Charlie Brown, like Ringo Starr, would ultimately rather be a good man than a great man.

Frankly, I'm more interested in the prospect of a meal in the ghostly food court of the 98% abandoned supermall that remains open and mostly vacant about an hour from my house. I recently met a girl into urban exploration, and we're gonna load up a small boom box with vaporwave and get lost in someone else's future…

And then the first musical number, by profoundly depressing folkie (and godmother of the indie sound) Janis Ian! https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I hope Odd Couple keeps hanging on. It's not brilliant by any means, but with the exception of the limp-dead-fish Matthew Perry it's a pretty top-notch collection of sitcom favorites. Thomas Lennon, Yvette Nicole Brown, Fred Willard all together? They could do "Collateral Beauty" and I'd probably still watch.

Seth MacFarlane it is.

Goodnight DOOM: now available on Windows 95 and Sega Saturn.

In a perfect world, instead of Oscar Isaac, Jeffrey Wright would have played Apocalypse.=

I had been under the impression that hot chocolate made from a powdered cocoa mix was called hot chocolate, and hot chocolate made from a solid chocolate was called abuelita or "grandma style?" Google now tells me that Abuelita is a brand of hot chocolate from melted tablets popular in Spanish-speaking areas, so I…

That's in the musical (the current licensed version, anyway). Ursula is implied to be a bastard child, or else just terribly ugly. Eighth daughter of the royal family, she killed off the other seven daughters bit by bit, only to be thwarted by her baby brother being a male heir.

Alex Timbers is a reassuring name to see attached to this. He doesn't do generic well.

Ray Wise himself in a double role!

Nice choice of Festive Holiday Pikachu (TM) icon!

Is this really so much of a renaming? It's like "Cinderella" vs. "Disney's Cinderella."

Can we get an Angelo Badalamenti soundtrack? Seems like it needs one.

This is a thing Andrew, Lord Sydmonton (the former Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber) does: he plays Svengali to young women. That Rihanna was black may make the statement sound a bit nasty, but God only knows it wasn't about that.

Pun threads are just one of the many aspects of loving the AV Club life.

The role was originally doubled with George Washington- the coolest, smoothest role in the show and the campiest, most uptight "whitey" role.

They weren't particularly concerned with wiping out all other cultures and races, or even conquering the entire world. They wanted to reign as a superior, racially pure superpower, not be "Emperor of the Universe."

DARQUEGK VERSUS CHRISTMAS: With twelve days to go including today, I'm up to H in my complete Christmas music listening spree. Today got me through my three-volume Goth Christmas set from Projekt, two albums by Beatles sound-alikes the Fab Four (a clever conceit- arranged mashups of Beatles tunes with Christmas…

Cabbage abortion treats, as my quirky Pakistani waiter described them during my cruise to the Bahamas.