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Night Court versus Wings

Night Court or Wings?


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I have to go with Wings simply because I'm much more familiar with it.

I've seen a handful of Night Court re-runs in my day......and like, all of the Wings. All of them.

Lowell....A+ bro, IMO.
 
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Is that the chick god manifestation from Ghostbusters or is it Christine from Night Court? You decide.

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Once again, we have a winner.
 
Hubba hubba

Shouts to Kooky, my inspiration for this post. He conducted months of research on this topic. Hope he stops by to enlighten us.
 
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Hey now....I was not bringing Stevie Nicks into this. No need to throw low blows.

I still maintain that Casey > Christine. In their primes. And now.
 
Wings. Solid show, used to watch the crap out of those reruns during the summer when I was a kid. Tony Shalhoupe's (sp?) foreign character was solid. Never really got into nightcourt, though I liked the judge guy's stand up when I saw it.
 
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Wings. The Alex chick was a complete smoke show. Farrah Forke.

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Un-shout out to Kooky for he was not my inspiration for this. My good friend James on twitter conducted massive social media research on this hot topic wings v NC. I have no idea who James is but he's hilarious and he read this thread.
 
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Wings. Watched 20+ episodes each week in the mid '90s when it was syndicated on USA.
That was the glory days of childhood summer TV. Exactly how I discovered the TV show. Streamed it on Netflix this past fall, great stuff. Unfortunately, it's no longer on there.
 
Night Court all the way. I was watching a Ray Donovan episode and when Brent Spiner shows up I think more about him from Night Court (Bob Wheeler) than Star Trek. I liked Wings also but Night Court was just awesome back then.
 
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I liked both of them and each had their moments.

But if I had to choose a favorite ensemble comedy from the 90's, I'd go with NewsRadio, which I thought always seemed to be underrated.

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Ex-wife watched them both all the time so that means they both suck. I knew I made a huge mistake when she started watching The Real World on MTV. I should have left her then.
 
They didn't run concurrently so why one over the other? Night Court was winding down when Wings was reving up.

Spin City (w/ Michael j Fox) and News Radio were better than both anyways.
 
Night Court
News Radio (with Phil Hartman)
Spin City
News Radio (without Hartman)
Wings
 
Wow...this is a tough choice. Big fan of both shows, but have to say in each series' prime head to head Night Court wins out.

Its took Night Court a while to find its stride in the early days with no Mac, Christine and the rotating female bailiffs.

Whereas Wings only clunked along near the end when Lowell was replaced by....Budd?
 
We've done "best TV show" several times on the Paddock.
And of course, even more than that we've done the "who is hotter" threads.
But what hasn't been done (I don't think) is the combination of the two, what TV show character is hotter
 
I recall liking them both, but I wasn't devoted to either of them.

I give the edge to Wings for Thomas Haden Church... probably because he went on to do other awesome things, like his memorable performance in Sideways.
 
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