She's not even in the building.

Was it from her topless appearance in Baby Boom?

I just want to add another thought about that first scene. By featuring just Sam and the one-off guest character, the show anticipates one of its most charming features. Cheers consistently uses the cold open to pass a quick, unrelated joke that has nothing to do with the rest of the episode. But those bits are as…

If you give Gilligan's Island a close reading, you can find Lovey's apparent vapidity masking a capacity for violence, a menacing disposition toward white power structures and a truly fascinating capacity for rhyming couplets.

Franzen's two most recent novels, The Corrections and Freedom, both have pivotal scenes involving poop. There has to be an undergraduate thesis paper about this somewhere.

Rap is no more or less about money, revolution or anger than rock and roll or folk music or any other genre. Bob Dylan got rich writing "Blowing in the Wind." The financial rewards that come along with creating art that resonates with an audience do not dilute the power of the message, so long as the message was…