Er, other than the move to Boomerang and an hour-long slot this isn't really news.  Cartoon Network proper has been showing 30-minute blocks of classic Looney Tunes before or after the new LT show all summer long and I think still is.  (And god help me, that new show really isn't nearly as awful as it coulda been…)

@The Quirk - I guess 12 episodes of it are on the newly-released complete "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" series set.  That's led to speculation that perhaps Fernwood will be coming soon.

I'm more partial to Clark's rant in the original Vacation:

And don't forget Homer's mumbled "motherfucker!" when he's trying to remove the bolts off the car boot with his teeth in "City of New York vs. Homer Simpson"

Yep, but it's long out-of-print and the DVD is kinda subpar by modern standards, since it's not anamorphic but a letterboxed 4x3 version at 1.66:1 (which is apparently what Verhoeven intended instead of the typical 1.78/1.85 ratio).  I think the same unrated version may be available from MGM (or whoever owns it now)…

@londonlee - Pretty sure the unrated version that was available as a Criterion DVD reinstated that footage.  It's just a few seconds here and there, and also during the scene where Murphy is killed, but it makes an impact.

To nerd out before someone else gets to it, unless they already have since I didn't reload, that's technically called "component."  Composite is just the yellow/red/white connection and can only carry 480, but component is the red/green/blue + red/white that can carry HD… but yeah, it's still the same type of cable…

Eh, lots of this stuff ran for years in syndication, especially on cheap independent stations.  I was an '80s kid who felt a little too old for "Muppet Babies" somehow but watched it anyway, but I do remember the "Star Trek" series still running on some channel during the same time period.

I too was an ALF fan club member.  I don't remember the official certificate, but I do remember getting a bunch of stickers and some buttons as part of the deal.  And not even buttons with pins, but those cheap-ass ones with the little flap of metal you were supposed to bend back.  The stickers are still on my giant…

@avclub-5a1c0dcc8243c086c74ee944052f6f0f:disqus The Wonder Years is now on Netflix in a screwy version.  Apparently they couldn't afford the original recording of the theme song, so it has the worst Joe Cocker impersonator you've ever heard instead.  Jarringly-wrong intro aside though, it's a lot more intact than I…

Ah, but they already did it.  Twice!  Two early '00s TV movies, both of which are pretty bad and don't even really feel like the original series much.

Yeah, it's still jarring for me to hear Conan swear too.  But I've noticed that TBS (and definitely Adult Swim for sure) seem to usually show the DVD versions of their Family Guy reruns that may have a few little extra bits that didn't make it to the FOX airing.

@DonkeyLeaps:disqus I'm only 3 days late so you'll never see it, but it was called the "Sears Cinema" simply because it was located in a large shopping-complex type area that was known as the Sears Plaza (because the Sears was the first and biggest building on the lot).

The Meteor Man's rules.

My Wizard theater story.  Couldn't have been more psyched for it.  Got my parents to drag me there and I bought a giant theater-sized box of Good 'N' Plenty candy, something I had loved until that day.  I sat enthralled through the whole runtime, eating my giant box of G&P's and surely some mega-sized soda, and by the…

Except it wasn't even good for that.  The overall effect was more like just gluing a NES controller to your arm while you wore a really cool glove.

I had never been much of a fan either, but I laughed through pretty much the entire runtime of his most recent one, "Oh My God."  It's currently available on HBOGo if you have it.

As a card-carrying Eastern Shawnee who comes from a family with several tribal chiefs in it though, I can honestly say… most of us just don't really care.  Maybe we should, and maybe it's just my tribe's own quirks or the overall loss of our traditional culture that causes a disconnect, but I've never known anyone to…

"The real punch line may be that, by the time the actual sequel to Jaws
came out two and half years later, there was zero possibility that it
would be called anything except Jaws II."

KISS's "Music From the Elder" probably qualifies, though it does remain in print.  It was the last of their albums to be released on CD when they were first putting out the CD versions though, and even then was still kind of hard to find until the 1997 remasters were released.  The band hasn't ever properly performed…