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An extended nightmare dreamt by Bob Hartley of ''[[The Bob Newhart Show]]''.
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'''Emily:''' That settles it. [[Acid Reflux Nightmare|No more Japanese food before you go to bed.]]
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* [[All Just a Dream]]: Brilliantly played with; after the completely out-there finale, having that episode revealed to be a dream wasn't unexpected. Finding out ''whose'' dream, now...
** This was done to parody the last episode of ''[[St. Elsewhere]]'', where the ''entire series'' is revealed to be the daydream of an autistic boy.
▲* [[All Just a Dream]]: Brilliantly played with; after the completely out-there finale, having that episode revealed to be a dream wasn't unexpected. Finding out ''whose'' dream, now...)
**
** According to Newhart's memoir, it was simply a good idea by his real life wife Ginnie.
* [[Arcadia]]
* [[As Himself]]: [[The Tonight Show|Johnny Carson]], [[The Carol Burnett Show|Tim Conway]], Edwin Newman.
* [[Away in
* [[Big "Shut Up!"]]: The Darryls to their wives in the finale (also their only line in the entire series; see [[The Voiceless]], below).
* [[Breakout Character
** Larry, Darryl and Darryl were locally ''very'' popular in real-world Vermont, culminating in the actors appearing in character for an all-lard [[Food Fight]] staged in Burlington as part of a local festival in the late 1980s. Sort of a live, in-person [[
** Both Stephanie and Michael were also originally introduced as one-shot guest stars, and were popular enough to become regulars.
* [[Cannot Tell a Joke]]: Dick, in at least one episode.
* [[Closer to Earth]]
* [[Comedy Series]]
* [[Consummate Liar]]: Kirk.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Dick, on occasion.
* [[Drop
* [[Eccentric Townsfolk]]: The show runs on this trope.
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Extremely Overdue Library Book]]: Averted. Larry, Darryl, and Darryl all decided to make a time capsule and asked for donations. One week later, they had to did it up, because one of the Darryls placed a library book.
* [[Grand Finale]]: "The Last Newhart
** They went to great pains to make sure that the studio audience didn't see the [[Rebuilt Set|bedroom set]] until they had started filming.
* [[Halloween Episode]]: "Take Me to Your Loudon".
* [[Hollywood New England]]
* [[I Want You to Meet An Old Friend of Mine]] ▼
▲* [[Instrumental Theme Tune]]: Composed by [[Henry Mancini (Music)|Henry Mancini]].
** Kind of a sadly-averted [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] because of the Mancini tie-in. The man who wrote the timeless jazz themes for ''[[The Pink Panther]]'' and ''[[Peter Gunn]]'' basically wrote pleasant-but-bland elevator music for this theme.
** It may be "Pleasant but bland", but it fit the mood of a series set in a sleepy Vermont town better then a jazz theme would (or the ''[[Remington Steele]]'' theme written the same year).
* [[The Tonight Show|Johnny Carson]]: Pays Larry and the Darryls' gas bill.
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* [[Last of His Kind]]: When ''Newhart'' premiered in 1982, it was pretty much the only show from MTM Productions that still aired on [[CBS]], as the company pretty much began airing most of their product on [[NBC]] due to company co-founder and president Grant Tinker becoming chairman and CEO there. In addition, it was also pretty much MTM's last major sitcom, as by this time the company had pretty much shifted its focus to cranking out dramas instead.
* [[Logo Joke]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz8ewq8mxRI "Meow."]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A27GG9ApBiM "QUIET!!"]
* [[Mad Magazine]]: ''Not So New-Heart''.
* [[Missing the Good Stuff]]
* [[Mistaken for Dying]]: Subversion.
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* [[Mr. Fixit]]: George.
* [[Newhart Phonecall]]: [[Trope Namer]]. A common gag on the show.
** Interestingly in one episode, Dick has a phone conversation with one of the Darryls before it was established that they never spoke, even off screen.
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted ''hard'' with Larry's brothers.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Dick.
* [[
* [[Quirky Town]]
* [[Retool]]: One of the most successful examples. During the second season, the show switched from videotape to film, added Stephanie as a regular, and opened up the show beyond the inn by giving Dick a job hosting a local TV show (which also brought Michael in as a new character). All these changes helped make the show more popular.
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* [[Rich Bitch]]: Stephanie, with a little [[Servile Snarker]] thrown in.
* [[Running Gag]]: "Hi, I'm Larry. This is my brother Darryl. And this is my other brother Darryl."
* [[Show Within a Show]]:
* [[The Smart Guy]]: Dick, somewhat.
* [[Strange Syntax Speaker]]: Michael Harris speaks in alliteration.
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: Michael develops a truly awful sitcom called
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Stephanie, for Leslie.
** Or inverted, depending on how you look at it. Stephanie and Leslie were not very alike, as Leslie was too bland to even exist as a sitcom character and Stephanie was actually funny.
* [[Sweater Girl]]: Joanna. Lampshaded in the [[All Just a Dream]] finale noted above, when Bob says to his "real" wife Emily, "You know, you really should wear more sweaters."
* [[Telethon]]: In one episode, Michael convinces Dick into hosting a 72
* [[Time Skip]]
* [[Twist Ending]]: Parodied, in one of the all-time great TV moments.
* [[The Voiceless]]: Larry's brothers Darryl and Darryl, at least until the [[Suddenly Voiced|grand finale]].
* [[Work Com]]: With the twist that the Loudons' place of business also happened to be their home.
** Once Dick started hosting
* [[Ye Goode Olde Days]]: Dick is a great history buff and bought the Inn for nostalgia's sake. The Inn is a very tastefully done building with antiques and paintings on display.
* [[You Look Familiar]]: Thomas Hill (Chester) and Julia Duffy (Stephanie) had played father and daughter in the short
** In the finale, Dr. Hartley fails to notice that his best friend in college is his handyman.
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