8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenager Daughter will be one of those hidden gems of television; a fantastic show with poignant stories that, unfortunately, will never be discovered by most television viewers. I have never been a big fan of sitcoms with laugh tracks but this quickly become one of the few shows that made me laugh heartedly along.
Then came the death of John Ritter.
I don't believe I have ever cried as much as when I watched the episode "Goodbye", the tragic episode that incorporated Ritter's untimely death into the Hennessy family. It was so emotionally horrible. There were several times when I got so caught up in the show that I would forget about the real-life death and wonder why they weren't using new scenes as flashbacks. But then awareness came crashing back and I would realize that they couldn't, that Ritter himself had died, and a new wave of tears started to flow.
But looking at that time, I think that the show handled his death admirably, even amazingly. Never (that I can think of) has television handled this agonizing subject matter, the early death of a parent and a spouse, so well. While Buffy's...
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