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ilgreven:

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kontextmaschine:

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kontextmaschine:

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Hey what was that FOX black-family comedy in the 90s that started doing a broadcast-live gimmick one season and then one week the lead just fucking died and they had to write an episode around it?

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Wait I think I\u2019m confusing Roc (the live one) with another

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You might be thinking of The Bernie Mac Show, but it was gone before Bernie Mac died.

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No that\u2019d be after I went to college and this was before high school at latest

maybe it\u2019s some Candle Cove bullshit but I swear I could remember this time the actor just straight died

and it was in the news, and the following episode opened with them doing a normal sitcom plot but then it turned out the patriarch just died of a heart attack at the bowling alley

\u2026ok it was The Royal Family on CBS with Red Foxx and Della \u201cthe senior gospel angel on Touched By An Angel\u201d Reese, 1991-2

Developed as \u201cChest Pains\u201d, ha!

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