• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    Or it could be their “cousin Oliver” moment. That point in a tv show where the writers have squeezed all they can from the characters and have to inject some wacky “wild card” character out of the blue in a desperate attempt to revive things. It got the name from the Brady Bunch who had cousin Oliver show up suddenly. Married With Children had it with cousin Seven, Happy Days with Mork from Ork (yup, that is how it started), The Flintstones with The Great Gazoo alien, Scooby Doo had his Scrappy Doo…