The good news is that there's so much Best Show on the WFMU website to catch up on for new listeners.

Never listened to Best Show before? Then listen to this:

That's the problem I have with serialized television, because when it goes bad, you sometimes feel that the whole time you spent with it was a ripoff. With self-contained episodic shows, a bad one only costs you maybe an hour and you can more easily just give up on it.

They could put the unused clues on their web site to drive some more traffic there.

They also neglected to mention Eagleheart and a new holiday episode of NTSF:SD:SUV::. Instead they talked about Anger Management. Whatever.

Jeopardy! thread for Wed., Dec. 18 - Very close battle in DJ resulted in a gap of only $2,300 between first and third as the players faced this Final:

I don't think so. For example, they recently had a player from Oregon and FJ was about the University of Oregon. This kind of thing in which clues are in an area that appear to give a contestant an advantage based on education or life experience happens quite a bit.

"Sue-sue-sue your ass"

I think Jon Hamm could do the Drebin role perfectly.

And these aren't just people off the street, there are friggin' Jeopardy! contestants who didn't pick up on that "A-yup" bit, which should have made it almost insultingly obvious. Shocked me, frankly.

The free market has spoken: opera and ballet suck!

Wasn't it just adorable that back in the day, Bravo and A&E thought they were going to make money showing theater and artistic-oriented programming?

I'm OK with someone guessing Sam Spade, but once that's out of the way, I expect someone else to jump in with Marlowe.

The rest of the show is funny, but Tina is genius.

I think Linda was probably the make-or-break character for a lot of viewers when the show started. Her odd, not exactly feminine voice and her whole weird energy likely took the most getting used to of all the characters, but once people got comfortable with it she grew on them, as you said.

Bob's Burgers did have a significant head start on Napoleon in the number of episodes toward a syndication package, so I'm sure that was a factor in choosing BB as well.

Agreed, when the writing was on, Family Guy could be pretty damn funny, but mostly in a disposable, forgettable way. But any semblance of legitimate heart the show ever had is pretty much a memory, save for the occasional effective Stewie/Brian episode.

If The Simpsons are The Beatles, perhaps Bob's Burgers is The Who…The Simpsons composes a brilliant melody, while BB isn't afraid to smash a few instruments.

What Family Guy tried to do was make their show part animated family sitcom and part Laugh-In. So while I wouldn't call FG a total Simpsons clone, it's not exactly an improvement on the formula.

The ratings for Bob's Burgers, Napoleon Dynamite and Cleveland were pretty close when each of those shows ran after The Simpsons. Fox easily could have chosen to stick with any one of them, but I think they recognized that BB had breakthrough potential that the others lacked.