The Fish Bowl

Schlamme: In one episode Danny Concannon brought C.J. a goldfish, because he heard she likes them and she says, "No, I meant the crackers!" That was the joke and that was all Aaron wrote. But our prop person, Blanche Sindelar, ran with it and decided to put something in the fish bowl that was thematically part of whatever the episode was. Having the fish bowl on her desk became a running theme and Blanche would get the script for each one and then find something to put in it. It had to be really subtle and we never focused on it, but for all of us, it became this thing; we could not wait to see what she had done with the fish bowl and the first day of every episode we would all go into CJ's office to see what was in there. It became a staple of the show and at one point the Smithsonian had a collection of the fish bowls on display, with all the different themes in them.