And of course there's the tendency of TV law firms to have a business portfolio that seems to have a truly homogeneous mixture of business litigation, personal injury, divorce and family law, and criminal defense, and litigators who appear adept at jumping around among those practice areas. Because that happens all…

And by that of course you mean, "My Mother the Car."

"Cheers," which the Times article cites as a "game changer" is actually a bit of an anomaly. First, although it is true that Norm, Cliff, and Frazer (and later Lilith) are all hanging out at the bar, away from their families and careers, the rest of the characters are employees of Cheers and thus are very emphatically…

You sort of saw it on the 70's Norman Lear programs like "Good Times" and "Sanford and Son," but TV really didn't get back to depicting white people who weren't either happy and well adjusted and/or financially secure until "Rosanne" and "Married… with Children" in the late '80s - early '90s. True, the Bunkers were…

"I was sort of amazed that they could produce something so lowbrow and smutty." So clearly you did NOT grow up on reruns of The Bennie Hill Show like some of us did.

Or they wouldn't (because bullies have a tendency to be cowards), but they wouldn't genuinely feel bad about it. They might be embarrassed about being called-out and squirm a bit, but they wouldn't necessarily feel bad about it.

I forgot to add in Mr. Mash/Mr. Harman, there to represent the irreverent proletarian point of view and get scolded by Peacock for showing up on the floor during retail hours. Though really I felt this depiction of antagonism between the solidly working class and the wannabe bourgeoisie was one of the more interesting…

I think you could say the same thing about the great other Lloyd and Croft success, Are You Being Served?: Jug Ears will ineptly inform everybody that Grace Brothers is doing a new promotion. Captain Peacock will very pompously order everybody around to (incompetently) pull it off. Mrs. Slocumbe will act sanctimonious…

They showed this one year on my local PBS station in junior high and I loved the hell out of it, and wished they would bring it back. But I've never seen it in the states since. My guess is that, as others below have mentioned, a combination of changing mores have lead PBS stations to shy away from running 'Allo,…

I get what this is trying to accomplish - to show that these are actual human beings these people are writing this stuff about, and that it would be outrageously mean and hateful to say such things to a person face to face. But I'm not sure this is really the most effective way to pull that off. Perhaps if the people…

"Innocent New York man targeted and attacked in order to provide A.V. Club with much needed Shia LaBeof related news after a months-long dry spell."

I don't think anyone mentioned it, but a couple of episodes back Chick spotted Norma at "Sam's Hardware," so perhaps Sam is Sam Loomis, future boyfriend/intended fiance of Marion Crane.

Some of the guys in his outfit looked old enough to have seen combat in the First World War. I know some level of disbelief is warranted in a 50's sitcom, but whenever I see this show I wonder if it's is supposed to depict some special battalion the Army had set-up for out of shape, middle-aged guys with Brooklyn…

Barney Ruble was Art Carney. Try and keep Hanna Barbera's thinly disguised "homages" to successful live action sitcoms straight.

Really? Because I feel like "train wreck" is what crossed my mind after Denise Richards was introduced as a nuclear scientist in The World is Not Enough.

Granted, it was well established, though up until that point they usually went with the pretext of having the arch villain trying to use some instrumentality readily at hand. For, example, in Goldfinger ostensibly Bond is in the factory, and the laser is a part of that factory.

"It is not only the worst Bond movie…" Bond Movies worse than The Man With The Golden Gun:
The World is Not Enough
Die Another Day
Moonraker
A View to A Kill
Quantum of Solace

Yes, albeit under the rubric of a stereotypically over-complex and implausible way of dispatching with Bond: "Quick, take Bond (unconscious but otherwise unharmed) to my private Dojo. Then, provide him with a uniform and some attractive girls to care for him. Then introduce him to a series of contenders of ascending…

Of course, he's a rebelling against a consumer society by destroying and/or re-purposing the cold plastic objects that are meant to take the place of genuine love and affection from his neglectful parents. Now that we've got that out the way internet, time for you to stop smoking weed in your parents' basement and go…

No, the pigeon double take is during the already preposterous motorized gondola/hovercraft in St. Mark's Square chase in "Moonraker." MWTGG is kind of a mixed bag. The positives: Christopher Lee is phenomenal, Maud Adams is great, I even enjoy Irve Villechaize. Some of the best cinematography of the Moore era. Also, I…