My two cents: Every other season of Buffy had a narrative thread that it more-or-less followed ruthlessly through 22 episodes. Season 6 was first about Buffy trying to find meaning in her life after being pulled out of heaven, then it was about the Nerds of Doom, then the Nerds of Doom turned out to not be such a…

Also true of the disastrous 80-81 SNL season. First network apperance by Prince, among many other musical highlights.

I remember SNL did a knock-off of this with Harry Shearer as Carl Sagan discussing the universe with Pink Lady.

I'd love to read a no-holds-barred recounting of the Fred Silverman years. Brilliant programmer who lost his touch at NBC. (But he did give the go-ahead for Hill Street Blues, the common ancestor of most quality TV programming today.)

"Two. When Snoopy's not around, all the characters should be asking 'Where's Snoopy?'"

THE WHOLE SYSTEM IS NOT HOW AN APPENDIX WORKS

No one's gonna care, but seriously: Stereotypes of "yellow journalism" are largely false. If you saw a copy of The World from this period, you'd see a well-written sheet that enjoyed its crime and divorce stories, but also had top-of-the-shelf political and foreign coverage and a brave and brilliant editorial page.…

Reverse prejudice = open-mindedness

The operation will be a small entry in his corpus.

Harold and Kumar Demand Benghazi E-mails

"Hey, this movie just turned into The Seven Samurai."

This needs about 1 billion likes.

You've crossed the line. You've slandered Hrothgar.

That's another one that makes me cringe. I know we came closer than ever in 1983 to nuclear war, and good to see the culture responding to it.

I was big into Vonnegut in high school. I think he appeals to teenagers because they feel so powerless in environments that appear crazy. His protagonists also seemed brave (and smart) in pointing out and seeing this absurdity.

But did she make you feel it?

There was also "My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss," which was supposed to be a parody of The Apprentice but spent way too much time interviewing the actors involved about how funny they though the concept was.

"Ordinary day laborer" who worked on the side as an underwear model. So, um, yeah.

He wrote in his diary that The Day After "greatly depressed" him, although whether it led him to actually pursue nuke talks with the Soviet Union is speculation. But if it tempered his saber-rattling, we are luckier for it.

The Day After is hurt by the necessary but very long build-up introducing the characters. After the nukes fall, it's holy-shit-city.