I swear, watching George Will be intelligent and even handed has been something of a revelation. It's like when he puts pen to paper or shows up on Fox News, he gets 100 IQ points dumber. Maybe he's just playing to his audiences—smart on PBS, red meat for the rubes.

David Paymer made a pretty good Louis Howe in the HBO movie "Warm Springs" which more or less covers the period of this episode (Basically from 1920 to his return to prominence in 1928) with Kenneth Branagh as FDR, Cynthia Nixon as Eleanor, and Jane Alexander (who had played Eleanor opposite Edward Herrmann in the…

To be fair, both Cleland and Duckworth acquired their injuries as war wounds (and nobody batted an eye that Bob Dole could only use one arm in 1996). As painful as it is, I'd imagine that it would be different for someone disabled for health reasons, rather than "serving their country."

I preferred Scott and Scott's proposal that they just only hire cast members, hosts and musical guests whose names can be assembled for 40 years of clips of Don Pardo, though Scott may have some reservations.

Indeed, both were also Governor of New York, and nominated for Vice President—Franklin consciously tried to emulate the political path of his distant cousin. It's also been said that while he was Asst. Secretary during the Wilson Administration, Franklin passed information to Theodore. Distant cousins sure, but…

I fully expect the finest work from Steven Spielberg's non-Union biblical and reality show equivalent.

Also, if you start typing in old sourpuss, Old Sourpuss Brian Eno actually comes in ahead of just Old Sourpuss.

Where are their fucking t-shirts?

This was an episode of "Let's Be Frank."

Still a crying shame that Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Ellen and Jay Leno won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and Williams never did (and Mel Brooks and Letterman never have).

All of these crossovers make Groening's big stink about "A Star is Burns" even harder to take now, given that episode was actually hilarious, and came from a spinoff from actual Simpsons showrunners. It worked on so many levels.

They had to go now. Their planet needed them.

"Back to the windowless space van for me!" - W. Wheaton

The thing that gets me about Pen Pals is there's really no difference between the situation on the planets there and in Deja Q except the latter has Warp Drive, and yet that alone is enough to immediately send the Federation from "Let them Die!" mode to "We must move heaven and earth to save these people!"

Replacing it with the theme to Perfect Strangers helps.

There's also the JR Watches Star Trek guys, who've already gone through all of TOS, TNG, and DS9, and are currently about to start season 2 of Enterprise. They only did about 1/7 of Voyager though. It's enjoyable for being a bit less serious. Mission Log becomes tedious when they're trying to get to the "Messages and…

Don't forget The Tailor of Panama!

Pretty sure Edward J. Tilghman Middle School could have used a visit from… The Principal.

Plus, you can kind of excuse how fat Riker is because it's from all the holo-food "Chef" is eating around the kitchen.

Really, from a storytelling perspective the Prime Directive exists in its modern, post-80s form to be an obstacle to "doing the right thing." It's there for Picard to look grave, debate with his subordinates, reject Worf, then give a speech about making the hard choice to save the primitive peoples. It's supposed to…