"Don't bother grading it. It's an A."

My favorite "third wheel" joke is when Kevin and Paul are throwing a football around pretending to be Joe Namath and Don Maynard of the Jets. Doug asks what he can do, and Kevin says, "Uh, you're Emerson Boozer. You provide valuable blocking protection." The next shot is Kevin throwing the ball to Paul while Doug…

There was also Carla Gugino as a girl who cheated on Wayne with Kevin, and the original dream girl, Lisa Berlini, played by Kathy Wagner.

I believe he's also referenced in "Bart's Dog Gets an F" when they're watching Krusty on a talk show, saying "I'll only do your show, Joe." I think that's a reference to when the J. Giels Band topped the chart with "Centerfold" and chose to perform on Joe's show rather than bigger shows like Carson, because they used…

Though he's only in Broadway Danny Rose for a little more than a minute, the film is a tribute to the marginal performers who could only get exposure on his show prior to the Internet.

On WFMU's Seven Second Delay, he said he got a $50,000 settlement from Silverman. He and Andy Breckman were really funny together.

There was a great bit on It's Garry Shandling's Show where Rob Reiner comes over and tells Garry that he has the acting bug again, and maybe he could pop into the show like Schneider. Garry likes the idea and tells him that as a method exercise, he should start fixing and cleaning things around Garry's house.

Not yet!

My kids have grown out of it now, but when Joan Rivers died, I thought about when she played Francine's grandmother in the Yom Kippur episode.
Martha Speaks was my favorite of those PBS cartoons, are they still making new episodes?

The only other single-episode Alex girlfriend whom I'd put in the same league is Talia Balsam as the free-spirited daughter of a family friend staying with the Keatons.

"Over here I have a TV Guide that belonged to Jackie Onassis. If you look at the crossword, she thinks the name of the show is 'Mark' and Mindy."

George Costanza fantasized about her too as a female Jerry lookalike.

That's right, no Shirley. But they kept her name in the title, and if you watch the credits you see that they even kept the "Schlemiel, Schlemazel" opening, but with kids inexplicably reciting it while Laverne watches.

This final-season version of the opening credits (minus Shirley) shows what's left of the cast celebrating New Year's 1967, so the timing is correct. However, even Penny Marshall in her slightly too-long shot seems uncomfortable with what the show had become.

Is it generally accepted that the 30 Rock guest character played by Carrie Fisher is based on Beatts?

I believe in the final Laverne & Shirley episode, Carmine is leaving to be part of an experimental new musical called Hair.

The fact that Anne Beatts produced it makes you think that NBC would have had first shot, even though it was during Lorne's self-imposed SNL exile. Perhaps they had some well-founded concerns about her ability to keep everything under control.

One example of the show's dysfunction was how Amy Linker's character was shoved into a glaringly obvious fat suit. It was as if the producers decided that because they'd written a few references to it, it would be easier to have her look ridiculous than to rewrite the lines.

Fighting crime is not my cup of tea
I never saw Chief Wiggum again without thinking of that line.

I'm not sure if it was on Comedy Central or VH1 Classic (which might be the same version). They were cut haphazardly and almost always included musical guests. So the licensing did extend to the reruns. In fact, CC used to run ads for SNL reruns urging people to watch because of the music.