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Atticus' poll. (heh)
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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I should have put the poll in the re: line to avoid this confusion.
I would have said Northern Exposure is not a sitcom because it had a multi-season story arc --- the characters were evolving, as in a primetime drama or a soap opera. However, it's now de rigeur for sitcoms to have multi-episode plots that don't resolve on the half-hour (e.g., perpetual Friends cliffhangers). The traditional sitcom format returns the characters to the exact same position in which they started (now parodied by bringing Kenny back to life, killing Carl, or blowing up Sealab).
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I need a ruling on Rosanne. It progressed quite a bit over its run, though any one individual episode can be watched (generally) in a vacuum.
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