"I learned how to pronounce "Goethe" from him"

"I don't know that he ever understood why others found that off-putting"

aw no.
I've been compared to a number of TV characters over the years—David Brent most recently (mostly for looks I hope), Rick from De Grassi Jr. High when I was much younger, Julie the Cruise director from 'Love Boat' (don't ask), Mr. Feeney from Boy Meets World, and both Frasier Crane and Cliff Clavin on bad…

also:

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Thurl Ravenscroft—He's GRRRRRRRRRREat!

Sure, but there's a three-day waiting period.

And a great head film
Among the reasons why 'Tron' was and is visually striking and in a way timeless is because in the fantasy sequences it used black and white for the actors and then inserted them into that brilliant world of lights and shadows. In that respect (and with the design of their costumes and the helmets…

Oh great…
Now we're gonna hafta put up with some gimmick poster called "Cyber Stanislavski".

I played an utterly apolitical Fezziwig in 8th grade.

Some Kind of Munster:

I don't know if it was any good since I haven't seen it in a dog's age, but there was a Raggedy Ann Christmas special in the 70's that made a lasting impression and gave my family a word we use to this day: "gloobstick". The plot involved a Wile E. Coyote type villain who encased Christmas toys in cubes of this…

"Powers Boothe as Phillip Marlow"

Rankin Bass did more than those puppety holiday specials—there was 'Mad Monster Party' and 'The Hobbit' and 'Thundercats':

It seems like if you're not going to do 'A Christmas Carol' or 'It's a Wonderful Life' the third option (the RC cola—if you will) is a version of the Nativity story. I know 'Newhart' did one—with Larry and the Darryls as the three wisemen I think—but there were others as well and one that goes back as far as the 'Lum…

There were a number of those Rich Little specials in circulation on HBO when we first got it in the early 80's, and for us it wasn't Paul Lynde that was obscure—my mom was a Hollywood Squares fan when we were kids—but Truman Capote. I remember laughing, but with the vague understanding that he was supposed to be doing…

I'm sure what's being characterized as Socialist comes from the idea that the whole community shares ownership of one another's house through the money lent by the bank—but any good Socialist will tell you he's really more of a popular pragmatist, and that, as fastandsloppy implies (perhaps unintentionally—I can't be…

I just saw that Christmas Carol episode over the summer and I was struck by the audacity of it. Capturing the Ghosts of Christmas past present and future? That's already one thing, but to have a character actually express seasonal malaise is something altogether different.

^speaking of pathetic geek stories.^

The Black Eyed Peas were pretty well-regarded in those days (pre-Fergie). I wasn't a fan exactly, but I did create an instrumental track for an acapella vocal of theirs to enter into a Sonic Foundry Acid contest circa '99. It turned out pretty well (it interpolates electric piano samples from the Lovin Spoonful's…