Barnfather was a politician. I thought that was the point. He was a spokesmodel.

Homicide is a great show for trivia and study. You've got a year of police work, a brilliant book, top-notch creators, a cast with an interesting past and an interesting future, and with a million show biz stories to tell, movie actors and comics and newcomers doing TV, studio interference, location shooting, famous…

Murder Police
Clark Johnson's monolog about being "murder police" is his finest acting moment and one of my favorite moments in 50 years of TV watching.

I took the call!
I read the book before I saw the show. This was definitely sacrosanct.

Don't judge him.
He slept on an old dog bed stuffed with wigs! He watched a prostitute stab a clown! His basketball hoop was a rib cage - a rib cage!

Henderson!
The cry rings out…

The doctor was killing me. "You're a cynical asshole." Spit take!

West Wing really was the weekly cure for GWB. This, despite the fact that the Bartlet administration lied, and bombed some countries, and had sex scandals, and used dirty tricks, and massaged the media, and straight-up assassinated a dude. I think it may have opened a lot of liberal eyes to the hard, cruel reality…

Feelin' Squatchy
Hello, Bigfoot
Whatcha knowin'?

The only thing that truly defines this era's fashion is goatees.

McMillan and Wife! Since Mac and Sally were supposed to be so hip and cool, it makes it all the funnier that Mac dresses like Herb Tarlek.

The Vasquez Rock of Memphis
Every damn movie that shoots here uses the Arcade as a location. So imaginative!

No tours at Ardent.
Stax is a museum.
Sun gives tours by day, records at night.
The Taliesyn Ballroom where the Sex Pistols played is now a Taco Bell.
The Overton Park Shell is still a concert venue.

Davey the Fat Boy
You've got to let this fat boy in your life!

Not Enough Titles
Cheese like this needs two titles to work. Things like 'Dawn: Portrait of Teenage Runaway' or 'Crimes of Passion: She Woke Pregnant'.

Sally Menke
I can only hope that Tarantinos's movies are half as good now that she's gone.

Part 2 is easily skippable and kind of unpleasant to watch. Part 3 is great fun and well worth watching. Plus or minus how much you like Mary Steenburgen.

The make-up turned James Dean into Dean Stockwell!

"This isn't because I'm a lesbian, is it?"

Shoe-Leather Scenes
I caught an episode of The Streets of San Francisco the other day. The two detectives are in the squad room. They decide to go question a suspect.
Cut to: The detectives walk down the station house steps.
Cut to: They get in the car.
Cut to: The car drives off.
Cut to: Commercial
Cut to: The car…