Exactly. No one every said he didn't use the word billions a lot (when talking about the history of the universe it's a hard word to avoid) just that he didn't use the 3-word phrase, "billions and billions." That phrase came from all the imitations that followed (mostly famously Johnny Carson.)

Yeah. No matter how hard you try, you're still trapped in a celebrity interview show format, and after 20 years you can hardly re-invent yourself. (I think many fans of the original Late Night with David Letterman got bored with the show for similar reasons, long before he moved to CBS.)

Wait. People used to buy music??!!

I don't get the "fallen fortunes" thing from Smith. By his own admission, he wasn't very ambitious, and he's pretty much coasted along, generally doing what he's wanted to do.

It was 1999 after all. Such a simpler time. And yeah, Janeane Garofalo once had enough presence in show biz that jokes about her actually had currency. A simpler time, indeed.

I loved it when MadTV took the piss out of Maher back in his Politically Incorrect days.

I'm waiting for the return of Crazy myself. They didn't care whose toes they stepped on.

This is the Valerie Harper/Marmaduke controversy all over again.

In other news, Julie Delpy just never got Hagar the Horrible

Very very early on Garfield was a fat, ugly cat, and he was supposed to be mean. It wasn't the greatest thing in the world, but the strip did have a modest curmudgeon-ish bite for a short time.

Now this is a bit unfair. James Garfield was assassinated before he could get any of his policies achieved.

On the opposite end of the spectrum is Tatum O'Neal copping the supporting Oscar for Paper Moon despite being in practically every frame of the film.

There's also a great moment towards the end where Morant is offered a chance to escape (some of the guards were sympathetic, he was told). He declines the offer thusly:

They bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash.

All hail Duke! Duke is life!

I love this show but I'm finding it kind of jarring right now since our heroes are all very classy people who do the right thing and care about their community and would never engage in brutality.

He immediately fit in so well with the M*A*S*H cast you wished he was a new recurring character. Made his crack-up all the more devastating.

Turn in your gun and your badge. (We'll have them cleaned and you'll get them back in 7-10 business days.)

I'm not looking for a shot for shot remake, but that a big concern is the idea that scarier CGI ghosts (and more of them) is fixing a flaw of some kind, when it was the characters and their interplay that made the film work. And it was a generally family friendly film; there were some good scares for the kids, but…

She did. You wanna see a creepy 80's music video?