Welcome to the weekly TV thread.

The Original TV Score Selection of the Week is “Voice Mail/Letter Continues/Keiko Cancels” from Star Trek: The Next Generation’s “Data’s Day” episode from 1991. The three score cues were composed by Ron Jones, my favorite out of the multiple composers who worked for TNG. “Data’s Day” is one of my favorite episodes about a wedding because I agree with Charles Barkley’s opinion that weddings are boring, and the episode, which was co-written by TNG MVP Ronald D. Moore, wisely spends only about a couple of minutes on the actual ceremony. The Chief O’Brien/Keiko half of “Data’s Day” focuses on the stress and the nerves before the wedding. Now that shit’s a bit more interesting to me than the ceremony.

The Couch Avocados comments section sometimes becomes sparse in a way that it didn’t before I took over the thread. (The Sunday food thread, a place I lurked but never spoke to, became sparse and has apparently been abandoned.) That’s why a couple of weeks ago, I asked KingKat to suggest a prompt because it’s a way to try to prevent the comments section from turning into a ghost town (all da clubs are being closed down) and also because there are weeks where I can’t think of a prompt.

He suggested to go look at what the Thursday music thread—whose comments section is way more active and talkative than this damn comments section that’s almost like a ghost town (why must da yoot fight against demself?)—is doing.

One of the music thread’s prompts back in April was “best songs about weddings and what was the best music you heard at a wedding/how was the music at your own wedding.” That’s why today’s prompt is: Do you have a favorite episode about a wedding?

I’m fond of Cheers’s hour-long “An Old-Fashioned Wedding” from 1992. A great slamming-door farce that only takes place in the chaotic kitchen for a wedding, “An Old-Fashioned Wedding” is one of the funniest things the late James Burrows directed. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s 18th season happened to kick off earlier this week with a wedding episode called “Frank Marries a Corpse.” Its final scene is one of the most macabre and tasteless things Sunny has done, and I enjoyed it.

But my favorite episode about a wedding has to be A Different World’s impromptu wedding of Dwayne and Whitley in 1992. That’s because the live studio audience’s genuinely thrilled reaction to Dwayne crashing Whitley’s wedding to Senator Byron Douglas is fun to hear every time I rewatch a clip of Dwayne’s confrontation with the future inventor of Skynet.

Also, Kadeem Hardison’s Mars Blackmon-esque ad-lib of “Baby, please!” (because he forgot his lines) fucking rules, and Ron’s brave protection of Dwayne from the groomsmen makes him one of the greatest best friends in TV history. A Different World showrunner and frequent episode director Debbie Allen directed the heck out of the proposal scene.

If this were Cheers, Byron and Whitley’s wedding would have taken place at the Pit, the campus restaurant that was run by grumpy Mr. Gaines, just so an additional set wouldn’t have to be built. That would have sucked. Nobody gets married in a restaurant or a bar. The only couples that do that are the ones that want to exchange their vows in Pacifica at the Taco Bell Cantina.

Multi-cam sitcoms aren’t exactly known for looking visually impressive. That’s because of their low budgets. In the hour-long “Save the Best for Last,” Allen directed the proposal scene as if she had 40 million smackers.