I noticed an absence of fin de siècle programs, though that in itself isn't a bad thing. Personally, I never got Friends.

"The Chinese Restaurant" is one of those Seinfeld episodes that is more appreciated in retrospect. The show really didn't attract major critical and audience attention until the era of "The Limo" — which kind of shows that Seinfeld at its best was an absurdist romp, not a show about nothing.

That, and how you can nominate a film for Best Movie and not nominate any of the major components of that film for awards (unless you count the song nomination, I guess).

I love you, AV Club, well and truly, but I think most people are talking about the Academy's bizarre treatment of Selma this morning.

Anyone want my cassingle of Can I Borrow A Feeling?

Yeah — tried to fix it before anyone noticed.

Yes, but what about Julie Cruz?

Helen Slater, WHERE ART THOU

Will never work. Adrian Grenier can't capture the erotophobia central to Lovecraft.

Entourage

My first thought, too. Carl Sagan apparently watched all of Cosmos specifically to see if he ever had actually said that.

God damn. Perfect.

God bless 'em, but that Mystery Science Theater 3000 reference felt gratuitous.

I think we've heard more from them, even counting Halloween episodes.

Least developed Simpsons character: Marge's dad.

I bought Mink Car on 9/11. I was the only person in Best Buy, and I didn't care; I needed something to look forward to at the end of that awful day.

Some breathy song that went "GoodBYE, my FRIEEEEEENNND."

Probably my favorite bit of local NYC TV news: Jack Cafferty, hosting the Channel 5 station, introduced the clip of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles band at Radio City as "a meeting of NBC executives."

I got "We Didn't Start the Fire" as a cassingle, which in my youthful naïveté I thought was the Storm Front album. Seemed odd to me that someone would put out a two-song recording.

The cheats for 3, though, could never be beat. I liked turning on Pedestrians with Weapons and Pedestrian Riot to see how long I could survive around construction workers furiously blowing themselves up with bazookas. Vice City had the same codes, but it wasn't quite the same.