Agatha searched through the cabinets, the fridge, even the freezer. She wasn't sure how the cats had got them open, but there wasn't so much as a nibble left anywhere. "Oh, the poor babies. They must've been starving."

"...And someone out there is crazy about you."

Comedy segments from Almost Live aired on Fox for half a season in 1990 under the title Haywire (which was then completely retooled in January as a regular sketch comedy show for all of one episode). A few years later, Comedy Central picked up the half-hour version of the original show.

"Thirteen hundred dollars?" Chef yelled, crumpling the tiny pink ticket. "My kitchen is impeccable!"

As the walker waited behind them, the forward team hacked and slashed a path through the thick foliage that now covered much of the city.

That's fine by me. Given the choice, I'd rather watch [i]Manimal[/i] any day. [But my disappointment in M.A.N.T.I.S. has been chronicled here before.]

I remember it fondly, and not just in fuzzy childhood memories. I caught reruns years later as an adult (when the channel was Skiffy instead of Siffy), and I enjoyed them. Part of that, I'm sure, is that I went in with realistic expectations; it's a show from '83, and it looks like a show from '83 (not just in terms…

Mischa didn't know who the Professor really was, didn't even know if he had a name. He suspected that even the factory managers didn't know. Mischa's theory - which he never voiced out loud - was that the Professor was a former Nazi. But if the Professor gave Stalin his giant robot army, who was Mischa to judge?

"Nah, kiddies," Jock said in his broad Aussie accent, "Danny here's a pussycat compared to his brothers out in the swamp. Still, I wouldn't get too close to those teeth if I were you." He tugged on the large plant creature's chain, and it roared threateningly.

It would be one thing if this were an isolated issue. But we have to remember that the man in charge of this recently tried to block a plan to make access to school breakfast easier for children, declaring that running the risk of some kids getting two breakfasts would be worse than if kids got none at all.

“The thing you have to remember,” Dad explained, not taking his eyes off the road, “is that in the eighties, the entire auto industry was powered by cocaine, which led to a lot of really incredibly stupid decisions.

Sister Berrille wondered for the twelfth time just when the hoverbus would be coming.

The first thing I thought of when I saw the subject was also a pilot scene of a character waking up, but it wasn't The Walking Dead; it was Red Dwarf.

Father Carmine asked, “Mr. Findlay, why do you believe your fondue pot is demonically possessed?”

Finally recognizing that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her, Mark raced through the rain to scoop Samantha up into his arms, and...

Of course most parents' kids are better than their peers, in the same way most drivers are convinced they're so superior to everyone else on the road.

About fourteen years ago, Doctor Who Magazine had an article which cast actresses as the various incarnations of the Doctor. The only one I can remember for certain was Frances de la Tour as the Fourth Doctor.

I'd like the hatchet better if it stuck with the yellow-and-black rather than orange. I got the mace last year, and I kinda want the Warlock axe to go with it.

It's late, and I'm tired, but at first I read that as "self-healing" butter knife.

Did the alcoholic drinks exception to Bloomie's big soda ban set a minimum amount? If not, loophole!