Thursday, November 6, 2008

Taxi: Reverend Jim's driving test



I used to love watching the show Taxi on Nick at Nite when I was a kid. Looking over the shows Nick at Nite and TV Land play now....I'm very close to shedding a tear for television. It's even worse than oldies radio nowadays.
I don't quite understand why these stations assume they have to update their lineup to include shows that aren't even five years old yet, or (most appallingly) create their own reality shows. The whole concept of the station is that it plays classic television. That means it shouldn't matter that Taxi was only 16 years old when it first joined the Nick at Nite lineup and it is 30 years old now. It's still a classic, is still just as damn funny, and is still missing from regular TV.
The only reason I even know about Taxi is because I watched it on Nick at Nite, and there is an entire generation who won't have that privilege because suddenly it's too old even for the oldies station. For the most part the lineup is stuff you don't even have time to miss from their first run, let alone shows you never knew about because they were from your parents' childhood. That just doesn't make sense to me.

Anyway. Watch this clip, it's Reverend Jim at his best. And, as a side note, I'm pretty sure one of the reasons I'm determined to marry a Jew is because I had a crush on Alex when I was little. Yea, Judd Hirsch!