My Favorite Scene in all TVdome...

But actually just an excuse to test out embedding Hulu.com clips.

NewsRadio is one of those cute little shows that only those of us who watched it regularly loved. Unfortunately it was always *just on the cusp* of being cancelled (my like How I Met Your Mother is...but I digress). This was the scene that won the show over for me.

The set-up. Surprisingly enough NewsRadio took place at a...wait for it...news radio station in New York City. The show starts when Dave Nelson, a guy from the Midwest, is hired to be the new news director, much to the chagrin of the stations young ace reporter, Lisa Miller.

Now the network didn't want Dave and Lisa to "get together" because they wanted them to have "sexual tension" but smarter heads prevailed and got them together in episode 2 of the first season (which only had 7 episodes). Their affair is clandestine at this point, the only person who knows about it is Dave's assistant Beth (the redhead at the end of this scene).

This is possibly my favorite episode of the series for a whole host of reasons. All four story lines are funny and the title is funny (the title of this episode is: "No, This is Not Based Entirely on Julie's Life" which makes you wonder who Julie is). The A storyline, Beth, the assistant, has a boyfriend in London who wants her to send nude photos of herself to and the contortions she goes through to take the photos. The B storyline involves gelatto being stolen out of the stations common refrigerator. The C storyline is about the station owner, a billionaire, trying to figure out what to do with his vacation, and the D storyline hearkens back to the A storyline.

Beth's intention to send nude photos to her boyfriend prompts Lisa to ask Dave if a girl has ever sent him nude photos. As it turns out, the answer is yes and Lisa becomes obsessed with this fact. The following is the payoff to what had, up until this point, only been a few throw-away lines.



I'll dissect the Dave and Lisa relationship at some point later on, but, if the embed worked, I just want to point out how awesome it was. Now if only Hulu would put up my second favorite episode...a season 3 episode entitled Halloween, I would be very very happy.