Just what I expected

hyped garbage

Excellent adaptation.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I remember hearing the theme song in my early years and after watching Family Guy and while I knew it was familiar I had no idea from where it came. After watching some reruns on a digital TV channel I was hooked. Funny and entertaining cast, including Richard Moll (who later became a voice artist for both games and cartoons) who played the dense but cute bailiff Bull. If you haven't seen it, try it! Like Full House it had its roots in the 1980s and made the transition into the new decade which was the 1990s. And it didn't disappoint!

The family often stated "that's exactly what court is like!" Said family member often went to court to bring the nation's malefactors to justice.The truth is this show is a sendup of some of the more ridiculous moments that happen in the lower ranks of the American justice system, but, on occasion, the script presented here, have a modicum of truth to them. We saw the rekindling of careers here as well the start of careers of many an actor. The show was funny from day one, and kept getting funnier, albeit zanier and wackier as well. To the point of where, even for a sitcom, one was hard pressed to suspend their disbelief.Mole was funny, Thelma was funny, Judge Stone was funny, Dan Fielding was funny, Mac, Christine, Roz, the whole cast was funny. There were of course the moral tropes to the show, but I guess if you do a show about Night Court you're going to get some kind of 4th act reflection on who did what, why and the social ramifications thereof.Is night court really like this? Well, if you're investigating all of the malefactors in the US, then perhaps maybe, but somehow I doubt it.Either way it was worth a few laughs. If you see it as a rerun of see the DVD set, then take a chance on it.

This show had a lot of cast changes during its first one or two seasons. Then it settled into a groove until the last season where it just got very strange and then had one of the worst finale episodes ever. Still, it was funny as Harry Anderson as the judge, John Larroquette as Dan the womanizing D.A. and Richard Moll as the dense, but good hearted Bull the bailiff were like the only three cast members to be in the show during its entire run and were the best characters. Mac, played by Charles Robinson and Markie Post as the public defender would also settle in and do well. The show had its problems with the second bailiff during its early run losing two older actresses as I believed both passed away, they would finally go with someone different in the form of Marsha Warfield. The show was simply about a court that operates at night (duh), and at times some very crazy things happen, near the end these things would get a bit to crazy. However, for the most part the show was funny as I tend to gravitate towards shows that revolve around a job or place of business more so than to a show that is about a family. A good show that was really funny during the middle stretch, but it did have a hard time getting out of the gate initially and kind of stumbled near the end.

It is my all time favorite television show. At the center was Harry Anderson as Judge Harold T. Stone. He brought humor and a lot of heart to the bench. I thought he deserved more than just one Emmy nomination. As great as Harry was, Dan Fielding was the one that often times wound up stealing the show. The other cast was second to none, with each getting a chance to shine.One thing I was surprised to find out is that I was not the only fan of Ellen Foley's work as Billie Young. So much of the show was focused around Harry and Christine, which I didn't have a problem with. However, there was always a part of me that really liked Harry and Billie together. I remember reading one comment that I agreed with. Markie was "too pretty" for Harry. Not that Harry and Ellen were dogs, but they just to me looked better together, and acting wise I thought they had better chemistry. One scene that sticks out in my mind is when Harry was in the hospital, doctors were stumped as to what was wrong with him, but he kept trying to leave. Billie pinned him down, begged him to let the doctors help him, and their conversation climaxed with her telling him, "I don't want you out of my life yet." It was a very emotional moment, and planted the seeds for a future romance between them that was unfortunately cut short with her departure at the end of season two. Harry and Christine had some great moments also like when he turned out to be hiding mistletoe under his hat during a Christmas episode. Where they went wrong is by bringing in Tony for a whirlwind romance with Christine. It ended up with her getting married, divorced, and pregnant in the span of a few episodes. I would consider this the "jumping the shark" moment. Don't get me wrong, the show was still good, but just was not as good.Getting back to the series as a whole, it was the one show that you could get several guaranteed laughs every episode. I was young when it first aired, so now I'm enjoying going back picking up on jokes I didn't get the first time.