Letterman hit my sweet spot of celebrating entertainment while tearing it down.

He resolutely WANTED to provide good television, even as he knew (or at least felt) that that was an empty, frivolous pursuit.

Hence this bit, which remains one of the dumbest, and at the same time greatest, things I’ve ever seen on TV:

I mean - up to a point? But that glosses over the fact that videos were made to promote albums (and therefore meant to be noticed), and that videos pretty quickly came to be recognized as potential works of art in their own right. (Really, they had gone in that direction even before MTV came along.)

“Do all races get a honest assessment and inventory of their sins both original and ongoing? Does each race get a month to lay bare and apologize for all of the horrible things it did?”

Only the ones with the most power and history of using it to horrific ends.

I’ve never seen “Ridiculousness”, but from the description here, and looking around at what’s going on in the US culturally and societally, it sounds like the sort of thing people can just leave on in the background while they do other things (including looking at the Internet), occasionally turning their attention to…

Regardless of that, I wanna know who the “aerospace engineer” Rambeau called is.

I was wondering if Reed Richards was gonna show up, but he’s more of a physicist, I think?

OK - I feel like that staircase with the stained glass window is a VERY SPECIFIC reference to another sitcom set and I can’t place it.

A lot of people are saying “Family Ties” but I’ve checked and that doesn’t seem right.

Thanks - I appreciate that.

I’m not a parent so I was just curious!

Sorry, I misunderstood.

But I’m also curious which of the MCU movies weren’t OK for your kids?

It seems unlikely Marvel/Disney are going to put anything in these shows that’s harder than what was in the movies.

If the movies are OK for your kids, these should be.

“The laugh track is even more intrusive this week, providing guffaws when none are justified”

Well, that was how laugh tracks were, TBH.

For me, it wasn’t even the continuity so much as the fact that a lot of that continuity was dumb and pointless. :/

Honestly, bullshit turns like this are a big part of the reason I stopped reading open-ended ongoing monthly comics in the early 90s... and it happened through the X-Men franchise titles I was reading, though the problem was endemic to a lot of titles from many houses.

The combination of meandering plotlines punctuated…

I think it’s one of the most finely crafted US movies ever. Absolutely no exaggeration.

Narrator: “It was not a surprise.”

I think I was just in a mood that day. :/

Yep. My friend and I saw “Sheena” in the theater at 13. Went mainly for the adventure, but then were delightfully surprised to see All of Ms. Roberts.

“I don’t get the sense Chibnall has the vaguest idea how politics or business works.”

TBF, I don’t know that a LOT of “Who” writers have had the vaguest idea of how those things work.

APPROVED.

See my reply above. ;)

Oh yeah - a lot of people absolutely had them.

But not every car, and not all the same.