I don't think there's any reason to think Tenzin would do well as a teacher. His kids seem to have acquired most of their skills on their own, and he's never been a good fit with Korra.

Well, that's the other thing: Even though the ratings were dire last season, they knew a lot more people were watching at Nick's website or on iTunes. So naturally this season they've made it damned near impossible to watch online. This is even more mismanaged than Fox airing a Joss Whedon show.

I have to say, it does improve in the rewatch. It's still hit-or-miss, but some of the turn-on-a-dime character behavior makes a bit more sense when you know what comes later.

Partly they're over-reacting to the leaked episodes, but yeah, the decision to keep it in the Friday time slot, which pretty much everyone blamed for last season's diminished ratings, is just baffling. Especially since this is by any standard an excellent season of television, and deserves all the promotion it can…

I still feel that way about a cat I lost ten years ago.

I'd buy that for a Buchholz.

They did a great job gradually deepening Herb and Les without ever making them seem less silly. Unlike, say, later seasons of MASH, where all the funny things about Hot Lips or Klinger were all gone, because the show could no longer balance serious and funny.

One other interesting thing about this show: It was one of the first sitcoms to create a bible for its characters—where they lived, whether they were married, had kids, etc. Most shows of that era wouldn't bother creating any sort of character consistency, so someone who mentions a wife in one episode could be…

Not only do I find myself singing that a LOT, but I have to accompany it with Johnny's happy little skip through the booth.

So the big question is: How does the Twilight Time Blu of Broadway Danny Rose look? MGM's old DVD looked OK, especially considering how shitty most of their Allen catalog titles looked, but I've heard so many mixed things about the quality of TT's discs.

I watched Justified long before I got started on The Shield. I'd never heard of Goggins before that, but by the end of that first episode, I knew I had to see everything he'd ever done.

One of the most impressive things I learned from the behind-the-scenes footage on the DVDs is Anthony Anderson's apparent ability to just turn it on and off. We see him on the set joking around, then the cameras roll and boom, he's there. As good as Close is this season—as good as everyone is, of course—this season…

Has anyone seen the Twilight Time releases of Crimes And Misdemeanors or Broadway Danny Rose? The original DVD releases were pretty murky, and I would hope for an upgrade as impressive as MGM's Blu-Ray Manhattan, but since it's Twilight Time, optimism isn't warranted. I have no interest in paying thirty bucks a pop…

The only Twilight Time disc I've ever ponied up for was The Fury, and it looked and sounded kind of shitty. I realize there may be only so much that can be done with 70s film stock, but still. Does TT do any work on the discs at all, or do they just take whatever materials (good, bad or indifferent) are provided by…

Though there was The Liberation Of L.B. Jones, which I don't imagine is anyone's favorite.

The Heiress and (especially) Best Years Of Our Lives are indeed great, but for actual personal favorite William Wyler movie, I'm gonna go with The Big Country. A totally involving story, great scenery, a beautiful score, Chuck Heston actually acting and bellowing, angry Burl Ives. What more could you want?

Anti-boner time.

And Quarles and Limehouse were both regulars.

But bittersweet seems appropriate for his appearance here, especially his final line.

Curse is indeed a terrific script, and Frankenstein Created Woman and The Reptile are pretty solid, too.