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*punches YogurtBaron in face*

If Armond White enjoyed A Serious Man, I'll have to rethink my initial enthusiasm for it…

*cough*The Jeffersons*cough*

An NBC without The Cosby Show would have gone out of business in the mid-1980s. Meaning no Seinfeld or Friends or ER.

In the 1970s Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett were on a plane when they spotted Jackie O. seated a few rows ahead.

FTW.

Do the business cards on stage at least spell ACQUISITIONS correctly?

He appeared in the 1969 TV special 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee, and he's outlived Davy Jones by two years and counting.

The Rhapsody in Blue isn't quite as good as the finale to Beethoven's Ninth. Ergo: it must be a piece of shit.

Goodbye dere!

And a not-bad Sondheim interpreter her own self.

Our family got HBO in 1982, so I wound up watching Cannonball Run about 300 times that first year…

In a similar vein, anybody who grew up watching the movie Grease is usually in for a shock when they see that the stage version is much raunchier.

And contrary to urban myth, "Frau Blücher" is not German for "glue"…

I'm tempted to say Blazing Saddles only because Brooks hasn't yet turned it into a mediocre Broadway musical.

The AV Club really, really needs to do MST3K reviews a la classic Simpsons and SNL.

The AV Club really, really needs to do MST3K reviews a la classic Simpsons and SNL.

I went to the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) national convention in Philadelphia this weekend. Not much in the way of pop culture, but did get to hear sportswriters like Jayson Stark and Steve Wulf discuss their craft.

Col. Alphonse Dore Cliburn CBE>> Yes, I saw the finale as well as the pilot. Very little video of TW3 has survived — NPR's All Things Considered once interviewed someone who hooked up a reel-to-reel tape recorder to their TV set in 1964-65 and has audio recordings of the complete series…