"Where'd you learn to do that?"

That line was the cherry on top of an escalating series of gags—it didn't need to be there, but it amplified everything else.

"I mean that there is no context in which I could see David Johansen and think "that's the guy from the New York Dolls"

And then there's that 'Chico the Rainmaker' business, about a shrunken head that comes to life:

Especially the early, edgy seasons:

Maybe the reason why I liked them so much was because I wasn't reading them for plot, but for the crazy wordplay and proto-goth tone. I've been watching episodes of 'Pushing Daisies' lately and was wondering what felt familiar about it, and it's that precisely—the stories are predictable, but the flavor is an oniony…

To the Quirk—Pederast v. pedophile I believe comes down to gender of chosen victim. I'd look it up, but Prince George's County Public Schools would rather I didn't.

'Animaniacs' brought true postmodernism to children's television (and not just the creeping proto-pomo of things like 'Gumby' and 'Bullwinkle'). I disagree that it had a lot of filler—'Mindy and Buttons' took the old sleepwalking construction site trope from old cartoons and practically made a genre out of it: "OK, I…

Cyclops, seventh voyage:

Your Backyard Friends
The Backyardigans!

"The type of girl that's a vegan would never give head anyway"

There's also the feeling that it's somehow less urgent—I mean, no matter how hot and compatible you start out—in the long run, there's always tomorrow and then eventually there's always next weekend. In time you both sometimes just decide that a good night's sleep is a better use of your time.

Don't take it so seriously, I know names changed at Ellis Island—my own Jewish great grandfather's did (and that side of the family settled in that part of Brooklyn and may have had ties themselves), albeit only slightly—I was just noting what the candy store connection implied about Dr. Miller. But Don already had…

I'm thinking that, since college was less of a foregone conclusion for professionals in those days (and a lot of your old school journalists up to and including Peter Jennings never went to college) it was probably easier to get into college back then than to complete high school. If I remember correctly, Mary Tyler…

"stupid tattoos in stupid places"

She's mobbed up via a candy store—that could be Brownsville:

"Pete brought his gun to the new office"

I like Faye a lot—Those ice cold Hitchcock blondes are so not my type, typically, but she has a very welcoming smile, and I like that she's both intelligent and clever (some people are only one or the other).

I miss Kinsey too—mostly because I suspect I would have been the Kinsey of whatever 60's ad agency I managed to get a job with, if that makes any sense.

He's in that movie 'The Town' and by god AMC is not going to let you forget where you saw him first. But here's where I assert again how stupid the programmers at AMC are: