#1990s #1992 #MurphyBrown #CBS #WKRG #promo
(c)1992 CBS-Paramount Global; WKRG-Nexstar Media Group
This promo is for the "Murphy Brown" episode "Send In the Clowns" (S4E18) scheduled to premiere on February 24 in which a noticeably pregnant Murphy is hauled before a Senate committee and tries to defend herself on free-speech grounds.
I said "noticeably pregnant" since this was during the arc that the 1988-98 sitcom is probably best remembered for - the story arc where Murphy discovers she's pregnant and eventually decides to raise her son Avery with no father in the picture - which notably led to a fracas between the show's producers and Vice-President Dan Quayle, whose larger point on the problems of fatherlessness ended up getting lost due to the reference to the show; which decided in the Season 5 premiere to take a few jabs at Quayle's gaffe shortly after the squabble began of coaxing 12-year-old William Figueroa to add an "e" to the singular word "potato" (the title: "You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato" and ending with a truckload of potatoes on Quayle's yard).
Ironically, a decade later (long after Quayle's gaffes dating to the famous "You're no Jack Kennedy" jab by Lloyd Bentsen during the 1988 Vice-Presidential debate had largely reduced him from a one-time star on the rise to a punchline or footnote), Candice Bergen - who played the title character - would later express her agreement with Quayle's point about the value of fathers and saying "nobody agreed with that more than I did." (Quayle for his part would be asked by a Los Angeles TV station what his favorite TV show was, with Quayle answering "Murphy Brown...NOT!" {which ended up being used by said station in promos when they picked up the rights to "Murphy Brown" reruns})
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