Yeah. I remember learning about it in school, but it was the principal announcing it. I remember watching the first ever shuttle launch in class, but the time of Challenger tragedy, shuttles launches were far too routine to get out of normal class activities for.

Whenever the attempted assassination of Reagan comes up, my mother alway likes to bring up that she saw it happen live, event though it wasn't broadcast live. She even spins it out as a vivid story of the soap she was watching, and how it was interrupted to show Reagan getting out of his car and going into a the hotel.

I came in mid-episode, so muted it, with the TV at the edge of my field of vision, just outside of the rim of the covered by my glasses. I couldn't see what was happening, but had just enough awareness to pick up when the closing credits rolled.

I don't really buy that Rick's entire motivation is Szechuan sauce. And I do think he genuinely does care about his family. It's just not something he is comfortable with. Having saved his family, he now needs to re-establish his comfortable persona as an amoral monster.

I commend you on not only finding the most difficult episode to begin with so far, but also actually enjoying it. This really is an amazing show.

It was a bit much. I don't think they needed that level of cliffhanger to lure people back.

As someone who grew up in the '70s and '80s, the perfect comparison would be Peanuts. I knew it used to be something special, but it was mostly just the shit on mugs at Hallmark for me.

The problem with that is that The Simpsons was more than a good joke machine. Even it you compressed it down to the good jokes, it will still fall short of when it was on its game.

That's the clarity and honesty that i expect of you, fact robot.

I wonder if they idea is that the androgynous women's appearance will stay in the sweet spot for tween attraction longer than males will, saving on training costs.

I remember those little doors, but I lived in a new suburban house that didn't have them, even though milk delivery was still a thing.

Even before she came out, her character was pointedly uninterested in romantic entanglements with men.

We still had milk delivered in Australia on the mid-70s, so I remember the empties being set out for pick-up.

Sure. That's a valid opinion. Just pointing out that it's standard length for premium cable.

If you are talking about the TV version, i really like the actor, but I feel the writers just let him down a lot. I'm still early in Season Two, so maybe he gets more interesting. I just feel he tends to get stuck being the "incredulous reaction" guy most of the time. He is very good at doing that, and it is…

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I haven't watched Ellen since it first aired, but "great, humble little sitcom" is how I remember it. It was never anything I talked about the next day, but is was solid comfort TV. Of course, that meant it was completely the wrong kind of show for Very Special Episodes, I'm glad Ellen came out as I think it was an…

That stunned me as well. I mean, Albert Rosenfeld is a great choice for the list, but that one comment was odd. For one thing, Albert is a funny character in a very Lynchian way. I am imposing my own personal viewpoint here, but being the kind of person that finds Albert funny strongly suggests you are the kind of…

After watching The WIre, it's really hard to watch action movies with cop heroes who buck the system to get results without thinking of what an insufferable ass most of these people would be to work with.

I have to admit I never finished Deadwood. I was really enjoying this show about Ian McShane being a complete evil bastard, and then somewhere along the line, the writers seemed to have lost their nerve and made him go soft. I just lost interest in the show at that point.