Mystery actor
Less about mystery and more about the surprising moment of recognition.
More Stranger Things
The trailer appears to promise a season devoid of all the charm that has made the series worth watching. But I’ll watch anyway.
Sweatin’ your nextra to the boo
It sounds to me like “You’re sweatin’ your nextra to the boo.”
Our tube
Familiar faces in new (and semi-startling) arrangements: one of the pleasures of television.
Ted and Suzy and Fluffy
Ted Knight and a puppet, 1959, 1973.
Two seasons, ten movies
The French Dispatch and others.
Emilio Delgado (1940–2022)
Better known as “Luis” from Sesame Street.
Mystery actor
Who?
Nancy and Sluggo and Ted
Ted Baxter, Nancy fan?
A sit-com trio
Bill Daily, Isabel Sanford, and Davis Roberts in a Mary Tyler Moore Show episode.
Recently updated
Mary Richards and technology.
Seven movies, five seasons
Movies, and five seasons of The Mary Tyler Moore show.
No cookies
“Are those fresh candy-cane cookies I smell?”
WJM Mongols
Mongol pencils on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Intersectional
Watching Murder, She Wrote (for the old stars), we spotted the intersection of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Ventura Boulevard. There’s a building with a distinctive rounded front on one corner. It’s a drugstore in the show, and a drugstore still (now a CVS).
Ten movies, two seasons
Meet John Doe and others.
Hallmark Holiday Movie Bot
Some are funnier than others, but for some reason, they all follow a pattern.
A little Hallmark nonsense
This dialogue took shape as Elaine and I sat at the kitchen table holding cups of imaginary cocoa with both hands.
Eleven movies, one TV series
Try and Get Me and others.
A spokesman on the move
For a moment tonight, I thought that maybe Joe Namath’s water heater really had exploded. Because there was George Foreman, shilling for some Medicare (Advantage? Supplement?) plan.
Domestic comedy
“That guy looks familiar. Everyone on this show looks familiar.”
Recently updated
A surprising pre-millennial whoop.
Starring Joe Namath et al.
The Spokesmen, a tragedy.
Dip Night
In honor of Only Murders in the Building, tonight is Dip Night: baba ghanoush, hummus, carrot and celery sticks, orange and yellow pepper slices, Kalamata olives, and pita.
Methods of communication
Selena Gomez, Steve Martin, and Martin Short appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night. They were talking, of course, about their Hulu series Only Murders in the Building. SC: “Now there’s a lot of texting in the show. Do you guys have your own text chain between the three of you?” SG: “No, it’s strictly e-mail with these guys.”
Michael K. Williams (1966–2021)
One of his roles: the trickster-god Omar Little on The Wire.
“Aloha, Mabel!”
From “How Well Do You Know Your Neighbors?,” the third episode of the new Hulu series Only Murders in the Building: “Hey, I figured out the perfect greeting for the text.”
Mabel’s pencil
A screenshot from “True Crime,” the first episode of the new Hulu series Only Murders in the Building. I’m pretty sure it’s a Tombow Mono-R.
More Jeopardy jeopardy
Now that the fairly despicable Mike Richards is out as a Jeopardy host, Mayim Bialik’s anti-science is coming in for more attention
Exclamations
It would be wonderful to live in the Peppa Pig world, even if only for one five-minute episode.