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I liked The Lion King but I have to admit that the rest of the movie is kind of a letdown after the opening number.

Let's Make a Deal is basically a 30-minute game show version of a shaggy dog story. But I can enjoy it now as a time capsule because, holy shit, those people really did get excited over console TVs back then.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the new female pig was literally the only character on that show that was brand-new.

Jim also tricked Frank into posing nude for a photo that was used in a sculpture of Bert that he made. Also a true story.

I thought they'd nev-ah cancel this show! Nev-ah, nev-ah, nev-ah!

Especially since that professionally gathered data is at least quasi-scientific instead of anecdotal. A write-the-advertisers strategy is like the inverse of telling the bagger at Kroger that you'll never be shopping there again because they got rid of those fish sticks you like. Both strategies are equally…

Dude, figuring out how to make money off digital viewing is like all they think about now.

*Kevin Clash eagerly awaits residual checks*

Somebody call Cab Calloway!

Fuck you, Sherman Anti-Trust Act!

McLean Stevenson on Line 1.

It's been a tough year for Peggy.

It was evident that some of those photos were added in later because the "wipe" of the replacement photos off the screen had a smooth DVE appearance, in contrast to the strobey look of the original wipes that were done optically on film.

There's a very, very brief Brandt cameo in that montage, doing one of the "Ladies and Gentlemen…" intros. In a lot of ways, Brandt's voice was more suited to the dark, cutting-edge image SNL was going for in the early years than Pardo's friendly old school style. But apparently Lorne really liked the contrast, and…

Made by the same company, too.

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The problem is that Harry Shearer left the show in the middle of the season, but because that intro was designed to look like one continuous pan, they couldn't edit him out. I think that discouraged them from doing something quite so expensive and technically elaborate again.

When I begin a sentence with "If you want to get super-geeky about this…" on The A.V. Club, you can safely assume I'm saying it rhetorically.

The lead singer of Reunion, Joey Levine, went on to make a living writing commercial jingles. And he sung a lot of them, too. If you heard a jingle in the 80s with a "wacky" male voice, it was probably Joey.
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