So I'm actually baffled as to how this show was able to write an episode like this and see it get decent results. Now my score of 7 is really based more on how I felt about it from the 80s and 90s, but honestly if it was new today, it would get a 3.
Why? Well, it's the mixed message from the show as a whole, and specifically from a point in the episode.
So for a big portion of the last half of the show, we see Judge Stone, Christine, and Bull plot to get Christine's new boss, Arthur Thursby to incriminate himself for sensually harassing Christine. Tje key involves a powder that will leave his hand prints all over her. Before the powder turns red showing his hand print, he quits and leaves, but no print shows up.
Then we cut to Dan cleaning his red hands and a bunch of hand prints on 4 women getting off the elevator with him. Cue laugh track and fade to black.
So why is Dan funny and Arthur creepy? Yes, I'm looking at this from 2024 eyes, but even in the 80s, how did they justify the joke?
Hey Thirsby is a creep because he hit on innocent sweet Christine, but Dan is OK because he touched nameless women who obviously dressed wrong and deserve what they got. It just makes no sense. Overall, I'm glad they haven't really kept Dan the same in the reboot, it works better for him. In the 80s, he was no different than many other tv characters of the day, and he was fun to watch back then, but his character was not a role model at all.
Just make this mixed message make sense.
Why? Well, it's the mixed message from the show as a whole, and specifically from a point in the episode.
So for a big portion of the last half of the show, we see Judge Stone, Christine, and Bull plot to get Christine's new boss, Arthur Thursby to incriminate himself for sensually harassing Christine. Tje key involves a powder that will leave his hand prints all over her. Before the powder turns red showing his hand print, he quits and leaves, but no print shows up.
Then we cut to Dan cleaning his red hands and a bunch of hand prints on 4 women getting off the elevator with him. Cue laugh track and fade to black.
So why is Dan funny and Arthur creepy? Yes, I'm looking at this from 2024 eyes, but even in the 80s, how did they justify the joke?
Hey Thirsby is a creep because he hit on innocent sweet Christine, but Dan is OK because he touched nameless women who obviously dressed wrong and deserve what they got. It just makes no sense. Overall, I'm glad they haven't really kept Dan the same in the reboot, it works better for him. In the 80s, he was no different than many other tv characters of the day, and he was fun to watch back then, but his character was not a role model at all.
Just make this mixed message make sense.
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