• 👍Maximum Derek👍
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    9 months ago

    they never quite made it into the pantheon of excellent sitcom plot devices like answering machines

    Huh. I never thought about it before, but the times I can remember pagers being a significant plot points in sitcoms is when they were already on the way out. Dennis Duffy’s pager business on 30 Rock for example.