You know, there are some things Kevin Smith has done that I like, and some things I don't. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is definitely one of the things I didn't like. It was pointless, meandering, and self-indulgent to the extreme… his characters first beat up people that didn't like his- I mean THEIR- movie, then…

I really, really don't blame them for blasting McMasters after the hell he was putting them through. (Who would convict them given the circumstances?) Also, he was a huge phony douche, and I kind of wanted to see him get vaporized anyway.

The Master System game had that effect on me.

Probably not the best place to bring this up, but do you buy the argument from baby boomers that today's marijuana is much stronger than theirs was and that it should be illegal for that reason? That may be true to some extent (Breaking Bad illustrates that just about everyone who does drugs is eager to heighten the…

One of the maids is Ms. Puff on Spongebob Squarepants!

You can't deprive the world of Danny Cooksey! He gave us Dave the Barbarian!

Hey, you'd hit the van too if you spent the past year as the world's least convincing woman.

Heh, I liked that one, as ham-handed as it probably was. I remember Van Patten making excuses for his behavior and nearly convincing Kirk Cameron that what he was doing was justified. Of course, it all unraveled in the end, and Kirk pretty much told him to take his job and restaff it.

Funny you should mention that! They did an episode of Sanford and Son where their lives were turned into a sitcom, except they cast a Jewish family instead.

That dumbass John Walsh was claiming that Adam was kidnapped by Jeffrey Dahmer at one point, wasn't he? You just never pass up a chance for publicity, do 'ya, Johnny-boy?

What about that show where the Zima guy goes to a black-run radio station and rescues it from bankruptcy?

Diff'rent Strokes was the last? I thought Married… with Children was also an Embassy production, shortly before the Sony buyout.

Beyond that, Emmanuel Lewis had a personal stake in the show (his production company's logo appeared before Paramount's creepy blue thing). I don't know for sure, but I think Lewis was a lot older than he looked when he was on his show, and had the presence of mind to prepare for the future.

Oh god, Rick Dees! Remember when he had that late night talk show?

We had a Maytag sign in a nearby city with Gordon Jump's caricature on the side. It remained there years after Jump's death, and was taken down only recently. Every time we drove by it, the sign prompted tasteless jokes masking profound discomfort.

I wonder if this hobbled Gordon Jump's career. It's my understanding that playing characters like this makes it incredibly difficult to find work in the future, unless all you want to play are pedophiles.

Like Futurama surly?

I'd like that show better if the producers weren't so intent on turning it into Whose Zonk Is It, Anyway?. Hell, co-host Jonathan Mangum even makes guest appearances on the new Whose Line…

"Eee hee hee! I'll take your money, and leave you with an obscure 1980s pop culture reference!"

That damn game gives you a 10% chance of victory. Plus the rules aren't spelled out as well as I think they should be… it really ought to be called "That's Slightly Too Much, and Not a Penny More Than That."