Talk:Becker (TV series)
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QUOTE: Also at the diner is Bob, an old high school classmate of Reggie's who is short, annoying, and refers to himself in the third person.
I believe the word "short" should be removed from this description, or placed in a different context. Shortness is an inherited feature beyond a person's control and should not be lumped with character flaws.
-I dissagree, its not talking about his flaws, just his characteristics Moon Stone 00:01, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Disambiguation
This really needs a disambiguation page!
- Why? Kareeser|Talk! 00:41, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
- Shouldn't the disambiguation page's talk not redirect to here? 65.96.103.25 10:14, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Run time of 30 minutes
technically, shouldn't it be twenty-something minutes? Not 30, since that's with commercials? Kareeser|Talk! 00:42, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Genre?
'Comedy Sitcom' is a strange thing to call a show. 'Sitcom' is short for 'Situation Comedy', which makes the 'Comedy' in 'Comedy Sitcom' redundant. I'm changing it. 84.66.80.174 12:54, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
sitcom is an overused phrase and considering that the laughs in becker are derived mainly from Becker's reaction rather than events themselves this should not be considered to be a sitcom as it is character based so the phrase sitcom should really be removed entirely. Unregistered text offender 15:06, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Citations
Nothing in this article is backed up with a single reference to any sources, which is most obvious when 'interviews' are explicitly referred to without sources.
(Irrelevant to the above, but it seems an image from seasons 1-4 (the bulk of the show and, arguably, the best of the show) would be more fitting than the shot from a cancelled half-season 6. I'd also remove the reference to midgets as it's merely one of a thousand potential anecdotes and is a contradictory one since the character is generally anti-superstition - or at least this contradiction should be noted. And the description of Linda's 'respect' is completely overdone. The article would probably lead someone unfamiliar with the show to think there was some kind of hero-worship relationship, which is wrong. There's a similar issue with her and Margaret, too. She *does* respect them, in a sense, but this is the *under*tone to her general disrespect, much like compassion is the undertone to Becker's cantankerousness. As yet another thing, I'd suspect Reggie was 'liberal', too, but not for that line, which could just as easily be her sarcastically filling in what Becker was going to say, as she obviously wasn't saying it as a genuine answer.)
-- I-am-not-an-IP-number-I-am-a-free-man
