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Better Days

Season 1, Episode 5, Aired Nov 05, 2000

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- $10 Bet: Mike dares Ed to walk up to a woman at the bar and ask to buy her a drink -- with nuts in his mouth.
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- Godfrey Watch: Godfrey is the name of the history teacher who asked Carol out at the beginning of the episode.
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- Phil produces the first-ever Stuckeybowl tv commercial. Ed rejects his first idea of using strippers in the ad, so Phil makes a strange 30-second commercial featuring himself as a high-school graduate and Kenny as his father. They finally mention Stuckeybowl in the final seconds of the commercial. Shirley considers this the best commercial ever.
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- Jack Fundus, the skywriting king, is named after the show's key grip, Kenneth Fundus.
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- Mike: These crazy Belgian bastards know how to live!
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- Nick (final words to Carol): This right here, this was never about friendship.
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- Mike: Bullfights and machismo. If you gave Hemingway some bullfights, and a little machismo, he was a happy, happy man.
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- Kenny: I brought coffee... I didn't know what size you wanted, so I got small, medium and large.
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- Kenny: I always wanted to go on a stakeout. One of my favorite movies is 'Stakeout'. Even better than that was the sequel, 'Another Stakeout'. They really took it to the next level.
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- Featured Music: "Better Days" by The Jayhawks "Rescue Me" by Fontella Bass
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- Phil: NYPD Blue, baby... Check it out. Give me some Sipowicz... Sipowicz!
  NYPD Blue is an ABC police drama and Sipowicz is the detective character played by Dennis Franz.
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- "Better Days" (episode title) is a song by The Jayhawks. It was played in this episode.
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