Joanna on Newhart was written like a wet empty cereal box. She has very little character of her own, only as a foil/support for Dick and the other characters. Seven seasons in and I couldn't describe anything about her personality or backstory.

But the actor really makes up for it with her incredible eye expressions that speak beyond the script. Hats off to her for doing the most as a very poorly written sidekick.

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He's my favorite Daryl.

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I'm about halfway through Newhart. I've been wanting to comment, but too much posting isn't good for my energy levels.

But I have been wanting to comment on Larry, Daryl, and Daryl, who might be my favorite sitcom TV characters ever. They are turning out to be quite autistic-coded, and in do well at depicting country bumpkins in a lovable (rather than hateful) way.

The other characters don't do them justice (Dick keeps undermining them) but I see through that. Sometimes a side character comes along who reflects what I see in them.

There's this one moment in season 4 where they start an escort service (I am not shitting you), and in spite of Dick trying to stop her, a guest at the inn goes out with them. She shows up with them the next morning looking like she'd just had the best, most wild fuck of her life. It was so freaking hot.

But then it turns out they just took her to a bat cave and she got bats in her hair and she was actually freaked out. But the actress did a great job at giving an ambiguous look that also covered the base of "freaky-fucked silly by these three and now I'm a new woman," so I can pretend my head canon is the correct one. I can pretend the writers and actors wanted my version and they had to change it because it was the 80s in the USA. It's a likely scenario.

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Being a psychologist is a lot like managing an inn.

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