Yeah, even when they did show UK stuff, it was 90% home renovation and gardening shows virtually indistinguishable from their US counterparts.

And there were a couple of weeks when BBC America showed shows that had previous been on the BBC!

Sorry, Edison borrowed from so many people, I couldn't follow up on all of them.

It's weird that this kind of spam is always all-boldface. But it makes it easier to delete!

Yeah, when the President's done so many awful things that even his worst haters give a pass to illegal nepotism and the rape charge he paid to make go away, it really takes a lot to scandalize people.

Sadly, not enough there to fill a whole column. And admit it, you've gone from being the kid who looks through the dictionary for dirty words to the adult who looks through Wikipedia for photos of boobs!

My gastronomical rapacity knows no satiety!

I very nearly worked in a still of Hedonismbot.

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!

We covered the Australian beach mystery in a previous Wormhole: http://www.avclub.com/artic…

If I had a nickel for every time one of my articles has gotten that comment…

Yeah, my childhood was firmly in the Atari/Intellivision/Coleco era, and I had never heard of this either. In fairness, I was 2 when it came out.

I grew up in Buffalo, and we got a lot of Canadian TV skipping over the lake. As I little kid, I could watch Sesame Street, and then watch it again with the Spanish stuff swapped out with French. There was also a show for preschoolers called Mr. Dress-Up, with a Mister Rogers-esque host and his puppet friend. Which I…

I just thought it was funny how Wikipedia characterized the educational requirement as bordering on torture.

It's a sad constant every time I write about older pop culture, how much of it was destroyed, often for no better reason than, "whaddawe gonna do with all these old tapes?"

It can be, ah, two things.

"average of civic literacy"

I don't get this reference, so I'm just going to assume that Annyong shows up on later seasons of The Americans. (I'm only on season 2! No spoilers besides the Annyong thing!")

Too soon!

Damn you, now I'll have that jingle stuck in my head for the next six months.