I think Claudia Black says something similar on a commentary (for The Way We Weren't?) about Aeryn and John going in opposite directions, so you're definitely onto something.

Great points about the incoherent plot and overuse of the music from Family Ties.

Until the Poop Runs Clear

Marcus and John Chrichton had the same supplier.

B5 didn't have the budget for BWAMPs.  Start Trek could have done it, but they were stuck in the past of whooshing spaceship noises.

I don't remember that either.  I thought there was even a throwaway reference in Point of No Return, like "check in with Morishi on your way out" or something like that.

That really captures the decline of actual talent in Country music quite well, doesn't it?

Do I even have to type out the Simpsons reference that answers your question?

It was afternoon reruns of Kojak, Streets of San Francisco, and Quincy, MD with my mom.  She also loved Kelly's Heroes and Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid (the latter largely because she had a thing for Robert Redford). We also had a number of Dolly Parton albums, come to think of it.  Note to self: call Mom this…

Richard Biggs really was great at the "I can't have heard you right" reactions.  My favorite is a little bit later this season with "You're kidding!  You're not kidding!"

I assumed this was more of a Fahrenheit 451 scenario and printed material was verboten.  Otherwise, yeah, just print out* scripts and sheet music and all that.

"If only you'd shapeshifted some balls and told her yourself, we might have avoided this."

It was indeed: "Let them shing."  Although there might have been a similar scene in Das Boot, too.

"But Worf, I am not sure what to make of your very strange choice of weapon."

Remembering your "first" kiss, Delenn?

Petty Officer Habsburg had a lot to answer for.

@avclub-04d524031f29c89d78cae864bd6f0de7:disqus Sisko became The Emissionary.

As a totally average 40-year-old guy, thank you.

But what about Princess Aura from Flash Gordon vs. Princess Ardala from Buck Rogers?

I don't know about that — Snuffaluffagus seems like a pretty clear allusion to masturbation.