About this episode

The episode explores recurring gags and rivalries in popular sitcoms.

Bar Wars rage on at Cheers! Halloween Heists strike again at Brooklyn 99! Paintball Armageddon is back with a vengeance at Greendale Community College! This week we're returning to the great Recurring gags and long-standing rivalries of the sitcom world! Here's what we're watching: Cheers S7 E10 "Bar Wars II: The Woodsman Strikes Back" Community S2 E23-24 "A Fistful of Paintballs" & "A Few Paintballs More" How I Met Your Mother S2 E16 "Stuff" Brooklyn Nine-Nine S2 E4 "Halloween II"

People in this episode

Hosts: Amy, Jay

Topics covered

• recurring gags
• long-standing rivalries
• sitcom analysis
• Cheers
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• Community
• How I Met Your Mother

Keywords

• sitcoms
• recurring gags
• rivalries
• Cheers
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• Community
• How I Met Your Mother

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Cheers, Brooklyn 99, Community, How I Met Your Mother, Bar Wars II: The Woodsman Strikes Back, A Fistful of Paintballs, A Few Paintballs More, Stuff, Halloween II

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