So, in other words, you’re giving an additional argument as to why no one who visits the A.V. Club should expect some sort of a journalistic standard to take precedence.

Maybe float a rumour that Distant Voices, Still Lives is going to be remade as a $250 million Disney+ series and see if they bite.

As someone who was alive and cognizant of the world around him in 1996, I distinctly remember a chief criticism of Mission: Impossible was that it was OVERplotted for a summer spy adventure movie. But, you know, thank god Kevin Feige was able to wrest storytelling away from peddlers of “mindless junk” such as David…

Thankth, Tham Barthanti!

“popular Tron franchise”

AI would have gotten a Robbie Robertson obit posted by now.

Fair point, although I’d argue that it was at least partly sketch in the sense that there were scenes which easily functioned as standalone sketches often only tangentially connected to an almost freeform plot.

Looks like it’s going to be a veritable Wonkfest!

Yeah, to be fair, it’s clear even in the bits that are harder to excuse as simply being a product of the era (*ahem* “Pakistani Daleks”) that Spike was never a “punching down” kinda bloke. He was just as prone to deprecate his own background (“First Irish Rocket to the Moon” is basically a checklist of Irish…

If we’re including youth-oriented sketch shows like You Can’t Do That on Television here, then I’d put The Goodies in with the rest of this missing Brit list.

Yeah, Spike Milligan’s Q series was scattershot, frequently brilliant, occasionally somewhat... er... problematic. And I say this as a Spike Milligan fan.

If there was no Four on the Floor, it’s interesting to speculate if there would have been a Kids in the Hall series as we knew it, if at all. The CBC put the sketch comedy infrastructure in place with the former, and many of the behind-the-scenes people eventually rolled over into KITH.

The Americanized version, HBO’s Not Necessarily the News, arguably should’ve been on this list as well.

A missed opportunity for an in-joke in “Halt and Catch Fire” was not having a background arcade or computer game called “Leap Ace.”

In which a food orgy gradually devolves into something like the transmission in Event Horizon.

Or make a metric shit tonne of money directing American dramatic series that shoot in Vancouver and Toronto.

“...a sentient program that works its way into the real world”? Are they remaking this?

Plus Cillian Murphy, the guy they set up in Tron: Legacy as the next big bad, is starring in one of the biggest movies of 2023 and will likely get an Oscar nom out of it... and is nowhere to be seen here.

So why are we besmirching the good name of Joe Dante by using production photos of his Twilight Zone segment, which was one of two that was any good, and one of three that didn’t kill anybody?

Not to mention Bring ‘Em Back Alive.