"Because he's MY BUTLER." [nods]

I wonder if Betty White now feels bad about sending Rue McClanahan a get-well card after her recent stroke earlier reading, "Dear Rue, I hope you hurry up and die so I can be the last Golden Girl left. NOT KIDDING!"

My theory is that Todd Bridges killed Gary Coleman for the publicity, given that he stands to get so many opportunities to make public statements and push his book in the process. I only hope that for every statement he makes to the press, every follow-up question simply asks him what he's talking about, over and over…

Nick Offerman's canoe-making video
Nick Offerman was recently on the Adam Carolla podcast (in part) to promote his new canoe-making video. The show was basically dominated by discussions of crafting furniture and installing tankless hot-water heaters, which I suppose is probably inevitable when a former contractor and…

I'd kind of like someone to recut that trailer so that when the voiceover says "But one of the crew will bid a tragic farewell," the footage of Tasha lying on the ground is replaced with the footage from "Symbiosis" (which was filmed after "Skin of Evil") in which you can see Crosby in the background, sneaking in a…

Wesley: "I'm with Starfleet — we don't do drugs!"

I think we can agree that Vincent Schiavelli was also the best thing about "Dorf on Golf".

Also, "All Good Things" features Tasha dying once again, when the past version Enterprise has a warp core breach. On top of the events of "Skin of Evil" and her off-screen execution by the Romulans after "Yesterday's Enterprise", it's clear that the girl just couldn't catch a break.

As someone currently working his way through The Wire for the first time and strenuously avoiding spoilers, I have to say that this caught me off-guard, like a sucker-punch. I'm trying to figure out if you broke any kind of Internet rule, but I think I just got unlucky. Goddamnit.

More than Isla Fisher's older sister, Marisa Heller was a dead ringer for magnificently breasted YouTube celebrity Karen "Spricket24" Alloy.

Thirty Days has September
I've always thought that "30 days has September" is a shitty mnemonic. You can plug pretty much any months into it:

1. Hunger-dunger-dang can be traced back to Gordon Lightfoot, of all people. Listen to "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and tell me that Vedder didn't lift at least part of his vocal style from that.

Forget Neutral Milk Hotel …
Of all the defunct Elephant 6 bands, the one I want back is Beulah. They just kept getting better with each album, and I'd like to have seen what was to come. At least Miles Kurosky's solo album seems to have finally come out, although at this point, I'll believe it when I hear it.

Dammit, they stole my joke. I used to have a Jewish housemate who would somehow turn any criticism of his slovenly personal habits into a long diatribe on his people's persecution. After the umpteenth time, I eventually responded, "I'm starting to wish the Holocaust had never even happened."

I really figured that they were going to wait until the very final scene of the series to have Betty suddenly lose her glasses, thus completing the transformation.

Another one that follows this pattern: Star Trek: Enterprise. The fourth and final season was hailed by the few fans still watching as a creative rebirth that finally had the theretofore-disappointing show headed in the right direction, but most of the audience had already been driven away and the writing was on the…

The best example of this may be in the salt vampire episode, where Spock runs into the room and starts yelling frantically and whaling on it with Kirk-style double axe handle blows. Contrast that with the calmer Spock of later episodes who would have merely lifted an eyebrow and nerve-pinched it.

Tasha really overacts in this one, but it's partly the fact of the script, which has her standing up to Q and delivering such expository dialogue as "But I MUST, Captain! Because I come from a WORLD where people like HIM …" etc. etc.

Geordi's yelling "OOO-WEEE!" was always jarring. Basically, any time his cahracter got excited, it seemed forced and out of character. On the other hand, it made his complete lack of success with women believable. The man was a space nerd, pure and simple. No wonder they turned him into an engineer.

I'm not saying I would go see a Weird Al biopic, but I will say that there actually is some dramatic potential in his parents' tragic deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning in 2004. (Plus, Aaron Paul has experience in parts where he has to mourn loved ones who suffocate in their sleep.)