One of many things Donald Trump has done to undermine American values and norms is to spread the idea that any election that doesn't go his way was obviously rigged…and you don't even need a shred of evidence to claim that. All those polls that show his approval rating in the thirties are also fake, […]
And here's Season 24 of Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live. To locate the entire series of these on this blog, click here. […]
In my long, long post about Laff-a-Lympics, I mentioned the Heatter-Quigley game show company working with Hanna-Barbera to try and create a game show for kids on Saturday morning. They did this a few times without Hanna-Barbera. In 1979, Heatter-Quigley produced one for NBC — The Storybook Squares. It was Hollywood Squares with each of […]
The Tony Awards will be on tonight. The "Act One" segment in which they give out the less-flashy awards will be streaming live for free on Pluto TV from 6:35 PM to 8 PM Eastern Time. Do I have to tell you that's 3:35 in the afternoon thru 5 PM on my side of the […]
For a couple years now, some folks who have some connection to the Peacock Network have been posting these neat little summaries of each season of Saturday Night Live under the title, Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live. A lot of work and research and info go into each one and that […]
Yes, this is the last part of this series. To read the first part and all the other parts in sequence, click here. Before we're done, you'll read the story of how these two guys met… For a number of years in the seventies, Hanna-Barbera had a comic book division. It produced comic book stories […]
I have a busy day today so the next (and probably final) part of the Laff-a-Lympics article may be delayed…but not for long. I'm as eager to see how it ends as some of you may be. One of the things I'm doing is prepping for Comic-Con International which commences 48 days from now. That's […]
On we go. To read this series from the start, try clicking on this link. Laff-a-Lympics may have been the most complicated cartoon series ever produced for television. I'm not saying "best," just "most complicated." If you total up the number of characters on the three teams of characters, it comes out to about 41 […]
Ladies and gentlemen! I give you the HarmonyTown Chorus in Wayne, Michigan… […]
As you've probably heard, veteran CBS reporter Scott Pelley is no longer reporting for CBS and 60 Minutes. He was fired because — well, you can read the statements and backstory here and many other places online. The nicest way to put this seems to be that the old 60 Minutes never cared if its […]
To read this article from the start, click on this link. Okay, let's flashback for a moment to 1973…back to that time when, as they always were back then, the folks running Hanna-Barbera were looking for ideas for shows they might sell to CBS, NBC or ABC. In early '73, the goal was to place […]
I didn't notice it a few days ago but we just passed the 34,000 mark. I posted the 34,000th post on this blog. […]
When you're browsing The Internet and you're sick of reading about politics and war and corruption…and I don't have a new post up…don't despair. You can always spend several peaceful, entertaining hours watching otters swim around in their tank at the Vancouver Aquarium… […]
Fred Kaplan — the guy I trust to tell us what's really going on with the Iran War — has a new article up on Slate. For those of you who can't read it because of the paywall, I'll summarize: Nothing's worked and Trump has no froggin' idea what to do next. Seems to me […]
Jon Stewart reviews all the times Donald Trump told us we were but moments away from a terrific deal with Iran — but we weren't… […]