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** 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.

* [[Comedy Series]]

* [[Consummate Liar]]: Kirk.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Dick, on occasion.

* [[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 its something cool like digging up an old <s> witch</s> woman's body from the cellar, they might even pay YOU the buck.

* [[Halloween Episode]]: "Take Me to Your Loudon"

* [[Hollywood New England]]

* [[Instrumental Theme Tune]]: Composed by [[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).

{{quote|'''Larry''': Hi, I'm Larry, this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl. And heeeeeeere's Johnny!}}

* [[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.