THROWBACK: FRASIER FOR HIRE

Watching Boston innovate on TV through the years

With Issue 1 of the Boston Bubble, the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism’s pocket-sized mag about innovation in the Hub, about to drop, here’s a favorite throwback from Issue 0. In addition to contemporary news and snark, each installment of the Bubble features historical looks at local creativity and culture in the interest of contextualizing the past in a hyperdigital era. We hope you enjoy, and you can get your own Bubble subscription HERE.

When asking programmers, entrepreneurs, and a gaggle of assorted creatives in informal Bubble focus groups to cite instances in which Boston has been propped in pop culture as a beacon of divine innovation, we were a bit disappointed, though not altogether surprised, that north of 90 percent said something along the lines of “Facebook,” “Mark Zuckerberg,” or, in most cases, “Jesse Eisenberg,” which is technically incorrect. There were some interesting answers — one person noted the ridiculous scene in Fever Pitch in which Drew Barrymore unfolds a…