Especially bad in situations like in Wayne’s World where they have to replace Stairway to Heaven with a generic riff, and then the guy points to the No Stairway sign.

First, it’s worth noting that Homicide had music editors that had some really deep cut knowledge. Long before Spotify playlists, possibly even before Youtube, I remember rather painfully tracking down a website that had parsed everything episode-by-episode because I’d genuinely never come across some of the stuff they…

I don't understand why the rights owners to the songs aren't happy to have their songs streaming on shows. It's perpetual advertisement for their songs. 

The problem with music rights for older shows like this is that they almost always can’t get the rights to every single song that was on the show, so they have to start replacing those with something else. Not so bad if you don’t know the show that well, but it’s horribly distracting if you do. The recently…

There is a LOT of awesome music on Homicide — two that stick out is Peter Gabriel’s “No Self Control” and the ‘70s music on the Gas Man episode with Bruno Kirby.

It’s a mess: it basically boils down to the fact that there is no compulsory license for music to use in other media (as opposed to playing the song on the radio or in your bar, where you just cut ASCAP/BMI a check and go about your day), so the rights for “home video” releases have to be separately renegotiated each…

I suspect the difference between 30 Rock and Homicide is that by the time 30 Rock was being made tv show DVD collections were a thing. Back when they were making Homicide they probably never figured on releasing it on hundreds of VHS tapes and thus never paid for the rights to use the music in any other format than…

I’ve never understood where in the process music rights gum up the works. Like, I know Scrubs had a problem getting rights for certain songs so they just replaced them with songs they could more easily get rights to. But they weren’t playing The Beatles or Metallica, it was a bunch of famously unfamous indie bands. Is…

Please, great Santa, all I want for Christmas is a satisfying, funny, tender, awkward conclusion to Archer. It has not been a good year for series finales. (I’m mostly just thinking about the very abrupt ending of Breeders, another FX joint.)

Was Trebek any better?

This is crazy. Have you ever watched either of them? Ken’s interaction with the contestants is much better than Mayim’s. After a contestant tells a personal anecdote, Ken will respond with a witty or thoughtful comment. Mayim invariably laughs and responds “That’s great!” She’s slow to confirm answers, and can’t stop…

My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God — he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.  Albert Einstein 

I accidentally bought that Breyers “frozen dairy dessert” years ago. Never again! Now I read the packaging very carefully on ice cream and don’t even consider Breyers.

Yeah, but in this case it’s not about making it healthier but rather cheaper. With all their changes, I wonder if it even changes the caloric content in any capacity? 

Everytime they make something “healthier” by cutting salt, sugar, and fats, it ends up tasting worse. Why is everything bad for us so tasty?

Yeah, like...we’re just going to try fascism, at some point. Actual, real-deal fascism. Couple that with our utter inability to learn until *after* a crisis hits, and yeah, not great!

I keep repeating this, because I’m apparently on crazy pills, but thanks to the Electoral College, vengeful despot-wannabe Donald Trump is still only a few tens of thousands votes away in a handful of swing states from cheating his fat ass back into the White House.

Americans are FAR to lazy for a mass uprising.  The biggest coup attempt of the last 200 years was basically just incels acting like they rushed the field at a college football game.

That was still pretty dirty what they did to Julia Sawalha, and she even sent them recordings proving she sounded the same.

I guess I don’t understand what y’all are seeing, because this made me sick to my stomach at how believable it is. By this time next year, we’ll either be in the midst of an armed uprising, or preparing to inaugurate America’s first real autocrat. I know it’s comforting to pretend otherwise, but it was also comforting…