The classic case is "The Simpsons", isn't it? Much like "Peanuts", at its best it can be really dark.

I'd say Bach much more embodies the idea of purity and simplicity than Beethoven, which is full of his emotional turmoil dealing with his failed love affairs and depression when he realized he was going deaf.

What was great about Foxtrot in the mid to late 1990s is that it had a lot of strips about Internet culture in that time when it had expanded beyond the traditional university student crowd but before it became so ubiquitous that everybody was using it. Even if sometimes the punchlines were weak, it was cool that…

Yeah, the USSR had a tradition of giving blown Western collaborators a reasonable life. Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, etc. Of course some like Burgess didn't take to the USSR and drank themselves to death, but that was their choice after all.

Well, not that long really — only about eight years and the Soviet Union ceases to exist. Maybe it would be awkward/legally problematic coming back to the US, but she could live in France like Roman Polanski.

And yet the show of that title is the sequel to the (UK version) "Life on Mars".

Fine. I'd take Buffy and the X-Files over "The Wire" any day. I'm kind of glad that the self-important "Golden Age of TV" seems to be winding up. I don't know what is supposed to be the "important" show now that "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad" are over. I mean, you could argue "Better Call Saul", but despite being a…

Nobody else remembers the Sbemail…

Also that Spanish graffiti reading "American pigs" can be easily changed to "American deer" (at least phonetically, thanks to the b/v merger in Spanish)

I'm a scientist and yet I haven't been asked by Hollywood to play a scientist — for some reason they seem to prefer people who don't have doctorates but who can reasonably convince an audience that they do. It's almost like the point of acting is to portray somebody that you aren't!

Actually not. They've actually had a bit of resurgence in the past few decades, especially on BBC Radio 4. The comedy team of Mitchell and Webb started out in the early 2000s on radio before getting a TV show, for example. And of course besides broadcasts, radio drama can be used as podcasts while driving, working…

He seemed to confuse "auberge" (a small hotel) with "aubergine" (an eggplant) in an earlier episode, so his French is a bit spotty, though.

Have you listened to radio drama? Not that the sequence wasn't well done, but that sort of thing is what radio dramas do all the time.

Apparently this was done because the puppets couldn't convincingly walk. But cool nonetheless.

And a major influence on the X-COM franchise.

Well, "The Americans" and "Archer" recently had season premiers, so maybe that?

In theory, yes. People have even gotten Commodore 64s and the like to host simple web pages. But take a look at any machine running a decent-sized website (such as the AV Club) — despite Microsoft trying its best to get into the server market, the vast, vast majority run some form of UNIX.

I think the line really was "princess"; I'm criticizing the factual basis of the joke, not your rendition of it.

Lana says Archer’s “bleeding like a Russian princess,” referencing the Romanov family’s long, unfortunate history with hemophilia.

Yep. Judah P. Benjamin. First Jew to hold a cabinet position. Even if it was in the illegitimate pseudo-state that was the Confederacy.