That SNL sketch may be a parody of a specific movie: Dr. Goldfoot & the Bikini Machine, starring Vincent Price as Dr. Goldfoot, a mad, maniacal genius who created bikini-clad fembots to seduce powerful men and take over the world, and Frankie Avalon as a secret agent among the Malibu set. Annette Funicello did a cameo…

I can assure you that this along with The Paul Lynde Halloween Special are as horrifying now as they were 40 years ago.

Aw, the 1970s. A time when mimes could get their own TV show.

I wouldn’t know anything about that, it’s not like I’m living in the deep south and can’t leave my house without seeing some ignorant dicksnot waving a Confederate flag or anything. *sob*

Me have heard for years that Jackie Chan had been looking for more serious roles and not had any luck with Hollywood. So me glad to see he finally found one. This looks terrific.

Counterargument: the best possible time.

I’m just here to say I was so happy to have this show pop up on my DVR and so thrilled to be greeted with the immediate lunacy of Archie driving his own gunshot father to the hospital like he is Mr. White after a bank heist gone wrong. Because the ambulance didn’t show? And then fucking Pops casually mopping up blood…

It’s Hal Cooper (with contacts) whose finally flipped out & decided to clean up Riverdale.... and the adjacent area. Maybe Alice shouldn’t have henpecked him so much.

Given all the death flash-forwards, I was wondering if the ep was channeling All That Jazz. Thankfully not. My take on Daddy Lodge surprising and expecting Veronica to be home alluded to daddy being a sexist dick—the women are there and always to be there to serve him. And that “aging porn starlet appearing at the AVN…

Yeah, IMO it’s a bit of a stretch that a ‘50s idea of a robot housekeeper with a vaguely New York accent somehow automatically translates to “slave”.

As someone who was just as annoyed (just check my comments under that article, if you can find them) by that WKRP discussion, and who is on the older end of AVClub long-termers (I’ll just say I was born in the mid-ish 1960s), and who otherwise agrees with your position, I just have to say that ignorance-of-youth isn’t…

Upon reflection, I’ve thought of a less draconian yet somehow more radical solution: the AV Club should hire a Boomer stringer who can write with knowledge and be a resource about older television shows. Surely to God there’s gotta be a few old ex-TV Guide writers floating around somewhere.

the Scooby-Doo knockoff pet dog

Yeah, Faye’s arc is pretty concise and really flesh out her story and personality. If you wanted to make a mini-series out of that, it would be a great part. I think Spike’s storyline is still the best, though. And I enjoyed watching Spike and Jet chase a dog around a city for 25 minutes. Maybe see Spike do some…

She adds a whole other dimension to the show, that’s for sure. Her and Ein make for a great pair, and add a lot of heart.

I also didn’t want to be that guy but if you don’t meet Edward you’re missing out on the best part of the series

I hadn’t thought about carving up Cowboy Bebop up before, but I would probably go with the Faye episodes then. While Spike’s storyline is great, I think it really benefits from having all of the stand-alone episodes there to space it out (and flesh out Spike’s behavior). Faye’s episodes are great and form a wonderful…

I think I am predisposed to love the “mythology” episodes because I love larger, serialized stories. However, those stand alones are great and add so much because they offer a tonal contrast to the mythology stuff and let us see different dimensions. I also think the self-contained ones have some of the best and…

That sort of reminds me of how I felt watching Person of Interest. In that show, and Cowboy Bebop, I think you have a slow start, and yes a pastiche of other things, and yet you have that (in both cases I suppose) something that takes those influences and characters and ends up being something far more special than…

I read it because they did seem to have more scoop on what was coming up with movies people were jacked about; LOTR comes to mind. But the writing itself was always poor.