I still have my cassette tape of the soundtrack with the original line. I bet it's worth a million dollars now.

I actually don't see anything sinister in that barbecue episode. It's not a drug he gives men to incapacitate women, it's really good barbecue sauce that seems to have the side effect of making couples who already like each other act especially affectionate. And it comes at the end of an episode in which all the men…

That's what I thought this was going to be about when I saw the headline. I thought Disney was getting sued for stealing an idea from their own theme park. That would be wacky!

Haven't you heard? Food is pop culture now. For some reason.

His name is Michael Moschen, which is a great name for a juggler.

It's really easy to miss those details. I've often thought Sarah's arc would play better if the exposition about her mother had been delivered more clearly.

Tracy really screwed up allowing himself to be distracted by Breathless Mahoney.

I just remembered that he had pretty much the same voice as Eek the Cat.

As soon as I saw the headline, I immediately heard Bubsy say "Whatever blows your hair back!" in my head.

She was fourteen in Labyrinth.

You're right, that kind of thing would never make it today. Which is why they put disclaimers on the Old School DVDs noting that the DVD were intended mostly as nostalgia for grown-ups… and then everyone got all bent out of shape over the disclaimers ("OMG, Sesame Street says the episodes we watched as kids are…

Yep. This is actually Prairie Dawn "playing the role of" Piper. Stephanie D'Abruzzo, who was in the original cast of Avenue Q as well as being a Muppet performer, was cast as Prairie Dawn after her original performer Fran Brill retired.

It aired on HBO, then it aired on PBS, and it's just now been uploaded to Sesame Street's official YouTube channel.

The Rapunzel sketch teaches loud, louder, and loudest. The prince yells for Rapunzel to let down her hair, she can't hear him, he yells louder, she still can't hear him, so he yells loudest. But yeah, it was really just an excuse for the puppeteers to screw around. That one ends with the prince suddenly realizing…

That's a great counterpoint to the alarmists on Sesame's Facebook who were saying "What if this causes my child to seek out the real Orange Is the New Black? This is INAPPROPRIATE!"

It's worth noting that this is, in fact, Prairie Dawn playing the role of Piper Snackman.

The other day my wife told me she had cookies and M&Ms for breakfast. My instinct was to start quoting the chocolate cake bit… and then I remembered, and felt weird and gross.

By the time I was old enough to be aware of Star Wars, all three movies were out and available on VHS. I was fascinated, then, when a family friend told me that she and everyone else had had to wait years between Empire and Jedi to find out what happened next.

Jeff "Doc" Jensen. He came up with some CRAZY theories. I seem to recall one where he suggested that Aaron was actually the ghost of a dead person who died on the island and had caused the plane to crash so he could use Claire's baby as his new body. I guess the actual explanations were pretty nuts too, but… yeah.

I've never experienced a pop culture thrill quite like watching Lost on TV. The "alternate reality games," which never really amounted to much or had much connection to or effect on the series, were a big part of it. I remember clicking around the Hanso Foundation website late at night, looking for clues, and…