Hallmark is a bleep
The Hallmark Channel censors its Frasier reruns.
“Improves focus”
Two spaces after a period? Oxford commas? From a Crazy Ex-Girlfriend episode.
My (male) female intuition
Predicting how things would go in Gilmore Girls.
The S.S. Lurk
Elaine’s idea that Gilmore Girls is Gilligan’s Island looks more and more plausible.
No melodrama
“Thank you, Mr. Mason. You saved me from becoming a cheap and melodramatic anti-climax.”
Gilmores and Gilligan
Gilmore Girls is Gilligan’s Island.
Do Androids dream of Perry Mason?
A new use for an old phone.
Jon Stewart plays president
“Super-long tie, dead animal on head.”
Wedding music?
“I Can’t Get Started” is hardly a wedding song.
Life imitates Gilmore Girls (and doesn’t)
“You mean people would rather vote for a moronic twink who they liked over someone who could actually do the job?”
Recently updated
The actress Mary Webster, who appeared in one of the strangest (and best) episodes of Father Knows Best , has died.
Barbara Hale (1922–2017)
Della Street to Raymond Burr’s Perry Mason.
Separated at birth
Barbara Hale and Vivien Leigh.
“That bastard Donald Trump”
“Oh my God — it’s the title search for the Rachel property. And guess who owns it!”
Mary Tyler Moore (1936–2017)
With a photograph.
Domestic comedy
“That would be a nice thing to do — we can escape to the Gilmore Girls city.”
Things to do on Friday
I too would like to think that changing the channel or turning off the television will somehow bruise a certain outsize ego. But it’s not happening.
Mystery actor
The young Aaron Spelling.
The tiny-house reach
“It makes me feel like I can reach from the toilet to the fridge!”
Speak, Emenee
Do you remember this commercial?
No TV news
I dread what the next four years might mean for my country, but I don’t need a television to know about it.
The De Palma-Dunning-Kruger effect
“Banta, sometimes I wish you were smarter, just so you’d know how dumb you are.”
Canned Heat punchline
From the Bob Newhart Show.
MetaTV
Characters past and characters future, all present on the home screen.
“Try the wireless”
From a Perry Mason episode.
Florence Henderson (1934-2016)
Good night, Mrs. Brady.
MetaTV
MeTV is MetaTV — and movies.
Orange Trek art
Fresca at l’astronave has created two great, witty examples of Star Trek orange crate art.
The PBS NewsHour remembers Gwen Ifill
Nearly the entire broadcast was devoted to remembering Gwen Ifill.
Gwen Ifill (1955–2016)
I will miss Gwen Ifill’s intelligence and exuberance. Watching her, I always had the feeling that we were all in this (that is, current events, of whatever sort) together.