Exceptions

Season 1, Episode 17, Aired
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Ed and Carol finds themselves on opposite sides when he represents a gym coach who is flunking one of her best students; Dr. Jerome continues to humiliate Mike; Shirley starts working as Ed's legal clerk.
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    • Trivia

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      • $10 Bet: Ed bets Mike ten bucks to go upto a bunch of people waiting at the bus stop and do the Snake Dance. Edit
      • Phil decides to interview several attractive female candidates to replace Shirley at the Stuckeybowl snack bar. Ed refuses to hire any of them, so Phil takes his preferred candidate on as his intern. Edit
      • Mike has a patient named Mrs. Butkus. She is named after a multiple-time winner of the "Late Show"'s Secret Word Game. The character is also played by Jude Brennan, one of the "Late Show"'s producer. Edit

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      • Featured Music: "Perfect Day" by Lou Reed "Forgiveness" by Patty Griffin Edit

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      • Ed (to Carol on his meeting with the Coach): We talked it through, chewed on it, knocked it about, hashed it over, bandied it back and forth. Edit
      • Phil: Ed, we are hemorrhaging here without Shirley. I beg you to stop your complacency. Edit
      • Phil: Bosco, I didn't hire her, she's my intern. And that's a win-win situation all the way around, baby! Edit

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      • Carol (when Ed admits that he thinks Corwin is right): I am in the Twilight Zone! I have entered a completely different dimension in which Ed Stevens is being a complete dope!
        Twilight Zone was a popular Sci-Fi/Drama TV series in the 80's. Edit

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