People really did make that claim about The Sorrows of Young Wether, although I don't know if there is any hard evidence or just anecdotal data - most countries were not great record-keepers in those days.

I agree with "Never condemn what you have not read/watched" as a general maxim, but the synopsis sounds like a premise that could be pulled off only by a really skillful artist, which probably the writer of the show is not. I agree with those who say that "The revenge through nasty tapes" part is probably more…

Good luck.

The Cayman Islands? I thought maybe coconuts (and coconut milk?) were a major product there. I also forgot that they are one of the few remaining parts of the British Empire and not an independent country. So a bad guess all around, but one has to try.

I think you are interpreting the title over-literally (maybe on purpose as a joke?). I assume it was not a guide to the act of buying but a guide to which games were worth buying.

The role of Eric was coincidentally played by H. Jon Benjamin. (So says IMDb - I have not seen the film and have no idea whether the part was large or small. Probably small since he is pretty far down the cast list, but it could be "in order of appearance.")

Villain is not really the right word (not even at the beginning, and even less so as the show progressed).

Yeah, if anything I find 2/3 to be the sharper break, even though I believe 3 actually contains many leftovers from the truncated 2. The plots can still be outlandish today, but rarely in the direction of "Bob holds a food critic hostage" or "Gene acts like a brat on live TV." (The Linda episode from a few weeks ago…

There is also a bit of Revere, Massachusetts, which is not too far from where Bouchard grew up and used to have a real amusement park called Wonderland (and the last stop on the Blue Line is still named that).

How do The Dick Van Dyke Show or The Bob Newhart Show fit into this? They had half their time in the workplace, unlike Mad about You where I cannot even remember what either spouse did for a living, but they certainly had the husband-wife relationship as a primary theme. And of course the Barones had their cypher…

There is not really an ultra-sharp break between the first season and later seasons, and I would not write the first season off entirely, but there were definitely some gradual changes in tone that were improvements.

Yes, it seems to be always the case that the false memory is spelled in a more typical or expected way than the reality. Case in point: a few months ago I noticed that "Double Stuff Oreos" (as I had thought they were called) were really only spelled with one f. A week later I passed by the same aisle of the grocery…

That is one of the few that I find generally interesting. No one outside a Mandela Effect message board claims to have seen the (pre-actual) funeral of Mandela or the (still not real) funeral of Billy Graham, but you can find more than one James Bond fansite that casually refers to this scene with no idea that it is…

We should also give a shout-out to the other fictitious local TV clown, Chuckles.

I think those were added to the character gradually, though. The Jackie Mason episode was (I believe) the first time they ever referred to his Jewish heritage.

I don't think I ever saw that one. Maybe Comedy Central c. 2000 was smart enough to keep the especially lousy episodes buried in the vault. Fred Savage also hosted around the same time and was pretty good.

I agree that it is an overrated movie, but Bender is definitely not middle class (and actually takes your position right to Claire's face, although I guess in the end we are supposed to think they both have valid perspectives).

I remember some publicity for the third one but none for the fourth or fifth (although the presence of French Stewart in #4 does sound vaguely familiar).

Jeb Bush was a Bert for sure. And Ted Cruz even kind of looked the part.

"I'm just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh, Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood." - Eric Burdon (May 11, 1941- ) (The actual songwriters were Bennie Benjamin (not the Motown drummer), Gloria Caldwell, and Sol Marcus.)