TOO SOO… no, this is fine. Carry on.

If CBS would just spin off a few more CSI series, these guys wouldn't have needed to come out of retirement in the first place. I blame Les Moonves.

Loved the whole series, but the Stick episode was the only one I watched twice before moving on to the next.

WHOA, if true.

Hmm. I guess the latest update to the rulebook hasn't been forwarded to my new address. Please accept my vague and insincere apology.

Everything that you say here is pretty much true (Woods as a more goto studio guy in the 70s/80s than Tom Scott or Brecker? I'm skeptical), but it's also not healthy to get too butthurt over what is really just a dumb comedy bit, not the Journal of the American Musicological Society.

Catalina Caper or GTFO. I call an all-Tommy Kirk Turkey Day in 2015.

To a certain extent, I think that he had to start the show from this position. The video pieces done over the summer give a hint about the places they'd like to go, and it's a smart move to ease that big broadcast network audience over there with some sort of comedy slew rate limiter.

That's what I was afraid of. Thanks for the sour persimmons, cousin.

I need to step away from the TV, because when I saw "season-seven three-parter comprising “D-Girl,” “Turnaround,” and “Showtime.” the first thing that popped into my head was, "Yeah, Lauren Graham was in those episodes. Looking fine."

Point of order: is the instruction to warn the affiliates that 'we're going long' a Letterman-ish thing, or just something that Ted Koppel used to frequently say verbatim in Nightline's heyday? Also: am I just really old?

Yeah, that was me. Didn't even realize that they had released it on CD (also interesting, the first review listed says "The sound quality of the cd's is a definite step up from the LPs."

Yeah, that was me. I should dig that vinyl out and see if I still agree with myself of 27 years ago. More coincidence, I worked for a few years with the woman who did the lighting design for United States.

I thought so. The spooky thing is that I was reminded of you just recently when I read an article about Scott Miller's Game Theory, which you were the first person to ever point me toward. Weird timing coincidence.

I saw them play a community college gym about a month before the War album hit big, and they were really mind-blowingly good. Forever thankful to my little sister for convincing my dad that I needed to take her to that show. Haven't seen them since, because nothing they do now could beat that experience of seeing them…

Interesting — I was a DJ on WVUM in that era. I was also at every showing of Home of the Brave that week in the Grove (and also every showing of David Byrne's "True Stories" at the Riviera across from UM when that was released.) So hey. We didn't work together at the video department at Spec's, did we?

King Crimson, "Discipline". The Crying of Lot 49. Maya Deren's "Meshes of the Afternoon" Bartok's 4th quartet. Weather Report "Heavy Weather". Fellini's Satyricon.

Phillip Glass, 'Knee Play 3' from Einstein on the Beach, heard on college radio when I was still in high school. One of the key things in make me pursue serious composition. Film — Gilliam's 'Brazil'. Ensemble Musikfabrik's production of Stockhausen's "Michael's Riese um die Erde" Pat Metheny's "Bright Size Life".…

Completely missing Ted McGinley coming in as Roger Phillips on Happy Days? Or Ted McGinley as Ace Evans on The Love Boat? Or Ted McGinley as Jefferson D'Arcy on Married With Children?

<pedants-corner>Not every episode. Woody Allen's longtime editor Susan E Morse edited 8 episodes, which I remember being treated as a big deal at the time, cf: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm… </pedants-corner>