Something Old, Nothing New

The other day I clicked on Jumptheshark.com , looking for a comment I'd seen there many years ago. The site hadn't been much good fo...

By request, another episode from the fourth season, combining two old-reliable sitcom staples: the "disaster" episode and the ...

I posted this on my other blog already, but I felt I should post it here too. After proposing that Kenneth on 30 Rock has become the "...

I have a cold and my mind is working strangely, so you know what that means: another pointless pop-culture fight that WWWF Grudge Match nev...

A reader requested this episode; it was the next-to-last episode of the fourth (and final season) in production and airing order, but by som...

(Following up on my earlier post about human characters vs. humanized animals in cartoons ...) This Mytoons article by Rusty Mills, about un...

(Cross-post from TV Guidance. ) I’m surprised and saddened to read of the death of conductor and musical-theatre archivist John McGlinn , of...

This has been rumored for a while, but a Criterion representative has confirmed that the company has licensed Leo McCarey's Make Way Fo...

The news that MPI will be releasing season sets of Here's Lucy (along with a more interesting show, Desi Arnaz's The Mothers-in-Law...

This is episode # 16 of the third season. (With this I have posted all but one episode from the third season; the other one, "The Baby,...

I still can't understand why Jacques Rivette's Céline et Julie Vont En Bateau is not available on region 1 DVD. I now find that it...

A while back I made, but never got around to doing anything with, some 20-to-30-second "condensed" versions for intros from older ...

I asserted in an earlier post that Step By Step was the sleaziest "family" show ever. (By "family" show I mean shows th...

This one is mostly for Buffy the Vampire Slayer viewers. In the first three seasons of Buffy , it was widely believed that no vampire could...

The third episode of season 4. Music: "Promises in the Dark" by Pat Benatar; "Start Me Up" by the Rolling Stones. Update...

Though I commend Time for making their old articles available for free, I sometimes have trouble finding articles that are a) really quotab...

Since I was talking earlier about how most movies today use the 2.35:1 'Scope aspect ratio, I wanted to bring up the one and only thing ...

I think every TV-viewer in North America has encountered English cartoons at one time or another, but different cartoons, at different time...

This isn't a Grudge Match (tm), though raising this question may provoke more violence than the average Grudge Match (tm). What is the m...

This is episode # 6 of season 4, and it's a sequel of sorts to the previous episode (it starts with Herb in the hospital after the event...