But 23 years later, we don’t need huge ratings for a show to survive. In the streaming era, a show that drives (or sustains) subscriptions is plenty. (And, ironically, a 1996 television flop would be one of the highest rated shows today.)

You can’t throw a rock in Los Angeles now without hitting an improv troupe with a podcast. There’s a deep, deep bench in 2019 of folks capable of pulling this off.

Although I think Frank Oz may be a little precious with how difficult it is to get the Muppets right, I believe him that Disney has suffocated the franchise…

It really doesn’t seem like it should be this hard to do a successful Muppets series.

Give us a 2020 version of the Muppet Show and done. There aren’t other variety shows to speak of now, and we’ve got plenty of musicians who’d be game for a skit and two songs.

I would subscribe to Disney+ for that.

Does Spider-Men count as an event?

No, the patch they’re using for Classic, 1.12, is after they pulled the original fast mounts in favor of the “better” ones. (I’m still very bitter that I’ll never be able to get the original black ram, as I just didn’t have the gold at the time.)

Murky, the exclusive pet from Blizzcon 2005, is not in the game.

OK, everyone, you now know King’s water preferences. Please fill the pitchers at his table at public appearances accordingly.

Alternately, disable notifications from every app that doesn’t have potential life and death situations.

Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc., will be there when you have time, but nothing they’re flagging you down for matters. Suddenly, you find your phone a lot less compelling, because you’re not stuck in a feedback…

Appears to be desktop only. Works on Firefox and Chrome.

They would have resolved the River storyline at some point. (Judging by how Charisma Carpenter’s pregnancy was handled on Angel, probably not well.) And then they would have come up with something new to drive things.

For instance, maybe Mal gets deep in debt, has to take out a big loan from a scary mobster, gets…

The premise could have gone forever, but I don’t know there’s an audience for 100 episodes of “What if Han Solo had a bigger crew? And also, ignore any awkward Confederacy analogs.”

That said, it’s better than Cowboy Bebop, which is treated even more as being a nearly perfect thing when it’s mostly OK.

Hey, is a discounted shower caddy a sandwich?

If “American Splendor” contains enough material for a successful biopic, Richard Montañez’s story does too.

Hey, is a hot dog a sandwich?

Also, let me conduct a 1,000-word interview about how a comedian hates some song from high school.

But did you get the cardboard pirate hat? Honestly, you left out the most important part of the story for some of us.

I was just coming here to post something similar, from the Rancho Cucamonga newspaper. It’s a genuinely great story with the surprising twist that a multinational corporation did the completely right thing by him.

Most journalists work at local publications and broadcast outlets around the country. Reporters at the Indianapolis Star or the Dallas Morning News or the Seattle Times are covering what’s happening in their cities and their communities.

Ignoring the fact that these journalists are the only ones covering city hall and…

There is not a priestly class of people called “journalists” who are able to produce Certified Real Journalism, which exists on a higher plane from the tawdry musings of the rabble.

God damn it, FINE, I’ll give you your fucking money, Disney. Between this and Kat Dennings in WandaVision, I don’t really have any fucking choice, now do I?

Lots of actors are actually pretty shy in real life. And press junkets are famously draining.