what was Chandler Bing doing in Caroline in the City
what was Chandler Bing doing in Caroline in the City
what was his part
NBC, when they had all their successful Thursday night comedies together, all set in New York, used to do crossovers between their shows. These would have been between Caroline in the City, Mad About You, Friends, and Seinfeld (though Seinfeld never really took part, because the writers didn't want to).
In one such crossover, Caroline meets Chandler in the video store. Chandler flirts with her a little, till she notices the tape in his hand - of the adult variety - and he panics and flees. It was brief, less than a minute, but a funny bit nevertheless.
Other crossovers betwene the aforementioned shows include Kramer's apartment being sublet from Paul in Mad About You (Kramer turned up on that show, not vice versa), and Helen Hunt turned up in Friends and mistook Phoebe for Ursula (Phoebe's identical sister, who was a recurring character on Mad About You).
They also tried to do a crossover once whereby each show would take place in the middle of a New York blackout. Friends, Mad About You and Caroline in the City all did this. I can't remember the plots for the latter two shows, but in Friends (its seventh ever episode), Chandler gets stuck in an ATM vestibule with Jill Goodacre, and Rachel loses a cat (not hers) and meets Paulo.
Good episode.
Back then, Mad About You was the 8pm show to kick off their first "Must-See TV" season. In the episode "Pandora's Box" (ep 3-6) Ira got Paul and Jamie illegal cable, Paul felt guilty and called the guy to unhook them. The guy unhooked the all the illegal hookups and everyone hated them. Jamie tried to put it back and caused the building, then the whole city, to blackout, which affected Friends.
shareCaroline In The City was not part of the blackout crossover episodes as it didn't premiere until the Fall season of 1995 and the crossover episodes occured in the Fall of the 1994 season. The blackout crossover episodes took place on Mad About You at 8pm, Friends at 8:30pm and Madman of The People at 9:30pm and aired Thursday, November 3, 1994. As far as I know Seinfeld was not part of the crossover episodes.
Just a note of interest: There was an episode of Caroline In The City where Caroline discovers that she has been getting illegal free cable for years, which puts her in a moral spin, since the rest of the building is hooked into her outlet. She tells the cable company and the whole building hates her for it...This episode aired during Season 3 on October 13, 1997 and is very similar to the plotline of the Mad About You episode, minus the blackout, that aired 3 years prior.
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ER also took part in the Blackout crossover on that Thursday night (at the 10pm slot), as well as crossing over with Friends in the same episode where Mad About You crosses over.
shareHow the check did that work out given that the setting for ER was Chicago?
shareI don't know about the blackout but Friends and ER never had an actual cross-over episode. George Clooney and Noah Wyle from ER appeared in an episode in the 1st season of Friends as doctors but their characters weren't the same as their ER characters.
shareOne thing I don't understand: Caroline in the City aired on NBC, but why can I now watch it on CBS's online app? I find that a little weird!
shareless than a minute?
it's 1:40 minutes long... and he even has dialogue!
hello,newman...