Cobra Commander shot Hawk in the back, not Duke.
 I'll add my vote in for G.I. Joe, too. In 1983 they had the end of a story that lasted about 10 issues, and ended with the death of four original comic characters including the still-awesome death of Kwinn. Incidentally, Hasbro just this year released a Kwinn action…

A favorite throwaway Simpsons gag: The King Kong segment of Treehouse of Horror shows a 1930s newspaper including the headline, "Dick Cavett Born," accompanied by a photo of him as an adult.

There's rap that "bleakly existential"? I gotta hear this.

No, that wasn't the right move. It was understandable for him to do it but it's because he was hurting and he was just thinking, "@#$% it, who cares?" It was not a great move on his part. Break up with her when she isn't trapped with you for an hour!

I remember that scene thanks to reruns while I was watching Michael's last episode and wondered if Jim was going to tell Michael that casual bit of advice made all the difference. Seriously, Jim seemed resigned and depressed at that point and perked up when he heard that. Didn't mean much to Michael, but it was kind…

I'll add my name to the list of people calling that bullshit. I don't know this lady either, but she sounds like a pretentious windbag. The show isn't about the crap she's talking about. The show isn't aimed at "emo" people, and the two rivals for Pam's affection aren't either.

I sort of liked Jimmy Fallon at first, and I still think the show has some funny stuff. But lately, I've begin to notice how phony he can be. He is the biggest fan of every band and every actor on the show. He apparently listens to all their music and watches every single television show there is. He's enjoying…

Because the whole show is about how, for some people, your friends can be your family at a certain point in your life. And when Thanksgiving first comes around on the show, they either can't or don't go home to their real family.

That's really something that happens with most long-running sitcoms. The more subtle characters little quirks become one single LOUD personality trait.

OK, given her birth date, he would've been 40 years old when she was born. So, I'm off a bit, but he also probably could've been a very young father to Aykroyd, etc.

Probably busy playing another version of that bald villainous guy in this episode.

Given the suggestion that Buck Henry was kind of a father figure to the "kids" of SNL, it's funny that he played Tina Fey's father on 30 Rock. Granted, he's nearly old enough to be her grandfather. But still.

Phil, I can forgive going on for an entire paragraph about an incident from completely different episode — I guess it's a way to explain Henry's contributions to the show — but you can't stand the Blues Brothers? Such a key part of this SNL era, and it's legendary status? Hell, they gave us the only good Saturday…

Jews aren't funny? Wow. I'm not really surprised by that kind of prejudice, but even years back that notion is crazy. I know they changed their names, but the Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges were all Jewish. C'mon, people.

I was kind of surprised that the Beethoven sketches were barely mentioned here. I remember them being a big part of the various "Best of" shows that aired through the '80s, and are one of the things I remember well about that SNL era because of it.

The opening of the show was interesting, with the return of the Planet Express uniforms presumably because the prisoner exchange was a formal occasion. Leela asking for some prisoner-ogling was funny, too.

Arrrooooo!!!

And I believe people reacted negatively to the fact that Dukakis wasn't angry and disgusted by the question.

Personally, I think the stapler gag is actually funnier in the American version, because Gareth says "jelly" while Dwight says "Jell-O". The word Jell-O is funnier.

I looked at the pilot again recently, and Fischer and Kraszinski did so well with these roles, especially early on. It's easy to forget after seeing them turned into more typical leads in recent seasons. But you really rooted for them from the beginning. As a big manly man, I had to admit that I was embarrassingly…