If you have some true banking nerds, you can play this hybrid version of Monopoly. Get four Monopoly board games, each from a different country so that you don't have four "Boardwalks" or the like. Arrange the boards so that all four "Advance to GO" spaces are in the center, so that the game path looks like a big…

Real Sex is still being offered on HBO's HBO Now subscription service. However, they have made one small edit to the show… the Perez Prado "Patricia" opening theme has been replaced with some godawful generic track. Meh.

What, the video-clip editors couldn't do one of these with Martin Solveig?

Rhonda gets pushed down the stairs to her (possible) death or (possible) miscarriage? Didn't I see this on an episode of Dallas / Dynasty / Melrose Place / Knots Landing / Falcon Crest / Swans Crossing / Guiding Light / Secret Storm / Passions / Another World / Soap / Fernwood 2-Night?

You're right. This was actually the first Muppets episode that proved that the relaunch of the show had a chance.

You're my soul, and my-hi boughs of holly
You're all I've got, fa la la la
Tis the season, and my-hi inspiration
Without you baby, fa la la la…
Oh, fa la la-a-a-a-a la.

Kinda wish the Righteous Brothers were on the Philles label at the time this track was recorded, it would have been fun to hear them do a five-minute version of "O Holy Night" or "Here We Come a Wassailing" with the Wall of Sound and a false ending or two.

Is John Haymes Newton available for work? And can he be replaced by Gerard Christopher again?

Next week, Tom Hanks appears on Jimmy Fallon's show and discusses his dream of appearing as Alex P. Keaton's drunk uncle on "Family Ties."

All this needed was Schroeder on a toy piano …

Truth - they could have had Popeye the Sailor in this film, but apparently there was only enough money in the budget for one Fleischer Studios animated star. That, and King Features Syndicate probably wanted a million cans of spinach for the rights to Popeye in the film.

Wait wait a second… Winnie the Pooh was a Canadian? Does that skull come with a Canadian tuxedo and a two-four of Molson?

Ah, the memories of my summers at Camp Granada. I can tell you it was very entertaining, and at least we'll have some fun when it stops raining.

Every time I see the headline "Urban Outfitters…" I automatically expect the next words to include "offensive product" or "insensitive advertising" or "blood spattered Kent State sweatshirt." Maybe they'll find a way to apply those sensitivities to deep-dish with sausage and mozzarella.

What's really interesting is that most of these original dance routines were filmed in one or two continuous takes. Try watching a Step Up movie, the dance routines are about 150 interconnected hyper-edited takes.

Network 23, Theora are you there?

Yawn. Call me when they resurrect Max Headroom.

There's that show in Storybrooke, Maine that's been around for five seasons…

Personally, I'd be happy to accept the Harlan Ellison Award for Excellence in Science Fiction writing… even if I have no mouth, and I must scream about it.

Still holding a candle in the hopes that someone will resurrect Night Flight.