The Bob Newhart Show/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Drinking Game: "Hi Bob" is thought to be the first "drink when X happens in an episode of TV show Y" game.
  • Fair for Its Day: The episode "Some of My Best Friends Are..." has one of Bob's therapy patients, Mr. Plager, come out as gay, and it's actually fairly progressive for a '70s sitcom: Plager is both completely non-camp and entirely comfortable with his sexuality, and Bob makes a point of dressing the rest of the group down for their homophobic attitudes toward him.
  • Hey, It's That Guy!: Doctor Johnny Fever is one of Bob's patients. A recently-paroled Fonzie also visits him when Bob offers to help with a prison's post-release rehabilitation program.