God, I've still not seen "Up" yet… and even after having the expected 2-year-olds reaction to "Toy Story 3" by my little ones, I still well up a little at the expected parts at the end.  I've seen it easily a dozen times in the last few months…

Nice interview - and a marvelous clip.  As much as I'd love to have these as the actual credits, I'm still looking forward to the film.

For whatever reason I always remember "One-Eyed Cat" by Paula Fox… sometime in the late '80s.  The main character's the parson's son, his mother's ailing, and he takes the gun (BB? .22?) that he got for Christmas and mistakedly wounds the titular cat. Wracked with guilt, he tells a man on death's door what he did - a…

That's a harsh and evocative paragraph, with such telling words.  I hope that you're doing okay… and that future inventories aren't as troubling.

Although there's few things better than "Dude Watching with the Brontes," the fan-fic-tastic "Ooo Mr. Darcy" wins: http://www.harkavagrant.com…

Don't ever change, Billy.

If I recall, Gore didn't carry his own state of Tennessee in the election, either.  One critic pointed out that there'd been little Democratic action there - and that perhaps a little more would have turned the slim tide and made Florida's theft moot.

I was always partial to Lewis Carroll's "Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' as Directed by James Cameron."

What, I have to stop loving "In Rainbows" because it came out after I turned 30?  Or is it only because I heard Radiohead as a teenager - and therefore grandfathered in?

Sorry to be that guy, but it should be "cachet" rather than "cache."  A "cache" is where you hide things (or the action of hiding something), while "cachet" is the prestige added to something.

I'm trying to imagine some sort of version of "Cheers" with a table of hipsters seated near the door providing arch commentary on the cliched, "homage" (i.e., stolen) plots playing out in front of them by people who look so much like famous actors' non-union counterparts…  actually, that could have legs.  Now I'm…

It gets a lot of leeway for having the fantastic lead-off of "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"

When a key pollster question is "Which candidate would you rather have a beer with?" then is anyone surprised by cardboard cutout candidates?

You'd think that "used in a 'Shrek' film" would be enough to keep people from re-using "Hallelujah."

Until next summer, then!  It's always good to revisit these with the Classic TV fans, and I enjoy these writeups and the insights into the characters that you provide.

The "Best of" for that episode is almost entirely re-fueling jokes.  Fantastic string of fun.

He was a zombie?

"Myxomitosis," perhaps?  Or would PETA protest?

"Well, I expect that kind of language at Denny's, but not here!"

"That'll put marzipan in your pie plate, Bingo!"