Sports Night Appreciation Thread

[pax]

Does anyone else remember this show? It was cancelled before it really had a chance to get its legs. It had a few clunky/sappy moments, but it was so fresh and clever in a lot of ways, too.

And has Josh Charles worked at all since it was cancelled? I know Peter Krause is now on Six Feet Under, and Robert Guillaume will always have work (and he was SO GREAT)...

 

[fah]

Yes, I remember it.

I think it only ran for 2 seasons though. It was created by Aaron Sorkin (West Wing fame). One of the actors on West Wing was on it....Joshua something.

A great show - it would be great to see it again. Is it currently available on cable or DVD?

 

[pax]

I have the whole series on DVD. I actually bought it for my dad for Christmas because he wanted it, and watching it with him I was reminded how great it was.

I know who you mean--Joshua Malina, I believe his name is.

Oh, and Felicity Huffman was in Magnolia and she's married to one of my favorite actors of all time, William H. Macy.

 

[Kristie]

It's my boyfriend's favorite show... therefore, I had to watch the whole DVD boxed set last summer. I've developed quite an affection for it.
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..which one's felicity huffman? I know the name, I saw it on the box once, and I've never figured out which of the ladies she was.
William H. Macy was great on that show, by the way.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

they put it on comedy central for a while and added in a laugh track... twas odd

 

[shari schultz]

I loved that show and I do own the DVD boxed set.
I loved the quotes. I even have one as part of my signature

Laugh tracks

 

[pax]

Felicity Huffman played Dana, the producer.

And yes, William H. Macy was great.

And yes, it did suck with the laugh track added.

 

[shari schultz]

I remember being completely disgusted when ABC cancelled Sports Night and kept Two Guys and a Girl

On dateline they did a story recently on Ted McGinley(Gordon). He is somewhat of a jinx when he is on tv shows. They all go down hill and /or get cancelled. I actually felt sorry for the guy.

 

[shari schultz]

Dan-Come with us
Casey: Where?
Dan: El Perro Fumando
Casey: The Smoking Dog?
Dan: Yes
Casey: Why?
Dan: If you wear something blue, you get $2 off a giant blue margarita
Casey: You know, I make a pretty good living. I can actually afford to wear what I want and pay full price
Dan: I'm not promoting the economic upside as much as I am the opportunity to drink something giant and blue

 

[shari schultz]

Calvin Trager: Anyone who can't make money off of Sports Night should get out of the money-making business.

Maybe I read more into this quote than I should have but I always thought that that was aimed directly to ABC

 

[shari schultz]

Dan: I will not be the subject of your mockery
Casey: Oh, I think you shall

 

[shari schultz]

Casey: You are about five different kinds of crazy, you know that?

 

[shari schultz]

Dan: I think I could take him
Casey: Yeah, to lunch, maybe

 

[shari schultz]

Casey: If you had half as much fun watching this show as we did making it, well, then we had twice as much fun making the show as you did watching it.

 

[shari schultz]

Dana: I'm looking for ways to kill you now.
Sam: Dana, I've been through alcohol, marriage, and network television. If you want to kill me, you're gonna need kryptonite.

 

[shari schultz]

Casey: Can we be men for a second?
Dan: Okay, but just for a second.

 

[shari schultz]

(reflecting upon the wording used on a formal invitation)
Casey: October the Eighth, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Eight,
AD-AD
They're worried I might accidentally show up 2,000 years before the birth of Christ.

 

[shari schultz]

Natalie: On page 66,halfway down in the NFL injury report, it says "Collins is expected to miss practice this week, the result of a bulging disk
Dan: Yeah?
Natalie: There's a typo on the TelePrompter. They left out the 's'
Casey: Collins is expected to be sidelined a week to 10 days with a bulging di-Uh Oh
Dan: That's a big 10-4
Casey: My next line in the script was "let's go to the videotape."
Natalie: We might have gotten some phone calls

 

[shari schultz]

Dan: The Olympic gold-medal-winning gymnast and high school sophomore said that after all those years of hrad work, it was a relief to finally realize her life-long dream. Good to get that out of the way at fifteen

 

[shari schultz]

Casey: So don't adjust that dial; and, while we're gone, if any talking animals ask you to buy some tacos or beer-for God's sake, do what they tell you. You've been watching Sports Night on CSC. Have a good night.

 

[shari schultz]

Yeah, you could say Sports Night was a bit of an obsession.

 

[shari schultz]

Josh Charles was in the movie SWAT in 2003.
According to a website he will be in a movie called Seeing Other People. Release date for that is May 7.

 

[shari schultz]

'scuse me now- I gotta go feed the Sports Night obsession.

 

[fah]

One more DVD I must buy

 

[Mr. BAW]

Wow! she is a Sports Night groupie!

 

[pax]

Wow.

She really is.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

i do believe shari just gave us a run down of an entire episode...

the duo that sports night was based on...

keith and dan... the best sportscenter duo to ever live...


and on a side note... dan is a confessed u2 fanatic who often plays u2 songs as lead ins on his radio show, and one time asked his radio co-host rob dibble if rob could get him the u2 slane dvd for his (dan's) birthday

 

[shari schultz]

I'm flattered to be considered about Sports Night. A self admitted nut about the show and darn proud of it!
I watch Keith Olbermans show on MSNBC every chance I get.

 

[shari schultz]

I just realized that I don't have a quote involving Issac-must remedy this.

Isaac: If you're stupid, surround yourself with smart people. If your smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.

Isaac: Danny, I've got to talk to you.
Dan: Good, because I've got to talk to you. Who should go first?
Isaac: Well, since I don't really care what you have to say, I think it should be me.

 

[shari schultz]

I also forgot Jeremy; horrors!
Jeremy: I understand what makes a woman think that any man is better than nothing. I'll just never understand what makes a woman think she's got nothing.
&
Dana: By the way, in the memos that are circulating we're spelling Chattanooga about fourteen different ways. Now, what do we know?
Jeremy: Two O's, three A's
Dana: That's it?
Jeremy: No, there are other letters too. But surely that's not what you meant.