Talk:Tony Clifton (Andy Kaufman) "Taxi" Incident (Unreleased 1978 Tony Danza Home Movie)/@comment-71.185.196.106-20140801135532/@comment-2020154-20140803053034

I agree, depsite liking a lot of Andy's work. His disdain for Taxi reminds me of Kirk Cameron's eventual disdain for Growing Pains; Alan Thicke had to sit him down and tell him you're already on one of the squeaky-cleanest shows around. Similarly, Andy Kaufman was on one of the funniest, most inventive, trope-subverting sitcoms ever, but he apparently regarded it as regular old banal TV. I've heard it said that Christopher Lloyd's Jim was almost as much a replacement for Andy's Latka as he was for the S1 character of John the cab driver; simply put, they needed a wacky cuckoolander who didn't argue with them as often. While obviously Latka was still around, eps centered on him seemed rarer as time went by.