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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.
** Alternatively, a parody of one of the most controversial uses of the trope: ''[[Dallas]]'', in which a season was suddenly [[
** According to Newhart's memoir, it was simply a good idea by his real life wife Ginnie.
* [[Arcadia]]
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* [[Away in a Manger]]: Used in the Season 1 episode "No Room at the Inn".
* [[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.
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* [[Eccentric Townsfolk]]: The show runs on this trope.
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: Larry Darryl and Darryl's first business - "Anything For a Buck". They'll do anything for a buck. If it's something cool like digging up an old <s>witch</s> woman's body from the cellar, they might even pay ''you'' the buck.
* [[Grand Finale]]: "The Last Newhart", one of the most memorable sitcom finales among fans and critics, where we learn that the entire scenario of a [[Only Sane Man|mild-mannered, humble and genial innkeeper and TV show host driven to the brink of a nervous breakdown]] by [[Cloudcuckoolander|crazy, loony caricatures of the town's residents]] was but a nightmare of Dr. Robert Hartley (of ''[[The Bob Newhart Show]]''). The plot of this final show magnifies what the show had been doing progressively over its eight years: A Japanese tycoon buys the (unnamed) town where the Stratford Inn (which protagonists Dick and Joanna Loudon owned) was located, and after a farewell party (with Dick pretty much saying "good riddance"), the main
** 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".
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