see. but its a very safe guess that whatever gets hot for a season or two, the men and women who create good televi...

>> i cannot [ bleep ] believe how terrible you are at your job. what are you, running on a platform of higher taxes and episiotomies? >> if a bomb went off in that white house, i wouldnt care. those are the worst people on earth. >> where were you, by the way? >> you said you had it covered. >> no, i didnt have it covered. its your job to know if i say i have it covered, i dont have it covered and you cover me. >> i think we like workplace sitcoms because we identify with them, with even these u...

Was a variety show. >> its supposed to be tent. >> the writers room abounded in talent. it just imbued carl with, thats a place, thats a gold mine. a writers room is a gold mine. >> i remember talking to myself on the way home and i said, what piece of ground do i stand on that nobody else stands on? so ill write about the life of a writer. >> writers are lazy. people write what they know. >> we got a sketch due. >> there is nothing to worry about, kids. i have got an idea. alan beatty will play...

Telephonic samplings, test audiences. all of those things help to separate winners from losers and make midcourse corrections. but you cant cut all comedies from the same cookie cutters. all you can hope is every night turns out like thursday. >> yo, angela! >> next. >> how rude. >> hes quick. ill give him that. >> all of television said, oh, well, maybe the sitcoms are alive again. and thats all that it took. it took one success. >> a few years from now, something new may tempt the people who p...

On track, stay the course, a thousand points of light, stay the course. >> governor dukakis, rebuttal? >> i cant believe im losing to this guy. [ phone rings ] >> ill get it. >> its the garry shandling show. >> people were taking the old principles of comedy and trying to turn them into something new. we spent years and years watching sitcoms and dramas and talk shows by then, we knew them by heart, that if somebody played on that and parodied it, we got it instantly. >> i appreciate you coming ...

Million americans watched thursday night. that was, at the time, one-third of the country. >> what is this stuff? >> the sweater? i its angora. >> well its wonderful. >> the machine that was nbc in the 90s for comedy was untouchable. >> youre not from around here, are you? >> it generated so much viewership and money and awards. >> we do not need this. >> the top of our wedding cake. >> its not a scrapbook. its a freezer. >> no. >> we kind of all were part of, i think, this chapter in television...

They were standing up and saying, i must be heard. >> sitcoms used to be about the wife was at home doing the dishes, and then this woman sprang onto our screens who had a job, and often the smartest person there. and it was sort of liberating. >> youve got spunk. >> and i wait a dutiful moment and i say -- >> i hate spunk! >> and i want to correct something right now. i dont hate spunk. i love spunk. >> it was a total shift in gender roles. shes a single working woman, you know, living in a bui...