How The Bob Newhart Show was "quietly revolutionary"

The Washington Post

Bob Newhart's classic sitcom, which ended 40 years ago last month, "warmly seeped into people’s houses," says Travis M. Andrews. He adds: "Newhart’s comedy — unlike that of his good friend and caustic comedian Don Rickles — was quiet, sly and absurdist. It was never callous, and the adults at which it was aimed could comfortably watch his routine, and his show, with their children in earshot."