Talk:Becker (TV series)

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Contents 1 Character description including "short" 2 Disambiguation 3 Run time of 30 minutes 4 Genre? 5 Citations 6 Bronx? 7 Cast 8 Looking for help writing an article about the spin-offs and crossovers of this series 9 Region 4

[edit] Character description including "short"

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. —Preceding unsigned comment added by [[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{1}}}|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/{{{1}}}|contribs]])

I disagree, it's not talking about his flaws, just his characteristics Moon Stone 00:01, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Agreed - it's simply part of the character description. It's not stated that it's a flaw. 195.188.40.144 (talk) 14:55, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[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)

Yes run-time should exclude commercials. Most sit-coms are 23 minutes.--Opark 77 (talk) 11:01, 19 November 2007 (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.)

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I have removed the request for a citation that Becker 'really does care' about his patients. How is anyone supposed to cite this? And why would you need to? You only need to watch one episode to know this is true. 195.188.40.144 (talk) 10:52, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bronx?

if becker is a harvard grad, why is he in the bronx? why is he not filthy rich somewhere? this subject has been touched on in th eshow, but was never clarified...

Yeah umm, if you watch it its cuz he has a heart. He's an asshole publically, but there are moments.. like in the pilot when he pays the treatment for the kid with aids himself and offers to drive him. Thats really not needed for an encyclopedia though.

Becker is there because that's where he is needed; it is a poor neighborhood, most of his patients can't pay him, and he's the only doctor around who is kind-hearted enough to treat patients for free (he sometimes accepts other things for payment though, like sports tickets). He gave up a career in research because he wanted to actually have one-on-one contact with the people he was helping, so he came to The Bronx. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.0.85.67 (talk) 05:04, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cast

Do we really need the cast section? It's a repeat of information from the Characters list

Also, does Dirk Henderson deserve an entry, if he was only in the show for two episodes? Was he actually listed as a regular for those episodes? Rojomoke 09:55, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

·· I CHANGED THAT, I PUT THE CAST SECTION INFO INTO THE CHARACTHERS INFO, STILL, I WOULD ELIMINATE THAT INFO ENTIRELY, SINCE ITS ALREADY IN THE CHARACTERS SECTION

[edit] Looking for help writing an article about the spin-offs and crossovers of this series

I am writing an article about all of the series which are in the same shared reality as this one through spin-offs and crossovers. I could use a little help expanding the article since it is currently extremely dense and a bit jumbled with some sentence structures being extremely repetitive. I would like to be able to put this article into article space soon. Any and all help in writing the article would be appreciated, even a comment or two on the talk page would help. Please give it a read through, also please do not comment here since I do not have all of the series on my watch list. - LA @ 16:10, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Region 4

Any information as to the release of Becker on Region 4 DVD in Australia? —Preceding unsigned comment added by LenyAV (talk • contribs) 14:58, 26 April 2008 (UTC)