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    Ah, thanks, you're right, I just assumed it was the regular 1/2
    hour.  I'll catch the 2d half in reruns...
    
    Thanks again,
    
    Richard

    
    
    I don't normally watch this show but I happened to catch it last night
    and I thought it was fantastic.  I don't recall the character names
    but... Paul and Helen found old letters that had been saved and stuffed
    behind a toilet in their apartment and the two of them read the letters
    and they both thought that the people in the letters were just like
    them.  The letters were from a woman that used to live in their
    apartment and the man she loved that was fighting the war.  Paul and
    Helen read all the letters and in the last letter, the military guy had
    asked the woman to marry him.  There were no other letters after that
    one so Paul and Helen didn't know if the couple had gotten married. 
    Helen was supposed to write a story so she wrote about the couple.  She
    even went and bought a cd that played big band music that the couple
    used to dance to in the apartment.
    Paul and Helen wondered so much about whether or no the couple got
    married that they searched down the woman who used to live there.  They 
    found her and assummed the man she was with was the man in the letters.  
    When they tried to give her the letters she told them that the letters 
    were not hers.  Helen and Paul go home, all disappointed and the woman 
    shows up a while later and let's them know that the letters were hers and 
    that the man (her husband) was not the one in the letters.  The man in the
    letters never returned from the war.   She goes to leave and the song
    she and her guy used to listen to starts to play and she comments on
    that and Helen hints to Paul to dance with the woman and he does.
    
    I thought the whole episode was superb and it got me interested in
    catching the show more often.  The whole episode was romantic and funny
    and somewhat true to life.  I really enjoyed it.
    
    

    Last night was a repeat and I caught it the first time around.....sweet
    story
    
    
>>    I thought the whole episode was superb and it got me interested in
>>    catching the show more often.  The whole episode was romantic and funny
>>    and somewhat true to life.  I really enjoyed it.
  
    This is why I watch the show - I find the majority of episodes to be
    like this - romantic, funny and somewhat true to life.
      
    Joyce
    

	Is it my imagination, or did the actor and/or actress playing
	the English couple across the hall from our favorite couple
	change from last season?

    re -1
    
    The actress is the same, but the actor has changed.  It used to be
    some older guy.
    
    Now, is it my imagination, or is has Murray changed since last season?

    
    Murry is still the same. You  may remember him in the movie Bingo?
    He is a very very talented dog, he's talent is being wasted on
    this show - but at least it's a steady job :-)

    
    	This is a great show ... happened to catch most of it last night
    	and it was a riot!!
    
    	I should watch it more often.
    
    							GTI
    

    
    	Mad About You and Friends are my SO's current favourite shows, and
    	now I'm being dragged into liking them both as well.

	Both Mad About You episodes were great last night. I love their
    	interaction together, they hit the nail on the head when it comes
    	to couples being couples together. It's hilarious at times because 
    	the exact scenes and moments have happened to us, where we thought
    	it was only us who act out some of those bizarre interactions and
    	and events together. "It's funny because it's true". Sometimes the
    	show is so perceptive and true-to-life that it hurts to admit that
    	it could be us or any other couple up there instead...

    	-Erik

    I know last night's episode was a re-run (Thanksgiving episode where
    Jamie and Paul keep running to the corner store for Turkey after
    Turkey) but I still laughed out loud several times (especially when the
    turkey went out the window).  This show is really good and it will be
    sad when it ends.
    
    MJ

> This show is really good and it will be sad when it ends.

	Do you know something we don't? :-)  I wonder if this Turkey-day
	episode will be re-run every thanksgiving (while the show
	is still on the air of course) ....

    
    	I'd never seen this the 1st time it ran, so I was almost rolling
    	on the floor when:
    
    	1)  The turkey made one of its 2 trips out the window.
    
    	2)  Her mother started laughing
    
    	3)  The clerk had the last turkey ready when they got there and
    	    gave it to them "on the house"
    
    
    	This show is better than Seinfeld in some ways.
    
    
    							GTI
    

    
    	Sort of off the topic but... has anyone read Paul Reiser's
    	top-selling book on couples? (I think the title itself is
    	"Couples").

    	I perused the book at a bookstore. The jacket cover was _classic_
    	Paul, and so amusing I almost bought it right on the spot. However
    	flipping through the pages, the book almost seemed to be a word for
    	word script from an episode of their TV show. Without the people
    	visually acting, the text seemed a bit lame. 

    	This is from a 30-second glance. Has anyone read the book? Did you
    	like it, is it worth reading?

    	-Erik

Can someone clue me in as to the second half of the season finale?  I only
set the VCR for 1/2 hour.  It stopped right at the part where Paul was
going to go to his 'new' apartment and Jamie was going to go to her 'new'
office and they were going to meet up again in 1 hour.

thanks,

adam

    
    	I'll give you the short version.  Someone else can go all the
    	way through the episode:
    
    
    
    	They ended up back at the burnt-out newsstand, kissed, and all
    	was back to normal.
    

    
    Season opener this Sunday 9/17.

    
    Did anyone else watch last nights seasons opener and what did you
    think of it?  Personally, I didn't care for it and thought it was
    stupid.

    
    Dianne,
    
    I didn't watch the show lastnight (I watched Superman) but I did record
    it.  I hope it was not dumb, this used to be one of my favorite shows.
    
    Lou

last night's show was a repeat (season ender from last year). 

    
    	You know, I'd forgotten how great this show is until I saw it
    	last night ... since it moved to Sunday, and I'm never home
    	and always forget to tape it, I never see it any more.
    
    	Paul and Helen are EXCELLENT together.
    

    You liked it because it had Christie Brinkley - which by the way is
    what makes it one of my favorite episodes, too!

    
    	That definitely didn't hurt any, but Helen Hunt is no dog either.
    

    Help!  my VCR broke and I wasn't able to tape last Sunday's
    show, can someone please tell me what happened? 
    
    thanks,
    Karen
    

    
    
    Very briefly...Jamie confided to Paul that she had kissed the guy
    she works with...and Paul confessed to having taken a walk with a 
    woman he met at the Awards ceremony.  
    
    We also learn that Jamies sister's engagement party is the same night
    as Paul's parents anniversary party...everyone expects that Jamie and
    Paul will work this out somehow.  (I don't know if this might be 
    relevant next week, it was just kinda a sideline this week.)
    
    Both agreed that their marriage is having problems, and the show ended
    with Paul walking out the door...Jamie asked him if he was planning
    on coming back, and he kept saying he didn't know what was going to
    happen next..
    
    Course, we know they'll see each other again next week...but it looks
    like they could be splitting up for the season finale...

    thanks for the recap!
    
    I watched the show the week before, but didn't remember Jamie kissing
    the guy from work, was it while they were waiting for the train?
    
    Karen
    
    

    
    No, actually I think the "kissing" happened at the beginning of the
    second show....I watched them both on tape at the same sitting, so
    they kinda run together, but I think she kissed him at the beginning
    of the second show.  I probably lumped it into the first show and
    forgot to mention it in my recap.
    
    They were in her office, and she was depressed because everyone had 
    been leaning on her lately, and she needed to talk to somebody about 
    her problems with Paul.  She had gone to talk to her sister, and she
    had also tried to talk to her girlfriend - the one that she works with,
    and everyone was to wrapped up in their own plans to listen. 
    
    So, she started to tell this to Ed, and he was the only one who 
    would listen, and he leaned over and kissed her...
    
      

    oh, so I didn't miss the kiss 2 weeks ago...
    
    thanks again for the update!
    
    
                                 

I catch this show only sporadically, although I like it.
A couple things I've missed:  Who is Lisa (Jamie's sister) engaged to?
And are Mark and Fran back together?  (Seems to me they were going
on a vacation or somewhere together on a recent show, unless it 
was a repeat of an older one.)

-- Nina

    
    Lisa is engaged to a guy in the oil industry.  Evidently, his dad 
    owns quite a successful business and he will one day own the business
    and be worth quite a few bucks.
    
    And yes, Fran and Mark have been back together for the last couple of
    shows.
    
    -Brenda
    

    I heard the show is going to go to Tuesday nights this fall.
    3rd Rock.... is going to Sunday...

  I missed the show last night, can anyone fill in what happened behind the
appropriate spoiler warnings?

  Thanks,
  George

RE -.1 -

There was pretty much a summary in yesterday's (May 20) Boston Globe...

-- Nina

    
    Some of us don't get the globe, can anyone do an update?

Well, I didn't see the episode; all I remember from skimming through
the Globe article was that at the end, they argue and Paul goes out 
walking all night (or most of the night), then returns, and Jamie greets 
him passionately. Three weeks later, she looks at the results of a home 
pregnancy test and smiles...

-- Nina

    I don't watch the show but read the article, written by the 
    Globe's second-banana TV critic, Renee Graham. You know a 
    newspaper is fat when they have two TV critics.
    
    The Globe has been doing reviews of all the season finales.
    Renee was grumpy that though for a few minutes the couple's
    relationship actually seemed human, in the end it was moved 
    safely back to its cutey-pie norm and all is well again 
    between Jamie, Paul and the nervous sponsors. 

    
    Thanks!

    OK, my VideoGuide stopped the VCR about 3 seconds into the credit
    trailer last nite ("The Birth") and I wanna know what happened?
    
    Thanks,
    
    	db

    For some reason I think they were actually running a bit late on
    NBC last night.  Not sure if this was just local to Boston.  So
    it may be your VCR didn't screw up, but the network did.  I tuned
    into Frasier and thus caught the tail end without yet having seen
    the previous hour.  Basically everyone on the cast filed into the
    hospital room and oohed and ahhhed.  And then Carol O'conner
    asked what the baby's name was.  And Paul answered something like
    "name, uh name, right.  Uh, we don't have a name".
    
    

  Boy or girl?

  George

    
    
    girl