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After getting The Compleat Al for Christmas, I must wonder, what's the deal with Weird Al being so quiet for much of the mockumentary? There's a lot of scenes where he's just silent, letting the others do all the talking and making facial reactions to things. I remember years ago there was a...

It's been awhile since I last did any "vs" threads, but after recently discovering the first season segment where Kermit talks about the letter R and Cookie Monster breaks it into a P, I thought about how there were (at least) two other segments where Kermit talks about a letter which Cookie...

It seems like two of Disney's biggest franchises are its princesses and fairies (that would make for a good parody, "Princesses vs. Fairies"). Yet there's also a difference: The princesses "franchise" features characters who all originated in different movies and have rarely (if ever) had any...

Well, the title didn't appear on-screen, and back then (I assume) it wasn't so easy to learn the title of episodes (as there was no internet to look up titles). I wonder if titles could be found in TV listings back then. On a similar note, on I Love Lucy, the censors wouldn't allow the word...

The Sunday Night Muppets block happened in November and December 1992, and featured (in order from the best I can remember) The Frog Prince, The Muppets Go to the Movies, The Muppet Musicians of Bremen, The Secrets of the Muppets, The Christmas Toy, A Muppet Family Christmas, and Emmet Otter's...

For a long time, I thought it was odd that the first Super Mario Kart included Donkey Kong Jr. but not Donkey Kong, while the others did feature Donkey Kong but not Donkey Kong Jr. (who seemed to have disappeared when Donkey Kong was revived). But then a year ago I read that the Donkey Kong...

Many of my fandoms tend to have "burn-out" periods, or at least a "period spike" where I'm a lot more interested/thinking about it more than usual. Some fandoms that I tend to have periods of really wanting to concentrate on (watcch, listen, play, think about, talk about, look up online) include...

In this case I was simply asking if the Nintendo 64 was "old school", not saying that I wanted "old school" (I have plenty of old school systems) or asking which ones are old school. In my opinion, any game system up to at least the Sega CD is "old school". Not sure how far beyond that (if at...

Is the Nintendo 64 old enough now to be considered an "old school" game system? Ditto with the original PlayStation, Sega Dreamcast, and other systems that came out around that time?

I've never been a big fan of New Years. In fact I don't have any memories of knowing about New Years until 1993, having overlooked parts of Christmas songs that mention the New Year. Actually I should have been more aware of New Year in 1992, as that year I saw the New Years Pete special, and...

In an early episode of How I Met Your Mother, one of the kids remarks that Ted and his friends went to bars a lot, and future Ted says that that's what people did back then. For years, I thought that conversation was meant to signify that in the future, people don't care about going to bars as...

There's a commercial I'm remembering for a shoe brand, but can't remember what the shoe brand was. The commercial aired around Christmas 1994. A kid/teenage boy is opening a present by the tree, I don't remember any parents being there when he does, and gets shoes. The announcer says, to the...

Top ten best songs of 2014: 10. Just Like Animals 9. Royal by Lorde 8. Boom Clap by Charli XCX 7. First Word Problems by Weird Al Yankovic 6. Fancy by Iggy Azaela 5. Shake It Off by Taylor Swiff 4. Break the Rules by Charli XCX 3. Word Crimesby Weird Al Yankovic 2. All About That Bass by...

No, I haven't. I've watched it on VHS a few times, but usually I watch it on TV (or a recorded-from-TV copy).

Did you actually hear something about this, or did somebody desire such a show, or are you just curious? I myself have wondered if there should be a TV Tropes show. I would make it variety/sketch comedy show, with as much in common with the website as Mad TV has with Mad Magazine. I would set a...

I wrote this, and now it's announced that another Best of Elmo is coming out, during the anniversary season. I hope that we get another "Best of" later this year, even if it's "Best of Abby" or "Best of Zoe", but if this year brings us another "best of" for a character who already has one (or...

I've been watching Home Alone on ABC Family quite a bit this week, and it seems like the channel is showing two different edits. I watched it the other night and saw quite a few scenes I'm not familiar with (I usually watch the movie on TV, several years back I watched part of a video release...

I didn't realize that the clip that was online was just a preview clip. I assumed it had already aired and that the clip we saw was the whole segment.

Actually, Cookie Monster has had two - Cookie Monster's Best Bites and C is for Cookie Monster. And I wonder if Playtime with Grover counts as a spotlight video. If it does, then he's got two. Grover is featured in every segment on that one (and each of the other four Play With Me Sesame...

It'd be great to see a new Ernie and Bert spotlight video, especially since Billy Barkhurst is now performing Ernie (at least when Steve isn't available), so Ernie and Bert could be involved in linking material (though they could have been involved if such a video was made ten years ago)...