No, but it did make me wonder if Atlas Shrugged III is the sequel where we find out that Dagney Taggart and John Galt are actually brother and sister, and that they share a psychic connection that gives her the ability to see who Galt is going to kill next, but she doesn't use it because she decides his victims should…

So now that Nathan Rabin, after a much delay, has finally wrapped reviewing the Atlas Shrugged series, can we finally look forward to him posting a review of the '94-'95 season of SNL, to complete the Trilogy of Worst SNL Seasons Ever series he started with reviews of '80-'81 and '85-'86?

Kirstol is a neocon - they believe a big (or at least a strong, centralized) government can be a means to achieving conservative goals.

I think I spotted that guy in the trailer they just released.

Counter point: A point of view can actually be both popular and correct.

There were already a lot of people who were arguing that the Hartman/Carvey/Meyers era was funnier than the original NRFPTP, while those people were still on the show.

Also, preferably one that was educated at Harvard or some other elite Ivy League school.

I'm tempted to say it would have lasted longer had it been on cable rather than ABC in prime time, but then again Comedy Central later axed Smigel's "TV Funhouse" after just one season, which was one of the funniest of their original series at that time, IMO.

Though there was something slightly subversive about the handsome American hero "defecting" in order to trick the East German physicist into revealing the solution to the McGuffin formula Newman couldn't figure out, as it tacitly acknowledged that maybe every once and a while the Communists beat the West on brains,…

"Though, to be fair, you rarely see that argument being made in defense of, say, 'Family Plot.'"

I seldom actually watch Gotham, but I enjoy reading these reviews because they rarely seem to rate the show very highly, and many of the comments seem to hold it in even lower regard (though recent ones look like they're trending up). I guess it's just funny to see so much attention lavished on a show by people who…

Stylish, yet functional.

No, you're confusing that with the scene where he tells the storm troopers, "These are not the gardening hose attachments you are looking for," then grabs the last ones they have left on the shelf.

Overruled. Sit down, counselor.

You could do a whole A.V. Club story on the mostly forgotten practice of having both a daytime and evening version of a game show, each with different hosts, like the multiple iterations of the syndicated evening "The Price is Right."

At least it inspired this great moment. I'm paraphrasing, but it went something like this: Matt Lauer was interviewing a member of the women's U.S. Olympic swimming team. He referenced the team's tradition of throwing a medalist into the water after a victory. Roker said, "Our tradition is to throw one of us under the…

Yeah, I was pretty much in Conan's camp, and I pretty much stopped watching NBC's late night programs after that (though, to be fair, I was never a regular viewer). But he did get a multi-million dollar payoff at a time when millions of people were loosing their jobs and houses and just praying for Congress to extend…

…in which the heads of the Five Families battle for control of the Universal Studios back lot. The lighting, the cinematography, the sets, the costumes… you can often tell a Universal film from this era just from the look, because even a theatrical release such as this looks like a TV show.

Lucas: "I meant to do that."

I tried checking out books on tape out from the library once years ago. This was when they were literally on tape. I forget the title, but I checked out something dense and literary for the purpose of falling asleep. So as I was lying there, serenely listening to an avuncular sounding Englishman narrate this classic…