#tjls

I said since the first season that the new Night Court had to come up with an excuse to have Mayim Bialik guest star since Mayim has worked with both Melissa Rauch and John Larroquette on other TV shows.

(For those who don't know, Mayim played John's daughter on 3 episodes of The John Larroquette Show back in the 1990s.)

And now that she's finally guested on the show, can I play uber-nerd and ask if anyone else thought that when Wendie Malick's character said to Mayim something about an "indoor bus station" that it was a subtle reference to The John Larroquette Show?

Or is it a case of fanciful nerdery? Am I reading way more into that line than what is there?

Of course we got a direct reference to The Big Bang Theory on the episode. But a part of me was hoping that they would allude to TJLS too. And sadly, there wasn't one that was obvious.

Sherlock meta: 90%

Tears: 8%

"Co-executive producer Larroquette decided to feature Pynchon in a script and sent the work-in-progress to Pynchon's agent for approval. 'We made up a novel that he hasn't written—and he gave us permission to say that he had written Pandemonium of the Sun,' Larroquette said.

The mysterious, never-photographed Pynchon refused, however, to let an extra, in a plaid shirt, be videotaped from the rear and represented as Pynchon. 'He asked us not to pretend he was in the environment at all.'