The one thing I always think of when this story comes up is the jet ski chase between The Doctor and The Master. I've always assumed that Pertwee had just bought a jet ski and told the producers to work it in. Or maybe he just wanted a jet ski, and somehow finagled a free one out of this.

I've seen Birth of a Nation at least three times now, the most recent being a few months ago. Every time I watch it, my reaction for the first half is "This is a decent, if overly sentimental, telling of the Civil War and its toll on families. It's shot and edited really well for its time. It's easy to see why it was…

On multiple bootlegs I've heard him phrase it instead as "It's death for no reason/This death for no reason/It is murder", instead of that blanket description of any death for no reason being murder. I've read before that Johnny Marr actually pointed that out to Morrissey at the time, but he went with the logically…

Even at the height of my admiration for The Smiths/Morrissey, and as a vegetarian at the time, I still didn't like this song. At first I thought it was me. Then, I realized, no, this is one of the literally just a handful of Smiths songs I don't like.

Unless the list I saw online is incorrect, Jaret and Wakefield still weren't used as much (they didn't even make the top 25), but you're right, it sure felt like it.

I find that I appreciate that particular era of SNL more and more as the years go by. At the time, it was easy to get annoyed by the overuse of Church Lady, Wayne's World, etc, but that really was a strong, unique cast. Everyone brought something different to the show.

Jost doesn't seem interested in doing anything too edgy or political. Didn't he say in an interview last year that his favorite segment was when they cut away for "Live Nudes", and we got a quick shot of nude people in a room? If that's the bar he's aiming for, then I think that's a poor use of the Update segment.…

I was about to post the same thing.

Up until Netflix lost SNL, I was working my way through (got through the end of season two), and there are numerous times when someone like Belushi, and occasionally Aykroyd, do something amazing that makes me think "This is when they breakout and become a star." But, no, next week we're back to Chevy dominating…

Jane Curtin solo isn't much better than Chevy, in my opinion, but I recall the Curtin/Aykroyd and Curtin/Murray seasons as good.

It's funny, so often in forums over the years, when someone asks what they should watch to get into Classic Who, someone always suggests picking up the Key to Time box set. Maybe because it fits the modern concept of having a season long story arc? But it's always seemed like a terrible suggestion to me, because A)…

Kroll (along with some of Stones of Blood) is the only story I really recall from this season, probably because I saw it as a kid, and they both had monsters in them. Ribos, Pirate, and Tara are blanks to me, and I just remember the final cliffhanger to Armageddon.

As someone who'd been a Morrissey fan for about five years before Vauxhall's release, I can recall also being surprised that it attracted so much attention. To this day, if I meet someone who's only a casual fan, the CD they own is Vauxhall. If they own two, the other one is Bona Drag (probably because it was sort of…

I remember growing to dread the names Pip and Jane Baker every time they turned up on an episode. I think that was the first time in my life that I'd formed that sort of reaction to someone behind the scenes.

The thing that gets me about "Piano Man" is that when I hear it today (and for someone who doesn't seek it out, I still hear it a lot), my first thought is "for a song about playing a piano, I'm mostly hearing a really obnoxious harmonica and an accordion." Shouldn't it be based around the most awesome piano playing…

I think Dana Carvey reviving Church Lady was even weirder. At least Wayne's World had two movies that still seem to be part of the culture.

Murphy hosted during season 10, after leaving during season 9.

I'm actually pretty confident that Mooney will stay. He's had plenty of airtime this year. They even managed to work him into a speaking role in that summer camp skit, in addition to his update segment, which is more than the other first timers got.

I remember at the time thinking "So, Chris Carter had an un-used script for Millennium lying around, so he just used it for this film?"

The thing I remember most about "Audrey Pauley" is that it was the second or third episode that season that spent a lot of its running time in a hospital (in this case, almost the entire episode). As others have said, it felt tired and lazy, and for me, it was literally the episode that made me give up on the show.…