The Best Episodes Written By Haskell Barkin

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon

   S3:E19/24/1988

   A woman tries to get her Uncle Edgar committed, believing that he is senile. The investigating doctor finds Edgar living in an apartment containing all kinds of junk. Edgar claims that a mysterious Voice tells him what junk to collect, and to assemble it into a device that constantly keeps the world in balance. The doctor has him committed, only to realize when a small Pacific island is destroyed as Edgar predicted that the "insane" man is anything but. The doctor has Edgar released, only to discover that he has been chosen to replace Edgar as the new "balancer" of the world.

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   6.4/10(5 votes)

   #2 - Pain Killer

   S1:E310/14/1984

   Harvey goes to Dr. Roebuck with back pains and Roebuck prescribes a miraculous cure. It's not until later that Harvey finds the price he must pay...

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   6.0/10(4 votes)

   #3 - A Star Is Scorned

   S1:E605/1/1992

   Darkwing's TV producer feels that Darkwing's TV show needs a new gimmick in the form of a spin-off character, which might really be Darkwing's replacement.

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   5.0/10(2 votes)

   #4 - Crime Games

   S3:E110/19/1987

   A malfunction of the TeleViewer causes Elroy to discover a robbery plot by "The Gripfather" (a take on "The Godfather"), and George ends up trapped in the middle of it.

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   5.0/10(2 votes)

   #5 - Father/Daughter Dance

   S3:E510/29/1987

   The annual father/daughter dance means embarrassment for Judy so she fakes the 48 hour flu. Still Jane promises that this year will not be the disgrace from last year because dad is taking dancing lessons. Using a super sniffer the kids try to find their father to peek at one of his lessons.

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   4.5/10(2 votes)

   #6 - Spacely for a Day

   S3:E1011/12/1987

   Spacely convinces all his employees to take an aptitude test and makes sure George scores the lowest. But when Judy, Elroy and Astro alter his father's score to be higher than everyone else's, George is given charge of Spacely's plant for the day when his boss is forced to take an impromptu vacation. Upon discovering that George is in charge of Spacely's plant, Cogswell makes plans to destroy Spacely Space Sprockets once and for all and attempts to ensure that George takes the fall.

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   4.0/10(1 votes)

   #7 - The Impressionist

   S2:E19/29/1985

   An impressionist, "Mr. Personalities," is brought in by the government to try to help them communicate with an alien. Mr. Personalities is at first stumped but finally makes "contact." The alien departs and Mr. Personalities is depressed...until the alien returns for him.

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   3.8/10(4 votes)

   #8 - Djinn, No Chaser

   S1:E101/13/1985

   A couple inadvertently buy a magic lamp that contains a genie. Unfortunately, the genie is anything but amiably. Confined in the lamp for thousands of years and still trapped, he refuses to grant wishes and instead terrorizes the couples with plagues, rains of frogs, etc. The husband finally has himself committed, but a few days later his wife brings him home. Their apartment is now richly decorated and they have plenty of money. The genie is now an amiable and willing wish-granter. The wife's solution to freeing the genie: a can opener.

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   3.0/10(3 votes)

   #9 - All a Clone by the Telephone

   S1:E111/20/1985

   Leon, a hapless TV writer, buys an answering machine that has a mind of its own - it initially helps him out by providing him with new material, but Leon soon finds that it's taking over his life.

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