I showed my kids a Youtube clip of him after the episode. After the brutal Romanian dictator was killed, he played the tune from "Chattanooga Choo-choo" on the piano and sang, "Pardon me boys, are you the chaps who shot Ceausescu?"

"Hey, Rosalie….Monopoly!!!!!" This was based on a true story and with that cast, I never understood why it wasn't more of a success. For some reason, Tracey Ullman is very polarizing with some people.

"Streebek, there are two things that separate us from the animals. One, we use cutlery. Two, we can control our sexual urges. Maybe you're different, but don't drag me into your private hell."

There was a role-playing game from TSR called "Top Secret." It was essentially the same routine as Dungeons and Dragons, but with modern spies shooting guns rather than medieval elves casting spells and such.

We watched those too, probably after being introduced to him on Real People. His remaining cultural presence for younger people is probably the Simpsons parody of him in "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington."

I never understood how the daughter maintained those pigtails in prehistoric times.

As a young Fort Worth reporter the day Kennedy was shot, Schieffer answered a newsroom call from an old lady looking for a ride to the Dallas police station where Oswald was being booked.

It's nice to see him mention Steven Gilborn, who played Peter Lassally in The Late Shift and was also Kevin Arnold's math teacher in a memorable Wonder Years episode.

I just erupted into sixteen and one half minutes of thunderous ovation!

On the Canadian eighties sitcom, Learning the Ropes, the voiceover explains how the show's lead (Lyle Alzado) is a high-school vice principal who moonlights as a pro wrestler. It also starred Nicole Stoffman, who played Stephanie Kaye on Degrassi Junior High.

I tried making a case for it in last week's comments and hoped it would be in this week's age bracket.

Perhaps it's an age level up, but I've always wished that PBS's Martha Speaks had gotten more attention. It's based on the series of children's books where the eponymous dog develops the ability to speak after eating alphabet soup.

I'm curious as to what substantial Bump Bailey scenes could have been cut from The Natural. Only a sliver of the film's running time occurs between Bump's introduction and his death. In his few scenes, Madsen effectively gets the point across, but it's a minor part. The film is full of character holes, but viewers…

Whaley's interaction with Brando is priceless at the beginning of the scene where the boss enters the dorm to level with Broderick. Whaley is appropriately deferential, but curious and pushy enough to try a few ways to listen in.

In his recent autobiography, Martin Short wrote about how Nicolas Cage approached him on an airplane to tell him how much he loves Clifford.

Having seen the crazy security that game shows use to avoid any possibility of a 50s-style scandal, I'm also surprised that they just threw up their hands and gave her the car without making her go through the formality of "guessing" the correct price.

According to the story, two days before the wedding Karen learned that her fiance had withheld vital personal information from her and tried to cancel the wedding. Karen's mother Agnes said that it was too late and that too much had already gone into the preparations. The wedding went on, but it got worse from…

He performed the Crystal Cathedral wedding ceremony for Karen Carpenter's short-lived marriage.

Of course, I have no idea if the number was anything close to true, and I'm not eager to get into Simmons' middle-school cafeteria table sniping about two guys he never saw play.

Like most parents who enjoy sports, when my kids were very young, I wondered if they'd enjoy them as well. Maybe they'd even be blessed with great talent for the sports they chose.