"I Accuse My Parents" is a great episode just for the "Truck Farmer" short! "Early tractor pulls, not that much fun…" "It's Killdozer! Clint Walker, no!" "High-energy prop comic Carrot Top is also packed in ice!"

Well of course Satan hates their guts, they don't even bother to capitalize his name!

"The No.1 player drafted in the draft"? I'm about as uninterested in sports as there is, but beyond the redundancy, even I know that "Number 1 draft pick" would be a better word choice! This is Tommy Wiseau-level stuff. On the bright side, I see a great Cinema Snob video coming out of this one…

Also, "Hercules" is as close as Disney's animated features come to a straight-up action-comedy until they switched to CGI.

If I hadn't been told this was the "Justice League" teaser poster, I might not have guessed it as such. Wheee.

Thanks for plugging through this one, Nathan.

It's just the first preview, but I like what I see so far.

It's also insulting to the original film for her to say the latter. As if it wasn't already a story of love, what makes people truly human, etc. as an animated feature?

I'm surprised more critics haven't complained about how lacking in menace the Beast is. Without that, he not only isn't as scary, he's snootier and actually, oddly, less sympathetic. I guess it's because it's less convincing that he'd be so self-loathing and lose hope he'll ever be human again, whereupon he just…

Actually, that sounds like a great idea…

I'm just autistic.

It also epitomizes PBS's intent to bring quality programming, especially educational shows, to the widest TV audience possible — the show's key audience, when it was conceived, were kids in poor urban communities. This is why it's a bit heartbreaking to see it have to broker the deal with HBO to keep going, between…

In the online storybook that introduced her in 2015, in which she, Elmo and Abby Cadabby have a playdate, she did not have any savant talent. She had some specific likes and dislikes, and sensory issues (noise IIRC). The point of the story was that she was "different", but that was okay; with a bit of accommodation,…

The character is female precisely because of the under-representation issue.

I wish I enjoyed this movie more (I was deeply disappointed), but I don't want to begrudge anyone who enjoyed it — and it seems a lot of people really do.

Nice to see Julia's making it into the show; she was introduced in an online storybook in 2015. I thought it handled the issue well — in a positive manner and in terms that a preschooler could understand/relate to. (Full disclosure: I'm autistic.)

I have to agree, they were too preoccupied with plot holes (and opened up a whanging great one with how Belle's backstory was uncovered). I mean, I noticed the inconsistency about the Beast's age way back when I first saw the movie in 1991, but just thought of it as a blooper, a lyric that needed revision. Those…

Yep, it played La Jolla too. And sure, Broadway's cool with darker musicals, but Disney = family-friendly to theatergoers and they would have had a marketing challenge keeping the littler ones away from this show AND attracting adults, both groups of whom would probably assume it would be the more lighthearted…

Yeah, that was nicely handled. I think it works in both versions to give them that kind of bonding moment over the books. The 2002 special edition cut of the animated feature, which reinstated "Human Again", works in a brief scene that's similar to the Broadway version's approach. ("I learned…a little…")

It didn't — I was looking for it!