Caroline, the Beauty

aka Caroline and the episode that'll never be made because the number of guest stars would just make it ridiculously expensive

Foreword

This fanfic could get quite confusing if you don't know the characters involved (characters from other comedies you may not have seen, British ones in particular). He is a brief description of them all... If you want further information, click on pictures.

Of course as you'd expect the rights and all that stuff are not mine, they are...

• Caroline in the City - NBC
• Men Behaving Badly - BBC
• Fawlty Towers - BBC
• Bob - Paramount
• Friends - Warner Brothers
• Frasier - Paramount Pictures
• Spin City - Ubu Productions
• Cheers - Paramount Pictures

And if I used picture I shouldn't, tell me, don't hurt me, I bruise easily (kind of opposite to Brian Close)

Glossary

Just because I mention a character in the following synopses doesn't mean there in the story yet, or even ever, but possibly are either referenced, or maybe not. I hope that's clear.

Caroline in the City (US)

The trials and tribulations of being a single female in the city... and a cartoonist at the same time... and with your compulsory dysfunctional friends...
Seen the first three series'.

• Caroline - the cartoonist, single and with a romantic notion of love, prone to being cheerful too much, likes to be liked, sometimes a tad talkative...
• Richard - Caroline's assistant, a man who can quite happily see the cloud within every silver lining, the fat person outside every thin one, and add a polarising filter to all rose tinted glasses... to cut a long story short - depressing.
• Annie - portrayed as a bit footloose and fancy free, though only a bit. Very proud of her perfect record... never having been stood up in her life.
• Del - I would describe as the ego on legs, though other people may be politer. Ran 'Cassidy Greeting Cards', and currently runs 'Eagle Greeting Cards' along with Charlie. Both supplying Caroline in the City cards. Former fiancé of Caroline's.
• Charlie - stupider than he looks, though not as stupid as people think. Lives on rollerblades.

Men Bahaving Badly (UK)

Sitcom based around two lager drinking, women ogling, non-PC, uncouth young guys... Basically, Men Behaving Badly.
I've seen all of them, so I should be up-to-date!

• Gary - Lager drinking, woman obsessed (esp. Kyleee [aka Kylie Minogue - singer]) man. Engaged to Dorothy, a chubby nurse. He has a cunning knack for doing impersonations of cheeses (they have to be seen to be believed).
• Tony - Gary's flatmate, lager drinking, woman obsessed (also Kyleee, and woman upstairs, Deborah) man. Currently going out with Deborah.

Fawlty Towers (UK)

Set around a hotel in Torquay, the eponymous, Fawlty Towers. The hotel from hell. With stories such as... rat poisoning on the veal (placed down to catch the waiter's escaped hamster (rat... 'stroke that and you'll never play the guitar again') in the hope the health inspector won't find it, then feeding the aforementioned inspector the veal... incredibly funny...
I've seen all of them.

• Basil Fawlty - Long suffering husband of Sybil. Is, possibly, quite mad. Incapable of completing a single task without his wife criticising it.
• Sybil Fawlty - Long suffering wife of Basil. More interested in herself and her appearance than in the Hotel. But a perfectly good head, and could easily run the hotel without Basil.
• Polly - Maid at FT, does most of the actual work.
• O'Reilly - terribly bad Irish builder, but cheap
• Stubbs - good builder, but expensive

Bob (US)

Set around a comic book company. The main success being a revival of an old charcter Mad Dog. The show is as a rule strange, occasionally surreal and pretty much always funny.
The star is Bob Newhart, veteran of many comedy shows, takes the lead and shows why he has lasted so long in such a disposable business.
Seen a reasonable amount...

• Bob McKay - comic artist, drew Mad Dog.
• Kaye McKay - Bob's wife
• Otto - cat.

Friends (US)

I'm sure everyone must have heard of Friends, six twenty-something dysfunctional friends, with their abysmally bad lives... (though never as bad as real life..)
Seen most of up to and including fourth season.

• Monica Geller - sometimes slightly too cleanliness obsessive, works as a chef when she is employed. Shares with Rachel.
• Chandler Bing - a processor (don't ask), always available with the wisecracks, worse record than the rest with relationships. Shares a flat with Joey.
• Pheobe Buffay - a masseuse (and only that!), also works at Central Perk as a musician, with songs such as Smelly Cat and The Cow in the Field Goes Moo.
• Rachel Green - former spoilt rich kid who's trying to live in the real world. On/off relationship with Ross. Shares with Monica.
• Joey Tribbiani - shares a flat with Chandler, he's an out of work actor who's intellectually challenged.
• Ross Geller - the dinosaur guy, works in a museum, has/had/will have an unbearable crush on Rachel, went out with her for a while, on and off.. long story. Only one who has been married (apart from Pheobe, but that doesn't count), has a child and an ex-wife who's a lesbian.

Frasier (US)

Notable radio psychiatrist Frasier Crane and his inimitable friends and their disastrous lives... Well pretty much your usual sit-com scenario.
Seen recent and early ones, missed some in the middle.

• Frasier Crane - radio show host, who prostitutes his psychiatric talents for media purposes, and financial gain... or so Niles would think. Slightly arrogant and perhaps a tad pretentious.
• Niles Crane - Frasier's Daphne-obsessed brother, also a psychiatrist, was married to Merys, a stick insect after a diet.
• Daphne Moon - Mancunian physiotherapist of Martin's. 'I'm a bit psychic'
• Martin Crane - former policeman, and father of Frasier and Niles.

Spin City (US)

Set in and around the mayor of New York's offices, features numerous political faux pas's and there usually humorous consequences. Not a political satire, merely a sitcom set in politics.
Seen first two series'.

• Michael Flaherty - diminutive deputy mayor and general spin doctor, does all the actual work.
• Mayor Randall Winston - incompetent and occasionally foolish mayor.
• Paul Lassiter - press secretary who knows very little, so can lie plausibly
• Carlton Sebastian Heywood - token coloured and gay member of the office to please the minorities.

Cheers (US)

The bar where everyone knows your name... and the bar everyone knows. There's little to say really.
See a reasonable amount of episodes, no where near all, but hopefully over half.

• Rebecca Howe - the sycophantic, normally shallow, money hungry, power obsessed former manager of Cheers. Left the show having married a plumber, she actually loved (and not his money, power or image).
• Frasier Crane (only technically speaking...)

One more link is that the hotel mentioned, The River House Hotel, is from the film The Concierge, starring Michael J Fox as Douglas Ireland, and Gabrielle Anwar as Andy Hart, I was tempted to put a Press Gang reference in, but no-one would understand it (Gabrielle Anwar starred in PG - a British children's programme, the best ever, virtually).

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