The syndication rights could have expired in the meantime, but as recently as 2008 or 2009, Ion was running the series with original music intact (as far as I could tell).

Which, unfortunately, set the stage for the rest of the decade. "A Whole New World" beat "Friend Like Me", "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" beat "Hakuna Matata", I don't even remember any other songs in Pocahontas, but there has to be a more fun song than "Colors of the Wind". Plus ballads from Hercules, Tarzan, even…

I sure remember that Agnes of God score well!

She has 5 minutes of screentime in a 2-hour movie. Hers is the shortest winning performance in Academy history (though even shorter performances have been nominated. According to Wikipedia, Hermione Baddeley was nominated in 1959 for her performance in Room at the Top, which lasted all of 2 minutes and 19 seconds).

"Jai Ho" probably won because of the Slumdog sweep, but also because the hook is annoyingly catchy and because the accompanying dance sequence is very entertaining (more entertaining than anything that came before it in that far, far, far overrated film). But yes, "Down to Earth" was a better song from a (much)…

Those classics from the 40s and 50s is probably the reason for the first rule mentioned in the article (i.e. song has to be written specifically for the film). "Baby It's Cold Outside", for example, had been around for years and performed privately before Frank Loesser sold it to MGM, who more or less randomly stuck…

The real winner from The Little Mermaid should have been "Part of Your World". Unless the similarties between it and Little Shop's "Somewhere That's Green" were too glaring, I still can't (mysterious) fathom(s below) why it wasn't even nominated.

Watch out boy, we'll chew you up for starting yet another pun thread.

Yep, because no one who goes to church ever does anything wrong! Isn't that right, guy I used to know who was generally seen as Mr. Holy until he got busted for sleeping with a 16-year-old in the youth group even though he was in his mid-20s?

So was his performance in Love and Other Drugs. He's so awful that even the frequent sight of Gyllenhaal's ass/Hathaway's boobs (depending on which one you prefer) doesn't make up for it.

Chris O'Donnell once starred in a movie called The Bachelor. Is that close enough?

I'm weird in that I don't like referring to the cycles as "seasons", since to me, a season is all the new episodes shown over a 12-month period, which makes it sound like this toxic sludge has been infecting our airwaves since 1996 (though since 2002 isn't much better). Still…this is the 19th time they've done this. …

I know that the syndicated reruns of WKRP got butchered around 1990 when the music rights from the original run expired. Did the recent deals to get the show on DVD with the original music intact spill over into the syndicated episodes, or is Antenna TV stuck showing episodes with generic music?

My company is almost always open. While we get holidays, we hardly ever get any days around holidays, so we were open Wednesday, and we were open today. Luckily, I still have 2014 vacation days to burn, so I took both days off. Otherwise, I'd have spent a large chunk of both days really wishing the AV Club was…

My cousin was in high school when that came out. For some reason, I was in his room one day and saw a ticket stub to that on his desk. After seeing that, I lost a lot of respect for him.

I remember those! This is going on my FB page.

Forget the hoverboard. Where's my flying car? I wonder, if I wear my pockets inside out today, if anyone will get it.

A MarkInTexas Made-For-TV Christmas New Year's

I don't care how long she's been inactive. She won back-to-back acting Oscars. That deserves at least a passing mention. The Club really dropped the ball on this one—and not the one in Times Square.

I haven't lost either parent to cancer—yet—but both of them are survivors, my mom three times so. We're pretty much on edge every time she goes to the oncologist because there's no way she's going to be able to survive a fourth time. I'm really sorry for your loss.