Oh, they're great people — Facebook pals, all of them. I just meant that I was crushed that my childhood memories of "oh wow what a twist!" were now coupled with my adult memories of co-workers saying, "So, wait, that's it?"

Mad Magazine had my favorite reconsideration of Charlie Brown's managing career in their "exclusive" final "Peanuts" strips after Schulz died. If memory serves, we see Charlie Brown lose another baseball game and walk away looking dejected, but then he accepts a bag of cash and takes it to a secret vault filled with…

At least two stills are easily found online and they are *glorious*.

Re: Why MTV and Nickelodeon got behind the show: I just always assumed that MTV was looking for scheduled programming, realized "Hey, we could show 'The Monkees' twice a day," and didn't realize what a phenomenon they'd create when they kicked off their airing of the series with a Sunday marathon called, naturally,…

I've thought that for years. Forget Force Choke and Force Lightning; give me Force Explode Lightsaber.

Of course, the bluest of the blue chips, "the," is far out of reach for most investors. However, a variant of "the," "da," is making new highs almost every week! And as long as Sylvester Stallone continues to make movies, this hot but affordable word could be "da key" to profits for you!

Are you sure you saw two episodes? Because you might have just seen the opening credits once and thought, "How long have I been watching this? An hour?"

One of my favorite Bob Newhart jokes is about the 1961 "Bob Newhart Show," which he said was the only TV series in history to have a negative Nielsen rating: "People were calling the Nielsen offices and saying, 'I don't have a TV, but if I did, I sure wouldn't watch THAT."

But surely we can all agree that the Arrowplane was a stroke of genius?

I was going to say the same thing about "Linus and Lucy." Not really a Christmas song, but boy does it get played this time of year. (Edited to add: Should have searched for "Peanuts" instead of just "Linus" before I posted.)

In Alan Moore's "Tom Strong" comic books, arch-nemesis Paul Saveen invented liquid phlogiston in the 1930s to use as a weapon. Years later, realizing that phlogiston never existed, they both wondered how his invention ever worked.

Somebody can probably make a better gif than this (it's my first), but the animation error with the turkey head at the right really freaked me out: http://makeagif.com/YJQ0e2

I'm so glad you mentioned the commercial break joke! I've never seen this episode on Comedy Central, but I know Adult Swim never broke for commercial after that line, which always seemed like a waste of a good setup to me. Fox actually got it exactly right on the original airing, immediately following that line with…

Last month I rediscovered my old VHS tape with "Anthology of Interest II," which started "already in progress" because of the Falcons-Rams game. I'd forgotten how completely, hopelessly lost I was to start a "Futurama" with all the characters in a maze and Gen. Colin Pacman yelling "wakka wakka THIS WAY DAMMIT! wakka…

That, of course, being his Sith name. His original name was Darthur Fonzarelli.

On 1998's "Lost In Space":

One of my favorite memories of my grandfather is when he took me, my brother and my cousin to "Return of the Jedi." He'd seen neither of the two previous films, and had no idea what the movies were about. Grandpa made it to the scene where Boushh threatens Jabba with a thermal detonator before he leaned over to me and…

My only TMNT story is that I didn't get to see it for about two months after it was released because the local 7-screen theater initially refused to carry it, mostly because of pressure from local parents about the Turtles' anti-Christian overtones. (I grew up in the South. You may have already guessed that.)

I keep flashing back to a blurb in Dynamite Magazine before "Krull" came out. The gist was that the movie was going to be chock-full of tie-ins right out of the gate: Games, action figures, T-shirts, everything.

I was a Newsweek subscriber, and learned about the show from the Newsweek article, "Abe Lincoln, Teen Geek." The article told me that the show had survived controversy and become a mini-hit, even though it wasn't as consistently funny as one of its "now legendary predecessors," "Celebrity Deathmatch."