In 1995, there were episodes of Martin AND Living Single in which the main characters get hustled at pool halls. They win all the money back with a montage of trick shots and teach the same lesson: Only gamble against people who are worse than you at pool. This prompts Steve Harvey and Cedric the Entertainer to win back the money by dressing in African garb and pretending to be clueless Rwandan tribesmen who have never heard of pool. He ends up losing the school's field trip money to two hustlers named Raven and Jody. Half a decade later, in a 1996 episode of The Steve Harvey Show, a kid named Bullethead crushes some locals and gets lesson-learning cocky. how the last person to hustle someone in a chain of hustles is the good guy? Warner Bros. The kids and the hustler learn a valuable lesson about. He sinks shot after shot, then turns the cue over to the family's grandma, who hits a quadruple bank shot to win the money back. Luckily, Carl shows up, and it so happens that while this was never, ever mentioned before, he is in fact a world-class pool player. Urkel then tries to win the money back, but Urkel is only magically good at chess, science, basketball, poker, and bowling. He takes that cockiness to a local pool hall, where he promptly gets hustled out of $250 by a Texan named Boyd Higgins.
The first time it happened was in a 1990 episode of Family Matters, when Eddie Winslow beats his friend at pool and gets cocky. Of all the weirdly specific things to happen multiple times across multiple sitcoms, this might be the weirdest and most specific. There are many questions here, several about creative bankruptcy, but most pressing is: How fast does someone have to be driving to crash a car THROUGH a house? The answer, as any Mythbuster will tell you, is "any speed, so long as it's a plot point." Related: White House Crash Test Dummy: Jared Kushner 4 Basically Every '90s Black Sitcom Had A Pool Hustling Episode a flying present baron who watches us all?" Santa is flying overhead, laughing at him. THERE IS NO FRICKIN' SANTA CLAUS!" Suddenly, snow starts to fall and he looks up to see how wrong he was. A normally non-insane character screams into the night, "There's no God, there's no Christmas. Santa's even real in an episode of fricking ER, a show that won 22 Emmys. Television "Wow, the real Santa was here!? You know what this means, Gilligan!?" "Yes. from the other direction! HOLY WHAT THE WHOA NOW. They all assumed it was the Skipper dressing up to lift their spirits, but when Santa walks away, the Skipper immediately enters.
In a near-identical twist, a Christmas episode of Gilligan's Island from almost 30 years earlier featured Santa visiting the castaways and bringing them gifts. Which means I know of your dark deeds, little girl. Sony Pictures Television "Yes, I am real. Instead they're warmed by the Christmas spirit that lives inside each of us as a flying man laughs at them from the sky. The nurses, naturally, refuse to believe the man is the real Santa, but when the clock strikes midnight, he's mysteriously flown out the window, and the characters all look up at him as he chants "HO HO HO!" Those people should be screaming, "No! NO! NO ONE WILL BELIEVE US!" as their entire understanding of all things is shattered. are in the hospital, a crazy old man in a Santa suit gets thrown in the bed beside his. Sheffield injures his butt on Christmas Eve, and while the Nanny and Co. They are perfectly comfortable living in a world where no one laughs at jokes, romantic tension between friends lasts for years, and magic is absolutely a thing. And yet instead of rewriting everything these characters know about reality, they seem to accept it as an everyday part of life. And No One Finds That AmazingĪn absurd number of otherwise-straightforward sitcoms have Christmas episodes wherein Santa Claus reveals himself to be unambiguously real.
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