I've been watching Boston Legal. Y'know, 'cause it's cracky and delightful? And that got me to remembering how much I liked Murphy Brown, back when it was in syndication and I watched it with Mum. So I went to YouTube and searched Murphy Brown.
And it gave me this.
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There's two parts of this. My worlds, they are colliding. (Also it's deeply weird that Avery Brown was played by Haley Joel Osment.)
Shirley Schmidt has torrid affair with a young John Sheppard while he's in university, Y/N? The awesomeness, it cannot be measured. Also all his come-ons to Murphy, I can imagine in a John/Rodney fic, which makes this episode possibly one hundred times more fun.
ETA: OH MY GOD LILY TOMLIN WAS ON MURPHY BROWN, HOW DID I NOT REMEMBER THIS?
ETA2: POST-GRADUATE. GEORGETOWN. PHYSICS. I think I need a lie-down.
ETA3: And then he gets drafted into the Israeli army and goes off to BE A PILOT. GUYS.