Yes, Wiest's Hannah and her Sisters role is a nice break from her put-upon moms. Though Woody Allen's conception of a what a coke-using, CBGB-attending '80s girl was had little connection to the real thing.

She took all of those correspondence courses that she used to hawk in commercials and built a lucrative empire built on medical transcription and TV repair.

Nurses was also part of that little sitcom world. There was a stunt night once where a hurricane ripped through Miami with the plot and characters crossing across all three shows.

There was a Cosby Show backdoor pilot with Tony Orlando as the head of a community center. In classic backdoor pilot style, the Huxtables were all portrayed as big parts of the center. Then it was never mentioned again.

The one thing I remember about the show is that at the end of the credits, they would have a different animal sound.

PM: Paul, it's the most abused and neglected part of your body. What is it?
PL: Well, mine may be abused, but it certainly isn't neglected.

Pete played some first base for the Royals and his father occasionally wore a team jacket on the show.

"And if you're reprehensible, all it takes is a self-serving tidbit and you'll be automatically recast as 'misunderstood.' "

That scene never fails to make me tear up. The other ones are great as well, particularly the one on the classroom when Paul Scofield finally realizes what has happened, but Mark's line in the cake scene is something that rings so true.

He did some really groundbreaking work in Diff'rent Strokes.

Also Maddie Corman, who still pops up once in a while, though not as often as her Seven Minutes in Heaven co-star, Jennifer Connelly.

Helen Lovejoy?

As Gerald said, "I'm not a Lincoln, I'm a Ford."

While everyone lauds the Cosell-Gifford-Meredith byplay, a key aspect of Monday Night Football's '70s dominance was the halftime highlights package. Beautifully produced, it was perfectly suited to Cosell's bombast, because all of the plays were exciting and the running time was only a few minutes.

"But 'Werewolves of London' is one of Larry's personal favorites."

Zevon's scowling performance of "Werewolves of London" after Larry requests it on the air to fill the leftover time at the end of the show is priceless.

From Our Guys:

A pre-Internet version of this type of story that still haunts me is the book "Our Guys" about the upper-middle suburb of Glen Ridge, NJ. After an unspeakably horrifying attack, the way the town uniformly took the side of the attackers is equally awful.

I'm not sure that you can find an episode online, but the opening credits ate up about half of the hour with numerous members of the Bochco Traveling Players.

A fairly high portion of the actual GLOW wrestlers weren't cast for their ability to perform a supplex either.