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** At the Golden Globes, Creator/JeffConaway punched Kaufman in the face believing Andy thought he was better than the rest of his co-stars. After that, Kaufman never participated in any of the other cast-and-crew get-togethers ever again. Though according to Conaway, he and Kaufman at least buried the hatchet on the Golden Globes incident and even hung out a few times outside of work.

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** At the Golden Globes, Creator/JeffConaway punched Kaufman in the face believing Andy thought he was better than the rest of his co-stars. After that, Kaufman never participated in any of the other cast-and-crew get-togethers ever again. Though according to Conaway, he and Kaufman at least buried the hatchet on the Golden Globes incident and even hung out a few times outside of work. People in Andy's inner circle heavily implied that since Andy liked to keep the cast and crew at arm's length anyway, the fight with Conaway provided him with an easy out.
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* ChannelHop: From Creator/{{ABC}} to Creator/{{NBC}} in its last season. Ironically, the show which beat it in the ratings during the third season on NBC, ''Series/DiffrentStrokes'', moved to ABC during its eighth and final season. Creator/{{HBO}} also made a bid to pick the show up. At the time, no cable network had even aired a sitcom before (mostly because almost ''no one'' had cable back then), which would have made for a very daring (and risky) move.

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* ChannelHop: From Creator/{{ABC}} Creator/{{ABC|US}} to Creator/{{NBC}} in its last season. Ironically, the show which beat it in the ratings during the third season on NBC, ''Series/DiffrentStrokes'', moved to ABC during its eighth and final season. Creator/{{HBO}} also made a bid to pick the show up. At the time, no cable network had even aired a sitcom before (mostly because almost ''no one'' had cable back then), which would have made for a very daring (and risky) move.

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* ChannelHop: From Creator/{{ABC}} to Creator/{{NBC}} in its last season. Ironically, the show which beat it in the ratings during the third season on NBC, ''Series/DiffrentStrokes'', moved to ABC during its eighth and final season.

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* ChannelHop: From Creator/{{ABC}} to Creator/{{NBC}} in its last season. Ironically, the show which beat it in the ratings during the third season on NBC, ''Series/DiffrentStrokes'', moved to ABC during its eighth and final season. Creator/{{HBO}} also made a bid to pick the show up. At the time, no cable network had even aired a sitcom before (mostly because almost ''no one'' had cable back then), which would have made for a very daring (and risky) move.



* DoingItForTheArt: After ABC cancelled the show in 1982, Creator/{{HBO}} made a bid to pick it up. At the time no cable network had even aired a sitcom before (mostly because almost ''no one'' had cable back then), which would have made for a very daring (and risky) move. However, Paramount decided to have ''Taxi'' on either CBS or NBC, the latter of which ended up airing the show in its final season.
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* AdoredByTheNetwork: While ''Taxi'' was one of the "bottom 10" shows of the 1981-1982 television season, NBC (who was run at the time by Grant Tinker, who previously worked with the show's creators on ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'' and ''Series/TheBobNewhartShow'' while he was president of MTM Enterprises) still saw a worthy product in it and UnCancelled the show after ABC dropped it. Unfortunately, it "[[AWorldwidePunomenon fared]]" no better with viewers on its new network and NBC was forced to cancel it (neither ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' nor ''Series/FamilyTies'' got better numbers, but were spared by their numerous Emmy nominations; both wound up running much longer than ''Taxi'').

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* AdoredByTheNetwork: While ''Taxi'' was one of the "bottom 10" shows of the 1981-1982 television season, NBC (who was run at the time by Grant Tinker, who previously worked with the show's creators on ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'' and ''Series/TheBobNewhartShow'' while he was president of MTM Enterprises) still saw a worthy product in it and UnCancelled the show after ABC dropped it. Unfortunately, it "[[AWorldwidePunomenon fared]]" "fared" no better with viewers on its new network and NBC was forced to cancel it (neither ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' nor ''Series/FamilyTies'' got better numbers, but were spared by their numerous Emmy nominations; both wound up running much longer than ''Taxi'').

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