P.S.  Good to see Murray back on the site.

Sorry to to thread-hijack, but seeing this feature again reminded me - we often hear of the magic 100 number being necessary for syndication in days of yore, but there are several well-known shows (most famously The Honeymooners and Star Trek, but I can also think of The Jetsons, The Addams Family, The Munsters,…

That's the way I heard it also.

My understanding is that Dunder Mifflin Scranton was originally envisioned as a much bigger company with the documentary just focusing on a select few.  I believe Creed was originally one of the supernumeraries - he appears in most (maybe even all?) Season One episodes, but I don't believe he ever spoke before the…

It's hard to kick someone out of the credits when he's still on the show.  Clearly, though, he was envisioned as a more important character than he actually became.

I would not care enough to read any such book.  But any mention of "reasons I can't disclose" does raise an eyebrow.

I was never a huge Rabin fan either, but I continue to be confused/intrigued/appalled by the constant hints that some sort of civil war or coup has occurred or is still occurring.  I guess we'll never know the full truth, unless the whole site collapses (no longer a possibility I would entirely rule out).

I believe Reagan was in the Army during World War II but had a desk job and never saw combat.  Wayne never served in any form.

Ah-ha, found it:

I have a vague memory that the plot of The Hunt is similar to/ripped off from an old Chinese or Indian folktale (although there must be some differences, since neither of those cultures believes in Heaven or Hell).

The A.V. Club will likely still be a good website, but it will never be quite the same.  Murray will be the one I miss the most, but they all had their strengths.  I just wish there could be some clarification as to whether the persistent hints of departures on bad terms and an unpleasant new direction are for real or…

Whether or not they could afford in live in Philadelphia in real life is beside the point; what matters is that it has never been advanced on the show by Pam or anyone else as a reason to stay in Scranton.  And speaking of real life, sports marketing is a real thing and I am always perplexed by the frequent comments…

I know this movie only from being one of the movies Binx goes to see in The Moviegoer, and it turns out the movie has scenes set in the very neighborhood in which the movie theater is located.  Binx concludes that this means the neighborhood is "certified" now as "Somewhere and not Anywhere."

I'm not usually one to get p.c. about old movies, but the racial politics of The Front Page are very weird by today's standards.  The killer isn't mentally incompetent (at least in the movie; I have never seen the play), he's a Sacco-and-Vanzetti type anarchist with a thick foreign accent.  So in wanting him to be…

I'm reading an early sixties novel right now (The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor) in which the protagonist (a priest no less) describes his late father's illness in flashback, and he and his father's doctor just took for granted that the father should not be told that he has six months to live.  There isn't even…

"which his wife insisted on not telling him about, even until he died."

This is one of the few truly classic Twilight Zones that I saw without being at all aware through cultural osmosis of what the twist would be.  It certainly came as a shock.  I wonder if it was less so for the original viewers who a) saw this three days before Christmas and b) still played with toys of this type. …

I got your Charlotte Simmons joke, Alphonse.

I was surprised to see a number of people above say that they found the underlying topic to be boring.  For those who do find it interesting, the American Experience documentary on the subject is very good (but unfortunately out of print - several similar docs on Amazon are likely-inferior A & E products).

In the book he does volunteer to do that at the Council of Elrond, but he was too old and feeble.  There also is an undertone that at that stage it might be dangerous to return the ring to him after he had had it for so long; he is more likely to succumb to its power than Frodo is.