The office hour is an obsolete institution. E-mail killed it, but the zombie corpse lives on.

Yet it was actually popular among those of us who were children in 1988. There were some episodes that were heavy-handed (e.g., school walkout to sing "Give Peace a Chance" - that one provoked snorts of derision from my father, who is pre-Boomer and was himself already a teacher in 1968, so he was looking at it from…

And the Apollo 13 crisis really did happen at tax time! In the movie, and apparently real life, Swigert never did his taxes before being promoted from the backup crew and had to get an extension. On the other hand, I vaguely remember an Apollo 8 episode that was set nowhere near Christmas.

Are you sure you're not thinking of a different show? Paul did lose his virginity at a quite young age. And the Kevin-Winnie relationship was deliberately ambiguous. I remember a TV Guide (or Mexican non-union equivalent) article in which the producers were quoted as saying that, unlike Doogie Howser (maybe you're…

Did Dwight rip off the face of a dummy and put it over his own face, or was that just a nightmare that I had?

Read the list someone provided above (or below) - lots of golf tournaments, news programs, and premieres of shows that utterly failed.

It surprises me how many of those are premieres of shows that are completely forgotten. What was MacGruder and Loud? Or Extreme?

Already fixed! (Not by me, but someone did it.)

Was it ever really "critically acclaimed?" I agree with the rest.

The worst part is that as far as I can tell (and based on what I have heard before), that TV Guide article only insinuated drug use among the writers/crew, not among the young cast. The ravings of Gerald Casale seem to be the only source for orgies or drug use among the teenagers, so that was really questionable.

For "back room" read "restroom" and for " a few minutes" read "ninety seconds."

Actually, the more that comes out, the more innocent they seem. At first I assumed they were probably guilty - no longer.

I believe you're thinking of an event that actually occurred in the early 1980s.

True, true.

I don't think Logan's surname was ever actually mentioned in the episode. Maybe they feared that people who hadn't heard the original "Logan Barry Bush" joke would think it was some kind of attempt at dated political humor. (And by dated, I mean, do you realize George W. Bush has been out of office for six years?…

Actually, I think a lot of players (black and white) have illegitimate children that fly under the radar. Only occasionally does it seem to become a big deal.

I still think that the Disqus user of this name is a different person from the original and possibly meant as a parody of the original. His posts were once eccentric but internally coherent, and then around the time of the change to Disqus they became pure babble.

Was Harry Shearer in this episode? Wikipedia says he didn't quit until January, but unless he was in the lost half-hour, he didn't seem to be anywhere in sight. (Not even during the good nights, unlike Louis-Dreyfus.)

I have not seen the movie yet, but it does seem very much like Oscar bait (even if apparently unsuccessful in that respect).

Are you the George Eliot of the A.V. Club, or were you an unusually open-minded young boy?