There's a season 2 episode of Murphy Brown called "Whose Garbage Is it Anyway?" all about environmentalism and recycling. I thought it may be interesting to cover an example of TV at its most self-satisfied. It's the epitome of the Social Message Episode: heavy-handed, preachy and not especially funny. (Some would say…

we don't
How do we know this item isn't the result of some selective editing after a gotcha interview with a drunken actress?

Oh, Veronica Mars…
Not since Jordan Catalano has a character's full name been used so often.

digging it
Glad you guys are revisting VMars and it'll be interesting to see a newbie's take on the show.

You both make good points. I'm sure it got very old very fast not just with reruns, but with every variety show re-using the same material and all of them on the air at the same time.

dated comedy
One of the things I find fascinating about older television is the jokes. Not the style of comedy, but the actual jokes. I've seen a couple episodes of Sonny & Cher and I have a hard time believing anyone at the time (or possibly ever) thought that those sketches were funny. It wasn't just that the jokes…

Finding out your boyfriend's parents are Redd Foxx and Pearl Bailey is a dream come true.

Great point, ajm!

Judy Garland and Michael Bennett
I would love to hear Judy's take on Sondheim. I've been obsessing over Follies lately and have been imagining her cover album of the score. What she could have done with "Broadway Baby" or "Too Many Mornings." If she had recorded "Losing My Mind," maybe no one would ever have had to…

I was thinking about Larson's death and how much it changed Broadway. Would Rent have won the Pulitzer if he had lives? Would the show have become such a long-running phenomenon? Would we still have to pretend Idina Menzel has a singing voice that's enjoyable to hear?

well done
Good work there, Noel!

"You're invading Canada tomorrow!"

Whaddya mean Jennifer was never rebellious? She did a book report on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn after it was banned by the school board! She spent the babysitting money she was saving to buy a new ten-speed on a shopping trip with her cool new friends when they cut class! She wrote a poem about a dead robin…

I've had theory for a while now
Carrie is one of the more enduring modern myths. The novel, three movies, the Broadway musical, the parody musical (S'Carrie), and now this. King's story has really reasonated among American culture almost as much as angst-ridden vampires.

I would watch a show with killer toddles
(Though if you decide to try, Brennan, Murphy, and Falchuk, I should totally be played by Jimmy Smits. I could get too close to Figgins, and then he'd have to kill me after I started killing on my own.)

I have nothing to add to the conversation, except
Well done, Koski!

"Huddy" is better than "Chuddy"
Because "Chuddy" implies the presence of CHUDs.

Babes
Open House
Party Girl
Lush Life

The actress's name is Eileen Davidson, and last I heard she was on Y&R. For some reason, I think Kristin was trying to trick someone into thinking she had a baby. She found Susan, her exact double and paid her to conceive a baby with someone's (probably stolen) sperm, so the baby would look like it was Kristin's. I…

my favorite off-hand Simpsons line
from Bart Gets an Elephant: