I saw it in reruns a number a times on local TV (oddly enough in an area that had almost no black people).

Never heard of that one, but a show with the same premise by Norman Lear(!!!) did get its busted pilot shown
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Well when looking up "confederate dollar" I found this absolute timesink of a category: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi… Now THAT would be a great Wormhole article.

No you gotta go to the Styx website. (For the two people who remember the Styx "Behind the Music".

Was any of this related from the switch of Disney from premium to basic cable? I remember in the late 90s my local cable provider still had Disney as a premium service—I remember seeing an Elton John concert on a preview weekend.

Unsettling fact: "My Heart Will Go On" went to No. 1 on the Billboard Latin charts, one of three English language songs to top that chart.

My retail store (the long gone discount retailer Family Bargain Center) had their own company made Christmas tape made by no-name soft rock artists. We played it every minute the store was open to get people to buy it. The second the last customer went out we blasted heavy metal the rest of our shift.

IIRC, the studio had rereleased "Santini" as the "The Ace", feeling that the original title was confusing people—a lot thought the movie was about magicians or acrobats. (Yes that makes as little sense as it does to me.)

Plus the new wavers/punks would either do ironic numbers or obscure songs by acts they legitimately loved like the Sonics or the Seeds. Snow Pink sings a dead serious cover of "Twist and Shout" like they're the 80s version of Sha Na Na.

Much better. I mean did "Quincy" have a "Eight is Enough" castmember (who became an insane cokehead) or Erik Estrada disco dancing to the cheers of punks?

I wonder if that influenced the UBS that broadcast "America 2Night".

Then you've got WalMart, which has a regular price generic and the super cheap generic Great Value (packaging is pretty much just a pic of the product on a white backround.) Safeway used to have two tiers too, but they dropped the cheaper items.

My question was why were variety specials and shows in the 70s so universally awful? I mean at the same time this was going out, you had sitcoms like Good Times, Barney Miller and MASH—yet variety shows were still stuck in 1950. If anything they'd regressed from the late 60s days of Johnny Cash and the Smothers…

That's what boggles me about the modern NFL. QBs are always the best paid players, have their own personal coaches, and have been gifted with rules that favor passing to a ridiculous degree. Yet there are probably more bad quarterbacks now then there have ever been. Why?

Did anybody else live in an area where Comedy Central shared channel space with VH1. They'd air CC in morning/daytime and then switch to VH1 at night.

In a rare non-Hamilton post…
Why is the New Yorker winning Pulitzers? I thought they were newspaper only awards.
Threadgill is only the third jazz artist to win, behind Wynton Marsalis and Ornette Coleman. No other non-classical work has won a Music Prize. Is this a good thing or not?

Where do you go? The only place I watch movies is a local indie theater, usually in early showings. I never see it there.

Do those still count as no-hitters? I remember in the early 90s MLB said losing team no-hitters and ones where the no-hitter was broken up in extras no longer count as "no-hitters"—which makes sense to nobody else.

The one I saw (Mary Jane's House of Glass, a lot of thought in that one) sounded a lot like mom and pop restaurant commercials, upbeat but not meant to be funny.

BTW when is the AV Club doing a One Year Wonder piece on Gidget? Great casting (especially the Dad and Larue) combined with a view of teenage life that is both ahead of its time and hopelessly out of touch, and has been rerun for years despite just 32 episodes.