It wasn't really. The jokes were the same put-downs and reversals, just wrapped in more obscure references.

Yes! The Dregs Of Humanity rule!

Can't Stop The Music, I mean. Can't Sop The Music was her Bounty paper towel promo video.

Who can forget her classic directorial achievement Can't Sop The Music?

I always thought that the show found it's groove a bit in the final season, with Kenneth MacMillan as the fake Lou Grant and the job at the costume shop. Also, Ray Buktenica!

Agreed. Obscure references aside, most of the jokes were straight from the Brooks/Charles Zing-A-Tron 3000, which should have been recalled in 1989 after Rhea Perlman was laid out for three weeks due to repetitive insult injury.

Frasier's problem was that no matter how many literary references they  squeezed in, the jokes were still repetitive insults about how slutty, prissy or low-brow the respective characters were. Take away all the pretensions and on a joke-construction level, it actually wasn't that different than Married With Children.

I always had a really negative reaction to the Joe character, or maybe just the actor. I get that they were probably going for a James Caan sort of thing when they cast David Groh, but I always found the character sort of vaguely threatening, and half expected him to smack Rhoda around Jake Lamotta-style if she shot…

There was actually a Carlton Your Doorman animated special that I guess was intended as a pilot. In case anyone's wondering, according to the special, Carlton was young-ish, and had long blonde hair and a mustache, if I remember correctly.

Although the way he got nailed was pretty Jesus-like.

Do all hippies have to be Jesus metaphors? Sometimes a dirty hippie is just a dirty hippie.

It's actually weirdly beautiful, the way it's composed in front of the burning cabin.

I think they have a problem with showing Bruce from the neck down because all the stuff that happened in the second and third movies is owned by different studios. So if they showed him with the robot or chainsaw hand they'd have to make a deal with Universal and whoever owns the movies the DeLaurentiis Entertainment…

You're more likely to see a sequel to Army Of Darkness that ties into this.

Yeah, I like my horror movies to be as much like Jackie Onassis as possible.

What? Ash went back to that cabin THREE TIMES with three different women. Talk about not learning from your mistakes…

It's more a remake of an aesthetic than a story. This actually is a different cabin-in-the-woods story, in that it's really a sequel, not a remake.

So do Deadites, so you're in good company.

I know what it is—-it's what squeamish people call horror movies they don't like.

Playing it straight and non-ironic is the crazy twist.