Cashless Monopoly has been around for a decade.
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It's Mickey Rooney-approved!

It's still those same companies. No network (and generally, no local station anymore) builds its own news set.

The combination of the switchover to HDTV, availability of huge-ass monitors, and prevalence of animated graphics made everyone think they needed a new, space-age set this decade. News sets didn't even really become permanent structures in most cities until the mid-1980s. In Ron Burgundy days, they were usually just…

This is the article, although it's not 100% correct..
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How about Gary: The James Foley Story?

It's interesting how the various actors that have done Bugs over the years all seem to comport to different eras of the Bugs voice done by Mel over the decades. Joe's version was a little huskier than the others, making it closer to Mel's latter-day Bugs after smoking had taken its toll. Billy's version is closer to…

I've heard from people who worked with Ernie that he was ALWAYS like this, even when the copy was okay. You just had to let him stew a bit. That was a pretty standard closing for a session there, too. Tossing the script and saying, "What a naseous fucking piece of shit…"

When ABC did "Life on Mars," a show about a guy who gets time-traveled back to the 70s or something, they made a preview promo for it that was styled on the ABC 70s promos. They had an announcer doing a surprisingly credible imitation of Ernie. I wish I could figure out who that guy is, because I only saw the promo…

I heard a story from Jonathan "Smokey" Baer, who was the best reel-to-reel tape editor NPR ever had. One time they were doing an interview with BB King, and BB made reference to one of his songs and started singing it. Smokey wanted to crossfade that into the actual song, but BB's improvising didn't precisely match…

Either Tiny Toons or Animaniacs did a Noah's Ark sendup with Ernie as the narrator, and they threw in the line "The Loooooooove Ark." At the time, I was at a recording studio where we often had to work hard to convince clients to cough up any money at all for professional voice talent, and I remember thinking how…

He wanted the new super to be Guido Panzini.

Part of that is because Dick Clark was so busy doing other things, he could only devote something like one weekend a month to Pyramid. So on taping days he was available, they had to slam out at least 10 episodes a day. No time to fart around.

There was something amusingly sadistic about watching those celebrities who clearly could not compete. You knew they'd never be back, and yet they had to play out the week.

You would have gotten that last clue if he hadn't yelled, "Hurry!" with two seconds left.

Now that show was just cruel. Delightfully cruel.

Say the secret word, and the duck slips something in your drink.

CBS tried to avoid using RCA cameras, but when they had no choice, they made a point of stripping the medal RCA placard off the side of each one. No way you were ever going to see the RCA logo on a CBS show.

Starring Joel Hodgson as the Elysian Fields

Oh God, does this mean Jonah Ray will be singing the theme song?