TOA The Superbowl

I fail to see why The One After the Superbowl is named as such (i.e there's no reference to a Superbowl in the episodes IIRC)...is it named this because it was just shown on US TV after one?

In alt.tv.friends on Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Darren wrote :

Yes - I've always thought that episode name was odd, too.

Removed from the original context, and especially when shown in other countries or on DVD, the title is pretty meaningless.

Another sad fact is that this lackluster episode will forever remain the highest rated in the history of the series.

Really? It didn't seem anything special to me....just another fill the gap one, like TOW Russ was

Yes, well shows following the Super Bowl get huge ratings. It shocked many that the final episode did not get better ratings. One of the Friends cast, I think it was Perry, was quoted as predicting the final episode would be the most watched show in history, even surpassing Mash which I believe had around 120 million viewers. Well, it didn't even get half of that. I was expecting at least Seinfeld finale numbers. The problem was that the other networks did not shy away like they did when Seinfeld ended. An all new episode of CSI still pulled in over 20 million viewers.

that when he returned from Nicaragua the Customs Bureau detained
#   him until FBI agents came and seized his diary and address book.
#
#   The FBI admitted to interviewing more than 100 people who visited
#   Nicaragua, but said they were acting under Presidential Executive Order.
#
#   Two women have come forward to complain the IRS audited them IMMEDIATELY
#   AFTER RETURNING FROM NICARAGUA.
#
#   The IRS denied it had anything to do with political views: "One woman has
#   never earned more than 12,000 a year, and we found that suspicious."

FBI director Sessions ended up apologizing BIG TIME on C-SPAN, saying that sort of thing would NEVER happen again. "We have put procedures in place so that that will NEVER happen again".

But, after having been granted the special powers of the court by Congress, noone was arrested and tried for this MASSIVE abuse of power, which was granted by Congress in the good faith that the government would not trade off the Bill of Rights in order to pursue political objectives.

It was a worst-case disaster.

Even after investigating, Congress basically yawned: "The CISPES case was an aberration, it was lower-level FBI employees who got carried away by their national security mandate. It was not politically motivated" --- The Senate Select Intelligence Committee.

*   "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*
*   ...something much more sinister was at work. In his carefully documented
*   analysis of the CISPES matter, 'Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI: the
*   Covert War Against the Central American Movement', Boston writer Ross
*   Gelbspan argues that a

"Darren" wrote in message news:419fbddf$0$521$[email]...

yep.