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If he were mostly a host/figurehead, handing off the writing and directing to younger, hungrier talent, I would give that a chance.  Since you mentioned him, it's worth noting that Burton directed an episode of the '80s Alfred Hitchcock, a remake of "The Jar."

It's true, though, you'd never catch Stevie Wonder drinking and driving.

"But that was another episode . . . of our lives."

True, but the poisoned medicine actually happened (cyanide in Tylenol, I believe); have there ever been any documented reports of pins or razor blades in apples or candy?

Oh, yeah, my main memory of Treasure is seeing a guy get bitten in the face by a snake!

"This isn't a war, it's a murder Mystery!"

My dad still smoked when I was a kid, but he would leave the house and go for a walk or stand in the yard.  When I was about seven I would ambush him and yell, "Smoking's bad for you!" whenever I saw him light up.  He eventually quit, which I'm glad for, but yeah, seven-year olds can be the worst.

I don't remember if it was DARE-related, but the most intense visitor I remember in that vein was a nurse who came to lecture my 6th grade class about drinking and driving.  She started off very neutrally asking if any of us had had alcohol, and when a few hands went up, she got each person to say where: if there were…

"You take the good . . . You take the bad . . . You take the rest and there you have . . . the Facts of—" Oh fuck!

Hey man, Charles Hamm doesn't have to get hung up on your strict binary gender constructions, man!

I do remember this; I was a regular viewer and I would have been about 10 when this episode aired.  I think I was innocent enough that the swerve from comedy to Dudley being touched at the end was very jarring, even though it was clear that something was up way before then.  The main image that stuck with me from the…

I don't think the AV Club has covered it, but the magazine Back Issue (specializing in comics of the '70s and '80s) has had some features on the Marvel mags, including some material on the many Filipino artists they employed.

Well I did like Dazzler being on the team after her book folded, but that era in general seemed kind of unfocused.

Did you read Blue Devil at all?  It was in a humorous vein, but BD lived in the HoM and Cain and Abel were frequent recurring characters!

A funny-animal book I enjoyed was Boris the Bear from Dark Horse (at first—they switched publishers at some point).  It started out as a cynical "backlash against the Ninja Turtle ripoffs" stunt—in the first issue Boris Rambo-style slaughters a whole bunch of funny animal characters (including the Turtles—he says…

That's how I remember it, too, but the downside was not every location got every title, so I had to go to three or four different drug/grocery stores, and if it was a miniseries or annual, who could say if you would find it? A rare visit to a direct-sale comics shop in a bigger city was like going to Willy Wonka's…

Anyone remember the issue with a Judge Dredd stand-in (Justice Peace, maybe?) who travels through time chasing an undead vermin-monster serial killer?  I'm pretty sure that was in Thor. I probably didn't bat an eye at how weird that was.

And the (spoiler alert!) evil android Guardian was genuinely horrifying.