My experience with giving up caffeine is that If you stop drinking Mountain Dew, and then try it again after a couple months off, you realize it actually tastes pretty awful.

That makes alot of sense. I hadn't thought about the difference between when they would have suspected and when they would have had confirmation.

While Small Gods and Hogfather are my two favorite Disc books, I think Esmerelda Weatherwax is my favorite literary character period.

Hogfather just barely nudges out Small Gods because of one quote from Death:

When I got Pratchett to sign my copy of Good Omens he laughed when he saw it wasn't signed by Gaiman. He took up a bunch of space with his signature, then boxed off a little area and told me "That should be enough for Neil."

It's weird. I've seen a couple of his obits saying he was diagnosed with Alzheimers in 2007, but I met him at a convention in 2005 and it was known then that he had the disease. In fact, the proceeds for the art auction went to Alzheimers research.

My "then" was more of a sort of era of what I was remembering still being aired in the afternoon around when Power Rangers was on. Other than educational stuff, I can't really think of anything kid oriented and live action that I'd consider excellent. Power Rangers had the occasional fun kaiju-lite moments, though.

Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers debuted on Fox Kids in the US in the summer of '93. This was the era of Tiny Toons, Batman, Superman, ExoSquad, Freakazoid, Ducktales, Talespin, and Darkwing Duck. You're claiming children's entertainment wasn't good at that point?

I was originally going to argue about McCoy being the Id in your statement rather than Kirk, but then I remembered all the emotion vs. logic arguments between McCoy and Spock and realized I would be wrong.

The star winking out at the end of the credits was pretty fitting, too.

"Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant."
-Cary Grant

Honestly, the fight choreography in the old shows was better than what was on display in this.

I remember watching three of the episodes before it disappeared. I've never met someone in real life who had even heard of it before I brought it up.

I never realized it was location based, I thought the lightning could hit any place outside the radius of the lightning towers. Still, that sounds like an approach that would lead to madness.

I remember an attempted spin-off… reboot? The New Monkees was at some point in the mid-80s, but I'm pretty sure that wasn't in the 80s. Also, this is my favorite Monkees song as well.

Also:
Harley Quinn: Puddin'!
Batman: At this point, he probably is.

Episodes? I thought that happened in the "World's Finest" movie. I didn't remember them cutting that up to make into episodes.

Wait, did Eek! The Cat do an Apocalypse Now episode? I don't remember that. I very much remember Animaniacs doing one. "This is the beginning, the beginning, the beginning of our story."

Not in the face!

Noooooo! I hadn't heard that. I know it's been years, but I kept hoping it'd actually happen.