Oh, Fonzie was definitely cool. The way he bumped the jukebox and a song came on? Magic! And in my Italian-American neighborhood, he was a superstar (along with John Travolta).

Pretty pagan of them. 

The cool thing though about being quite young as nearly all of us were with these shows back then, if a comedy script was good, we really wouldn’t notice it or mind it if they recycled it with different characters. McKean’s complaint was a professional one, when we were kids we didn’t care, we just wanted to see our…

I understand she really was kind of like that. A Bronx shrug was her natural state. 

RIP you wonderfully talented, funny lady.

Speak for yourself. I’m loving all these blank, un-clickable notifications.

“ABC was KILLING it in the mid 70's.” - So true! Great shows. So funny, just a few hours ago in the car, the oldies station played “Still The One”, and i was reminded of those ABC promos that used that song in the 70s. So seeing your comment is great, maybe we’re all thinking of Laverne & Shirley today and how…

70s lunchboxes as a kid.. I think I had an Archie/Jughead one. Years later as a teen in my best friends basement, I saw they had an old lunchbox featuring Diahann Carroll as Julia, where she plays a nurse I think. They had three sons, so I thought, “Wow, your parents were woke AF.” or something along those lines. …

Azealia Banks makes every WTF story better.

Republican politicians are greedy horrible bastards who hate ordinary Americans and want to make them suffer. To die of preventable illness, be poor and uneducated and work like mules until they drop dead. That’s the GOP vision of America. Did you see Trump and his Soviet robot wife cheering at a Christmas/Holiday…

I remember Ellen in the 80s on cable doing standup with a mullet and wearing what looked like clown pajamas. Keeping it clean, not working blue! Knock-knock jokes, whatever! Looking back, she seemed a bit closeted and a bit terrified. I’m happy for her success. I just hope (according to the Daily Mail) she gets her…

“[T]he young, puffy, and whoopingly drunk Dick Cheney..a barbecue-sauce-licking dolt with daddy issues..depict.. strains of West Side Story’s “America.”- Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

I don’t doubt it’s his real name, but if I went into showbiz thinking, “I want the vaguest, least memorable screen name, a name that will confuse people into thinking I’m someone else, and make their eyes glaze over with boredom as they scroll entertainment news”, I’d pick “Jake Johnson”.

Thanks Mike, and anyone who writes for Wiki Wormhole, it’s always enjoyable.  Happy holidays. 

Thanks for that!  Aw, Jan Hooks was great. 

I appreciate your thinking aloud. I do that a lot too and it gets me in trouble, but really, when I’m up with a hangover the next day, I rarely have regrets. I meant what I said, or what I presented as a topic for conversation. (On Kinja, never taken, it is 90 percent dumbass now, complexity is not allowed.)

Counterpoint: You’re the human that has chosen to make pets your slave over whom you have total control.

I feel stupider after reading this,  thanks. Gritty still sucks and is not happening, much like Rita Ora. People are trying to make them happen, yet they are just not happening. Because people still retain some self-esteem that they themselves are not idiots, and trying to make Gritty happen is insulting to…

Much like our current Republican Congress working to appease despots everywhere for years, even murderous ones who come equipped with bone saws. Murder and dismemberment of US residents under our protection, that’s okay with them. We are the appeasers at the moment. Putin seizing Crimea and holding Ukrainian sailors…

Can’t they all die from an outbreak of Marxism among the servants, or diptheria?