Actually, Christmas is much lower on the list. Easter is the biggie, probably followed by Pentecost.

Hey, now! Your great-grandfather slapped bay rum on his cheeks, and he liked it!

Obocop has a good embouchure.

He wasn't "their" son; she was his stepmother.

When my mother died, we donated her body to science, and what was left was cremated, so I was two-for-two on that afterlife-consciousness thing. And on All Saints' Day, too!

Cool! You'd probably dig American Scary, a documentary about horror hosts all over the country. http://americanscary.com

The movie was a nod to those very specials, so that would be entirely appropriate.

"You sit on a throne of lies!"

She's also the mom of Susan Kohner (Imitation of Life) and the grandmother of Chris and Paul Weitz.

Next, OzBaxter addresses South American fiction: "B-b-but abuelitas can't fly! Everybody knows that!"

Those were all session guys: Mike What's-His-Name on bass and Pat Whozy-Whatzit on guitar.

Defies belief? As opposed to the passel of identical clones? Please.

They let their banks fail.

You never pulled out your own tooth? Tying a string around it and around a door knob is a classic way to yank out a tooth that's been loose for too long.

Anchovies and mustard are a classic combination—on crackers. Helena's culinary faux pas was to squirt the mustard right into the tin.

Anyone can have charisma

Not to mention the leads on Nashville.

I thought it was weird, too. I inferred it as a compliment to Bianca, that she's so talented and skilled in so many areas that she makes it look easy and appears to be sailing through.

Me, too! I remember Rich Hall being a regular. I saw Hall open for David Johansen around the same time, so I don't remember whether Hall was "that guy from the Letterman show" or "that guy who opened for David Johansen," but whatever. Lawn, etc.

I caught this show just last week, and it was fun, like the old Match Game. A bunch of celebs with a mild buzz being silly, where nobody cares about the score.