For whatever it's worth, I think "Yesteryear" from The Animated Series has a pretty damn good use of The Guardian, though I suppose it was no more necessary to the plot than any of the other random time-travel mechanisms the franchise has used before.

For whatever it's worth, the new DCEU intro seems like an homage to the old Justice League intro with the CGI figures of the characters.

Five years late to the party, but I always thought of Sokka and Xander in particular having a lot in common. And Zuko is kind of the Spike of A:TLA.

6 has Mos Def. 8 has nothing.

Miguel Prado went from "dude has some darkness in him" to "I'm craaaaaaaaaaaazy!" in like an episode or two. It was absurd, and a disappointing direction for a storyline that had been pretty great up to that point.

Those episodes of Star Trek happened all the time! Q showed up like once a season for a while! And the Mortis arc was pretty great as a more spiritual, impressionistic take on the force mythos.

I used to stay up late to watch the Classic SNL reruns NBC would put on around 1 in the morning after the new episodes were finished.

Cecily Strong is also a comedic workhorse for the show. She has fewer indelible characters, but she brings it in every sketch and the show definitely leans on her.

Look into your future, Pete Davidson!

As a Cowboys fan, I'm obviously pretty biased, but it would feel like a pretty big cultural blow if they got rid of the Cowboys Thanksgiving Day game tradition. It feels like such a big part of the holiday around here. And in terms of any fairness issue, I feel like any competitive advantage from the mini-bye is…

It only got an honorable mention in Sepinwall's book of the greatest television shows, which isn't the final arbiter of all things TV obviously, but I think is representative of its status as a "oh yeah, that was pretty good" show when it should be better recognized for how clever and deep it could be.

A lovely write-up for a wonderful and underrated series. Great work, Danette!

Julie suffered in S2 (who didn't?) when they turned her into an insufferable brat and in S5, where they basically had to find a reason to keep her in the orbit of Dillon long enough to get their happy ending.

This 100%. Her whole arc was about not wanting to have to go back to college and face the music after sleeping with her TA and having his jilted wife memorably tell everyone in earshot that she was a slut. Was it mature? Absolutely not, but there was a point to it and a reason to have sympathy for her.

Damnit, I just spent five minutes of my life getting the wording right for this joke, and you already made it.

Simpsons (already) did it! — https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

And Gina had a role on The Sopranos! They've been planting these seeds for years!

Back in the lead up to Wrestlemania, Steph cut one of the more impressive promos in recent years about how Shane thought he could just stroll back into WWE and shunt her to the side, and it both reeked of sexism and ignored how she had been working to keep the company going day-in-day-out in his absence. It seemed…

That's a bold claim with Edie Falco in the same show.

I too used that slogan in a student council election and lost!