TV for most people is not an art form; it's a palliative or a distraction.

Old Bruce Wayne: "And what are you?"
Payback: "Your worst nightmare!"
Old Bruce Wayne: "You have no idea what my nightmares are like."

The comics had him running something called the Wayne Foundation back in the 1970s, but they never did much with it.

But "Goonies 'R' Good Enough" still holds up really well.

Because Obama, like most people, doesn't want to spend the better part of an hour in the same room as Bill Maher?

This is the AV Club, where "yes and" becomes "hahahaha…no."

This is the United States; nobody would even sit down with someone like Paxman, because there are ten other news networks willing to trade softballs and stenography for precious, ratings-gaining access.

Though he's also sort-of an eternal 18 or whatever age he was supposed to be when he became a vampire.

Someone turn on the Paul F. Tompkins Signal.

She was co-created by Roy Thomas. He always does stuff like that.

I dunno…if you're a "cord cutter" or whatever they call people who switch to internet-only because it's cheaper, CBS shows in general are pretty easy to avoid.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

As far North as Grosse Pointe….Blank?

In fairness, it's kind of hard to name a major 80s comedy that doesn't have lots of fucked-up ideas about race, gender, education, and government.

And higher education.

It's starting to seem like there's some personal history between you, Ackroyd, and your presumably ex-wife.

I saw some fanfiction somewhere that used that premise with William Zabka's characters from The Karate Kid, Just One of the Guys, and Back to School.

The gorilla's headstone will read, "At Least It Wasn't Cleveland."

*Dreamworks executive suddenly gets idea for CGI cartoon remake of Platoon as a comedy about gun-toting jungle animals.*

Reminds me of a news story from years ago about a single mother mauled to death by a mountain lion that was later shot. Donations for the care of the mountain lion's orphaned cubs were like ten times donations for the woman's orphaned children.