QP was so good at being quietly creepy. I've got a thing for "My Son John", the story of a man who finds a way to bring back the son he lost during the war and gets a little more than he bargained for.

All at a dazzling 480i compression rate!

The thing you've got to understand about the smark audience is that they're the core audience, the base of the ratings numbers that never moves because more likely than not, this is what they've been into for a large part of their lives. Even on a miserable show, there's usually one match that reminds them why they…

It says something that the one thing I remember with certainty from last night without being reminded by reading a column like this is the guy proposing to his girlfriend during the Cena/Ziggler match and Cena actually stopping the match to acknowledge that she said yes. In other words, the one thing that WWE had no…

Here, have one on me: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Definitely thanks for doing it. If there's anything I've learned from twenty years on the Internet, it's to never underestimate the potential audience for ephemera.

Outstanding. The 1989 in-store tape is an almost subliminal soundtrack, but especially at the beginning this thing from 1964 practically screams "KEEP MOVING! We're burning daylight here!"

"Why does every Divas segment involve someone calling their opponent a “loser” or doing the ol’ L on the forehead thing?"

While I get where you're coming from, and can agree with you to a certain extent, the problem with applying that to this particular set of quotes is that QT was born in 1963. When he was just QT the store clerk, the Video Archives inventory informed his education as a filmmaker, the way film societies and the late…

If we're being clear, that first sentence in your reply was literally my point, because call me a Luddite, but the physical thing is the point of ownership. Why I view it this way goes past commerce, though.

If you can't sell a movie or an album on eBay, you never truly owned a copy of it.

With all due respect, there were more than three Land Before Time Movies. Heathen.

Only thing of note (besides blowing off the Emmys for WWE Night of Champions): the final episode of Sabado Gigante. Lots of music, lots of cars given away. Shakira, the Obamas and Gloria Estefan did pre-recorded tributes. To underline that it's over, they even pulled the mask off of El Chacal.

Actually, George's role was more of a fourth-wall breaker, since obviously we're differentiating. But when I think of the two Beckys on Roseanne, I always end up with Burns and Allen.

Are we counting series where self-aware elements are built into the fabric of the thing without breaking the chosen format? Because that's The George Burns-Gracie Allen Show in a nutshell.

Oh. I. Just. Don't. Know.

Saturday "Highlights":

After Jon Stewart got flattened by Cena, Flair was thoughtful enough to check Jon's pulse before the medical guys arrived. It's those small touches as much as the big ones that make a legend.

Oh god yes, Conceptual Continuity would be an Inventory unto itself.

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention pulled this off a few times. The ones that come mind off the top of my head are Absolutely Free's "America Drinks" and "America Drinks And Goes Home" (the first in a stumbling-through-the-dark out-of-time version; the second as a smarmy lounge singer riff with a Lawrence Welk…