Will it be affected by
the whole "singlehandedly doubling California's deficit" thing?

My only experience with Blue Bloods was this clip of the pilot in which all of the characters explain their respective backstories in about 30 seconds. That was enough for me.

Oh, I forgot about The Good Wife, which I haven't had a chance to get into, but which I 've heard good things about from respectable people.

Truly awful
How I Met Your Mother is the only one of these shows I might even consider watching, and then only in a "well, I feel like watching TV, and I guess it's the best thing on right now" kind of way. Yet isn't this supposed to be one of the more profitable networks?

If the Metal Gear games make the short list of "games as art," Roger Ebert has already won.

When I was about 11, I got my hands on a bootleg of any early Leisure Larry Game. Before you could actually play it, the game made you answer questions about 60s-era culture, presumably to prove that you were old enough to handle the "mature" content that makes the series the Brothers Karamazov of our time. Anyway, I…

Does Tom Bergeron assume the role of one of the persons in the video by talking a high-pitched voice while the clip airs, a la Bob Saget?

I'd also like to second Craig's amazement that America's Funniest Home Videos is still on. Has that been airing consistently since I was 8 years old and I was just able to ignore it until now? I had some dim understanding that it had long since been dumped on ABC Family or something.

Does that mean that the old folks also loved The Cape?

My extensive research (i.e., I read the wikipedia entry) informs me that Harry's Law started strong because its premiere episode followed The Cape. Of course, that just raises more questions.

Official "That show is still on?!" thread
I'll start.

So, racially Acura''s pretty cool?

From what I understand, the problem is that it's like Ally McBeal or Grey's Anatomy - one of those shows where a successful, professional woman is unable to function unless she can be assured that her boyfriend wuvs her very much. Except also, invisible planes. I'm picturing a lot of scenes where Wonder Woman uses her…

Chelsea Handler sitcom? Dear God no.
So she's shtupping Jack Donaghy now?

Thank God.
I'd hate to think that a confused consumer, intending to pick up "Pay it Forward" on DVD, would wind up purchasing this album by mistake.

Viral Dark Knight Rises promotion?
No. Clearly, this is to promote Jeff Dunham's comedy show. Note the irony: subtle promotion, extremely unsubtle act.

Flaubert - I remember reading (it might have been in a preface to the novel) Burgess's explanation as to why the final chapter was so important. As I recall, Burgess thought it was necessary to show that the protagonist had matured, something he viewed as a critical component to any novel. Of course, this was 10…

The last chapter of the novel.
It doesn't really make any sense. Burgess was understandably outraged that US publishers removed it, but magically changing into a decent human being in the final chapter of a book does not equal real character development.

Was this assimilation pre or post roid-rage Carrot Top?

I thought that movie was called "Box Office Poison."