*Cut to aging, underfunded O'Neal speaking at a ribbon-cuttng ceremony at a store opening*

*Cut to aging, underfunded O'Neal speaking at a ribbon-cuttng ceremony at a store opening*

I'm with you on this.  It's not awful, but it's utterly generic, whose release date is geared toward getting maximum playing time on the poolside radio and over the speakers at resort-area shopping places.

I'm with you on this.  It's not awful, but it's utterly generic, whose release date is geared toward getting maximum playing time on the poolside radio and over the speakers at resort-area shopping places.

I must say that nothing could have prepared me for the first viewing of "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo".

I must say that nothing could have prepared me for the first viewing of "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo".

I like how the sketch added the literalist theatrics to the songs (blowing wind, rolling stone).  It also made me think of an actual early Elvis TV appearance where he was forced to sing "Hound Dog" to… an actual hound dog.

I like how the sketch added the literalist theatrics to the songs (blowing wind, rolling stone).  It also made me think of an actual early Elvis TV appearance where he was forced to sing "Hound Dog" to… an actual hound dog.

Wait - there was an actual spit take sketch from SNL?  I thought that was just something Sorkin made up for his fake comedy show.

Wait - there was an actual spit take sketch from SNL?  I thought that was just something Sorkin made up for his fake comedy show.

Has he apologized for that sketch yet?

Has he apologized for that sketch yet?

To be fair to Marshall, his two 50s shows were derivative of American Graffiti, which incredibly squeezed out a nostalgia craving for a story that supposedly happened just eleven years earlier.  (Movie comes out in '73 with the story set in '62, as the poster asked the viewer to remember where they were back then.) …

To be fair to Marshall, his two 50s shows were derivative of American Graffiti, which incredibly squeezed out a nostalgia craving for a story that supposedly happened just eleven years earlier.  (Movie comes out in '73 with the story set in '62, as the poster asked the viewer to remember where they were back then.) …

This is a bad as the time I dined on ice cream with VICI the robot from Small Wonder in a crawl space on the Underground Railroad

This is a bad as the time I dined on ice cream with VICI the robot from Small Wonder in a crawl space on the Underground Railroad

In the last few episodes of this season in particular, Family Guy delivered its share of these kinds of gratuitous Jew jokes.  It's hard finding any irony in the delivery - I mean, animated TV already has one unapologetic Jew-bashing character, and that show knows both how to turn the joke on the basher, and how to…

In the last few episodes of this season in particular, Family Guy delivered its share of these kinds of gratuitous Jew jokes.  It's hard finding any irony in the delivery - I mean, animated TV already has one unapologetic Jew-bashing character, and that show knows both how to turn the joke on the basher, and how to…

I was more forgiving of this finale.  After ramming his car into Cuddy's living room, I thought there was no way the writers could wrench another ounce of good will toward House.  The plot twist tonight made a game attempt at challenging that.  For what it's worth, House's semi-noble act played the very last card that…

I was more forgiving of this finale.  After ramming his car into Cuddy's living room, I thought there was no way the writers could wrench another ounce of good will toward House.  The plot twist tonight made a game attempt at challenging that.  For what it's worth, House's semi-noble act played the very last card that…