Where does "Match Game '77" fit into this chronology? That's a title I remember from my childhood but I don't see it mentioned here. Maybe they always included the current year in the title? Or maybe that version only lasted a year? Now I feel like I have to know.

Anybody else always read/hear Ramis' name with a little stilted chuckle at the beginning? - the way his name was announced during the opening credits of SCTV - "ha - Harold Ramis!"

No dog in the fight, completely neutral on Kiss, neither a fan nor a hater, no strong feelings about them or their music either away. I admire Gene and Paul's desire to include the "new guys" in the HOF honor, that's generous but also ridiculous. Whoever they are and however long they've been playing in the band,…

I am not familiar with Patti Lupone (not unlike Hannah's waitress). I 1000% percent thought that she was being played by Jan Hooks of long-gone SNL fame, she could be her doppelganger (and, as Marnie would point out, also looks just like her).

I'm with you all the way even if we're in the minority. Frank is the heart of the show and a very likeable, interesting and funny character, notwithstanding the many very dark shenanigans he's pulled. It was William H. Macy's involvement that led me to the show in the first place, as a huge fan of his acting, and…

I didn't think her declining to give Robbie's name was out of any particular loyalty to him, rather just out of a general ethical code of not ratting people out - she wasn't going to do that as much as it would have helped her own desperate case here. It was an act of integrity, the only time I admired her in these…

"Contemptuous"?? I don't think that's the right word to describe Lennon and McCartney's songwriting partnership at all.

Frank's obvious intelligence, wit and literacy that you mention, beaming through from within his drunken rants, is one of my favorite aspects of the series, and something that is not often mentioned in discussing the character. It has been interesting seeing a different flavor of his personality coming through the…

I was a little surprised that she was doing coke in the first place, we've seen her share a quick puff of a joint with Lip but other than that she is not a big partier or druggie - rather, most of the time she is pretty responsible, practical and focused at home, whatever craziness is going on around her. Yes, she…

"Fiona is still a valuable member of World Wide Cup…" won't her arrest and possible jail sentence put that in serious jeopardy?

I don't know if I've seen anybody else mention this, but I thought the most powerful, convincing thing in Woody's letter was that, if I understood and remember what he said correctly, Mia Farrow's ex-husband's ex-wife had written and recorded a song about abuse called "Daddy in the Attic" and Farrow would have heard…

Haha yes that was a good one, "recently dined at the inter - NATIONAL House of Pancakes…"

I've always liked Paula Poundstone's standup, but once many years ago I ran into her just standing around momentarily in a casino in Atlantic City, she was performing there that weekend as part of a multi-comedian fest type show. Anyway I said hi to her by her name, I don't remember the details, just that I didn't…

Seems inaccurate to me to say that Shelley Long's departure "improved" Cheers, imho the "Diane years" of the show are head and shoulders above the Rebecca years, Diane a more interesting and funnier character, the writing and Long's performance light years ahead of Rebecca/Kirsten Alley's much broader comedy and…

The producers have gone on record saying the Steve is definitely dead.

I liked that when he got fed up with his supervisor's unsympathetic attitude and went outside to vent his frustration by kicking and punching shit, it was just a quick temporary acting-out and he quickly got it out of his system, put his apron back on and went back to work. I had thought it would be a pivotal moment…

Petal?

I remember it as him having said simply, "nice vacations."

Another hilarious episode, but one thing that bugged me was that after Holt said "Maybe I should stop talking to your wife," obviously the sensible choice to help Terry's marital glitch that he had created (and Terry agreed, saying "good call"), he kept doing it again and again and making things worse. Seemed out of…

WIth the deaths yesterday of two actors from long-ago sitcoms, this had me thinking about how much they've changed. When I was a kid in the Gillians Island / Partridge Family eras, there were very few prime time network sitcoms that would have had a line like "Maybe it's because it's an old man's semen, but I feel…