Apparently, the people you see in the video were told that this would be for charity, not a promo for the TV show. Which I guess explains why the video now can't be accessed. Quoth David Faustino on whether he's angry about being taken advantage of: "Oh well. Live and learn. Fuck it. Let it Be."

The TV promo….
…gives me the creeps.

I had to look it up too, depsite AV Club's game attempt to tell us. The TV show involves the three dudes in the video in red sweatshirts with their names on them. Apparently, they go on a weekly quest to interview their entertainment heroes from childhood. This roster of entertainers (plus David Faustino) is…

An enjoyable inventory.
I confess that the Poison video snatched me and wrapped me up in some 1988 nostalga that I enjoyed. However, for an example of the music video example of recurring themes, I would have gone with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' video "Into the Great Wide Open", with Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway,…

"so I was even laughing at the commercials."

It wasn't just you. I noticed that, too.

My favs
Soundtracks (i.e., full-fledged songs, not scores):

On budget issues
Zack: "The Borg ship destroys a huge chunk of the Federation fleet, but we don't see the battle, and even as the Borg ship raises towards Sector 001, we don't get a true sense of the epic."

I don't buy into the theory 100%, but I think the scope of the material makes a difference, and how much the characters are explored. The TV episodes, for the most part, are space procedurals - there's a mystery to be solved or a villain to be defeated, and there is only so much space for character development. …

I've been catching up on this show on reruns on Ion Network. Man, the writers sure do cook their villains up good. James Van Der Beek as a Bible quoting dual personality wimp prodded by the voice of his dead father to gut people in their homes while he records the act through their home computers and sends it out to…

"Halfway" or schizophrenic?
I kind of find the split between serious crime drama and the light banter between the characters a little offputting. I mean, if the crimes involved weren't so graphic and serious, the blend might be better. But I just can't see real people acting like this in normal situations, even…

Much improved from the previous weeks.
Once the writers put House and Cuddy together, a check against House's boorishness and questionable ethics became compromised. It made a lot of sense to reintroduce that check in a new character.

Congrats on missing the point entirely. The Simpsons aren't known for the blatant nipple and dick jokes that were on the episode tonight. I mean, there's still a difference between this show and the McFarlane bloc, but this episode blurred that difference.

That whole sketch had sexualized jokes that I hadn't seen in any previous episodes. Not saying it's good or bad, but not the usual Simpsons fare, even for episodes like this.

They've declawed Detective Dan!
Remember when Dan Stark was a screw-up whose antics were barely tolerated on the force? Now (the last couple of weeks, at least) he's being treated as some sort of savant whose unusual methods betray a special insight that none of the other cops share. Almost like Adrian Monk with a…

Keep working those deltoids.

Dr. B: I read the tidbit you provided. That seems totally plausible that this is where the show would be going with this angle. If so, that's awesome foresight on your part.

October 17, 1989
Cute of the writers to drop that specific date, but not reveal the Earth-1 event that took place that day. I suppose we'll learn more later?

What a mess
I'll admit at laughing at the imagery of the renamed "DP", but otherwise, this was a mishmash of undercooked plots.

The same week this episode aired,
the single "Do the Bartman" was unleashed upon the world. Probably the apex, for good or bad, of the Bart-as-provocateur phase of the series.