It also raises a whole bunch of questions about Mirror Universe Bashir.

Your mentions of Yosemite Sam remind me…Chuck Jones made the point on at least one occasion that after years of pitting Bugs against a loud, obnoxious character incapable of doing much real harm (Yosemite Sam), it was a good idea to pit him against Sam's opposite: A quiet, polite character capable of doing…

As far as my Arkansas relatives are concerned, Burnett had the funniest bit in the TV show, too: Eunice showed up at Vint and Naomi's wedding with chili dogs, which were "all the rage in Hollywood."

I love what may have been Mike Judge's first visit with Letterman: Letterman asked him to do the Beavis and Butt-head voices, and Judge obliged, just doing each boy's laugh.
Letterman: "Well, *I* could do THAT."
Judge: "Yeah, but I did it first."

On the one hand, the film's existence inspired a pretty clever "30 Rock" joke.

I desperately wish I could find the transcript, but back in 2009, Garrett reported to Fox News after a news conference early in the Obama administration, and he said something to the effect of, "And the president finally knows my name."

Some years ago, a woman called Sean Hannity's radio show and ended on, "It's like Churchill said: If you're not conservative when you're young, you have no heart. If you're not conservative when you're old, you have no brain." And I don't know why I thought Hannity would say "That's not the quote, and Churchill never…

The two names are forever linked by the Giant Purple Snorklewacker, who touted the celebrities inside the anxiety closet:
"Maybe we could arrange for Phyllis Schlafly to jump out and grab you sometime."
Binkley: "What about Victoria Principal?"
GPS: "We're nightmares. Pipe dreams are under the bed."

OK, I was wrong: Internet says "SuperMansion" was more popular during the 2013 Adult Swim/KFC pilot contest (it was called "Ubermansion" then) but Adult Swim went with "Mr. Pickles" as a series instead — a couple of sites say the "Mr. Pickles" pilot just had more Internet buzz, or it could've just been a lot cheaper,…

It still lost a popularity contest to "Mr. Pickles," which is the kind of thing that would haunt me for the rest of my life. "Your stop-motion superhero parody starring Bryan Cranston just wasn't as well-received as the Flash-animated show about a murderous dog."

It's more clever than the Sting approach ("the song's fading out, might as well sing something off my last album").

I was in Thailand during the April 2009 protests, and my hotel's only news channels were Al Jazeera (occasional coverage of the protests, along with other international news of note) and Fox News (coverage of the Maersk Alabama hijacking, the plans for the tax day Tea Party protests and the mainstream media's refusal…

And even though it was never as popular, it's a relic of a time when Bill Cosby may have had the most widespread public support and sympathy of his life (his son Ennis was shot and killed during the production of the first season).

I wish I could remember who on this very website a couple of years back suggested David Hyde-Pierce for the voice of Mr. Peabody, which would have been wonderful.

They went with "Roc" on Tuesday afternoon, if anyone was still wondering what would go in that hour of programming.

Yeah, the unspoken part of my "the only Train song I can listen to" statement is "and also because it's catchy and not afraid to be a little silly, but in a good way, not in that overly twee 'Hey Soul Sister' way that makes me want to smash something."

I've alluded before to a for-real columnist whose work appears in for-real newspapers who's said the only reason any of this is in the news is because "the progressive media" has a vendetta against "a viable spokesman who could express common
sense solutions for the good of the black subculture," so yeah, he's still…

There was a stretch there in late 1999 when I could turn on VH-1 and pretty much always see either the "Learn to Fly" video, Train's "Meet Virginia," or the VH-1 new-artist spotlight on Train, which was almost always followed by "Meet Virginia." That made those two songs the soundtrack for a very specific time in my…

My understanding was that Winston Groom had licensed the sequel rights for what was only described as "a seven-figure sum," but the film was a harder sell after the Sept. 11 attacks, and Tom Hanks doesn't want to do it anyway. (Groom's deal for "Forrest Gump" was $350,000 plus 3 percent of the film's net profit, and…

In your defense, on the day that happened, TV and newspapers generally played down the whole "Michael Crichton died" story in favor of the "holy crap, America just elected a black president" story.