That is a damn funny episode. Just thinking about the final scene makes me chuckle.

I would call the best siitcom ever (or at least Top 5) if only because of the way it handles the sad/dramatic moments. Many shows are funny. Some are touching. But it's damn hard to be both. (Parks and Rec is, and I think that is probably the closest thing to MTM on TV today.)

The third year is a big step-up in quality, the first truly great season. It only gets better from there (though it kind of levels off in Season 7). That is the season I would recommend new viewers start with (though they might want to watch the pilot.)

One thing about this episode is it gets funnier on a rewatch, because you start giggling at all the ridiculous character names.

The amount of cover albums on the list is impressive. I wonder if the music business is going the way of the film and TV business has been going — mostly giving up on new concepts, and increasingly just pumping out remakes and retreads and re-imaginings (God, I hate that word) of the old tried-and-true.

Oh God. I assume you are being sarcastic here, but Bad News Bears is,
dare I say it, a great film, one of my favorites, and has a lot more subtlety and nuance than, say, Parks and Recreation (and I enjoy P and R). AV Clubbers could do a lot worse than watching Bad News Bears tonight. Trust me.

Just watched it (it's on Hulu.) Don't remember watching it the first time, but it was damn funny.

I have a different take than many of my fellow older posters on this board. Just about everyone who grew up with WKRP loves the damn show, and in particular this episode. But really I'm not that interested in hearing a bunch of over 30 and 40 year olds telling me how cool WKRP was. We all know that. To me it's more…

I guess the point is, people "buy" Hamsterdam (I know I did, I barely thought twice about it), but didn't buy the serial killer storyline. And that's because one was done better and better imagined. So if a drama is got many of its viewers saying, "Hold it, this doesn't make a sense," that is a failure on its part. It…

That made no sense. By the way, even if the Mayor had agreed to it, it wouldn't make sense either.

Not that funny, not that interesting, and the characters even seemed a little less likable, which has always been this show's strong suit.

I think the final resolution is that they all end up dead eventually (like all people do), and then hang out together, only they didn't realize they were dead, and kept having adventures.

Let's not forget that Vince Gilligan openly declared that some of the mysteries - like Gus' past - would never be answered. That's different from Lost, which not only teased the end of its mysteries (remember those promos: "The time for mysteries is over") but arguably built its show on them.  (And kept adding new…

When radio shrinks were a big thing, and they were for a bit, they had high ratings, and I'm sure people doing them made a fine living. They are mostly wiped out now in favor of political talk. See Dr. Joy Browne, Dr. Judy, Dr. Laura (though she not a real shrink), etc.

Those speeches were written by future New York Times columnist and language expert William Safire. Who was a big deal, back in the day.

That's a fair point. Obviously i meant his family home, but at the end he did die at home.

I didn't notice this, but the "new glasses" is a cool symbol, too.

I really hope that people don't watch that and think you can get let off of a pattern of criminality just by offering information about where someone is buried.

Some likely symbols I noticed:

Ted Baxter occurred to me too. While he was a commentary on shallow newsmen, his incompetence was also realized by the viewers, who perpetually kept WJM in last place.