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I have to be honest----this news about Orman has really saddened and disappointed me. I know that actors don't "owe" us anything----certainly they're not obligated to lead squeaky clean lives----but what Orman supposedly did to his former girlfriend is.....well, it's just horrible. It really...

I'm going to stick my neck out and say that I really like Chris a lot. I enjoy his presence and personality and I feel that he fits in perfectly. It's almost like he filled a void that I didn't even know was there, and it almost feels now like he's always been there. Sure he's hammy, but...

I just googled Miller's name to see if there was any new info on the guy, as he seems to be something of an enigma---there's not much online apart from his own resume website and few YouTube vids of him showing his paintings. I came across this juvenile educational book about Jim Henson (one in...

Ya nailed it. Baby Einsteins is a typical example of that look, or "Preschool Vectorian," as I call it. And even shows that don't have that look, like Martha Speaks, are still marred by that horrible lifeless Flash movement that always reminds you that you're looking at a bunch of colored...

Ernie's a pretty laid back guy---he probably has some job but nothing very fancy. Just enough to pay his half of the rent. He's not thinking in terms of a career. (Was it ever actually said that Susan and Gordon own the building, by the way? If so, I never knew that.) From time to time I've...

In my mind, I decided long ago that Ernie and Bert are two guys in their early to mid 20s sharing an apartment. Ernie of course is a very childlike, carefree kind of guy, but still an adult. Grover I see as a kid who's about seven or eight years old----roughly the same age as Prarie Dawn. So why...

Exactly. Moving on and starting fresh is one thing. Replacing old landmarks with things that are far more conservative and blanded down is something else entirely.

Regardless though-----"dated" seems sadly to extend to any visual styles that aren't what I've come to call "Preschool Vectorian." It's not just Sesame Street or even just PBS preschool animation----so much of preschooler media has that look now. And it's so suffocatingly bland. It's not...

So ironic. For so many years, they were a little TOO loose about not caring whether stuff looked dated. Even in the late 1990s they were still running stuff that was obviously very old. The switch to HD aside (which I'll admit is a little bit hard to toss aside since that's quite a significant...

Ironically, the music they play during that segment mimics the soundtrack of the original.

They really did it. They really remade "A Loaf of Bread, A Container of Milk, and a Stick of Butter." In all seriousness, I always try to avoid being a cranky adult who's always ranting about "Things were better when I was a kid and blah blah blah..." because ragging on that stuff, at...

I LOVE THAT ONE. To me it's kind of a perfect embodiment of Sesame Street at its strangest, an example of how surreal and eerie the show could be in some of its stranger, darker corners. If I'm ever watching that with someone and they asked "What the heck was THAT?", my answer would simply be...

Given how the dynamic between Grover and Mr. Johnson completely turned inside out from the way it originally started, in a playful way I kind of look at it like this: To a certain extent, Grover was "playing dumb" all these years to get back at Johnson for being such an impossible customer at...

Actually it was much longer than that. From what I can tell, she was with them from day one. She shows up in the credits of that 1969 Xerox-sponsored NBC preview as a producer's assistant.

I've been to Tau Bennet's YouTube channel and was just watching the vid where he interviews moviegoers at the Being Elmo premiere via his reporter puppet character. It ends with him talking (in character) to first Elmo and then Clash himself. Clash said how proud he was of Tau and looked...

Heartbreaking. This is just heartbreaking. I feel horrible.

I could say a lot of things, but I'm gonna try to boil it down. What I really miss is the casual feeling it used to have. You'd be visiting a familiar place, full of familiar friends you knew so well, but your visits were always unplanned. You'd just wander along, not in any hurry, not...

Huh. So what you're saying is that the uploader---probably not knowing any better---chose the setting that automatically looks for things to "fix." Boy. Did it ever make a train wreck out of that episode. :smirk: The pan-and-scan stuff is one thing, but the warping backgrounds are REALLY weird.

Whoa, really? Can you elaborate a little? I'd never heard of YouTube having a "fixing" mechanism, for lack of a better term. You mean it actually has a sort of built-in DVNR thing? But if that's the case how come it doesn't kick in for people's shaky, wobbly home videos?

Or more specifically, the transfer of it that appears on the Old School DVD. (I don't have the disk, but I'm watching it on YouTube.) It's full of all these weird cropping problems. Throughout the whole episode, the picture keeps wobbling and shifting all over the place. It's most noticeable...