Most sitcoms treat their cast list like a load-bearing wall. Pull one person out and the whole structure is supposed to come down. Cheers survived Shelley Long leaving, sure, but that's the exception people cite precisely because it's rare. Usually when a beloved character exits a show, the show either quietly deflates or spends the … Continue reading Greendale’s Revolving Door: How Community Kept Its Soul Through Every Cast Change
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The Character Couch – Eleanor Shellstrop
Welcome back to The Character Couch, where we dust off our amateur psychology credentials and spend some quality time with fictional people who absolutely could have benefited from a real therapist at some point. Today's subject shuffled in a little late, made a joke about the waiting room being a trap, and spent the first … Continue reading The Character Couch – Eleanor Shellstrop
