(obligatory link to image of comic when it was called "Steve Rogers Captain America")

When I was a boy in the '80s, my friends and I just assumed that Impossible Mission for the Commodore 64 was, in fact, an impossible mission. As a man in my 30s, I bought one of those joysticks with Commodore games installed, tried Impossible Mission and was astonished to win, also on my second try. I still have a…

(retcon happens)

Nope! It was Byron Pitts narrating the story, which was the first half of the broadcast. Turning to Hulu and transcribing:

Hey, Ducky, let me stick this 7-inch in the computer.

My biggest problem with the "Nightline" recap of his life was how they ended their big digression into his "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince" years: They played part of the video for "1999" and said, "Shortly after this hit, he returned to the name Prince." And I was like, "When do you think '1999' was released?"

This is weird to me because, on the Doris Roberts obituary, I posted a compare-and-contrast thing with her show and 3rd Rock from the Sun, and the episode of that I got to see live was the one that introduced Chyna as the girlfriend/nemesis. We were told that there was a special guest star, but we weren't told who it…

Blue jeans! They're comfortable AND a terrible pun in this situation!

As another aside, when Ray Romano addressed the audience before the filming, he picked up a copy of the script and said, “The title of this episode is…(looks at script) ’Robert Dies.’” After the mix of awws and disbelieving laughs, he laughed and said, “We’re not killing Robert. I make that joke at the start of every…

I’ve only been to the tapings of two multi-camera sitcoms: 3rd Rock from the Sun and Everybody Loves Raymond. From an actorly standpoint, here’s the big difference:

You keep telling me how talented that frog is, but every time you show him to me, he just sits there and croaks. Honestly, we're thinking about getting you psychiatric help.

I thought it was hilarious because, freaky eyes aside, everybody was so completely, idiotically oblivious to how much danger they were in. "Uh, all right, FYI, there's a large glowing crater out front, so if you go outside to smoke, watch your, uh, steparoonie!"

Watching the premiere of The Chevy Chase Show in 1993, it honestly felt to me like a favorite uncle was going to sit down and have a warm, funny, friendly hour. To me, at that age, Jay Leno was jokey, David Letterman was mischievous, and Chevy was someone I genuinely liked and even looked up to.

I wouldn't feel the need to say "Larry Hagman will always be the definitive J.R. Ewing" except there was that weird plan a decade ago to make a big-screen "Dallas" with John Travolta as J.R. — and even the reunion movies and revival series kept trying to turn John Ross into a virtual J.R.

I went looking through Usenet in hopes of finding people in 1999 who were horrified that the Wolverine role was recast about a week before shooting because filming on "Mission: Impossible II" ran long. But people seemed pretty chill about it!

Cor. Rect. Correct.

"Corporate Rock" reminds me: The first time I ever heard Richard Marx was the summer of '87, when I was in Albuquerque for a few days with my grandparents. "Don't Mean Nothing" was played by this station whose name I forget, but let's say it was called Pure Hits 103, because their version of the song started out…

Well…that was Sesame Street, but upvoted for being perfectly written. The Electric Company was:

Quick aside: The other day I misread your citation of “506-Eegah” as “976-EVIL,” and now I read all your episode titles as phone numbers. And it turns out that 502-HERCULES is a number in Shelbyville, Ky., which makes me think, “Aw, it’s not for you…it’s more of a Shelbyville idea!”

As much as I admire Vic Mizzy’s work (the music from Green Acres is perfect), I’ll always think of a magazine interview he gave in the 1990s (I think to Cinefantastique). In it, he decries the decline of TV themes, and says, “You can hum my music. You can’t hum the theme to L.A. Law.”