You forgot fancy underpants.

Whedon's grandfather wrote for the Dick Van Dyke Show, and his father wrote for The Electric Company — both EXTREMELY smart shows. As acutely aware of TV dialog as he must have been growing up, I think it's natural that he decided to come up with his own cadence; I don't think it's as show-offy or desperately-wanna-be…

8. She's a redhead.

"It's like you're unravelling a big cable-knit sweater that someone keeps KNITTING aaand KNITTING aaand KNITTING…"

I didn't use the D word, or even imply it was anyone's problem but my own; my comment ("You never know…") was made at least somewhat playfully, even self-deprecatingly. And I'm hardly the only commenter on this site who thought the Ghostbusters piece was one-dimensional and nasty.

IT'S OFF LIMITS!
My own PWBA memory: my little brother, who was about four or five at the time, liked to enlist whoever was handy to help him perform scenes from his favorite movies, and one of his favorites was Pee-Wee's encounter with the bikers towards the end of this. But my mother wouldn't let us say "Satan," so…

I actually thought those gaffes were intentional, and liked the effect I thought they were going for, but then someone told me that they were corrected on the DVD, and that Burton himself mentions it in the commentary. Can anyone confirm this?

I did in fact nail it, as confirmed by the above clip. (After the Ghostbusters bit a week or two ago, I swore off reading AV Club articles about my childhood favorites — and I don't care that it's "Scenic Routes" rather than "Better Late Than Never?" You never know with some of these guys.)

Not so good — I'm going from memory too, and here's what I get:

The Shop Around the Corner FTW.

No way. I'm a fan of all three generations of Elliots (though there's a marked rise in hotness in the third). And he's the exact opposite of creepy in "Groundhog Day."

It's-a me
Super Mario World may have been less sequential and structured than SMB 3, but I don't think it was any "richer," and I for one tired of it long before I'd found all the various round exits. I'll probably skip this, since I only play one or two games a year (and mostly, when I feel like a game, I just replay…

I both agree and disagree, Jesse: in the opening credits, Pedrad is prettier than Slate by several orders of magnitude. But I watched all of last night's show without recognizing Slate even once. (I get all the white guys mixed up, too, except Samberg.) I will say I'm almost sure it was Pedrad as the interpreter in…

I'm pretty sure the episode title is "There is No Normal Anymore" (which is what my paper's TV listings had). I agree that it's lame so far, but I gave up on FlashForward after two or three episodes too, and now people are telling me it's improved. I guess I'm onboard for the whole first batch.

MOster: Thanks!

I agree. No risks were taken, there were no big surprises, but injecting Taylor Swift's energy into a bunch of old bits was enough to hold my attention (more or less) for almost the full 90 minutes. I hated nothing about this episode (though I sort of missed Michaela Watkins as Barbara Walters).

Old Christine
So, is she leaving Old Christine? I checked Wikipedia and IMDb when I first heard about her new show, and I didn't find anything.

This guy's time might have been better spent on a book-length essay concerning bats, the big-bug scourge of the skies.

I caught Wrong Trousers with my brother on PBS a year or two before A Close Shave debuted. We tuned in just after it had begun, and as it was presented in a half-hour block, I imagined for a few minutes that it was a regular series, which had me assuming the Brits were gods. Around the time Gromit started laying train…

I can't believe this is the first I'm hearing about this. I think my day has been ruined.