when Hollywood suddenly lost the Kommie Soviets as the all-American Evil Villain, they tried often to villainize Drug Kingpins … but by that time the TV and movie audience had become willing enthusiastic consumers of this new Evil Villain, so the ambiguity of an Evil Villain whom you pay big bucks to regularly and get…

Marge Simpson's sisters both loved MacGuyver, and when each show was over, would smoke a cigarette. Sideshow Bob tried to murder them by turning on the gas so the apartment would blow up from their post-MacGuyver cigarette.

nice critique of as much of this Misbegotten Mess as I could stand. Clearly this industry employs actuaries to compute how many of the original show's audience have achieved Death or Alzheimers. If 85+ percent of the original fans are dead or can't remember, you got yourself a Hot New Creative Series. Waste not, want…