the “mary pat shelby” episode of sports night is easily an equal to the “love’s labor lost’ episode of er. cancelling sports night was one of the stupidest things that abc ever did. (right next to forcing a laugh track on them in many episodes of the first season.) comedy central’s been showing the sports night episodes on a crazy schedule lately, but they just played the final episode in the usual thursday night slot, so that may mean they’ll be starting over this thursday.
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ah, that's the second episode after the one i was talking about. the story-framed-by-letter-writing was done in mas*h, too, and it has been a fairly frequent one on aaron sorkin shows. (there's at least one more episode of sports night that uses it, and i seem to recall a second episode of the west wing that uses it, too.)
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I finally watched an episode of Sports Night and was shocked that the main device of the story was identical to an episode of The West Wing. Was this just a drug-induced mind-burp on the part of Aaron Sorkin? The premise was one of the main characters writing an email home about the working environment and their coworkers. It