This (now defunct, sadly) TV sitcom was well worth watching, although the first couple of seasons were by far the best, being cutting and funny at once.
As someone working in a small university (not at all unlike the one in the series) I found some of the bits relating to academia cut more than a bit close to the bone. In particular, the episode in which Dick Solomon tells his students to all write their parents and tell them they are wasting their tuition money and then gets dragged before a university committee for having said that seemed all too accurate.
The show also had a bunch of very quotable lines - I'll put some of them here, and I should make very clear that whenever these refer to a university they refer to the university in the show and should be taken as having absolutely no relevance to Eastern Oregon University or the computer science program at eou.
If I've misquoted or mis-attributed or if you have any more that deserve to be cited, please let me know.
The first two are my favorites, ranking among my favorite quotes of all time.
Dick Solomon: Guns don't kill people, physics kills people.
Dick Solomon: Where would we be without the agitators of the world attaching the electrodes of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?
Dick Solomon : I'm an offensive person, but in a tolerant society is there no place for my kind? Why must everyone like me? Why cant we all just not get along?Dick Solomon : I have a special assignment, you're to write a five page letter to your parents apologizing for wasting their money. On my desk in the morning for my approval and a blistering PS.
(In the hearing after Dick SOlomon is accused of insensitivity, the committee (here Judith) is questioning one of his students (Bug)):
Judith :
What bothers you most about Dr. Solomon's teaching methods?
Bug:
He's always saying i'm wrong.
Judith:
And how often are you wrong?
Bug:
Always.
Dick Solomon: Not in the car, not in the bar, not in the house, not up your blouse, I cannot touch you here or there, I cannot touch you anywhere!
Dick Solomon : This university is the Harvard of mediocrity.
Dick Solomon : (To his class) I didnt want anyone to feel stress so I abandoned the tradtional grading system and gave everyone happy faces.
Dick Solomon : I will not let my son go to any university where the freshman dorms were built by Habitat for Humanity.
Mary Albright : I always wanted to teach half baked morons at a second rate university.
Sally Solomon : A riddle wrapped up in an enigma fried and served with chinese dipping sauce.
Dick Solomon : What about Good Cop, somewhat effeminate cop?
Dick Solomon : I have to perch on the teeth of death in order to peer down at the tonsils of enlightenment.
Mary Albright : I was put on this earth to bore a bunch of unreceptive dimwits to the end of my days.
Mary Albright : I have brain cells that will remember this evening and I want them destroyed.
Dick Solomon : Hair is much overrated. It takes away from the grandeur of your face.
Dick Solomon : Do you know how hard it is to get a rabbit's foot in this town? Oh sure, you can get a whole rabbit, but don't tell the pet store what your gonna do with it!
Dick Solomon : Tomorrow there will be a pop quiz on thermodynamics. Remember, it's a pop quiz. If you study, I'll know!
Harry Solomon : Women. You can't live with them, yet they're everywhere.
Dick Solomon : I feel so exposed and vulnerable. And not in the fun, spanky way either.
Dick Solomon : (On being enclosed in an invisible box and feeling its outlines) Oh God! He's turned me into a mime!
Sally Solomon : How can humans take something like shopping, something pure and natural and good, and turn it into something so ugly?