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Only if he gives the show the MST3K treatment.

"What is… Cliff Clavin?" was a personal favorite of mine, and one of the first episodes of Cheers I watched when I first got Netflix. Norm is so genre-savvy in this episode that you'd swear the character, not the actor who plays him, got a peek at the script. Then again, he's been around Cliff for so long that he

But no Megas XLR. Or The Misadventures of Flapjack. They've got some work to do to fill in those gaps.

I'm a prog rock fan. As you can imagine, "overly elaborate" is not a problem for me.

What's great is that there were a few seconds in one episode of the Transformers cartoon where they forgot to put Welker's voice through a vocoder, making Soundwave sound exactly like Dr. Claw/Darkseid.

No matter what you say about Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine, you've got to admit that Dreamtime is one hell of a catchy song. It's required listening for Hall and Oates fans, and everyone else.

Jake Sisko proves you can add a teen tagalong to a Star Trek series without making him distractingly obnoxious. It's a shame that lesson wasn't learned until *after* Next Generation…

Audience Member: Hey, like shut up, man. (wipes Cheetos off his chest)
Seriously though, I absolutely do NOT agree with Ebert's opinion of video games, but it's not the right time to open that wound. Also, I have to acknowledge that today's gamers lean toward the douchey anyway.

Maybe he just knew the end was coming and wanted to prepare his fans for it. I recall Charles Schultz announcing his retirement from Peanuts back in 2000, and dying just two weeks later.

What, no love for Frank Welker and his Dr. Claw-sounding Darkseid?

I thought it was Jimmy Carter?

Man, you get some serious nerd cred when you've been in Star Trek AND Power Rangers.

Like the Power Rangers villain?

It's too bad they didn't spend much time with Odo teetering on the edge of alcoholism.  It would have added some depth and vulnerability to the character.

I wonder what a mirror Lwaxana Troi would be like? Maybe borderline watchable?

And now, some random scattered thoughts:

They're pretty similar shows!  Roma Downey's no Michael Landon, though.

They air this on RTV (one of the aforementioned cheap rerun networks) every night.  My mother's a fan, but it's a little too dated for my tastes.  I do like the idea of a show where the characters are on a cross-country road trip, though.  I think they borrowed the concept on another RTV series, Highway to Heaven, but

Wasn't the sister played by Bart Simpson?

If you enjoyed the 2002 series, that's cool, but there was something about it that left a bad taste in my mouth. The object lessons seemed to have all the subtlety of a brick to the face, although even the 1960s series was guilty of this at times.