Obviously a legacy from Night Court, Laraquette's sorta-spinoff was actually intriguingly dark. The main character was an alcoholic in recovery---probably not the first time that's been featured on television, but the first I remember---whose life was a deep contrast from ADA Dan Fielding.
I'm probably romanticizing it more than can be justified. Television was pretty terrible then, and I didn't have a driver's license, so it was easy to imagine seeing silver linings. Laraquette (and did I really forget to mention that he shares his birthday with both JFK Jr. and Jill Hennessy?) played the night manager of a bus station, and while I don't remember the series having a tremendous about of social realism, it was a pretty decent example of the grittiness of lower class life actually getting a showing on television---or lower-class life portrayed by people pretty enough to be on t.v., anyways. (One might contrast this with Malcolm and the Middle, which while not glitzy never felt fraught.) Anyway, it lasted like a year or two.
... and happy birthday, Michaelle!
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