Pictures or it didn't happen. I don't think YOU'RE making this shit up, but I think someone else is.

Apparently it wasn't, at least toward the end. J. Michael Straczynski described it years back as the most insane (and not in a good way) studio he'd ever worked for up to that point; he was one of the early writers/story editors for Walker: Texas Ranger before Cannon folded, and quit after about two months.

Between Hux and Tarkin (at least), the best indicator of seniority in the Empire or First Order military regime would seem to be "Is he wearing a hat with his uniform?" If the answer's "No", he's probably the top guy.

I do think it was a deliberate counterpoint to (and set up by) Han's "I can talk my way out of anything" bit earlier - we've already seen (multiple times, if we've seen the first three movies) that he usually can't, but this time we think it just might work.

Except it bugged me that he doesn't look right (and I don't mean the arm) - he's now satin-finished instead of plated. (It hit me on the drive home - maybe Abrams really doesn't want any more shit about lens flares.)

See: Fett, Boba. It's traditional.

Probably. As a '70s kid, I remember one company that built nothing but console TVs like that (Curtis Mathes) and incessantly advertised them as "The most expensive televisions in America…and darn well worth it.")

Pocket Books published a mass-market size paperback of the Marvel ESB shortly after the initial run, and somehow the original art with the purple, white-haired Yoda got used instead of the rework. (And of course, suddenly changes to the normal green Yoda partway through the book.)

Beatrice died on the way back to her home planet.

"New York State of Mind" was actually on one of the Muppet Show LPs - I heard that version before I ever heard the original.

Or possibly with Bob Geldof.

🎶OH LORDY LORDY IT'S A GREAT TIME OUT!🎶

Maybe time to reclaim the old codeword "flamboyant"?

Kind of the same situation - MiniDiscs crashed and burned as a consumer medium in the US, but were repurposed to good effect on the professional side (MiniDisc became the radio/TV replacement for the ancient endless-loop "cart" (Fidelipac) tape format - with Sony making MiniDisc player/recorders that were EXACTLY the…

It's funny - I don't think any of the cast who left had anything bad to say about Alda himself, but almost every one of them (except Gary Burghoff) quit because of the lack of development and making Hawkeye the focus of the show.

Oh, he knew. They even reference the real hotel by name in one episode.

According to Burnett, he really was that easy to crack up, and for a while some of the crew had pools going on how far he'd last into a sketch.

Not a ban per se, but the late '80s Defenders of the Earth relieved The Phantom and Flash Gordon of their guns at the last minute (early episodes have flash-frames of holsters appearing and disappearing on their belts.)

The later Fat Alberts (when it went off CBS and into direct syndication) did a lot of darker stuff. They even did one on STDs - though it was toned down to Weird Harold getting a cold sore from kissing a girl by the time it hit production.

Space Angel (same studio as Clutch Cargo.)