I once heard one of the guys from the Tragically Hip derisively refer to all those bands collectively as "I Lady Moist".

Weird Al isn't obligated to ask the artist's permission. He merely asks their blessing as a gesture of goodwill, because he's a stand-up guy, a real mensch. And this customary request works out to be a public service, because then you get to see if the parodied artist is one too. After all, only a self-important,…

There's a sensible reason for doing this. Let's say you have successful half-hour shows at 8:00 and 9:00. You can then plug in a new show at 8:30 under the assumption that viewers will just ride out that half hour without changing the channel, due to either laziness or a comparative lack of options (since viewers are…

They've been doing the cheesy musical cues for a while. This is normal, I'm sad to say.

Akalitus is perhaps the most one-dimensional now. She used to be a ball-busting bitch with a secret heart of gold. Now she's just some wacky, not-particularly-competent old maid. She never used to make me want to turn off the television, but now seeing her is a signal that I'm about to hear the whimsical tinkling of…

The son Robert Redford doesn't want to talk about
Bill Sage actually looks much more like the son William F. Buckley Jr. wouldn't have wanted to talk about (as opposed to the illegitimate grandson Buckley literally declared dead to him in his will). The resemblance is so uncanny I kept waiting for him to threaten to…

I think she looked great too, but credit that to the director of photography and whoever did the makeup and lighting. If she hadn't been made to look like an absolute goddess — if the audience hadn't been shown the same thing Jack Black's character was seeing — the movie wouldn't have worked at all. With enough…

She could also be called a female version of James Franco, only less likable.

And Priya's also pretty good with the physical comedy, as we've seen previously. I wish they would redeem this character and keep her around to fill out the the spinoff-worthy quartet of female characters they've been establishing lately. Plus, it would give Raj more to do, as Priya's sibling rivalry with him is much…

Hey, remember when the Situation was poised to be the breakout star?
The Situation probably ought to have stuck with his original bit where he just coined catchy nicknames and neologisms instead of sowing discord and displaying an utterly loathsome personality, and maybe he wouldn't be on the outside looking in when…

The first Jersey Shore spinoff should probably be about Snooki and Toni Morrison being forced to live in a house together.

That's definitely true. Virtually every throwaway bit of dross that would have previously ended up as a b-side on a 7" or 12" single ended up being slapped onto the CD to pad out the running time to the point of tedium. Instead of a dozen tracks, you'd have 16 or 18. Or, what might have been a tight and to-the-point…

Tom Arnold vs. the domestic goddesses
My favorite Tom Arnold appearance of all time was when he was the lead guest on the Kimmel show and then moved down the couch for the subsequent interview with "Supernanny" star Jo Frost, whom Arnold proceeded to relentlessly flirt with and hit on. You could immediately see why…

I'd say the CD has certainly changed the way the track list of an album is put together, anyway. Because the typical album is no longer like a pair of matching EPs played in immediate sequence and more of a single, free-flowing entity, I think there's less importance on the last song on side 1 being a mini-closer and…

"Begin" is definitely the best place to begin
Their mutual collaborator Gary Usher is on record as saying Curt Boettcher was "light years" ahead of noted studio wizard Brian Wilson as a producer. Wilson is said to have been so intimidated by Boettcher that he deliberately avoided running into him. (This isn't that…

I was going to nominate Data and Jenna D'Sora, but Memory Alpha points out that when the Borg Queen asked when he'd last had opportunity to use his special functions, he seemed to indicate he'd been celibate since hooking up with Tasha Yar.

I'll second the dropping of the comedic musical cues. Every time the show alerts me to the fact that something whimsical is happening onscreen, it's so heavy-handed that it jolts me right out of the scene.

Whatever. Clearly, I'm one of those viewers who doesn't care about basketball that NBC had an opportunity to woo tonight.

I didn't realize until this week that the song "Poison Ivy" is about STDs.
How did I not get that? Sometimes my grasp of metaphor is distressingly shaky. This is like when I was a kid and thought the ZZ Top song "Woke Up with Wood" was literally about awaking to find lumber/firewood in one's bed.

Of course the transom was already shut. How could Ron have painted it shut? When would there have been enough time to allow it to dry? They were only there a few hours, not several days or weeks.