Somewhere I still have several tapes of the "radio show" I made with my tape recorder as a kid. I'm sure that now, as then, it's unlistenable to anyone who's not me. Then my brother got the Home Alone 2 tie-in Talkboy, which was such a great toy. With the flick of a switch, you could make yourself sound like a…

ALF premiered in the fall of 1986. That's the same year They Might Be Giants' first album came out. It's easy to think that once a band like TMBG releases an actual album, they're all set and don't have to take menial jobs anymore, but clearly that's not the case.

But they might be!

The first sentence of his review begins "Somewhere there is an audience for "UHF," I have no doubt…" Clearly he wasn't the audience.

Don't believe anything you read on the internet, especially if it's about Back to the Future II, and especially especially if it's about the date Marty McFly traveled to 2015.

A friend of mine who knew a lot more about music than me once told me that the instrumental "Welcome to the Fun Zone" from UHF made him realize Weird Al was a musical genius. I don't know if I've ever heard anyone else go that far, but he definitely knows what he's doing.

I think his originals and "style parodies" have gotten better over the years, where they're now my favorite parts of his albums over the regular parodies. I like "Mission Statement" and "Jackson Park Express" as much as anything on Mandatory Fun.

One of the John Denver specials is good. It's just the other one that's bad.

It ran on TNT right after its original HBO stint, and later on Disney.

Agent Coulson was in there somewhere.

Brian Henson hasn't worked with the Disney-owned Muppets in years, so Sal is unlikely, unfortunately.

I predict this week not be the last time.

Didn't they do a montage one year that was scenes of characters waking up? That was probably the nadir of montages.

They hired David Letterman to host the Oscars, and they got David Letterman hosting the Oscars. I still think "Oprah, Uma" was funny.

Yep. Every single year people say the Oscars show is terrible, and then the next year they watch it and complain again, as if they forgot everything from the previous year and the fact that it would be long and include a lot of acceptance speeches. I honestly don't know what the complainers are expecting.

All my friends in 6th grade raved about Hatchet, so I read it. But I had just read My Side of the Mountain within about a year before, so I didn't see what the big deal was. Just another kid surviving in the wilderness, right?

Cookie Monster also got to sing with Jeff Bridges on Saturday Night Live. It was the result of a Betty White-like Sesame Workshop campaign to get Cookie Monster to host the show, which included an "audition" video where he did Weekend Update and a MacGruber sketch.

Well, of course not. Legos aren't made of radishes.

Hooray! It's been my avatar for years, but you're only the second person to identify him. Oddly enough, the first was earlier this week… Is Digit making a comeback?

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