The Bob Newhart Show: Difference between revisions

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* [[Absentee Actor]]: Part of Newhart's deal for doing one last season was that he could take some episodes off. The sixth season has five episodes where Bob is out of town and doesn't appear except for a pre-filmed sequence on the phone.

* [[The Alcoholic]]: Carol, although its played for laughs with her getting tipsy at work after lunches and making Irish Coffee for the Office Christmas parties.

* [[Alliterative Family]]: More rhyming than alliteration. Howard Borden had a brother: Gordon Borden the game warden. Later, Emily told Bob about Howard's other brother: Norman Borden the Mormon doorman. (It didn't take him long to guess that she'd made ''that'' brother up.)

* [[Alliterative Family]]: More rhyming than alliteration. Howard Borden had a brother: Gordon Borden the game warden. Later, Emily told Bob about Howard's other brother: Norman Borden the Mormon doorman (it didn't take him long to guess that she'd made ''that'' brother up).

* [[All Just a Dream]]: Most of the episode {{spoiler|"You're Having My Hartley"}} turned out to be a dream.

* [[Amicable Exes]]: Howard and his ex-wife

* [[Amicable Exes]]: Howard and his ex-wife.

* [[Berserk Button]]: If Bob BBQs a steak for you, do NOT put ketchup on it.

* [[Bucket Booby Trap]]: Subverted. Emily and the Peeper's wife rig up one of these for Bob and the Peeper, but it remains balanced atop the door when each of them comes inside.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Hi, Bob!"

* [[Christmas Episode]]: One each season, in fact.

* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: The show devoted quite a few episodes to Bob's sister Ellen (Pat Finley) and her romance with Howard, but shortly after getting engaged to Howard in ~~season~~ 4, she disappeared from the show and was never mentioned again.

* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: The show devoted quite a few episodes to Bob's sister Ellen (Pat Finley) and her romance with Howard, but shortly after getting engaged to Howard in Season 4, she disappeared from the show and was never mentioned again.

** Margaret Hoover, a neighbor seen in a few ~~season~~ 1 episodes, was introduced as a friend for Emily but vanished without a trace.

** Margaret Hoover, a neighbor seen in a few Season 1 episodes, was introduced as a friend for Emily but vanished without a trace.

* [[Cute Kitten]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgqjOBcXarM Mimsie], the MTM Enterprises [[Vanity Plate]].

** In one episode Mimsie is replaced with a cat featured in that story.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: A Newhart trademark. The supporting characters (especially Emily and Mr. Carlin) often responded in kind.

* [[The Ditz]]: Howard

* [[The Ditz]]: Howard.

* [[Drop-In Character]]: Howard

* [[Drop-In Character]]: Howard.

* [[The Eponymous Show]]

* [[Everything's Better with Bob]]

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* [[Newhart Phonecall]]: Natch.

* [[Notable Commercial Campaigns]]:

** In one episode Howard blames his divorce from his Stewardess wife on the fact that "the skies got a little ''too'' friendly"

** In one episode Howard blames his divorce from his Stewardess wife on the fact that "the skies got a little ''too'' friendly".

** In the hostage episode Howard excitedly exclaims "The Colonel's got breasts!", a parody on a then current KFC ad.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Bob on occasion, though not nearly to the extent that Dick Loudon was on ''Newhart''.

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* [[Reunion Show]]: A 1991 special had Bob and his friends analyzing his crazy Vermont dream.

* [[Running Gag]] / [[Once Per Episode]]: Bob and Emily would be in bed, one of them would say something, shut off the light, then the other would turn their light on and continue the conversation. Became a [[Brick Joke]] in the final episode of ''[[Newhart]]''.

* [[Sassy Secretary]]: Carol

* [[Sassy Secretary]]: Carol.

* [[Shout-Out]]: The episode "It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time" pays tribute to ''[[The Sting]]'' with an "Entertainer"-ish version of the theme music and scene titles like "The Deal" and "The Fuse".

* [[Shown Their Work]]: Subtly. Newhart insisted that his character be a psychologist (ie., therapist), not a psychiatrist, as he didn't want to poke fun at serious mental illnesses.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: Subtly. Newhart insisted that his character be a psychologist (i.e. therapist), not a psychiatrist, as he didn't want to poke fun at serious mental illnesses.

* [[The Shrink]]: Bob

* [[The Shrink]]: Bob.

* [[Sit Comic]]

* [[Snowed In]]: One Christmas episode has Bob trapped at the office by a blizzard.

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* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: When Carol first meets Howard in "Bob and Emily and Howard and Carol and Jerry", he's come from a dentist appointment and the drugs haven't worn off, so he's uncharacterically serene and poetic. This makes a good impression on Carol, who decides she wants to go out with him. On the date, Howard is back to his [[The Ditz|old]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|self]], leading to a disastrous date that causes Carol to change her mind about him and start avoiding him. When Howard finally figures out what's going on and calls her on it, they briefly argue, but then both decide that they love each other after all and run off to take a trip together. No mention is ever made of this again, nor do we ever see Carol and Howard dating after this.

* [[The Windy City]]

* [[You Look Familiar]]: The Peeper (Tom Poston) would return as Handyman George Utley {{spoiler|in Bob's "Newhart" dream, although Bob doesn't seem to recognize him when he wakes up}}.

** The actor who occupied the position of wacky neighbor in the pilot would later play the role of Howard's brother Warden Gordon Borden.

** Comedian Archie Hahn (from the British [[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]) made his television debut in one episode of this show, playing a hotel bellhop. He appeared again in a later episode, this time playing a cruise director.