Our tribute to the TV star — who died today at age 94 — turned what could have been a regular goodbye into the funniest meta-TV farewell.
‘s second CBS sitcom, ran for eight seasons and 184 episodes from 1982-1990, neatly surpassing the run of his first CBS sitcom,, which ran from six seasons and 142 episodes from 1972-1978. But the second show always lived in the shadow of the first.
Eventually, Newhart — with a massive assist from his wife Ginnie — figured out how to turn this situation to the newer show’s advantage, and in the process created the single best joke any sitcom has ever used to say goodbye.series finale, “The Last Newhart,” involves a consortium of Japanese businessmen buying the small Vermont town where Newhart’s author Dick Loudon and his wife Joanna ran a small inn, in a scheme to turn the place into a golf resort.
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