There are thirty year old people walking around out there who have never known a life without Simpsons references.

And what about the subsequent decades where someone is still watching it but those seeking to be cool pretend it's been cancelled since it's either season? Does it still get press for having become good again every five years or so?

Uh, yeah, only us elves get to call each other that.

If you've got John DiMaggio, Billy West, Maurice LaMarche and Tress MacNeille doing voices, do you really need anyone else?

It won't last long. The backlash will be over by the end of lunch today. It would be even sooner but I think most of us didn't bring our lunches to work today and have to go out instead.

No, Kitchen Sink Man was DC.

If ti weren't cocaine it wouldn't have been made n the first place, so you can't place all the blame there.

The Spock/McCoy thing was more of a friendly ongoing jabbing. I wouldn't call it conflict except for every so often when it server a plot.

"Recovering"

DS9 was the first series created without Roddenberry's input. He'd always demanded that there by no conflict among the characters and that they all get along. DS9 was intentionally designed to be the opposite. Sure, by the end they'd all learned to respect and get along, even Quark to some extent, but at least it made…

LuAnn DeGroot, star of her eponymous daily newspaper comic strip. Turns out they're on their fourth replacement dog in the role of Puddles because the dog food somehow keeps ending up getting poisoned.

"The Far Side: Two birds are playing golf. One asks how the other is doing. Second says 'Fine, I've got just one bogey and four people.'"

And don't forget the biggest transgression of all, the failure to make each review of the new MST3K episodes their own separate article.

You missed the scathing expose on Luann last month?

Toss it back in the microwave for about 45 seconds, but cover it with a paper towel first. It'll be fine.

I liked Richard Cheese's cover of the Star Wars Imperial March: The imperial march!

An actual conversation I had:
Friend: "So, I was waiting in line for a table at the Vietnamese place.."
Me: "Fuck you."

I'm old enough to remember when ABC showed the original two hour pilot for Battlestar Galactica in theaters. For anyone who'd been amazed by Star Wars the previous year, Galactica was more than a let down.

Yes, this whole prequel "POPULARTHING without POPULARTHING" concept worked so well when Syfy gave us Caprica.

What about if Optimus Prime squashes you like a grape?