Unfortunately, a lot of published Bloom County strips were edited by Breathed for the collections in the 80s… usually dialogue rewritten, but occasionally even a panel redrawn here and there. The Bloom County Library usually, though not always, uses the edited versions when they exist and not the originals. :( I…

"You got Calvin peeing on Hobbes? No? Well, what *do* you have him peeing on?"

I was naively hoping for some Jan or Karen. Or even better, Jan's Former Assistant. But not Todd Packer, and thank god he didn't show.

He made an appearance in Free Family Portrait Studio, and there was a lot of amazement on here that it was the same actor then, too.

It's very hard nowadays to remember NBC hyping it to death before the first episode aired.

Maybe, maybe not… Lewis was not the foremost expert on his own books, as shown by his statements that the order in which you read them doesn't matter.

I love how, even though nobody calls him this in the whole episode, you get to the end credits and…
"Brian Huskey as Regular Sized Rudy."

I love this show, but I have almost the opposite views of the AV Club. I like the highest-rated episodes least (Burgerboss? pretty formulaic) and found almost of all of Season 2 incredibly average. I loved Tina in the first season when she was easily the least popular child.

I could maybe get behind this if you added Ellie Kemper to the list.

Wait, that happened in 5? What the hell happened in 6? The seasons are all running together in my head now…

Entertainment Weekly did a column a week or two ago devoted solely to the fact that Rules of Engagement is still on, this surprises a lot of people, and CBS cannot get higher ratings from anything else in its slot. (Of course, being EW, they said all this very nicely.)

There's a significant overlap, but most people who are in one group or the other are not in both.

It was very odd to have two SYTYCD references in two consecutive Fox shows. Synergy at work!

@avclub-bc3ea21614e0fdc4359bdd4d3315313f:disqus If "Where Is the Love?" fits into the first category, that's where my vote goes.

"Tonight's going to be different! There's going to be booze, and a
karaoke machine, and that Black Eyed Peas song they wrote for bar
mitzvahs!"

Bart Simpson can tie a tie!?  I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a… *snerk* magic ten year old boy or something?

The Simpsons really needs more of David Silverman.

All I have on DVD is Season 1, and half the commentaries are by the show's characters.  As in, one episode has commentary by Kathy Najimy playing Peggy, and Pam Adlon playing Bobby, in character, for the whole 25 minutes.  It's neat, but it's weird.

I've never seen The Goode Family (though I do remember the tiny bit of promotion it got when it aired), but the nastiness and mean spirit of the show that Rabin discusses have given me a thought.

My local classic rock station doesn't play anything newer than the mid '80s… except I keep hearing "Rock 'N Roll Train", which is an AC/DC song from 2008.  Nobody has ever noticed.