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Originally Posted by getbak
King of Queens was not a spin-off of Everybody Loves Raymond. Kevin James had appeared on Raymond a few times as one of Ray's sportscaster friends, and that led to CBS offering him his own show, but it was a different character.
Later, he appeared on Raymond as his KoQ character in a CBS crossover event, but that was after KoQ had been on the air for a few years.
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I've heard KoQ listed as a spinoff countless times before and I never really understood it.
I always put it in the spinoff category but with as asterisk. But I would agree it isn't one in the traditional sense.
Simpsons is a bit different. Although is it really? They took the shots from the Tracy Ullman show and turned them into full length. Is that
really that different than taking a secondary character(s) with a scene or two an episode and giving them their own show? George Jefferson was in, what, a scene every other episode?
To me the defining spinoff is kind of like defining quantity of tattoos someone has, at the end of the day it's kind of arbitrary.