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Taxi: Zen and the Art of Cab Driving/Louie’s Mother

February 22, 2017 by Sam Stecklow Leave a Comment

“Zen and the Art of Cab Driving” Not available for streaming on Hulu or CBS All Access; there are some pretty good deals on DVD copies of the third season on Amazon. After Jim picks up a couple of businessmen at the airport and overhears them talking about a business seminar that left them feeling…

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Taxi: Elaine’s Old Friend/Out of Commission

January 11, 2017 by Sam Stecklow Leave a Comment

“Elaine’s Old Friend” Not available for streaming on Hulu or CBS All Access; there are some pretty good deals on DVD copies of the third season on Amazon. Though Taxi often addresses, and is indeed centered around the idea that driving a taxi is at best unglamorous and at worst incredibly dangerous work, embarrassment at driving a…

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Taxi: Thy Boss’s Wife/The Costume Party

December 7, 2016 by Sam Stecklow Leave a Comment

“Thy Boss’s Wife” Available on Hulu | Available on CBS All Access It’s very weird in to watch a sitcom episode about a wife cuckolding her husband in 2016. I don’t know how that kind of thing played in 1981, but in 2016, the whole concept is leaving a pretty bad taste in my mouth,…

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Taxi: Call of the Mild/Latka’s Cookies

September 21, 2016 by Sam Stecklow Leave a Comment

“Call of the Mild” Not available for streaming on Hulu or CBS All Access; there are some pretty good deals on DVD copies of the third season on Amazon. There’s something good, I think, about a show once in a while asking you to suspend your disbelief so much that you don’t even recognize it…

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Taxi: Going Home/The Ten-Percent Solution

August 31, 2016 by Sam Stecklow Leave a Comment

“Going Home” Available on Hulu | Available on CBS All Access A private eye shows up at the garage looking for Jim, bearing a letter from his estranged father inviting him home to Boston. It’s pretty hard to imagine Jim Ignatowski with parents, for some reason (“There goes my spore theory,” says Louie) — almost as…

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Taxi: Fathers of the Bride/Elaine’s Strange Triangle

August 3, 2016 by Sam Stecklow Leave a Comment

“Fathers of the Bride” Not available for streaming on Hulu or CBS All Access; there are some pretty good deals on DVD copies of the third season on Amazon. What kind of show hires Louise Lasser, one of the great weird TV stars of all time, just to make a bunch of jokes about her weight?…

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Taxi: Louie’s Rival/Tony’s Sister and Jim

July 20, 2016 by Sam Stecklow Leave a Comment

“Louie’s Rival” Available on Hulu | Available on CBS All Access It’s a striking choice to begin a season of a network sitcom on raw emotional notes, especially a sitcom that closed out the previous system by visiting a fantasy borough. And yet “Louie’s Rival”—much less about Louie’s competitiveness with the ostensible “rival” in the episode…

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Taxi: Fantasy Borough

July 6, 2016 by Sam Stecklow Leave a Comment

One of the few problems with writing about a show that aired [REDACTED] amount of years before you were born is that sometimes, nothing in an episode will make sense. I’m usually able to pick up most of the cultural references on Taxi, but a two-part series finale inspired by the show Fantasy Island, which aired from…

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Taxi: Alex Jumps Out Of An Airplane/Art Work

June 1, 2016 by Sam Stecklow Leave a Comment

“Alex Jumps Out Of An Airplane” There’s nothing inherently interesting, and a whole lot inherently uninteresting, about watching a middle-aged straight white man go through a midlife crisis, and yet it is a constant source of material for sitcom writers (which, honestly, says more about the people who write and produce shows than the ones who…

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Taxi: Shut It Down

May 18, 2016 by Sam Stecklow 1 Comment

Part One also available on Hulu and CBS All Access “Shut It Down,” a two-parter centering on a union-management dispute between Louie and the drivers of the Sunshine Cab Company over cab safety (after Tony’s brakes give out and he’s forced to crash to stop his cab [he forgot about the emergency brake]), features a big first…

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