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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 280863" data-attributes="member: 27">Kirk was meant to be obnoxious, but I think they forgot the part where he was supposed to likeably obnoxious.  Both Michael and Stephanie (separately AND together) were the likeably obnoxious types they were going for.  And what can we say about Larry, Darryl, and Darryl?  Inspired lunacy that would never have worked on paper, but became so much fun to watch.  And LDD were used at just the right dosage, not "over-exposed" like so many breakout supporting characters on sitcoms that take over.  Once they became well-known, it was a signal to the writers that they could populate the entire town with off-kilter weirdos.Putting Dick Loudon on a boring talk show within the confines of the sitcom was also a stroke of genius, since the in-jokes about TV basically wrote themselves.  One of my favorite episodes was when Michael decided to produce a sitcom "patterned on" (ripped off from) The Patty Duke Show, with Stephanie (of course) in the dual role, and Dick playing the supremely uncomfortable father of the "twins" in Seein' Double!  It had the cheap production values one would expect of a small, Vermont TV station along with the god-awful acting and cliche-ridden script.  Dick looked as if he wanted to curl up and die during the whole thing.</blockquote>