The Letter of the Day song is super-catchy.

Putting on my Muppet geek hat: Kermit had already been around for a few years by the time of the Wilkins commercials. He was one of the characters Jim Henson created for Sam & Friends, his local Washington, DC show. That show caught the attention of the Wilkins coffee people who asked him to make commercials. …

Congratulations, you are the first person to think of this joke.

See severed heads that seem to fall right in your lap! See that bloody hatchet coming right at you!

He was on a notoriously bad season too, so he might have done better if he had come to the show at a different time.

I read this book and Jay Mohr's Gasping for Airtime back-to-back, and it was fascinating to see the differences in how they viewed their respective SNL stints. For Hammond, it provided stability, and he was successful on the show. He seems grateful for it. But Mohr, who didn't do so well, is petty and blames…

"Family-friendly sex and violence" is a good way to describe it.

That cartoon is unbelievable. Why make a Dick Tracy cartoon if you're only going to have Dick Tracy show up for a few seconds at the beginning and end of each episode? And those racist caricatures you refer to included Go-Go Gomez and Joe Jitsu. There was also a talking dog, but I can't remember if he was offensive…

After the movie came out, I was excited to find a Dick Tracy book at the library. But I was shocked when it opened with a strip showing Pruneface's bullet-riddled body floating out to sea.

McDonald's had a summer-long "Dick Tracy Crimestoppers" game that I was obsessed with. You would get these scratch-off cards, and if you matched characters, you would win prizes. It was way more exciting than Monopoly, because it featured ugly mobsters.

In an amazing coincidence, I watched it this past weekend. Al Pacino is just big and unstoppable as Big Boy. If it weren't for his voice you could believe it wasn't Al Pacino but an actual comic strip character who came to life. Madonna is fine. She gazes seductively at Dick Tracy and wears form-fitting dresses as…

More than any other actor, she's a person that I see in things and go, "Oh, that's the woman from — wait, what is she from?" And then I look her up and remember that she's from everything.

He had to learn how to be speedy… so his mother wouldn't eat him! It's perfect!

Mumbo Jumbo was cool.

How do you feel about "tackles?"

Somehow it's more impressive to me than DVDs or Blu-ray. Like, sure, people in the 90s figured out how to put movies on discs with modern technology. But they managed to put movies on records decades earlier? Now that's something.

Whatever happened to predictability?
To read any good news on the newspaper page
No matter what the odds are, nothing's gonna stand in my way
Step by step, day by day

No, you're thinking of "The Right Stuff," which was the theme song for the 1983 film "The Right Stuff."

But… the Step by Step theme song has the words "step by step" in it.

Because "Alf's Hit Talk Show" in the early 2000s just wasn't enough!