I'm willing to call Potter/Blake and Winchester/Burns a wash (though not an upgrade), but Hunnicutt/Mcintyre was a huge downgrade. Wayne Rogers wasn't great, but he had a way with a one-liner, while Mike Farrell was an absolute humor vacuum. And his weakness paved the way for the Alan Alda Show.

Empire and Chris Pine:

My favorite scene from that show is the one where Carrie has just yelled at her Dad and is concerned that she went too far. Doug tries to be supportive at first but finally admits "it was the saddest thing I've ever seen, and I once saw a man chase his glass eye down the subway steps"

I've got a thing for chaos:

Max a.k.a. "Wolfie"? I didn't think he got killed. I thought it was implied he was whimpering because he was out in the yard with the corpse of John's stepmom.

Narrator: "Their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today"

It may seem cheesy now, but 5 year old Gerry absolutely thought that guy was messing with our TV. Part of it, I think, was that disembodied voices were all over TV back then; the Emergency Broadcast guy, the announcer who told you what was coming on later, even a lot of breaking news was delivered by a voice talking…

I'd like to see re-make of The Magnificent Seven, but set in feudal Japan.

*sara pours gigantic tumbler of scotch, straight up, from drink tray that's just inside the front door, hands it to alcopheliac*

This is quite the weekend at the old cineplex, huh?

I'd have bet you good money that William B Davis was no longer with us. As in, I clearly recalled reading his obit. Must have been his sister Ann's.

You need a job? I know a producer for Last Man Standing.

So replace one cheap time-filler with another; have the contestants transform into zords twice an episode.

It's a blooper reel. Belushi mispronounces "xylophone", breaks character, and rapes everyone on set out of frustration. He's got an improv background, after all.

But she did call Paris Hilton a piece of shit. So she's got that going for her.

Agreed. Pacific Rim needed about 50% less plot. All that stuff about mind-melding and the mechanics of dimensional gate? Some of us just wanted to see giant robots punch monsters, thank you very much.

That's the first thing I think of when I recall this show, followed closely by his reaction to the werewolf; "Barney..awoooooo……BARNEY!!!"

As characters? Or in the Ginger/Mary Ann sense?

I think so. Wasn't there an episode where he got suspended or something?

I'm pretty sure I watched every episode, and I don't recall a single establishing shot. I think there were a few scenes set at various character's homes, but nothing in between.