A fun past time for the last 2 decades has been to occasionally go through old a.t.s. archives at snpp.com and read about how damn near every single episode after Lisa's Substitute has at least one person declaring it the Beginning of the End for the show. There are people on this planet who didn't like Kamp Krusty.…

Vast, vast piles of art are done in service to commerce. The catalyst isn't as important as the result, and the result here was fucking hilarious.

By 95, I'd long since abandoned the X-books for devolving into boring post-Claremont borderline fanfic, so I scoffed and passed over Age of Apocalypse when it was on the shelves. It wasn't until nearly a decade later, while holed up during a particularly cold winter weekend, that I downloaded the whole event and…

You, Mr O'Neal, are a national treasure.

Like I said, I understand why it's there. And it's not out of character or unwarranted. It just rubs me the wrong way.

Art Spiegelman's "Murderer." at the end of Maus (book 1.)

I love that one. Similarly (and from a similar era, I believe) was "Top Ten Reasons The British Lost The Revolutionary War," which included

"You mean a mistrial?"

I love Groove Is In The Heart more than almost any song from that era, but she aquits herself well here. We all have songs, books, movies, people, etc that we dislike due to circumstance, not merit.

Still one of the great party albums of all time. Few songs before or since were as purely fun as Rhymin' & Stealin'

The world of "The American President", where backroom conniving, slander, and partisan gamesmanship are all powerless in the face of integrity, respect, and straight talk. And where the government both trusts the mandate of the American people AND acts upon that trust.

Maybe she always broke last? I haven't seen the outtakes in a while, but I remember Kahn being able to keep it together way better than anyone else on screen (and even most of the people off screen, considering how much laughter broke out every time.)

Madeline Kahn arrives at the castle in "Young Frankenstein." The outtakes alone are legendary, I can't imagine actually being there.

This song is STILL murderous.

I'm with you on the Benihana Christmas. There are some nice Jim/Pam moments in the one featured here, but it's also a prime example of Asshole Michael, a guy whose rampant selfishness and idiocy is too harsh to be palatable. There's nothing funny about his Yankee Swap bullshit, and it's far enough over the line (and…

DeVito emerging from the couch is great, but I love the earlier sight of his outline inside the couch even more. It's a throwaway moment, but the insanity of Frank thinking he could hide inside a couch just cracks me up every time I see it.

This is indeed a great album, particularly for "Up On The Housetop." The little chime-ins by the rest of the brothers are silly and a little stilted, but still have a ring of genuine fun and enthusiasm. Like the rest of the album, though, the real star was Michael. He had an ability (especially in the Jackson 5) of…

This is a bit of a cheat, since I sometimes see it lumped in on "Christmas Standards" playlists and channels, but "Accentuate the Positive" isn't really a Christmas song, though I still associate it with the holiday thanks to "L.A. Confidential."

Swank! Ten times more addictive than marijuana!

I may have to make a few fake accounts just to give this more thumbs up