Or, you know, it could all be tongue in cheek.

I love Hodgman too, and I think he has a great podcast or radio show in him, but I don't think it's this one.

The big quantifier (if I may use that word incorrectly, most likely) is whether or not you wish you could live in 60s New York. If the time and place don't fascinate you I can't really imagine the show would have all that much to offer.

Of course those same adults who gave Lucy candy for Linus all gave Charlie Brown rocks.

It's probably more likely the "Big Eastern Syndicate" line is an in-joke, seeing as the Peanuts copyrights and trademarks are wholly owned by United Features Syndicate…

Shermy's an obvious choice with the Frankenstein moves, but my money is on "5", the kid with the orange shirt dancing with one of the nameless twins. He definitely set the tone for every awkwardly dancing hipster guy at every party I've even been to.

I didn't read Parables of Peanuts but I did read the Gospel According to Peanuts, which was the original bestselling book by the same author.

Schulz calls himself a secular humanist in his extensive Comics Journal interview from the late 90s. This is later in life, of course, and when he was a younger man he was a lot more religious… I think it should be kept in mind though that he's a Midwestern guy who grew up in the Great Depression, served in WW2, built…

Restaurants and even diners don't really work because a customer who eats there every night and spends hours talking to other customers and the staff comes across as depressingly sad. Bars at least have that social pub thing.

Nah, Dragnet is too goofy and square to make a serious movie out of. While I'm not sure the comedy we got was exactly the best translation to film, it would have to be relatively light.

I can review Voyager for you right now. Star Trek ship gets lost trillions of millions of miles from Earth, but luckily in this part of the galaxy just about all the aliens are more or less exactly like the aliens in our part of the galaxy, which is to say, humanoid and with cultures more often than not firmly…

I like the line but it does tread quite close to "In Rand McNally, they wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people!"

The Brits already have King Arthur, Robin Hood, Jack the Ripper and Are You Being Served. How many more myths do they need?

I miss saltydog 87, that one had a sense of humor. Maybe they'll get it right with saltydog89.

I do kind of agree with this and I had always thought there was a Manchurian Candidate-style ploy to get him into office. The whole bomb idea seemed like step backward.

I was being a humanitarian.

Sure. Old people.

I'd say it's 50% Dexter explains it with an "I found him like this", and 45% that he says "Deb, it's not what you think! We were rehearsing for a play!"

Plus Debra is very committed to her career AND she's a public figure. Wouldn't a romantic involvement with her brother, even if he's only adopted, be the kind of scandal that not only killed both of their careers, but made national, Jay-Leno-making-fun-of-them news?

Yeah… Honestly… I can buy Manchurian Candidate-style brainwashing if it's vague, because why not? But they should have left his motivations unclear.