Henry Winkler to star in lawyer comedy somehow not about Barry Zuckerkorn (who's very good)

Today in “God, what’s the point”: The great Henry Winkler is returning to television in the upcoming legal comedy Last Chance Lawyer. Now, while we’ll take as much of the 80-year-old Winkler as we can get, but we’d be lying if we didn’t see the news on Deadline and think, “Holy shit, are they doing a Barry Zuckerkorn show?” Alas, “those are balls” will have to go another year without becoming a catchphrase on par with “Ayyy” and “correctamundo.” (Even though “those are balls” hasn’t this relevant since Arrested Development first aired in the mid-’00s.)

Still, we’d also be lying if we said that a lawyer comedy starring Winkler sounded bad. In Last Chance Lawyer, rather than the “very good” lawyer of the Bluth family, Winkler plays Howard Greenberg, a criminal defense attorney and “fierce advocate for his underdog clients,” per Deadline. That is where the characters differ most. While Howard believes no client is guiltier than the system, Barry Zuckerkorn once microwaved a Ding-Dong while it was still in its foil. Anyone for a hot ding dong?

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