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Not surprisingly ''[[Newhart]]'' referenced it most frequently, and memorably; in an episode where Dick and his wife go to a counselor, they meet the doctor's previous patient, Jack Riley as Mr. Carlin (the doctor says that he's got a lot of work ahead of him there, "due to some quack in Chicago"). And in ''Newhart'''s final episode, one of the most famous in TV history, the entire series is revealed to be a dream of Bob Hartley's -- from which he awakens in his original bedroom set, next to Suzanne Pleshette.
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The show will air on [[Family Net]] starting in October 2011.
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After a few weeks of hype in April 2012 Hallmark Channel suddenly removed the show along with ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'' from its schedule after 2 weeks in favor of ''[[Cheers]]'' and ''[[Frasier]]''.
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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.
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* [[Drop in Character]]: Howard
* [[The Eponymous Show]]
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* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: No matter how many breakthroughs Bob has with his regular patients, they never even come close to getting better. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in an episode where Bob becomes frustrated at his lack of progress with Mr. Carlin.
** Also lampshaded in a [[Christmas Episode]] in which Bob's gift to Mr Peterson was that he was cured and Bob was "letting him go free". Mr Peterson was less than thrilled.
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** Not necessarily. Maybe they came back, because the small-town college experience was too goofy for words, thus providing much of the material for the subsequent dream? The later ''Murphy Brown'' cameo supports this idea too.
* [[Happily Married]]
* [[Hey
** Bob and Emily are marriage-counseled in one episode by none other than [[Whos the Boss (TV)|Mona Robinson]]!
** [[Barney Miller|Sgt. Ron Harris]] is an elevator repairman.
* [[Hey
** Howard Hesseman, who appeared on the show as Mr. Plager (and was later used by MTM as a regular on ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]''), also did a number of offscreen voices on the show.
** [[The Flintstones|Fred Flintstone]] is a $65 a half hour plumber treating the Hartly's garbage disposal.
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* [[The Tonsillitis Episode]]: "Bob Has to Have His Tonsils Out, So He [[Crappy Holidays|Spends Christmas Eve in the Hospital]]".
* [[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:
{{quote| '''Emily''': Bob, I never went for tall, good-looking guys. That's why I married you.}}
* [[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.
** Justified in that the therapy has given Howard an entirely new personality that's even more unhealthy than his old one.
* [[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}}.
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