Sesame Street's format allows it to be virtually all things and to respond to contemporary needs, so to that extent I'm persuaded that it is in many ways the perfect TV show. If there's one area in which it's consistently fallen short, though, it's the number and qualitative depiction of female muppets. The Muppet…

You're a naughty one…

I'm surprised that this first aired so long ago. I remember seeing it in the 80s. Great song and video.

I remember Cereal Girl, but yes, C is for Cookie.

A creepy addition to any living room.

Finished my first-time binge-watching of Breaking Bad, then went back and read a lot of the memes and things that were written about the show while it was on, which I had scrupulously avoided. I had managed, in fact, to avoid almost all spoilers about the show, even though I'm a Twitter user and my parents and most of…

I'm the kind of person who goes pretty nuts over pop culture artifacts in the Smithsonian and whatnot. There's a lot I'd like. The movie at the top of my Flickchart, and that I usually say is my favorite film, is Seven Samurai, so I'd take one of the vertical banners with the six circles and the triangle. I have…

I just finished binge-watching Breaking Bad, and am now going back and reading a lot of the things that have been written about it. I'm glad this article exists, but speaking for myself I don't find it a convincing defense of the problems with the clockwork structure. The tight, everything-is-a-puzzle-piece nature of…

While I agree, I think "A New Hope" would also sound insanely generic if I could see it objectively.

I want to play, but… Android…

Right, maybe my theory doesn't hold water. It's just an anecdotal theory, after all. By the same token, I don't think your observations about millennials' lack of knowledge of the past comports with what I've observed during my life, but I can't prove any trends one way or the other. We're talking in generalities,…

I don't… I no longer understand what we're talking about. Something was lost in transmission. I take responsibility.

OK, uh, ditto? We disagree with each other's anecdotal evidence, so maybe there's a lesson there.

That's an unavoidable product of responding to grammar pedants. I wouldn't call you hypocritical for over-explaining your objection to her imagined over-explanations. That would be sophistry, like objecting to self-styled tolerant people being intolerant of intolerance.

I remember a lot of problems on Napster with "Breakfast at Tiffany's" being listed as a Gin Blossoms song.

There's more than one Boys of Summer? Is Don Henley's not the original? Is there really another one?

Your psychic abilities are malfunctioning again. I follow her on Twitter and she has had occasion to respond to the kind of pretentious prescriptivism of that kind by explaining the concept of descriptivism to rude pedants. She is careful with her words, of course, in the pursuit of good writing (not mixing metaphors,…

Yes, and instead of recognizing that the salient point was not that he had missed the message of the song, but that his understandable misinterpretation illustrates perfectly that the message of the song was so completely missable and had been so badly packaged and so poorly conceived, Marah and the commentariat…

I heard he took that fellowship at the Rappington School in New Zealand.

I liked it a lot. When it was over, I felt that I could watch it again immediately, and I rarely feel that way. It's the best Disney film I've seen since sometime in the 90s, and I've seen most of them. The backlash to it has been strong, and it does have shortcomings. But it impressed most critics and most audiences,…