Well obviously, some would. They're just not the focus of the story.

OTOH, another castmember went on to be the guy who runs Nickelodeon, but without creepy overtones.

If you're the person who posted about season 4 a while back, you may recall I said season 5 was worth watching if you enjoy Billy Connolly, because the writers wrote in a reason for Billy to do an extended Billy bit every episode.

I wasn't lying, was I?

Billy being Billy makes the season watchable.

I'd say while "cue" is probably most correct, "queue" is also acceptable.

But "Que that Cars song " just means "What that Cars song" in Spanglish.

I dunno, but I hear they called her "Ilene".

Why?

It's been 20 years. The bloom is off the rose with Whedon and he probably wouldn't be asked back. As NuTrek (among other shows) has shown us, revivals like this almost inevitably suck. And a reboot or universe won't have the magic of the show you loved, it'll just be a soulless cash in on a familiar property.

Be happy with the little there was. Treasure it. Because anything new will likely be a horrible mistake that doesn't add anything good, it just tarnishes the original.

They were spread too thin.

At the same time, essentially the same crew were producing TNG S7, DS9 S2, Creating Voyager and gearing up for its first season, and writing Generations. IIRC, it was so hectic, while they were concentrating on Generations, they forgot to write a finale for TNG, so All Good Things was knocked out as an afterthought.

They had also stopped taking outside submissions by that time, so that cut a source of ideas.

Well, as they proved, you remove Suzanne Sommers, the show goes on just about as popular as it was for another 3 or 4 years.

If they'd removed John Ritter? Probably wouldn't have been 4 more years if they'd done that.

So, while it's almost certain she deserved more money because she was a draw, she probably wasn't quite worth irreplaceable star of the show money.

DOWN WITH THIS SORT OF THING!

Disney owns the show now, so good luck.

It was part of the MTM library, which was badly mistreated before Fox bought it. First it was purchased by a British company, then religious huckster Pat Robertson. The original elements were not treated kindly before Fox bought MTM in the late 90s.

When Shout Factory released the series on DVD, they had to use ancient videotape masters, and even resort to pulling YouTube quality clips to reinsert into some episodes to make them as complete as they could get them.

So, Newhart would have to get the TNG/Cheers/Frasier remaster and reassembly treatment to look as good as it could again, and Disney... well, they're not known for that sort of thing the way Paramount is. And that's assuming the original film still exists and is accessible after all the hands it passed through over the years.

Slow down!

Season 4 was not great.

Season 5, however, was pretty good if you like Billy Connolly. Basically, they write in room for him to be Billy at least once an episode.

My post about Velma would be "Not interested, didn't watch, amused at the reactions from both directions."

But shit, that's not much of a post. And I don't feel like whipping out the thesaurus to cobble together enough words to express that sentence in a novella.

Nope. Because the average person only cares about their screen being filled, believes black bars steal their souls, and that they didn't pay all that money for no soul stealing black bars to take up part of the screen.

Could've been worse. They could've been greasy and sticky.

Hey, it's today's "LAFF TRACK BAAAAADDDDDDD" thread.

Funny thing is, it's the sitcoms with laugh tracks or live studio audiences people still watch and remember. So I don't think it's as much an issue outside of the small internet bubble as you'd think by seeing the regular laff track bad posts here.

If you ever do it again, build it in front of a door, with no back on it.

'87?

Bad time for Doctor Who, but Star Trek was on the rise again. Then the opposite happened in 2005.

Anyway, must've been some truly dedicated nerds there to have a TARDIS out and about in '87.

You damn kids today don't know how good you got it with your Xrodents and Crimsontubes and all that, bringing all sorts of filth flarn filth right into your homes and to your phones for free at any second of the day or night. Back in my day, you had to put on your trenchcoat and your hipwader boots (and only your trenchcoat and hipwaders), trudge out to the porno theatre at a set time, pay a seedy looking guy who looked like he'd sodomize you for a half-eaten sandwich for a ticket to a movie you'd only watch 10 minutes of, tops, find a seat equidistant from the other 4 pervs in there, openn your trenchcoat just enough that your cock & balls were breathing the sweet air of freedom but not far enough to remove plausible deniability should the vice cops raid the place, and rub one out at the same time those other 4 pervs were, all the while hoping you'd time it just right so you'd come while there was a flash of titty or some minge onscreen and not a hairy bobbin' man ass.

AND YOU LIKED IT!

Dan was also a sleazy asshole no one liked who probably alienated everyone who would bump him up the ladder.

They probably took great pleasure in seeing him stuck in the same job for 30+ years.

>Please stop making every post “the first” or “introducing” an idea. It makes the subject look phony and the poster look like an idiot.

The quoted text is the first post ever introducing the idea of not making every post “the first” or “introducing” an idea.

Yes, it was Stan The Man and Jack "King" Kirby.

Also, Jazzy John Romita, Big John Buscema, Roy "The Boy" Thomas, and Vince "Eraser" Colettta.

Well, not that last one, but if you've ever seen the befores and afters of pages he inked, you'll get it.

sigh

An outfit that was appropriate for primetime network TV 55 years ago is now NSFW.

Good thing we can't see her ankles or this place'd get raided.

Law and Order, Happy Days, Star Trek, Walking Dead is getting there...

A quick google shows it was Shonda Rhimes does Downton in the US starring Captain Jack Harkness.

Julian Fellowes wasn't involved, so it wasn't the actual Downton prequel that morphed into The Gilded Age.