If my 49ers can't win the Super Bowl this year—and, let's face it, they probably won't—then I am going all in on the Panthers this year.

Thank you, guys! I had a really nice day, which is all anyone can ask.

That Alabama-Auburn game is the first full college football game I've watched in years. I chose well.

Because of communication weirdness between the old system (which almost all TV Club stuff is still being handled in) and the new system (which handles the front-end presentation of the site), an early draft of the article was posted. Sonia's final version should be reflected above now.

Sonia is in no way putting down something as beneath her. She's saying that the format is inherently marked by the time in which it was produced. WHICH IT IS.

We have an extensive copy desk and editorial team. The volume of content we produce is such that a few spelling errors are bound to slip through per week. But we have many editors.

In absolutely no way is anyone in this article saying anything you're alleging. "Dated" is not a value judgment. It's a simple statement of fact. A black and white film is inherently dated because it marks its production as (almost certainly) from a period before the wide availability of color films. The same goes for…

Also, this.

I honestly didn't expect anyone to be up in arms about this. They all liked the episode! A lot!

'90s was supposed to be next, but I think the editorial staff is terrified of having to work on another one. They tend to top out around 10K words, and that's a lot.

Yeah. I love a lot of the comedies of the '70s and '80s, but it always takes me about a half-season to adjust to the videotape aesthetic on those produced in that fashion. It just looks so, for lack of a better word, cheap.

Perhaps surprisingly, the TV Club writer exam doesn't contain questions about black and white films. (It also doesn't exist.)

Yes. We were joking around the office (well, around e-mail) that I was on the "Bad news for Community" beat because something big has broken the day before Thanksgiving the last two years. Not this year, though!

NewsRadio was like the one sitcom of the era I saw every episode of. I have no idea why.

That's just it, though: You never know what you're going to think until you're watching it. We ask people to offer their unvarnished, honest opinions, not to lie.

I agree we could use some more film features, but I think that will be a priority for the site as a whole in 2014.

I've done just such a thing in our "Primers" series, on '70s sitcoms, '80s sitcoms, and '80s dramas. I want to do more of them sometime, but they're bears to pull together.

I saw a complete set of the series—bootleg, of course—at ComicCon a couple of years back for $40. I was low on cash and didn't want to take the time to use a credit card (the show floor's credit card systems were dragging that day), so I figured I would come back. I never did, and I'm still kicking myself.

As mentioned numerous times in this comments section, this is in no way meant to be a scholarly approach to an episode of TV. It's meant to discuss the episode in the way friends might while hanging out around the water cooler. We have other features for a more scholarly approach.

Yeah, WKRP is definitely better than Happy Days and also never ran long enough that it got truly horrible. But I think if we're talking "YOU MUST SEE THIS TO UNDERSTAND TV HISTORY!" it's pretty far down the list.