Joe's image on posters for free clinic (remember? "What Mario isn't telling you...") doesn't serve him very well. So he comes back to Monica's apt. to complain:
- My entire family thinks I have VD.
Chandler comments:
- "Tonight, on a very special Blossom."
What does this last qoute of Chandler mean?
As Wiki says(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_special_episode):
ReplyDeleteThe "very special episode" is occasionally billed as "an episode your family can't afford to miss", again dramatizing the importance of the episode by insinuating the issues presented represent mandatory viewing for the responsible parent and child. Often the "very special episode" concerns a moral issue.
The term was generally used in reference to sitcoms as a way of highlighting that the normally light hearted show would be dealing with a more serious topic.
Sometimes, as in the NBC sitcom Blossom, the network wanted to find a way to warn viewers that the upcoming episode will be about a serious issue without directly putting a "parental advisory" message.
Also:
ReplyDeleteIn an episode of Friends, Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry) mocked the ubiquitous NBC commercials that popularized the phrase ("A very special Blossom"); Perry himself appeared in "a very special episode" of Growing Pains earlier in his career, playing Carol Seaver's teenage boyfriend who dies of injuries sustained in a car accident after a night of underage drinking.
According to http://www.tv.com/friends/the-one-where-underdog-gets-away/episode/353/summary.html?tag=ep_guide;summary
ReplyDeleteBlossom was a half-hour comedy television series broadcast on NBC. The series was about a teenage girl living with her father and two brothers.