My secret shame: I thought Joan Cusack, backbrace and all, was the sexiest thing about "Sixteen Candles."  And her turn last year in "Shameless" was priceless.  Nobody can read a line like Joan. Her sister Ann was pretty hot in the "Carbon Creek" episode of "Star Trek Enterprise." 

How come no one has mentioned Candace?  Sexually active for 68 years?  Spine looking especially straight?  And singing the male side of "Leather and Lace?"  Any show which can just toss off a minor character like that gets my vote.

This special was *the* cultural event for us kids (I was 9) in 1965.  We all loved Peanuts, which was a gigantic pop touchstone at the time, and this was the first animated Peanuts special.  We waited frantically for weeks for this to come on, and the next day it was all we talked about.  That's the thing I try to get…

You didn't mention the scariest part of Williams' version - when the Ghost of Christmas Present pulls his robe open to show Ignorance and Want, two hideous starving feral children, living in there.  Scared the shit out of me when I saw it in the original broadcast - and I was 14 at the time.

No,really - I'm not trolling.  It might just be that TOS was a major component of my youth, but I found the later Treks - TNG, DS9 and Voyager - to be cold and heartless and no fun whatsoever.  There was never any sense of wonder or joy in the later series.  The only one that has even a spark of life to it is…

I'm so old that I used to watch Star Trek in its original network run.  And TNG sucks.  There was not one moment of that dreadful crapfest that could lick Kirk's boots.  And I'm not even saying that TNG is the second best.  I stand alone, apparently, in my love for Enterprise.  Archer's beagle had more acting talent…

Call me weird, but I thought Max was kinda hot in the Mrs.Claus outfit.

I can watch the French sketches over and over, because Nasim Pedrad is so damn cute when she does her little dance.

Call me crazy, but I thought the hipster chick with the glasses was pretty hot.  Of course, you have to be cool with a name like Kate Frisbee.

Gordo Cooper's flight was May 14-15,1963.  Meanwhile, back in Ossining, Betty Draper's father died that same weekend.  I spend way too much time on timelines.