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Nielsen system) for Fridays and Saturdays. Who's watching, beats me, but if Disney was serious about bringing TGIF back, what would be the shows? Anyways, I read the TGIF news, if I recall, at TV Tropes & Idioms forum, or another like-minded forum. Hardly credible.
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I remember that whenever the initials TGIF were stated in longform on ABC, it was as "Thank
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