56: TGIF; Or, Do the Urkel, Bea!

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Just imagine: it's the end of the week, and all you want to do is crash on the couch, switch on the TV, and chillax. Luckily for you, it's also the early 90s, which means there's no black hole of streaming services to get lost in, so no need to stress about making that choice we all struggle with nowadays: "What should I watch?" Instead, you can just pop something into your Easy Bake oven, grab a bottle of Pepsi Blue, then flip to that channel with the cartoon mice and enjoy!

Rob teaches Ray about how ABC - with the help of Jim Janicek and some stellar theme song writers - dug itself out of a programming rut with some inspired marketing moves and savvy show scheduling; the charismatic young actor whose glasses-wearing, nasal-voiced, B-plot character ended up changing Family Matters from a message-driven drama into a comedic sensation; why Bea Arthur is now also a dancing goddess; and the many ways cable television channels have tried to recreate (or in ABC's case, recapture) the glory that was TGIF.

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