There's a lot better-quality version of the video on YouTube: http://youtu.be/nLAWPrCUQQ0

The Richard-Benjamin-starring SF spoof Quark did a spoof of "The Ultimate Computer", installing the machine on Quark's garbage scow. The final shot is the jettisoned computer tumbling through space, singing "Born Free".

I watched it for three years in the five seconds it took to find the remote.

Wow. I knew i was out of touch with popular culture, but i have never seen (nor do i regret not seeing, based on descriptions) even one of the programs referenced in this article.

Outlaws of Sherwood? Were you referring to the Robin McKinley book - which is not fantasy and isn't really aimed at twelve-year-old girls?

However, it made his performances less than entertaining - particularly before we knew what he was up to, which was what i meant.

Huh. There's a link in that, but you can't see it easily: http://www.imdb.com/title/t…

MAD's satire of UNCLE was "The Man from A.U.N.T.I.E.", which was eventually revealed to stand for "Association for Unbelievably Nauseating Television and Idiotic Entertainment" or words to that effect.

I thought they might be part of the original character/toy package.

As in "United Network Command for Law and Enforcement" - which leaves out both the "for" and the "and".

It's been a long time since i read the original stories, but isn't AIM a Hydra rogue cell?

Paxton's character was a consistently over-written Cardboard Psycho, even when was supposed to be a Good Guy.

As i recall, Dire Wraiths were from ROM, and that was a licensed property, so they likely don't have the rights to them.

Just remember - your kids choose your nursing home.

Many years ago, i was absolutely enthralled by a "New Yorker" cartoon - waiter bustling by a table, looking down in a startled was. On the table is a saucer with a few coins on it and a small card saying "Your tip so far."

Something i haven't seen mentioned so much, though it seems obvious to me, is that Monsters Inc (and, for that matter, the short that ran with it - "For the Birds") is one long (and hilarious) tribute to Looney Tunes and to the work of Chuck Jones in particular.

Carrying torches, nooses and Obscure Agricultural Implements. (I always preferred the left-handed Cornish hop-reaper's hook, myself.)

Nope. This was a cop who ran into some problems with a hooker. Who had a razor.

I was hoping that, when Belker realised that, we were going to get an arc in which he yells "Not this time!" and takes the bullet … leading into several recuperation/find the shooter episodes.

Haid gets a few cents every time someone stages "Godspell", BTW - he was one of the original co-op crew at Carnegie-Mellon, where it originated.