Oh yeah… forgot all about that one. As did much of America.

Sure, I totally get it.

Quit bogarting the good stuff, dude.

Of course Newsradio takes place in a newsroom. What did you think all those people and desks were for? They didn't really talk much about newsgathering, but neither did The Mary Tyler Moore Show, or The Michael J. Fox Show for that matter. Just like Cheers didn't focus on alcoholism, plumbing repair and health…

No, that's not my point at all. I'm saying that being accustomed to sharing everything you think online and having at least someone probably respond favorably has conditioned a lot of younger people to thinking everyone also wants to hear what they have to say in offline situations.
Gen X'ers mostly grew up at a time…

"Box Office Poison."

I read somewhere that Vince Gilligan was a big proponent of shooting on film for Breaking Bad, but then decided to test himself when he saw how much extra it was costing him. When they were getting ready for Better Call Saul, he had four identical shots made with a film camera and 3 digital cameras. While there were…

I like Colbert on a personal level and admire his body of work, so I've been willing to give him a lot of mulligans as the program finds its feet. But God, sometimes this show is just a chore. A comedy bit ought to make me laugh, not make me pause, rub my chin, and then say, "Yeah, I get what he was trying to do…

Even then, didn't they establish that Walt's teacher salary was more than $40,000? Even assuming that Skyler had no income at all at the beginning of the series, that's still not far off the national median household income. They live in a nice ranch house in a neighborhood with their own well-maintained…

Forget what I said.

This would have been around 1990, so I think they were well into Greatest Hits and Random Christmas Album and What the Hell, Let's Try a Damn Gospel Album Again territory by this point.
(But personally, I vote Fancy Free, which I swear-to-God owned on 8-track.)

Vaudeville was toast by the time The Muppet Show was made, but the aesthetic lived on in many aspects of 70s TV variety shows, and The Muppet Show was a contemporary. The most vaudevillian of them all, The Ed Sullivan Show, had been off the air for only five years when The Muppet Show began.
Whether the guests were…

Let me clarify my earlier question: I had heard most of those stories about McLean, except for the suggestion that Alan Alda had scriptwriters change the script to kill him so that he couldn't come back. That one doesn't quite have the ring of truth that the other ones had.