Huh. I think one of girls in Black Lightning has used purple as well, but I’m not sure right now.

Not only that, BUT: Why did Agatha Harkness need to hide her name from Wanda? Wanda doesn’t know who Agatha Harkness is. We do, though.

Ron Howard has said that even back when they were making American Graffiti, Lucas’ advice on learning he was interested in directing was to go into animation so he wouldn’t have to deal with actors.

The Republicans are now complaining that the Democrats will “politicize” the hearings into the 1/6 riot. (The previous “winner” of the contest in my head was when they complained about politicizing the funeral of Coretta Scott King, MLK’s widow and of course a long-time activist in her own right. I had thought that…

Huh, MCU already did the “not really a cat thing” elsewhere. Wotta buncha hacks!  (Kidding.)

The movies are also (sometimes) careful to misdirect people who know the comics. Two prominent examples: Liz’s family structure in Homecoming (although it turns out she is “Liz Allen”, although I thought immediately after the movie that she wasn’t even really named that); and Jude Law’s character in Captain Marvel is…

Since no one’s called it out yet: Agatha’s theme is a riff on The Munsters.

[Deleted because my copy/paste went crazy in some unfixable way, and also because the point was made by someone else in the thread.]

In the meantime, I remember the minor firestorm that resulted when several top TV writers for this very site finally watched the WKRP “As God is my witness, I thought that turkeys could fly” episode and one came away with this:

I eventually discovered that the dart scene in YF is a replica of a sequence in, I think, Son of Frankenstein.

Heidi won Best And I Think Only Abs, as well.

And me, above. (Below?)

Lots of years being thrown around so I looked it up: 1951 is the year of Broadway version, and the film is 1956 -- not 1965 as the article has.

Now that I think of it, SWORD is in the very last scene of Agents of SHIELD, but I forget who’s working for them.

All those people selfishly getting murdered!

This whole idea that they’re doing one sitcom per decade is only in our heads, right? We don’t have to turn it into a whole category debate.

[”Roseanne”] was terrific (and the result of the labors of a lot more people than just her).

I mean, Green Lantern, yeah?

That title sequence (at least the music) felt like some of the 2000s Disney Channel sitcoms, too, appropriately enough.

I actually read, as life advice, that when you’re faced with an asshole like that, don’t get caught up in making a case to HR about his behavior towards women, gays, whatever: figure out what financial crime he’s committing, because they usually are doing that too. Or, in an aphorism I’m trying to get going, “it’s…