I’m going to say “NBC streaming rights”, which is close to just shrugging my shoulders but I think it’s correct.  That is, NBC has sold, to broadcasters in other countries, the right to broadcast the show, but with the stipulation that no other outlet in that country be allowed to stream the show.

There’s a reason this season’s subtitle is “Frenemies”.

That explains why she took the part, but doesn’t explain why they offered it to her.

I think the motivating idea was “he can’t wear a cross, so what’s the opposite? a Star of David!” which unfortunately suggests that Jews are bloodsuckers.

Extra brands-on-shelves fact: in every supermarket in America, without exception (ok, as far as I know, but...), the Oreos will be at one end of the cookie aisle or the other; never in the middle surrounded by others. It’s a prominent spot and they pay for it.

“He was, like, ‘Oh, man, where’d you get that?’ So it worked.”

AV Club makes money?

• March 2, 2023: the north and south poles reverse, which “brings the continents back together.”

Seriously, they need maybe 5 of them per day, and it looks like they’ve outsourced it to some script that tries to guess the right data feed by machine learning.  Just type out the names yourselves, for God’s sake.

I would agree more if I had not muttered “It’s an AP English class” halfway through the setup.

I would agree more if I had not muttered “It’s an AP English class” halfway through the setup.

We needed a few more shots of his club foot to really understand it, so I’m still confused.

That’s what happens when you cast a Tony-winning star in a tiny role: people think you can’t have just cast her as Heroine’s Other Colleague for no reason, right? RIGHT?

His son is Hourman in Stargirl, by the way. (I just learned on WP that his mother’s maiden name is Green, which is sort of funny in context. Lou Sr, you don’t have to marry the color you wore!)

Per WP, “a Norman Lear sitcom opposite Charles Durning”, which based on the rest of Lear’s output looks like it never got made with anybody.

I’m very old, so mine is the Get Smart closing music (which is sort of scary-lite); in particular, I had a very bad childhood scare (of nothing real, you know, a scary comic book) one Saturday afternoon and I associated the music with “can’t sleep, clowns will eat me [it was not a clown]”.

It’s astonishing how closely MPR follows the original, almost scene by scene. Except for the deep sadness of the opening about Michael’s wife, and a very long bit of plot at the end, the closeness is downright embarrassing. Like, Uncle Albert becomes another relative who has trouble with gravity, at pretty much the…

That is hottest possible misspelling of Ripley!

I never finished the Netflix series, but between the different helmet and the fact that Jen hadn’t heard of him, are we being told that those shows are definitely not in this continuity?

I know we don’t approvingly quote Scott Adams anymore, but back in the 80s-90s he called this a “confusocracy”; he was referring to phone companies but the concept is still valid. You can’t figure out how good a deal it because you can’t understand it in the first place.