(listening to this song for the first time)

I find it refreshing that Lisa still sounds exactly like she did 22 seasons ago. Homer is hoarse, Marge is strained and high-pitched, and Skinner is nasal and awkward, but Lisa is still Lisa.

More low budget reality hell
The only shows about ghosts and the supernatural worth watching had Leonard Nimoy or Robert Stack standing in abandoned warehouses and narrating over spooky synth music. How many shows with terrible production values where some random dude with night vision goggles pretends to get spooked…

Is this better?

Chris Elliot
is a genius as using cheesy songs in weird comedy montages.

Really, that was the Eagles? I can't believe they performed something that wasn't utterly formulaic. Their fans probably hate it.

My take on Generations
Stupid but fun. Like a high-quality wish fulfillment fanfic (Kirk and Picard together = nerd boner). The boat scene is cute. The scene with Data and his kitty is stupid and cute. A lot of stupid cute fun for casual fans like myself, but not the classic serious Wrath of Khan quality film the TNG…

Kramer, have I ever told you about my mother?
One good but flawed episode and one classic.

I like the Conway Twitty gags
And I had a guilty laugh at the "Dancing in the Street" video, but it was only because this episode was so awful that anything that would break the monotony was welcome.

The capsule for "And Maggie Makes Three" is one of the most depressing things I've ever read. I don't think I want to live in a world with people that stupid.

Sexy Banjo Man approves
The What Up with That sketches usually "walk a thin line" between funny and annoying, but this one was pretty okay. I'm a fan of the Lindsey Buckingham running gag, so I thought this was an okay payoff. Holiday Road. But seriously.

"I also liked the return to the old control room (even if I'm not quite clear how it still exists)"
It's been established that the TARDIS can be programmed to allow its front doors to open on any room (like in Day of the Moon when it opens on the pool room to catch River's fall), and there are a number of control…

"In what is perhaps the most demanded cancellation in the network's history"
What about the show about the white dj who works at an all-black radio station? Or the one with the wisecracking nun? For every Night Court and Quantum Leap the network produces, they drop a few steaming turds along the way as well.

Eddie, it must be a regional thing. In the South, homosexuality isn't so much outwardly frowned upon as it just isn't talked about, at least in the town I grew up in. There are large gaps in my cultural knowledge to this day because of that. Christ, I went to a high school where the English class had no syllabus, and…

Re: gay rights history…The thing is, all schools teach about the Civil War and the struggle of blacks for equal rights, and it is (rightfully) considered a quintessential part of the American story. Gay rights, right or wrong, is considered kind of a footnote and is glossed over in academics, at least at the public…

*sigh* I was simply trying to explain that I initially thought something was funny because I misinterpreted its meaning, and then learned something in the process. PBS had a reputation in the 90's for airing documentaries about the Civil War, Stonewall Jackson was a Confederate general, and I hadn't heard of the…

I'm not going to be able to sleep if those are in the house!
Two pretty good episodes. Not season 5 good, but plenty of laughs from these two.

Far from a "jump the shark" moment
But it's clear the show has it a slump at this point. "The Chaperone" isn't terrible, but it's not classic Seinfeld by a long shot. Andy Ackerman took a few episodes to hit his stride as director, and it shows in the lack of "Seinfeldian" touches in these first couple of episodes -…

Surely we can all agree that Elaine only gets hotter as the series progresses. Meow… (a reference to the Raquel Welch episode)

completism
For years I've been a completist of certain artists who insist on hiding great songs on compilations and obscure ep's (Beck and Guided by Voices are the worst/best at this). If I really love a band, I try to get my hands/ears on everything, from buying the albums to finding the rarities via file sharing…