Ah, the post that started it all. The West Wing Week is an outgrowth of this here weekly feature; the series was simply too mammoth to be contained in just one post. Either that, or I figured it was a good way to get everyone else to carry the load for me (a thought that […]

If you were around in the ’80s, you watched this goofy, likable show, even if you don’t want to admit it. The Greatest American Hero appealed to the kids, crazy about the super hero aspect and crushing on either Michael Pare or Faye Grant, depending on which way you swung. The adults got to enjoy […]

No context needed for us fans. Take it away, Crane and Kaufman…. “Who’s FICA? Why’s he getting all my money?” – Rachel “What do you know?! No one’s going up to you and saying, ‘Hi! Is that your nostril? Mind if we push this POT ROAST THROUGH IT?’” – Carol “Dear God, this parachute is […]

We all have friends. We know what that’s all about. But, Friends? I’m willing to bet that not many of us have cliques quite like them. Incestual dating? Marriage? Plus, non-twin siblings in the same group? College roommate this and former-homeless that? Safe to say that our friends on Friends were an unusual bunch. And, you […]

All throughout my life I’ve been a basement/garage tinkerer. You know, the sorta Jobs-Wozniak thing, stitching together old electronics, auto parts and pieces of wood to make “the next greatest invention.” I think there were a hell of a lot of kids like me in the ’80s who built (or at least tried to build) […]

Remember the good old days, when Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally, and Sean Hayes knew where their next paychecks were coming from? Yeah … I bet they do, too. Fondly. It’s the fate of many successful sitcom ensemble casts: good together, struggling apart. Where have our friends been recently? McCormack crashed and burned with […]

Due to a combination of lax parental oversight and just being kind of a weird kid, I spent what would now be called my “tween” years in a weird horror phase. From the age of about 9-12, or so, I rented every single Friday the 13th movie, every Alfred Hitchcock movie I could get my […]