“This is unit 12! I need backup! We have an A.A. down!”

I thought Clark Gregg’s character was killed in Being Fibber McGee & Molly. How are they going to bring him back?

There are additional “other” spaces on the card, which might be needed if future research calls for a booster (or if some variant proves resistant to the original vaccine). Laminating the card will make it more difficult to use those spaces in the future. I ordered an airtight, zip-closure badge holder from Amazon.…

I believe there is now some being raised in the Pacific Northwest — in fact, I think that’s the first time I ever heard about the difference, was in an NPR story or something similar about the people who were raising real wasabi in the U.S.

I’ve long heard that most of the “wasabi” sold here in the U.S. is, in fact, horseradish, with green food coloring and possibly some trace amount of wasabi just so that they can include it in the ingredient list. In fact, I’ve even heard that if you’re accustomed to U.S. wasabi, you may not care for the real stuff if…

By the way, if you have not seen “The Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story,” it is available on Disney+ and very definitely worth seeing.

Yes! I’ve read that too.

I loved the documentary on producer Merian C. Cooper that TCM ran a few years back: “I’m King Kong! The Exploits of Merrian C. Cooper.” I would love to watch it again some time but I can’t seem to find it streaming anywhere, and if TCM has re-run it lately I’ve missed it. Cooper had been a World War I pilot and then…

And he was game. I need to look up the episode with the game show parody “Old French Whore,” in which each of the innocent young contestants is paired with an old French whore. Garth did not play one of the innocent young contestants, nor was he the MC.

As Host & Musical Guest:
February 28, 1998
November 13, 1999
(musical numbers performed as Chris Gaines)
As Musical Guest only:
March 14, 1992

I believe he did have more than one.

I still remember the SNL where Garth hosted and Chris Gaines was the musical guest, and they edited it so that when it came time for the musical segments, one of them introduced the other.

I realize that the “secret identity” trope is way outdated in an era when everyone has a video camera in their pocket, and Superman would be identified as Clark Kent within minutes, glasses or not. But that used to be part of the fun of the character — the romantic triangle of sorts between Clark, Lois and Superman. I…

I’m now pushing for the Snyder’s Of Hanover Cut, where Henry Cavill’s moustache footage from the Whedon version is now reinserted, but he’s constantly eating pretzels so you can’t see it.

The Nashville Parthenon has an interesting history. When Tennessee had its centennial exposition in the late 1800s, a plaster-of-paris Parthenon was built as one of the exhibits, playing off Nashville’s reputation at the time as “The Athens of the South” (both for the architecture of some of its downtown buildings and…

I have been getting a lot of FB ads lately for a tofu press called the Tofu Bud. It seems overpriced, but it might be a good subject for this feature: https://tofubud.com/

Every now and then, TCM will run “The Baron of Arizona,” a fun little movie (a heavily-fictionalized version of a true story) about a con man in the 1800s, played by Price, who marries a Spanish noblewoman and then attempts to claim that she (and thus, by community property, he) is the rightful owner of the entire…

I’ve always thought it funny that the original proposal was that she be divorced -- but the network nixed that, thinking the viewers would assume she was divorced *from Dick Van Dyke*.

I attended a Christian college founded by a TV evangelist (and somehow survived). I was in charge of our campus movies for 2 1/2 years. When I first got the job, the campus chaplain recommended the movie “A Little Romance,” which he found delightful. I didn’t get around to showing it until the next year, by which time…

I know it operates differently in different states — here in Tennessee (except for Dolly’s home county, where she foots the bill for everything) Imagination Library handles the logistics of selecting, purchasing and shipping the books. The cost is split by the state and some sort of local agency in each county — a…