Probably a few factors:

I remember liking Good Sports as a kid, maybe because I was smart enough to recogonize how good the supporting cast was (Lane Smith, Brian Doyle-Murray, Paul Feig). I do think if you're going to make your show about rival sportscasters and call it Good Sports, the sports angle is what you might want to play up, not…

I ended up watching the second half of "Christmas Under Wraps" with Candice Cameron Bure and Brian Doyle-Murray (the reason I started paying attention) last night with my mom. The plot can best be described as "Doc Hollywood's Christmas Northern Exposure", but it was surprisingly not awful, and it moved surprisingly…

I agree with this. Nebraska's players seemed pretty pissed that Bo Pelini got fired, so they'd have cause to play lights out.

I love CAH (but suck at it, which I think makes me a good person), but would never, ever, in a million years, play it with anyone I share any DNA with.

A MarkInTexas Made-For-TV Christmas

I love my family, as I stated earlier, but I do consider myself lucky that I didn't realize just how dysfunctional we all were until I was an adult. Not realizing that my grandparents were racist assholes, my aunt is incredibly ditzy, my dad's cousins are all cheapskates, and that my dad's parents never really liked…

This. Sometimes my parents seem to forget that the first digit of my age is no longer a 1, and hasn't been for years. I love them (and in fact am at their house right now, wide awake despite it being 4:15—and not because I can't wait to see what Santa brought me), but it can be rather aggravating a lot of the time. …

Does Hayden Christensen cameo at the end as the young Ghost of Christmas Future?

Here lies MarkInTexas's laptop. 2009-2014. Please don't try to steal my identity with it.

It is very slight, and even after watching both, I had to check Wikipedia to remember which story was in the 1992 special and which one was in the 2002 special. I still suspect that the 1992 one came about because CBS put some pressure to get another Christmas special, and the production team did only a bit above the…

Nestor is indeed one of them. I think I posted that review on Thursday or Friday. I realized while watching it that I had seen it before, and also remembered why I had blocked it from my memory.

I know! Mustang every story have a pun thread?

I couldn't pick any of them out of a lineup, but I will admit I do enjoy their tendency to get naked at the drop of a hat (said hat being the one that—looking up—Harry is constantly wearing, I guess). More boy bands should follow their lead.

A MarkInTexas Made-For-TV Christmas
It appears my longtime laptop has gone to the great motherboard in the sky, so I apologize for the even longer-than-normal delay in the this entry. Next year, I'm either going to quit my job, or start watching and writing about next year's lineup (including quite a few entries that…

I'm rather amazed they got name actors for the last two shows.

I remember seeing an ad or two during the Simpsons marathon, so they weren't completely secretive about its existence, but they certainly didn't make a big deal out of it.

Another pun thread? I don't think I can Copland.

I've tried more than once to get into Kael, because I keep hearing about what an awesome critic she is. I've never been able to understand exactly what her appeal is. She hates everything mainstream? That's really not hard to do.

That's exactly the quote I thought of myself when I saw it listed.