Yeah, they were a lot freer with language in those days, even for movies that were ostensibly intended to appeal to kids.

The TV-edited version of Short Circuit has a scene where Steve Guttenberg is amazed when Number Five demonstrates the ability to imagine shapes in a coffee stain. Guttenberg says "Holy cow!" to which Number Five responds, "Cow? Where see cow?" I was shocked the first time I saw the uncensored cut where he says… you…

Swingtown was a good show, and I was perhaps the only person in the world who watched every episode as it aired, but I think it's one of those where a single season was enough. After the buttoned-down housewife tried everything once, where else could they have taken it?

I used to be a much bigger fan of Kevin Smith than I am now, but I still love that show. It's probably the best thing he's ever done.

When no one was looking, Jesse Eisenberg took forty cakes. He took 40 cakes. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible.

ABC's "The Paula Poundstone Show" lasted exactly two episodes. I saw both of them, and enjoyed them. It was just her doing whatever she felt like doing on TV, and I can absolutely see why the majority of America didn't care.

The Nude Bomb used to be streaming on Netflix. After all these years of hearing how dire it was, I was surprised at how much I didn't hate it. It didn't really feel like a Get Smart movie because none of the supporting cast was present, but it was entertaining enough.

I'm always using the "That's the second biggest…" line, but no one ever gets it. They just ask "What was the first biggest?"

Has anyone seen the TV movies that followed years later? "Rescue from Gilligan's Island" was pretty solid. The castaways finally get off the island but struggle to readjust to civilization (the Professor keeps getting mobbed by college groupies!). But "The Castaways on Gilligan's Island," where they turn the island…

Well sure, he is now. But in 1981 he was a perfect Nicky Holiday.

That's really the most distinctive thing about Larsson's storytelling style: Be sure to inform the readers every single time the characters have coffee and sandwiches.

I love The Muppet Movie dearly, but to me, The Great Muppet Caper is the purest expression of what the Muppets are — the music, the comedy, the how'd-they-do-that puppet tricks, the great characters. And Charles Grodin is icing on the cake.

It's definitely not as cheery as the John Denver special or Muppet Family Christmas, but it resonates in a completely different way.

Yep, Lips has been around since the last season or two of The Muppet
Show, and he's in a few of the movies. He almost never speaks, and his
performer Steve Whitmire has explained that that's because he was never
quite sure what Lips's personality should be. In a recent interview,
performer Dave Goelz mentioned that…

I would only add that it's a great song to sing along with in one's car at the top of one's lungs.

When I first got into They Might Be Giants, John Henry was the last album I bought because I had read that it was their weakest. Now I think it might be my favorite.

I love TMBG shows, but I never loved the conga line. My friend's hat got knocked off and trampled during one of those.

Hello! It's October 27, 2013 now. How are things back in 2012?

Who knows, he might have been up for that. He was always all about using the latest technology, and he had a computer-animated Muppet on The Jim Henson Hour in 1989. I don't think he ever would have replaced the Muppets with CGI versions of themselves, but Muppet Babies and the Fraggle Rock cartoon show that he wasn't…

It really is. Where The Works gave us the basic beats of Henson's life and career, this book connects those dots. Like how The Works told us that the Muppets went from performing on local TV to doing national network variety shows… The Biography explains how that happened, which show they first appeared on, which bit…