The Bob Newhart Show: Difference between revisions

* [[Instrumental Theme Tune]]: "Home to Emily", composed by series co-producer (and future [[Garfield and Friends|Garfield voice]]) Lorenzo Music with his wife Henrietta. Two different arrangements were used over the course of the show's run.

** Referenced in an episode of ''[[Taxi]]'' in which Jim Ignatowski - a big ''Bob Newhart Show'' fan - finds himself set up on a date with Marcia Wallace [[As Himself|playing herself]]. He insists on regaling her with the [[With Lyrics|lyrics he's composed]] for the theme:

* [[Locked in a Room]]: Bob and Emily spend the Bicentennial Fourth stuck in their building's storage room.

* [[Man Child]]: Howard is this through and through, more childish than his young son. The show [[Lampshade Hanging|frequently hints]] that Bob and Emily see him as the child they never had.

* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: Played with in Universe....Robert Hartly quite possibly could be the first sitcom character to own a VCR (given to him by an ex-convict patient).

* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Newhart and Suzanne Pleshette, a gorgeous ex-movie star, were famously mismatched in looks, though this was rarely commented on in the show itself. It was however [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in a very early episode:

* [[Wacky Guy]]: Mr. Carlin and Howard.

* [[We Want Our Jerk Back]]: When Howard sees a therapist and gets cured of his dependency on Bob and Emily, the Hartleys do everything they can to bring the old Howard back and make him helplessly dependent on them again.