Sitcom Deaths and Disappearances | Reviving a Mobit

Mobituaries with Mo Rocca

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In honor of the anniversary of the first-ever sitcom broadcast on a U.S. television network (fun fact: it was "Mary Kay and Johnny" back in November 1947), we're revisiting "Sitcom Deaths and Disappearances." Characters on sitcoms aren't supposed to die. So when they do, it's never less than weird. Mo examines some of the most infamous sitcom deaths and disappearances with Henry Winkler, Sandy Duncan and Alan Sepinwall.

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0:00.0	It was you, Kristen, who shot J.R.
0:04.6	I watched a lot of TV growing up.
0:08.7	When I was nine, I memorized the TV guide.
0:20.5	When my brother Lawrence told Mrs. Barnett across the street that he had a younger brother, she didn't believe him.
0:27.2	You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
0:31.3	That's how little I went outside.
0:35.0	I learned early on that the television universe is divided into hour-long dramas,
0:40.9	I trusted you.
0:42.3	I trusted you, you bastard.
0:44.5	And half-hour sitcoms.
0:46.2	Good afternoon, everybody?
0:47.4	No.
0:49.0	On dramas, death is a fact of life.
0:52.8	Consider that over the course of the six seasons of the Sopranos,
0:56.6	92 characters died.
0:58.6	You shot him in his bathtub naked.
1:00.8	No chance to run.
1:02.0	No, I swear to God.
1:04.3	It's even grizzlier on Game of Thrones,
1:08.9	where characters have a 70% chance of getting killed off.
1:13.6	The lannists just send their regards.
1:15.6	But today we're talking about something far more mysterious,
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