She's on the cover of this week's Parade magazine (yeah, I still read it, so what?) and out-and-out admits that she is playing the town prostitute, who was a real person, and that she consciously modeled her style and wardrobe on this woman. Which, to be honest, tracks.

Didn't she and Barry Williams bang for a while?

Thanksgiving thoughts on TV, CBS edition:
(this question may be directly aimed at Matthew Stechel)
If I'm visiting family with a DVR, and they've got Man with a Plan, Great Indoors, Life in Pieces, and Mom (the last two seasons of the latter two), which would you binge first to avoid talking to people?

Brady Bunch is to the '70s as Full House is to the '90s.

Yeah, I don't get it. Melissa Rauch doesn't seem to be working on a movie, and she's not actually pregnant in real life. But she rarely interacts with certain castmates, on screen at least.

That makes sense… someone (Parsons?) gets to leave early to do a film.

Yeah, it was jarring last time I was in Canada to realize that Jay Baruchel is a household name there, and the development process for Goon 2 was breathlessly reported.

Thanksgiving thoughts on TV:
Was binging through some Big Bang Theories last night with family, and noticed that the "core" cast of Galecki / Cuoco / Parsons / Bialik and the other characters rarely interact now; the A- and B-plots are kept strictly separate. Tension on the set?

Wow, Lucifer is significantly more popular in Canada than the US.

Yes, FINALLY, a Wizard of Oz adaptation capitalizes on the obvious sexual tension between Dorothy and the Scarecrow.

I have a season-and-a-half backlog of Mom on the DVR; is it worth marathoning, or could I just watch tonight and be pretty well caught up?

Yeah, it's nice that they've managed to keep their career going with the wacky videos, but that doesn't mean I have any interest in listening to their newer stuff or seeing them live. That first album still holds up, though.

Singles meant a little something in '96 in the US; you could still buy cassingles, for one thing. And REM had a deal which allowed them to pick their own singles, which meant the record company's radio promotion apparatus had to "work" the songs REM wanted them to. And REM had little interest in working the potential…

This is about six months before alt-rock took a really sharp power-pop turn (see: Third Eye Blind, Sugar Ray, the second Foo Fighters and Everclear albums), so this is really a "death throes of grunge" chart.

That album was basically REM trying not to be giant superstars anymore (they've basically confirmed this). The first single was E-Bow the Letter (defiantly non-commercial). Then Bittersweet Me. Then Electrolite, which is actually pretty good. Meanwhile, "Wake-Up Bomb" and "Be Mine" just sat there. Wake-Up Bomb got…

Oh, New Girl. Even though your ratings continually drop, there's always another Fox show whose ratings are dropping more precipitously. Mindy Project, now Brooklyn Nine-Nine… New Girl may go 10 seasons at this rate.

I still do not understand exactly what Late Night Snack is. I just hope Dratch is getting paid handsomely.

I don't think their Trump portrayal has to ossify yet. Remember, Ferrell's GWBush was a clueless, good-ol-boy, and Forte's take was much whinier and defensive. On the other hand, their two Clintons and two Obamas were pretty much the same.

My guess was a random writer, but it could have been Hader. Wouldn't he have stuck around for the goodnights, though?

Kind of odd she hosted, although I guess it was an alumni slot. She doesn't have any movies scheduled until Despicable Me 3 next summer, and that's a voice-over.