Duh, stay out of Riverdale, Homer!

The net looks like a sparse, lonely place during the Nixon years.

The Smothers Brothers book is outstanding — Bianculli did a great job putting the series in the context of 1960s TV comedy/variety.

The storefront sign for DIVINE PET FOOD with pink flamingos almost made up for the agony of the past month.

"Tonight on WINGS — oh, who cares?"

In 1855, he co-founded the American Telegraph Company (later renamed Western Union) and personally supervised the laying of the first Transatlantic Cable three years later

Wonder what Pauline Kael would have thought about this revelation.

"Really? What breed??"

Jon-Benet Ramsey was born in August 1990.

And there was the shaggy-dog story I learned in grade school with the punchline, "Two obese Pattys, Special Ross, Lester Freeze picking bunions on a Sesame Street run"…

66 days without food? Poseur.

Five if you count Linda Lavin, who was a regular in the first season.

The fallout of the 1876 election was dramatized in an unsuccessful 1976 Broadway musical by Leonard Bernstein and Alan Jay Lerner, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The staging conceit was that one actor portrayed various 19th century Presidents, and one actress played all the First Ladies. Therefore, the same actress (on…

It was a pleasure to eat your lead, good sir!

Therapist, handing doll to America: "All right, show me where 2016 touched you…"

The song was condescending if not hostile towards its subject

Hey 2016, lose my number.

It also inspired a funny sketch on a Harry Shearer cable special a couple of years later.

And Martha Quinn > Nina Blackwood

Look, you're going to be having dinner with Groucho tonight if you don't beat it!