I remember seeing the T.V. commercials for “Transformers: The Movie” when I was a kid, and the announcer asked, “Will this be Optimus Prime’s last fight?” (or “stand”; I can’t remember which). I thought to myself, “Of course not. It’s not like they’re going to kill him.” So imagine my surprise—and eventual grief—when…

This episode reminded me of the premise to “Big,” with adult Homer acting like a little kid. (Even Sven Gali looked like the genie from the Zoltar machine.) Then I realized that the script was written only a few years after “Big” was released, so maybe Apatow was inspired by it. I thought it was a pretty decent…

Yeah, I didn’t know “Ruby Tuesday” was a Stones song either until much later. Gibson also wrote an original song for that album, “Come Home (Wonder Years).” I think it helped that her sister produced the album. And don’t get me started on Billy Joel. The man is a god here. I own all his albums, have seen him perform…

Similar to Jesse Hassenger, my first music purchase was a John Williams score to an early ‘80s classic film, but it was for “The Empire Strikes Back.” Also similar to Jesse’s experience, I found the “Star Wars” theme song and “The Imperial March” the only songs which caught my attention since they had “hooks,” if you…

No problem. btw, T.V. Adam’s bedroom (and I’m assuming your original bedroom) looks just like my childhood bedroom, with all the movie posters. And please tell me you guys plan to do a “Batman” episode eventually (the Michael Keaton version, obviously), though it will probably have to be filmed close to the series’…

Well, if we’re being technical, “Hangin’ Tough” was released in September, 1988 (yes, I just checked Wikipedia), so if she put the box away in March, that would be 1989 at the earliest (great year, btw), and if you found it the following January, that would be 1990. If this is the real Adam Goldberg, I do love your…

Yeah, I can normally ignore anachronisms when it comes to “The Goldbergs” because of the whole “unreliable narrator” gimmick that even “HIMYM” employed, but c’mon, that Erica video was AT LEAST two years old (she had totally different hair, braces, and looked a lot younger), yet the New Kids weren’t popular until…

Yes, this episode was terrible. I understandably assumed when there was a tease to this episode of Homer yelling, “This isn’t Halloween!” on the last new show last year, the surprisingly good Christmas episode, that the tease was a joke, but imagine my shock when I read the description of last night’s episode on my…

This is my second favorite Christmas special of all time, just behind the “Peanuts” classic. I even have an animation cel from the show signed by Jim Davis. Even though I’ve seen it like 100 times, I always thought the line in “Gimme Gimme Gimme” was, “Just when you think all your presents are a total bore” (not…

This is a rare instance when I think the A.V. Club was too nice on a show’s episode. Besides not being very funny (the line “Too bad I’m just an illusion” was the only thing that made me laugh) or even consistent with their characters (unlike Homer, Marge should never have a trip-out scene), the linking of the A story…

Yeah, I think the reviewer was too harsh. This was definitely
the best episode of the new season for me. I once was tricked into downloading
a similar iPhone game, “The Simpsons’ Tapped Out,” because I love “The
Simpsons,” and the parody in the “South Park” episode of these types of games
was spot on: the rewarding you…

No mention of Ray Parker Jr. appearing in the episode and singing the "Ghostbusters" theme song? That should've at least been a stray observation, though my DVR cut off part of it.

To answer question #16, Carolyn was the name of Jim Davis’ wife at the time.

I feel as if this interview was almost written specifically for me. I think
“Garfield’s Halloween Adventure” is the greatest 24 minutes of animation ever
made. I even own two animation cels from the Emmy-winning special signed by Jim
Davis himself. As an 8-year-old in 1985, I can definitely testify that this
special was…