I left central NY long ago (was there for his mid-80s heyday) but every so often I'll be someplace and 'Into the Night' will come on and suddenly I'm having flashbacks to working at PennCan Mall or something. I think that we can all agree to hate his 'xmas in Syracuse' song, though.

Oh, man. Probably not: "Mardones was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2001. The degenerative disease has made performing increasingly difficult. He takes pills that can temporarily still his shaking hands, even if for just a few hours, yet the disease carries other side effects, such as depression and fatigue." — …

Meanwhile, in Syracuse, Benny Mardones crashes weddings just hoping against hope that someone will ask him to come up and sing 'Into The Night'. He's sitting there at table 8, leg bopping nervously, trying to remember when the last time he put a new battery in the wireless mic that he keeps in his tux pocket JUST IN…

Never heard of him.

What a surprise to see Rhonda Shear on there as one of the contestants, though. Memo to self: find those old 'Up All Night' VHS tapes and digitize.

(because 'Potato')

"Baked"

I think you mean vagina dentata

Dean Martin? Seems more like his Tony Bennett (minus the prosthetic nose)

The smartest thing that they did was to keep the Ken Bichel theme and think cues. As Teti says, they nailed the rest of it, too. Hoping that ABC learned from what they did to Who Wants to be a Millionaire and doesn't kill this game show block through overexposure.

Ms. Wreck-It Ralph

Still kicking myself — could have seen the premiere of this at the Miami Film Festival in 84/85, but who knew at the time what the Coens were going to turn into? I did see the premiere of Twin Peaks at the MFF a year before it aired on TV, so there's that small comfort, I guess.

Sweet Christmas
Sour Boxing Day
Salty Labor Day
Umami Mother's Day

Can we fall back to this being an instance of 'great minds think alike' and slowwwwwly put that club down?

I was going to post something that amounted to this, but not quite so clearly. They're like the platonic ideal. You can use them to calibrate lab equipment. The NIST maintains an exact replica in a vault beneath Fort Knox for future generations.

I'd probably watch the heck out of that. Whatever it was. Just let it not be a reboot of "Hot in Cleveland' in 10 years.

So the first season is all set on Risa?

They Might Be Giants fans are a small, weird, devoted group in 2016. While many people haven’t thought about the late ’80s and early ’90s college rock stalwarts since the first Bush administration, there remains a small, dedicated fan base who just can’t get enough of them.

To be consistent, they should make a dozen Prince Valiant movies and shelve them all. For all I know, they did, featuring a young Alan Alda as the Prince.

I think that the only Zappa all my kids have heard is Jazz from Hell, The Yellow Shark, and Watermelon in Easter Hay.