And yet, they managed some weird pickups for that - didn't Scorsese direct an episode? Or someone equally well-known?

Thanks for that report, Perd.

Yeah, it's weird - like how Joel Hodgson did four or five episodes in the early 80s as "guest standup comic" - if his career had taken a different turn, we never would have gotten MST3K.

Tim Curry.

I've been watching BATB with my four year old - for as good as BTAS is, it's really about the villains. Every Bat-Villain gets a chance to shine. BTAB is about Batman and what makes him Batman.

Offhand? Someone else mentioned The Tick. I'd be inclined to see Beast Wars/Machines revisited - I don't know how well it holds up as a total work, but "Code of Hero" is still a damn fine twenty five minutes of animation.

I know, right? I have a mental list of "SNL what-ifs" I visit from time to time.

Check the wikipedia pages for those groups - swear to god it's a who's who of current comedy. About the only "big name" I didn't see on one of their rosters is probably Mindy Kaling, who came up through the writers' room.

Yes, a sporting event that's primarily watched by people under 35 compared to yet another televised Baby Boomer Funeral. There's your explanation.

So let's be correct here - the Chicago and LA improv scenes are the launching pad for comedic actors. You look at everyone who's come out of Groundlings or UCB or ImprovOlympic and it's like, American Comedy 1990-Present.

From Wikipedia: "Performers on the show included John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, John DeBella, Gilda Radner, and Harold Ramis, who was one of the co-writers for the National Lampoon movie Animal House. Other writers and performers on the show included Anne Beatts, Richard Belzer, Christopher Cerf, Brian…

That would have been great, but fucking exhausting for Spade to carry for five-ten minutes.

No, that's actually my point - the stuff that's like "the state capitals song" or "nations of the world (except Palestine lol)" still works, because it's cute and factual, but the actual animated segments where they go on adventures are so impossibly 90s-specific (oh look, an EXTENDED bit where they go to an unnamed…

Thundercats is weird, because they were cat people, but they were more people than cat, if that makes sense - did the Thundercats even have tails? They were basically dudes in bodypaint with Spock ears.

Oh sure - this is about the dude stalking Tress MacNeille, right?

Hail and well met, fellow traveler from 1994.

The digital short was cute.

I'm telling you, there's an alternate universe where Jim Varney and Ernest P. Worrell are the highlight of the Jean Doumanian era.

I really really enjoyed the audition clips - I'd love to see who else they have footage of.

IIRC, in the comics journalism of the day, it was made patently clear that X-Men was basically rushed into production because Marvel found out DC was doing a Batman show.