I must admit, I felt a little Napoleon Dynamite with the Wrestlerettes routine. I am glad that the gym was not silent until the very end. That would have cheapened it.

It is actually "tighty-whities". I believe Will made a phonetic spelling error. Also, given regional accents, it oft sounds like someone is calling them "tidy-whities".

I wasn't paying attention the when page loaded and I thought #1 was Mame and I realized you were right. Lucille Ball was scary as hell in that.

@avclub-5e5e0bd5ad7c2ca72b0c5ff8b6debbba:disqus When I was a kid, you watched John Chancellor, Cronkite, or what was basically Harry Reasoner. My father revered the military. He had served. And he like rules. Cronkite said Vietnam was not winnable. My father felt journalists ought not do commentaries. 
The logic, I…

It was a lot easier to hate-watch back then. Bonnie Franklin, Suzanne Somers, and Walter Cronkite did not escape Dad's wrath either.

@avclub-1df8797177fc3b52be6784aacca7358c:disqus The episode in the cave was with Joey Lawrence, back when he had that Carol Channing haircut.

Mr. Belvedere had a pretty decent run, so I'd assume it had to be good. And I only watched Diff'rent Strokes and then the odious Silver Spoons, and I watched the train wreck called Rags to Riches.

I want to add A Family for Joe to my list.

Having watched Season Three on ITV, I can tell you without spoiling anything that it certainly tests how much you like Bates. I cannot stand a valet with a Messiah Complex, so for me, it was rough.

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Oh Lord, I can't believe I forgot about that. And that awful theme song, "Charles' in charge of my days and my nights." Just creepy.

It is hard to explain this, but my dad watched M*A*S*H and bitched and bitched about Alan Alda all the time. But every Monday, we'd watch the show. Also, again kids, this was a different time, there were three networks. So everyone watched M*A*S*H. Twenty-five million people each week.

That was an awesome pun. It was one of the first jokes I got on my own as a child and I thought that was the most hilarious thing ever. Heck, it still works for me. Matthau was great at selling one-liners like that.

Mr. Belvedere was another in a series of "creepy adoption shows" where strangers cared for kids. This happened so much in the 1980s, it is completely bizarre. Diff'rent Strokes (and who had their money on Todd Bridges for longest-lived), Webster, My Two Dads aka Your Mom's a Slut, Rags to Riches (remember that…

I thought everyone saw Stargate because Jaye Davidson was in it and the world wanted to see how that would play out.

I am with you and @avclub-093fcb36a960fb0375d1705c87cdb84f:disqus , I never got into the show. The movie, I couldn't even deal. Every football game was so life-or-death, I had tears in the corners of my eyes. Everything in that movie was so damned intense and introduced me to a world I had no idea existed. Thorton had…

Merv Griffin

My friend and I spent about an hour in the parking lot outside the cinema smoking out brains out before Revenge of the Sith. We were high as balls when it came time for the movie.

A View to a Kill is an odd duck. You have the worst Bond Girl ever in the dipsomaniacal Tanya Roberts (Britt Ekland's Dutch buffoon is a tie). And it doesn't help that it is a shameless rip-off of Goldfinger.

A View to a Kill is an odd duck. You have the worst Bond Girl ever in the dipsomaniacal Tanya Roberts (Britt Ekland's Dutch buffoon is a tie). And it doesn't help that it is a shameless rip-off of Goldfinger.

Fleming was a ham and egger when it came to meals. He loved scrambled eggs. A lot of the food descriptions in his novels came from conversations with friends who were a bit more expert in that area. Bond ate a lot of scrambled eggs in the novels. Lots and lots.