Unexpectedly, I miss how bad and cheesy local advertising was. Now editing technology has lowered in cost to the point that there’s virtually no difference. Breaking out those 90's tapes of daytime television is oddly cathartic now.

Where did the expression “dogwhistling” come from and what exactly does it mean? Also, dogs can’t whistle.

I’m unfamiliar with most of the staff picks (thank goodness) but as anyone who still watches news on television can tell you, fogey pill ads are the worst. They’re endlessly depressing, sometimes even more so than the news stories they appear next to.

When it’s WARING Hudsucker!

There was a local independent station ‘round my area that would air uncensored movies in the 8PM hour. Back in the late 80s to boot, against ALF or something.

Every single Gizmodo, Jezebel and Splinter writer could stand to read this one.

What decade is that picture in the lower right from?

In the end, it depends on what you can afford, and a lot of Millennials are flat broke (probably the biggest influence here). Buying a McBurger is still cheaper than buying a pound of raw hamburger, several condiments, separately packaged lettuce and tomatoes, and an 8-pack of buns.

How’d you emulate SNES on PSP? My attempt was a miserable failure.

One line from this that bugged me....
“I knew this girl who was way out of my league, and now she’s my wife.”

“Hooten” was a show from another country they just picked up on the cheap. They’ve aired new episodes of “Reign” and “Beauty and the Other Beauty” in the summer, but only when they’d given up on those shows.

LOVED Iris stepping on Ralph. Normally I’d have to wait until Legends of Tomorrow comes back to see something like that.

They’re just pilots, but The CW tends to order much more than what they have room for. Sure hope they don’t pick them all and give six-episode orders to every show next fall.

Ugh, this is that one where Rory stands Logan up for a date, and instead of being mad about it he just wanders into the news office with this Stepford smile on his face, and then when everybody leaves Rory realizes she never ate, and Logan magically pulls out takeout from under the counter, because Logan is Perfect.…

Cagney and Lacey was a fine show, but it’s not the kind of thing you can do twice. It was groundbreaking in its time; now it’ll just be another cop show. At least we’ll get the kickass theme song again.

Oop.....someone’s not happy!

Well.....it kind of is....I mean, he’s looking for drugs, isn’t he?

All the AV Club writers got off easy when it came to parental censorship. You have no idea what a truly repressive authority figure is like. My parents got offended by everything. I think there was a Full House where Michelle said “butt” and they complained about that.

It’d be kind of hard. The mythology has holes as big as Swiss cheese, but the one thing that remained constant was that those specific three witches from 1998 were “The Charmed Ones,” the most powerful to ever exist (whether they seemed that way or not). If the Halliwells still exist in the new show, they would still…

No one wanted a Dynasty reboot, and I didn’t even know Frequency was a reboot. Charmed reruns still do well in cable reruns to this day. If they do it better than the original (which shouldn’t be hard), it has a shot.