I like New. I listen to “Queenie Eye” at work and dance around in my chair.

Oz recently clarified, in response to a fan question, that Fozzie wasn't named for him, but for a puppet builder named Faz Fazakas.

They had a web show in the mid-00s called From the Balcony. It had its moments, but it wasn't as great as you'd hope.

I had one friend who called it the “ness.” The rest of us laughed at him. That was probably mean.

Believe it or not, there have been two filmed versions. One in 1969, and the one you saw, from 1990. I was required to read the play and then watch the 1990 version in junior high language arts class. I don’t remember what literary devices we were supposed to have learned from it.

I haven’t seen any Mamma Mias, but I love this. It’s always fun to scrutinize the minutiae of fictional stories.

I recall a lot of talk about Halle Berry ruining a perfectly good Joss Whedon joke. Including comments about “Imagine Buffy would deliver the same line. THAT’S how she was supposed to say it!” (Some of those comments may have been from the 2000 version of me.)

My contrary opinion: I enjoy the Jurassic Park ride very much! The first time I went to Universal Orlando, it was a slow day, and I rode it five times.

I was startled to see just how much of the Peterson case they appropriated for Trial & Error — and how easy it was to twist the facts of the serious true-life case into comedy.

This is the comment I was hoping to see.

It might be useful for this article to mention how many years Thompson has been on the show (15 — he joined in 2003).

Oz also has a backstory for Sam the Eagle where he hangs around the Muppets because he’s divorced and estranged from his children and has nowhere else to go. That’s where comedy comes from!

Jim Henson was never really running the show at Sesame Street, though. He provided Muppet characters and ideas for them, but he wasn’t in charge. When The Muppet Show took off in 1976, he was even less involved. Jon Stone, the director/writer/producer, was probably the closest thing they had to a showrunner until he…

A scary monster may be scary for little kids, but it’s a pretty far cry from junkie puppets offering to perform oral sex for money, isn’t it?

One point of clarification on this: The Jim Henson Company does not have the rights to the Muppets. They sold that to Disney in 2004. So the Henson/Muppet connection is a whole different topic from the Henson/Sesame connection, but this complicates it all even further.

I don’t know if I’d say awesome. But a few years ago I re-watched Batman Forever and Batman & Robin back to back out of morbid curiosity, and I found that I liked Batman Forever a lot more than its reputation suggests. It’s probably not a good Batman story, but it’s a fun tie-dyed t-shirt of a movie. Batman & Robin…

I had a handful of those sticker albums — ALF, Thundercats, Ghostbusters 2. Each sticker had a number, and often when you placed the stickers in the corresponding place in the album they would make scenes and panoramas. But the cards were never sold in stores for more than a few moths, so all my albums were about 80%…

The Monkees’ “I’m Gonna Buy Me a Dog” is a fun one. Apparently it was supposed to be just a dumb but straightforward pop song, but Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones got the giggles.

I just clicked back through some strips from the past year, and you’re right. What a weird choice for a... running gag? But it can’t be a running gag because it’s not funny. It’s just weird.

It might be slight, but the pacing is just right, it’s easy to follow, and it’s a bunch of superheroes fighting to stop the bad guys’ evil plan. I’ll take that over a convoluted, “nothing will ever be the same” event series any day.