r/nostalgia • u/nialldude3 • 9h ago

Nostalgia Newhart (1982 - 1990)

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u/Mixitman 8h ago

One of the best series finales of all time.

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u/Yerrusr 4h ago

If not THE best!

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u/C4lderone 9h ago

Hi… I’m Larry… This is my brother Daryl, and this is my other brother Daryl.

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u/C-A-L-E-V-I-S 6h ago

This just lowered my blood pressure by thirty points

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u/ScientistAsHero 6h ago

I know! It was so serene and pleasant.

Also kind of funny how I hadn't thought about this tune in decades but when I heard it I immediately remembered every note of how it went.

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u/KevinStoley 7h ago

Hearing this theme as a kid meant it was about time for me to go to bed.

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u/PopeInThePizza 8h ago

I was 13 for the first season and wanted to grow up to be a middle-age guy like Dick Louden, with everything he had except Kirk.

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u/strikinglightning 8h ago

This series made me want to move to Vermont, had a coworker out in Washington state that decided to quit and bought a hotel out there. Got to go out there a couple times and stay there at his place

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u/AdHour389 4h ago

Vermont was an AMAZING place to live and raise a family. Maybe one day I'll move back. I doubt it but who knows. I lived there for 38 years. Moving away was a great choice for me but I get why some people want to go there. Or never leave

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u/Artimusjones88 8h ago

Seriously underrated show. Was must see TV at our place.

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u/KneeHighMischief 8h ago edited 3h ago

I don't see people mentioning it much, but the first season of this show was ROUGH. Kirk Devane might be one of the worst sitcom characters of all-time.

I get what they were going for with the fast talking schemer. It just did not work at all. He played off the rest of the cast terribly.

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u/Sweetbeans2001 late 70s 8h ago

I tried and succeeded in forgetting that guy. I was wondering where Peter Scolari and Julia Duffy were in the credits and then I remembered that they weren’t in that first season.

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u/Toronto-1975 7h ago

Julia Duffy was fucking hilarious in this show.

Newhart was one of those rare TV shows that got better as it got older. Bob Newhart was awesome and the supporting cast uniformly was just as good.

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u/Nomahhhh 8h ago

Watched this as a kid and to this day want to retire to a random small town in rural Vermont.

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u/Cosmo_Seinfeld 8h ago

As a lonely young teenager I loved everything about this show.

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u/immersemeinnature 8h ago

I loved this show so much

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u/Global_Push6279 6h ago

I have memories of listening to this theme song from my dark bedroom because I wasn’t allowed to stay up and watch it

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u/SamOfXanadu 7h ago

I just realized Bob must have been watching on Golden Pond before bed.

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u/arrozcongandul 6h ago

this looks about as close to paradise as possible and about equally as far away from reality given today's economy. maybe that's just from where i'm standing, though.

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u/DeezNeezuts 5h ago

The best ending to a show

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u/theapeboy 3h ago

“Hi Bob”

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u/MWH1980 2h ago

Back when New England was seen as The Place for shows in the 80’s.

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u/pm_me_ur_anything_k 5h ago

The end was such a cop out though

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u/HyperbolicSoup 8h ago

This looks like the whitest thing I’ve ever seen

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u/thedegreeis 7h ago

To be fair…it is and you are correct.

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u/GaraksLinensNThings 8h ago

I hated this show.  Never laughed once.  The "Hi, I'm Larry, this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl.", bit got old fast and was a constant.

Strangely enough, I liked the actor who played Larry.  He was in the A&W Root Beer commercials, either as Larry or a close proximity of him.  And he was also on Babylon 5.

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u/KB346 7h ago

William Sanderson played “Larry”. I always remember him from “Blade Runner” as Sebastian.

Show reminds me of my childhood and I still do laugh at the joke. All good. Different folks/different strokes. 😆