I know it's too short, but it's hilarious: the "What's that blue thing doing here?" segment of "Fingertips." What's so sacred about the number 25?

She's recorded a lot of original songs over the years. The one that sticks with me is "Secret Gardens" from the early 1970s.

Since when did "slash" fiction become synonymous with any type of fan fiction, as apparently it has? The origin of the term was "K/S," which denoted a very specific type of Star Trek fan fiction.

Yes, I know. That's why I wrote "would have looked like". Jeez. I was aware of Tuckers before Tucker.

Very early in Philip K. Dick's Time Out of Joint - of which a movie will probably never be made because the basic idea was ripped off for The Truman Show - the main character Ragle's 11-year-old nephew sees a new Tucker drive by. The "present day" of the town is the year the novel was written (1958-59) by all other…

It used to be that he only sang during the parody commercials (before real sponsorship announcements started to intrude) - Powdermilk Biscuits, Bertha's Kitty Boutique, etc. - plus the old opening tune "Hello Love," which was much shorter than the current one. Not until the show went off the air in the mid-1980s and…

It's easy; just give in to reality:
Star Trek: A Man Called "Khan"
Star Trek: Triumphs of a Man Called "Khan"

This reminded me of what Groucho Marx did once during the war: On impulse, while on a USO tour, he answered a ringing telephone in a general's office, using a switchboard operator's falsetto yodel: "World War Two-oo!"

I'm not going to put it online, but a full score CD does exist, much better than the LP-length original soundtrack. It's a FILM SCORE MONTHLY release (as mentioned above/below) and well worth it.

Unfortunately his wife Estelle already did die, but you wouldn't know it from this piece.

With respect to Geena Davis: Hero was not underrated. It was an unfunny satire with poorly drawn (and even poorly named) characters. Didn't hurt Dustin Hoffman's career but probably hurt hers and Andy Garcia's.

Turn (subtitled Washington's Spies this year, which is the title of the book it's based on) is shot near Richmond, VA - it's 2 hours south of DC, so I don't think I'd call it a "DC-set" show.

Well, yeah - "Toot Uncommons," as in "uncommon quantities of toot."

I like the idea of Harlan being in charge of his own TV series, but he was only 30 when The Outer Limits was produced.

Note that the play The Heidi Chronicles divides its scenes by specific pop tunes from the different eras of Heidi's life, starting with "It's In His Kiss" as the transition music from lecturer Heidi to very-young-adult Heidi. I don't have the program from 1990 in front of me (with Christine Lahti as Heidi*), but there…

The one I remember from childhood was Mr. Terrific:

Missing a comma there, aren't you?

Well, it was explicitly stated that there were currently two front-runners, neither of whom would want the other as a running mate. Clearly that's a scenario that has nothing to do with the current real-world situation, just as the show has always excluded the real governor of Illinois, state's attorney, et al.

It's got so much more impact than the version of "Easy to be Hard" on the (very enjoyable) Hair Broadway cast album. The latter version is a female solo vocal and ends on a major chord, of all things.

Actually not too far-fetched: The Death Star is really just a spherical (rather than windsock-shaped) Doomsday Machine, only with a commander instead of self-guided. Any commander of such a vessel (Vader or someone equally evil) could have worked as a Trek movie villain if Star Wars had never been dreamed up by Mr.…