Well, Eddie was barely in it even before he left (pre-recording most of his sketches in his final season or half-season). But Jan Hooks kept popping up to play Hillary after she'd left the main cast in the early 90s. I agree though, relying on alumni and friends does undercut the main cast's ability to grow and be…

Will do. My hope is to try and sneak a look at the home menu, if possible.

This weekend I plan to spare a few hours for Pony Island, which I got cheap in a Humble Bundle recently. I don't know much about it, just that it's supposedly very good and best played without too much foreknowledge, so I have moderate hopes for it.

That's how insidious CBS are, they cancel shows on other networks.

I'm sure that goes down swell in your D&D campaign, but this is the real world and some times you have to punch a Nazi.

Table 19's premise feels like it should belong to a film as unashamedly stupid and fun as Fist Fight.

I don't think it's cute, I think it's (unfortunately) necessary. You keep clutching to your high ideals though, I'm sure they'll be a huge comfort to you in the end.

You lose your right not to get punched when you advocate ethnic cleansing, "peaceful" or otherwise. And if you can't take a few punches to the head for spouting that then, hey, maybe you're not the master race you think you are.

Yeah, I worked with someone who asked for (and got) under-16s bus tickets well into their 20s. The drivers just didn't care, probably as there was no quick and easy way of proving and disproving it.

Victoria Jackson didn't even manage 50 minutes worth of good material in her 7 years on SNL.

I forget sometimes how much I bloody loved Strong Bad back in the day (though I did get burnt out on it before the site went on hiatus). I still find myself saying, on occasion, "oh, electronic mail!" in the style of Strong Bad from the system sounds pack, when getting an email, 15 years later.

It was pretty weird how much importance was placed on screen savers back in the 90s. I suppose it's natural to try and find a way to add interest and variety into such a boring necessity, but the hype around the flying toasters was crazy. My favourite at the time was one called You Bet Your Head, which was a CGI quiz…

That was made by Sky rather than the BBC.

And a buddy comedy relationship with Rita's brother.

Guys, come on, he's large gold thing, what more do you want of a modern updating of Goldar. That was his sole defining characteristic, after all.

Kevin James is just an ersatz-Chris Farley, for Sandler projects at least, so I guess he's a stand-in holdover?
I assume on the set of Grown-Ups (which was just a SNL alumni reunion) he was referred to as New Chris.

"obnoxious auto-playing music"
That's an ironic thing to flag up, given every page on the AV Club I've looked at today has had loud, auto-playing video ads with no mute button.

Molly Ringwald. I have watched a lot of crap in the hopes that it gave Molly Ringwald a platform to shine. Most of it hasn't, unfortunately. She is the sole reason that I might, at some point, subject myself to the Jem movie.

Yeah, I agree with this. As a Brit, the late night talk show format is pretty weird and that's my biggest disappointment with Colbert leaving the Report for The Late Show. It's just an inferior format.
Standing around doing some passable topical jokes is just a bit awkward (not helped by the band leader being miked up…

*cough* Was actually Optimus Primal.
Sorry (not sorry).