The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd is hilariously unfair to the reader.

This is my objection to Jingle Bell Rock. In spite of its repeated claims, that song utterly fails to rock.

Speed Zone is sort of Cannonball Run 3, except if the race were in Canada, featured mostly SCTV, and only made it about 500 miles before dropping the whole race concept entirely.

Placebo is outraged that they weren't mentioned.

You are correct in your snap judgments. Julie Taymor has to be the only director who could make Titus Andronicus great and The Tempest terrible.

Sydnee and Justin's birth experience. It's one of the podcasts highlighted in this week's Podmass article, so more information is available if you scroll up.

It's a really good episode of Sawbones. A little more horrifying and less funny than usual, but still well worth listening to.

Man, I love the Boomtown Rats. Bob Geldof was so much more fun as an angry Irish singer.

Have you seen what pro-wrestling was like fifty years ago? At least now, the wrestlers have steroids.

The Popeye soundtrack is weird, because it's all studio recordings of the songs. So very few of them sound much like they do in the movie, where they were recorded live during filming.

It was a bargain!

Next week is going to cover the two episodes from season four that I enjoy. I'm not saying they're both good, exactly, but…

There's material in the Rutland Dirty Weekend Book that also shows up on Python albums (like the "Rock News" segment that gave Toad the Wet Sprocket its name), so I've always considered Rutland Weekend Television to be very nearly (but not quite) Actual Python.

Such a good joke. Incredibly dumb, but it makes me laugh every time.

That' the happiest anyone's ever been about anything. Nelson watching Andy Williams is the platonic ideal of happiness.

I just learned that I'm unable to resist repeating it when I see it in text. Like in an AVClub comments section, for example.

I enjoyed the heck out of this album when it was new. And I still find it very listenable, although I have to do it well out of earshot of anyone else.

Les was great. So much of Turkeys Away depends on Les's description of things. And not just while it was happening; he's just as funny when he gets back to the station.

I believe the header image is from "Commercial Break," the episode where WKRP writes a catchy jingle to sell Ferryman's Funeral Homes.

The baseball episode is also great. As is "Hoodlum Rock" in which a band called Scum of the Earth show up. In fact, the whole show is great. Great, I tell you.