That does sound confusing, but if they didn't want the city where Batman lives to be confused with New York, they shouldn't have named it after New York.

Gotham was a nickname for NY since before Batman, so it's always been clearly a stand-in for NY. I don't think anyone's too upset about it.

Then Bob Costas enters and all hell breaks loose.

Well, they do it a lot in basketball, too.

It wasn't *only* classical and jazz. In at least one TV episode they used "Isn't It Romantic?" (because Paramount owns it), and I'm sure they used at least one or two other pop standards.

I went round and round with an ex-roommate about this. She could afford to shop at the supermarket, but insisted that she was getting good deals at the dollar store. I tried to show her the package sizes and how math works, but no dice.

Loved him in P-Funk and saw the Stop Making Sense show live. He was one of the greats.

To quote Captain Picard, "merde".

All you need for CW is an antenna.

Fritz the Cat was unwatchable even then, trust me.

Her daughter is Hallie Todd, who was in the Showtime sitcom Brothers, and was Data's daughter on Star Trek.

"Queer, queer! That’s what you like to be called, right?"

The night before he announced his retirement, he did a very uncomfortable bit about how he should have a laptop at his desk, but he couldn't figure out what to do with it. Clealy a reference to Fallon and a bit of self-deprecation about how un-hip he was. The next night he announced his retirement.

"I'm a solid liberal, but I don't need a half-hour of being lectured about what I already believe,"
This x 100

"I can enjoy WKRP with the original music"
Mostly, but Jennifer's doorbell still doesn't play Fly Me to the Moon. I really need her doorbell to play that.

It'll be hard for younger people to understand. They've never seen anyone with his level of fame and have no frame of reference for it.

I loved that show and was infuriated at the way CBS was airing it. A very adult show in several ways, CBS refused to air 5 episodes and ran the others out of order. A few years earlier, the same net sabotaged the sitcom Good Sports, which had a developing story, the same way.

"Jackie Gleason was gonna punch his wife to the moon."
See, this is the same kind of lazy reading of the material we're getting in the article (assuming the article isn't satire.) The point there was that Kramden would never in a million years punch Alice - he was both crazy about her and terrified of her. It was…

Well, Jim Mallon could have watched it since 1988.

You mean it ends?