I was about to disagree but then I realized that Valerie was indeed the biggest hit… for Mark Ronson. Winehouse was only credited as a featured artist on that song.

It's most likely because I had heard the cover long before the original, but I really love that version. Leigh Nash just has such a great voice.

"Don't You Ever" (the original version) was actually released after its cover (Britt Daniel was friends with the band and had heard the song, but they had no label and the album it was on was unreleased until after Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga came out). Spoon's version is one of their best songs, but the original isn't bad either…

Yeah, that was great. Random Roles usually is, but some interviewees are definitely more into the format than others - really willing to share anecdotes, reveal their personal feelings about some projects and people, reflect on what certain films did for their careers - and Smith was one of them. He's the man.

Yeah, the music is amazing there, probably my favorite variation on the theme (along with the sad version from Mother Simpson and the 'thriller' one from Who Shot Mr. Burns Part One).

I do like Rebecca a lot, and Alley was great in the role, but she suffered from one of the most extreme character exaggerations I've seen on a TV show. By the last season she had a nervous breakdown in seemingly every other episode. It became exhausting to watch.

I think the Cheers entry is saying when Long left, the show improved from where it was at that point, not from what it had been with her at its peak.

…isn't that one basically the only episode of the first three seasons that attempts to be character and plot-based? I'm an infrequent viewer but I've never really seen any reason to think the second incarnation of the show wasn't just an exaggerated one of the first rather than an entirely different one like people…

Having recently rewatched the season has confirmed this for me. There are still many great moments, but the seeds of everything that went wrong were firmly planted here. The Trouble with Trillions is painful.

Also, it was only around this time that Agnes Skinner was really established as a supporting character. After her first appearance in "The Crepes of Wrath", she doesn't reappear until "Sweet Seymour Skinner's…". In both epsiodes she's actually quite sweet and grandmotherly. She only starts being domineering and nasty…

Interestingly, this is only Cletus' fourth appearance, and Brandine's first. Shows how many even tertiary characters from the classic era leave a strong impression despite seldomly appearing.

It's a great introduction to the darker, more character-focused Oakley/Weinstein years. They knew exactly what they wanted the show to be and it's apparent from their very first episode.

Remember when they beat up the clown? Ha ha ha

Wow, Tobey Maguire is looking rough.

T-t-take a big bite out of crime!

And here's when their worlds collided:

lol. What a shame How To Read Donald Duck remains the most well-known scholarly approach to Barks. Sigh.

"A Christmas For Shacktown" is one of Scrooge's finest moments, no doubt. That was after Barks had firmly established him (which took a few years; the Scrooge in "Christmas on Bear Mountain" doesn't have that much to do with the later Scrooge in either appearance or behaviour), but right before he became the…

No, you're right.

That's a lot of episodes I haven't seen in years or at all, but I think I agree with the top 3, and I remember being Tis the Fifteenth Season one of the best post-classic episodes. Holidays of Future Passed, too - although it comes off a bit like glorified fanfiction, it's really sweet.