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With Alan North as the pancake-eating sheriff. "The spiders are all over in Gleason!"

Ziggy says there's an 85 percent chance you will be groggy this afternoon.

But Bakula's reaction to that was just heartbreaking. "You mean . . . the leaps are going to get tougher?"

Well, they decided in the third or fourth season that he could also leap into those related to him, hence the leap into the Civil War. So presumably, there's no end to Sam Beckett as long as there's no end to the Beckett line.

At its heart, Quantum Leap was Route 66 with a hologram, but that was a good thing: It preferred to tell human stories and leave the science in the background (although the science was pretty thought-provoking).

TOOOOOOOOOOO —-

It's both horrifying and reassuring that the Times' copy desk is in the same parlous shape as those at other newspapers.

GO GO POWER ROMULANS!

Random memory: An article in Mad once touted a special compilation called "Slap Happy at Southfork," allegedly chronicling all the slapping that went on in the show. I just remember "Sue Ellen slaps J.R.!" and "Cliff slaps himself!"

I always got those two mixed up. Only way I could keep them straight is to focus on which one sang with Santana.

(folds arms, blasts Black 47 at highest volume)

Ah, Harrigan and Hart.

The Irish economy was in the toilet in the 1980s, as it had been for most of the previous 150 years. There was a new wave of immigration into New York as a result.

There are some albums you get in college that come without hype but really hit you in the numbers. For me, that was Francis Dunnery's
Tall Blonde Helicopter, an album he wrote while confronting his alcoholism and exploring his spirituality. Absolutely no one else has heard it except me, but I love the DIY production,…

I played the original Sims until I had the horrifying epiphany that their lives were more interesting than mine.

The car will do anything to get out of the film.

FISH PICKER!

I thought the skits took a big nosedive in the last few years on Comedy Central. I'm one of the few people who enjoyed the arc of Season 8, though the skits to me were always dressing on the main course.

"McGregor? Troy McGregor? Thomas' son?"
"Yeah! Did you know him?"
"Know him? He was delicious!"