I have always been flabbergasted by the trivia fact that Ross served in the military in a position that apparently required him to be a hard-ass (if not a drill instructor, something along those lines). He didn't like it at all, and resolved that when he left the military, he'd never raise his voice again. But some of…

I believe the Pat Brady character is a studio head, not a rival producer. That would certainly be the case with Louis B. Mayer. Thalberg was Mayer's head of production in the early 30s, but then Thalberg's health and differences between his outlook and Mayer's resulted in Thalberg being demoted, after a fashion, and…

Going back to the classic movie era, you have the MGM musical "It's Always Fair Weather," which was originally supposed to have been a direct sequel to "On The Town," with Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin. But Sinatra wasn't available, and so they changed the character names and made it a stand-alone movie.

What? No Wang Chung?

"Alias Smith and Jones," an attempt to piggyback on the big-screen popularity of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" might have lasted longer had it not been for the suicide of Pete Duel. They recast the part, but it wasn't the same.

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What does this do to Norm MacDonald's theory that "Germans love David Hasselhoff"?

Jay had better hurry up and find out what "humor" is prior to the ceremony.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Buddy Ebsen. Long before he was known for "The Beverly Hillbillies," he was primarily a song-and-dance man, and he was the original choice to play the Tin Woodsman in "The Wizard of Oz." But the makeup they used on him was in a powder form, and breathing in too much of it made him sick…

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Illustrating the debased emptiness of our modern, celebrity-obsessed existence

That's not TV. It's HBO.

"Thirtysomething" did a great feint by building up the big hype over whether one of its characters would die from, IIRC, ovarian cancer. It went on for several weeks and was widely-promoted. Even though I wasn't a regular viewer of the show, I remember turning in that night just to see what all the hype was about. …

I loved the use of the Sandman uniforms (black with a white stripe across the chest) from the movie and TV versions of "Logan's Run."

I preferred the first version.

A certain Oscar acceptance speech gave me a slight idea of the ending of "The Usual Suspects," although I wasn't completely sure. I still enjoyed the movie, but it didn't have the same impact it would have had if I hadn't been open to the fact that [CHARACTER] was in fact [OTHER CHARACTER].

I have been loving the 1940s Batman serial that the RiffTrax guys (Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy of "Mystery Science Theater 3000") have been releasing every few weeks.

I wish you'd asked him about his wonderful Alan Shepherd in "From The Earth To The Moon."

I got a Hager Twins notification for *this*?

My first impression was that it was parody of "Bare Necessities" from Jungle Book, but I guess "Hakuna Matata" works too.

I got a "Too Close For Comfort" notification for *this*?