"Mother Russia has it right, as usual." — any current member of White House staff

Exactly. It's a combination of being annoying and people hating change. You might think Fred's annoying, but he's part of the original idea of the show, so if you like the show, you have to accept Fred on some level. He's grandfathered in.

So, furries have a thing for dressing up in animal costumes and having long, pedantic arguments about what furries are? That's much worse than what I assumed they were doing in those costumes.

You're absolutely right. I didn't realize Welker had that long a run. I knew Casey Kasem had voiced Shaggy for 40 years, but didn't think about the rest of the cast.

I was very glad to see they did spend the rest of the show dealing with his death, and didn't just do a Hogan Family: "Mom died. Let's never speak of her again. On with our wacky adventures!"

Only just reading the comments — I ran out of space for Hartman, and other things I wanted to write about fit into my arbitrary categories, so I threw in the reference in the intro.

Most of them have! They only retired most of the original cast a year or two ago.

Irredeemable is right.

That makes a lot of sense. I've always wondered why people are so sore about the Dodgers but you never hear a peep about the Giants, but I assumed it was that New York still had a team; Brooklyn didn't.

The city's remarkably clean and safe, but I do have good news for you — a lot of it still smells like piss, especially now that the weather's getting warm.

It's a pretty easy Google search, if you're so inclined. But Wikipedia keeps their page clean, at least in this instance.

That's something I've always loved about Coney; it's for New Yorkers. And it serves more or less the same purpose in 2017 it did in 1917; a place where New Yorkers from all walks of life can get away for a quick beach vacation without leaving the city.

That's something I always think is funny about New Yorkers who are still sore about the Dodgers leaving. Never mind the Giants; half the teams in baseball relocated, because with TV, you didn't need to go to the game to see it, attendance dropped, and suddenly cities couldn't support two teams. So the Braves, A's, St.…

And Coney's always a little bit cooler than the rest of the city because it's on the ocean. Which is great during the dog days of summer, but in spring and fall? Not so much.

As hot dogs go yes, but at the end of the day, they're still hot dogs.

I went to Sydney years ago, and walking across the Harbor Bridge, joked that the other side was Brooklyn (it has a separate, smaller skyline from downtown, just as Brooklyn does compared to Manhattan). So, we get to the other side of the bridge, and there's an amusement park along the waterfront called Coney Island.…

If I ever retire, you're taking over. You've clearly got what it takes, kid!

They have given Coney Island a bit more polish since then, but you do have to go expecting it to be charmingly run-down.

It's also not made for anyone over 6' tall. I rode it once and felt like I lost a fight. Never again.

I love that the guy who defends the in-depth discussion of protecting Coney Island from being bulldozed for luxury condos ends by saying, "but think of all the luxury condos we could build! Think of all the people we could price out of this neighborhood! Also, let's invent high-speed hovercrafts!"