The Sitcom Study

Bonked on the Head, New Personality! [rerun]

Fred Flintstone gets a touch of class, Maryanne goes full "Single White Female" on Ginger, and Charles becomes Chaz, all thanks to brain trauma! This week's trope is New personalities from bonks to the head! Here's the lineup:
The Flintstones S1 E5 "Split personality"
The Addams Family S1 E22 "Amnesia in the Addams Family"
Gilligan's Island S3 E24 "The Second Ginger Grant"
Charles in Charge S4 E14-15 "Charles Splits"
This is a good old fashioned RERUN! We'll be back with new episodes soon!

Shoplifting!

The Facts of Life gals pull a classic department store caper, Danny Partridge helps himself to a corner store yoyo, and Tim the Toolman Taylor must ferret out the Swiss army thief among his children... This week's trope is Shoplifting! Here's what we're watching:
The Partridge Family S3 E22 "The Partridge Connection"
Facts of Life S2 E6 "Shoplifting"
Small Wonder S2 E11 "The Shoplifter"
Home Improvement S4 E25 "A Marked Man"

Going on a Diet!

Bob Newhart vows to eat nothing but water, Old Christine breaks down the science of the protein shake, and my sister Sam takes on body-shaming in a mildly special episode... This week's trope is Going on a Diet! Here's what we're watching:
The Bob Newhart Show S2 E11 "The Fit, the Fat and the Forty One"
Gimme a Break S1 E5 "Do or Diet"
My Sister Sam S1 E8 "Mirror Mirror on the Wall"
New Adventures of Old Christine S4 E20 "He Ain't Heavy"

Best Sitcom Hangouts!

From bars and restaurants to attics and garages, we're celebrating all the places where the gangs congregate and the zany schemes are hatched... This episode is all about our favorite sitcom hangout spots!
 
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Next week's trope is Going on a Diet!

Confronting Bullies! [rerun]

Ray Romano defends the school bus, Hannah Montana wages psychological warfare, and Mr T makes the classroom safe for democracy. Plus, JJ Walker shows off his dyn-o-mite karate moves... This week's trope is confronting bullies!
Here's what we're watching:
Good Times S2 E24 "The Lunch Money Ripoff"
Silver Spoons S1 E4 "Me and Mr. T"
Everybody Loves Raymond S4 E13 "Bully on the Bus"
Hannah Montana S1 E23 "Schooly Bully"
This is a good old fashioned re-run! We'll be back with a new episode next week!

The Charles in Charge Mixtape & Trivia Throwdown!

This week is all about the new boy in the neighborhood, who lives downstairs and it's understood... You know the rest- the hunky housekeeper and sage advice-giver has come up four times on the podcast so far, and we're revisiting all of our discussions about Charles, Buddy, the Powell Family, and to a lesser degree the Pembroke Family! Plus we'll face off in a brutally intense trivia challenge on all things Charles!
 
Here's what we're watching:
Charles in Charge S4 E14-15 "Charles Splits" from our Bonked On the Head, New Personality podcast
Charles in Charge S3 E1 "Yule Laugh" from Snowed in for Christmas
Charles in Charge S1 E8 "A Date with Enid" from Makeovers
Charles in Charge S2 E19 "U.F. Oh No!" from UFO Sightings
 
It's not a clip show; it's a mixtape! We'll be back with a new episode next week!

Bachelor Parties!

Martin and Gina dive into debauchery, Lucy goes undercover at Ricky's "Daddy Shower," and Archie and Edith head upstate for a politically polarized wedding weekend (not to mention the back-door pilot for Maude)... This week's trope is Bachelor Parties! Here's what we're watching:
I Love Lucy S2 E14 "Ricky Has Labor Pains"
All in the Family S2 E24 "Maude"
Martin S3 E25 "The Bachelor Party"
Parks & Rec S5 E10 "Two Parties"

Sitcom Shakespeare!

The immortal Fonz takes on the immortal Bard, Gilligan and the gang turn Hamlet into an opera, and Frasier and Niles stage a must-miss production for the ages... This week's trope is Shakespeare in Sitcoms! Here's what we're watching:
Gilligan's Island S3 E4 "The Producer"
Happy Days S2 E10 "A Star is Bored"
Head of the Class S1 E8 "Critical Choices"
Frasier S8 E12 "The Show Must Go Off"

Bar Wars, Slap Bets & Other Yearly Traditions!

Cheers forms a rivalry that will last for generations, How I Met Your Mother gets slap-happy, and the Community campus engulfs itself in paintball apocalypse... for the first of many times! This week's all about storylines that became beloved every-season traditions! Here's what we're watching:
Cheers S4 E9 "From Beer to Eternity" & S6 E23 "Bar Wars"
Community S1 E23 "Modern Warfare"
How I Met Your Mother S2 E9 "Slap Bet"
Brooklyn Nine-Nine S1 E6 "Halloween"

90s Reboots!

The Tanners return after three decades, Boy Meets World spawns a new generation, and the Fresh Prince is FINALLY reimagined as a gritty, melancholy drama... This week we're discussing 90s REBOOTS! Here's what we're watching:
Girl Meets World S1 E1 "Girl Meets World"
Fuller House S1 E1 "Our Very First Show Again"
Bel-Air S1 E1 "Dreams and Nightmares"