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At this point, I'll be surprised if anything else comes out for the anniversary, or if Sesame Workshop suddenly starts a big anniversary celebration (though we still have several months before it's technically over), but the other day I thought of a good April Fools joke regarding an idea, but...

Tonight I remembered something that I noticed long ago that I hadn't really thought about in years: Almost everybody from WKRP in Cincinnati is similar to characters from other shows, in looks and personalities. Not counting other characters played by the same actors... Les Nessman is very...

Regarding "Late Installment Weirdness", I feel like it's odd to list shows that are still on the air. For example, it mentions how The Nostalgia Critic no longer has a cut-off date regarding what he can review, just as long as it's no longer in theaters. But episodes are still actively being...

Well, regarding my question about WKRP in Cincinatti, I asked about it on Shout's facebook page (can't believe I didn't think to do that first), and was told that the clearances only apply to video (wow, not often music is cleared for video without also being cleared for television).

What I meant was since Shout Factory released the whole series and cleared most of the music, have reruns been able to include the songs again (replacing the previous rerun copies) or have those clearances been for video only?

Considering that Shout recently cleared a lot of the music from WKRP for DVD, have those clearances also applied to TV reruns? I've watched reruns of the show for the first time in years this week, and haven't noticed any songs that I'm aware of, but it's possible I just hadn't heard of those...

Recently Kirk Thatcher was interviewed for The Muppet Mindset, and when talking about how the fans didn't like that there was a lot more focus on new characters and less on the known characters, he said that the Muppets should grow in characters and that The Muppet Show was introducing new...

Okay, I just now figured it out. So by asking one what the other one would say about a door, saying that the other one would confirm that door being the right one would not only mean the other one's a liar (since the one who tells the truth would not lie), but it confirms that it's not that door...

Last night I watched the entire Muppet Show Live on YouTube for the first time (I had previously only watched bits and pieces, and then it was taken offline for awhile), and it sure was great. I'd read about Mahna Mahna having an eye problem there, all this time I thought something inside had...

For the last few years, I've thought about how most of the older "main series" Mario games are very different from each other, while the games in The New Super Mario Bros. series seem to be much more similar to one another (well I haven't played the most recent one), but now something else has...

For a long time, in the Home Alone movies, I wondered why when Kevin called the cops on the wet bandits, he did it in a secretive way (calling the cops before leading them to another house and referring to himself as somebody from that house, calling the cops in Central Park and telling them to...

Recently, I dreamt that I had the Palisades Series 1 Sesame Street figures, only the line-up was Big Bird (not as big as the one Palisades would have done), Bert, Cookie Monster, and Oscar the Grouch. And yet it seems like Cookie eventually switched places with Oscar, meaning that the Cookie...

The following thing that I ask is probably dangerous, so if you don't know the answer, I do not recommend trying just to find out for me. If you're driving really fast - and by that, I mean you stepped on the gas all the way, driving the fastest that your car can possibly go, and you go up a...

I know TMS still had a plot, but the songs and sketches tended to be more important, without much need for backstage story development (if they couldn't think of a long enough plot, they can just fill it with unrelated sketches). But Jim Henson was credited as a writer on TMS, so he would...

Lionsgate no longer has the video rights to Jim's work (and that was just the childrens/family titles, not sure if the experimental films were included in that contract).

And on the subject of Ernie and Bert segments from the first season, many segments seemed to have the apartment decorated differently, with a number of set pieces used only once or twice or whatever. And I'm not just talking about one-time set pieces that are related to the plot of the sketch...

If The Jim Henson Company still owned the Muppets, I wonder what Muppet clips would have been uploaded to the company's YouTube channel. I wonder if many music numbers (ones that weren't written for the Muppets) or celebrity spots would be uploaded. For Jim Henson's 75th birthday, Disney...

In 1985, Weird Al Yankovic was given his own mockumentary, The Compleat Al, which promotes him as a success. And this was after he had only done three albums, and shortly after doing his big signature hit, Eat It. Yeah, My Bologna and Another One Rides the Bus were his two biggest hits, and I'm...

In the booklet for the CD release of A Christmas Together, it's said that the Muppets were the inspiration for the track Alfie the Christmas Tree. And yet I don't feel that track is particularly Muppety. The story of Alfie the Christmas Tree would make for a good Christmas special (or maybe...

One thing I've always thought was odd was a quote from Joan Ganz Cooney in the book, saying that when Jim was negotiating with Disney, he wanted his contract to allow for him to spend two weeks a year on Sesame Street when he never spent two weeks a year. Seems like a surprise to me. I would...