CFL USA was in 1993-95. CFL's main problem when expanding into the US was that it was driven in large part by expansion fees, as the established CFL teams would use their cut of the money to keep solvent. Whether the expansion teams themselves had consistent attendance figures and/or the owners were competent was…

Stop wasting our time. We know what Shearer wants. We know what he needs, or maybe we don't.

All I remember about Martin is King Beef. That's likely just as well.

Garrett is also Krang in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. His low voice is more suited to characters like Lobo, yet it's a fairly distinctive voice. I'm surprised he isn't more omnipresent in voiceover work than I assumed he is.

I personally have a soft spot for "Life in the Past Lane", if only due to Daria being the only show I can remember at the time that looked at retro culture with any depth beyond "how about that, swing is popular now! isn't it nice that we can talk about Brian Setzer again without giggling". It's an average Daria…

Technically, it's Insight Productions producing the concert. Insight also produces the Juno Awards broadcasts for CTV. It's still better-produced than I expected - nothing fancy, just a band winding down a career in their home city. It's too bad the film/television awards (i.e., Canadian Screen Awards) can't run as…

It's like they came straight from the house of buggin'.

One of two things I remember most from this season: host Deion Sanders performing songs from his album Prime Time. The nominal musical guest for the episode is Bon Jovi, and Sanders manages to make Bon Jovi look like a relative non-entity.

All that setup and you didn't end with a picture of Annabelle and Sharky from Eek! the Cat? Okay, Sharky's a sharkdog, but it's as close as the mainstream gets to the sharkpet aesthetic.

One doesn't need much of an explanation for Booga. He's a stylized "kangaroo", a former toy designer, and Tank Girl's house-husband. In the comics, I don't see him as anything more than a comic foil. The uplifted-dog characterization in the film made Booga less abstract, and more unsettling.

The Tank Girl film got me interested in alternative music during the mid-1990s. The film tries way too hard to ape the style and attitude of the comics - Tank Girl comics sometimes have plot, yet that's more a bonus feature than anything. Still, to someone in his mid-teens trying to find an identity, Tank Girl made…

It's a tradition at least as old as Jann Wenner founding Rolling Stone so he could meet John Lennon…except that, for the longest time, Wenner denied what ups he sucked.

The [adult swim] generation would have started much earlier in Canada, but Teletoon decided to air Space Ghost Coast to Coast eight years later than it should have, I guess to make sure the subversion was bled out of it or something.

To be fair, Justice League Unlimited was still a thing in 2006, even if the show (and, by extension, the DC Animated Universe) wound down. I don't expect Legends of Tomorrow to be Justice League/Justice League Unlimited, but LoT comes across as weirdly non-committal to its central premise at times. At least Arrow and T…

Pinky gets a chance to take over the world in "Pinky's Turn". Pinky applies parts from Brain's previous failed plans, and winds up Chairman of the Federal Reserve. The implication is that Brain, while a good planner, is inflexible, and that Pinky actually pays attention to Brain's plans.

A rich, full-bodied wine, sensibly priced at a dollar a jug. And now, for a little magic, I shall make this jug disappear.

Of course Superman would show that amount of interest in journalism awards. Give Lois Lane an award, and the number of stage props set up to kill and/or maim her increase substantially.

If Jay Sherman counts as a major Fox cartoon dad (and with one season on that network, I know it's a stretch), he WOULD be the exception, except Jay Sherman is adopted. Still, Jay Sherman lived an upper-class childhood with a more-or-less functional family…as functional as a family gets when Eleanor Sherman shoots her…

I hold out hope for a Stanley and His Monster appearance. I assume they'll appear on Arrow at some point. It'd probably help that show's realism some.

Buck Henry, preferably with stunt baby or as Uncle Roy. He WAS the man to close out SNL's season four years running. The man took an errant sword for comedy.