Poor Randall Carver. He can't even get his picture into the
cover art.
I hope that the fact that Reverend Jim was not a regular in the first season (he appeared only in the episode where Latka marries the hooker to keep from being deported) doesn't hurt the sales. But the first season was very good -- though darker than the show later became -- and it shouldn't disappoint any but the hardest-core Reverend Jim fans.
IMO the style of sitcom that James L. Brooks created in
Taxi was a big influence on
Cheers and Brooks' own
The Simpsons, especially in the way it mixed realism with more nutty humor (anything involving Latka).
