Something Old, Nothing New

Important question for the ages: which Happy Days daredevil gimmick episode is worse? The infamous Jumping the Shark episode? Or the episo...

I was in a record store the other day arguing with an ardent Wagner worshipper who was dismissive of Verdi (don't ask why, or how, I g...

Eddie Fitzgerald recently asked "Why did '60s films look so bad?" This is a subject dear to my heart, since I've frequent...

At least according to the results of the blog addition test. How much more or less addicted are you? 70% How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

The great Exposition Competition of 2008 is on (oh, it's on!). It's Rupert Giles ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer ) vs. Obi-Wan Kenobi (...

Continuing with episodes from the first half of season 2, this episode features what is now the typical sitcom pregnancy storyline. It intro...

Did anyone else see Intruder in the Dust on TCM earlier this week? I had never seen this movie before, though I had read about it in severa...

The first season of Freakazoid! , which will be released sometime this summer, will have interviews (already recorded) and also three audio ...

I was thinking about what books might make good musicals, and I thought of one that I'm surprised to find hasn't been musicalized al...

After watching some of the cartoons on the Speedy Gonzales DVD: Does anybody agree that Sylvester was a poor choice as an adversary for Spee...

I can't say much more about the late Suzanne Pleshette than Ken Levine does , but there's a good website devoted to Pleshette, appro...

The next episode in what is becoming something like a weekly feature of this blog is from the second season, and is about a strike that seem...

News to make Scott Shaw! happy and also to make me feel pretty darn good: A second volume of classic "Little Archie" stories by B...

...I have now managed to put together "Rabbit's Kin" with all of the little rabbit's dialogue slowed down to its original ...

The publication of Jerry Beck's The Hanna-Barbera Treasury has touched off some debates over whether Hanna and Barbera helped or hurt T...

You know how in the the cartoon "Rabbit's Kin" (aka "The One With Pete Puma") Bugs meets a little rabbit who talks i...

This toonzone post from Ron "Keeper" O'Dell offers some details on the upcoming (later this year) DVD release of Tiny Toon Ad...

Will this song (from the musical Fiorello! ) ever go out of fashion? It's a song from the '50s about politics in the '20s, but i...

Note: I'm uploading episodes more or less at random (I should probably be doing them in order, but it's too late for that). If anyon...

The Digital Bits takes time out from its Blu-Ray victory lap to report that Universal will be releasing four much-requested Paramount comed...