I weep for what could have been. The co-creator Bruno Heller:
"I discovered halfway through writing the second season the show was going to end. The second was going to end with the death of Brutus. Third and fourth season would be set in Egypt. Fifth was going to be the rise of the Messiah in Israel. But because we…

One from the final Farley season I remember is when David Hyde Pierce from FRASIER hosted. The sketch was like a "Little Women" type setting where the narrator about kids at a frozen lake and they're speaking all precious and properly polite to each other. Then one of them falls through the ice into the freezing water…

The reruns helped me realize that SNL was pretty much always terrible. There would be one or two really good sketches in an episode but everything else would be flat at best.

Yeah I didn't get it as a kid until later. I kind of identified with the nerdy daughter and hated that they were bitches to her.

Richard Thomas's ponytail was distracting.

I love Meryl Streep's late 80s hair.

I remember one NBC Fall preview special where I was like "Hmm…this 'Mancuso, FBI' show starring Robert Loggia might be worth checking out!" I never did though.

I also laughed at his "Remember, shower with a friend!" when I saw this as a kid.

I suddenly remembered that DOLLHOUSE episode where Patton played an internet billionaire whose wife died before he could give her the good news that they were going to be rich so he pays the dollhouse company to have the doll "Echo" imprinted with his wife's memories so he could have that chance.

I've seen pics of Connery at the US Open a few years ago and I was shocked how frail he looked and how much weight he lost. Even in THE UNTOUCHABLES when he was older you he was still a strapping guy.

"Man With A Camera". I've heard of it but never seen an episode.

I buy him as the weary soldier, who's already sick of war and just trying to survive. Elizabeth Montgomery is incredible though. She doesn't say anything but she's so captivating. She also looked kinda hot.

I think Sidney Lumet movies, particularly "Dog Day Afternoon" captured NYC in the most realistic way, it wasn't romanticized or made to look like a hellscape.

Okay, so it was a myth.

I just realized in ANNIE HALL Allen says Los Angeles doesn't have "economic crime" but it has "ritualistic cult murders" referring to the Charles Manson murders. So he relocated anxiety about hippie freaks to the West Coast. Coincidentally at a Hollywood party, you see Jeff Goldblum briefly talking on the phone about…

She was also shocked that Nixon was re-elected in one of the largest landslides in American history, saying she didn't know anybody who would vote for him.

I definitely agree the idea of New York City being an urban nightmare wasn't something that came out of nowhere. URBAN COWBOY had that scene of a guy(probably drunk) lying in the street and nobody doing anything about it. Crowds just walked by him. The later seasons of Mad Men kind of touched on this change in the…

There's that early scene that introduces Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen's characters where a salesman from out of town wants a dead body to be buried at the cemetery but the body is on an Indian. There are people who don't want an Indian buried at a cemetery for white people so they're going to kill anybody who tries…

No lie, I saw Death Wish 3 on video when I was a kid and it was the first time I saw a rape depicted in a movie. Years later I was surprised that the woman was played by Marina Sirtis, Deanna Troi from STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION!

Two examples of how good Charles Bronson could be as an actor are from episodic TV. One was an episode of the TWILIGHT ZONE called "Two" set in the aftermath of a future war and the two survivors are soldiers from the opposing armies, Bronson and a pre-BEWITCHED Elizabeth Montgomery.
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