Ladies and gentlemen…

The Leprechaun Brothers!!!! YEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

After what I’ve seen happen to Sesame Street, I don’t know if I trust Sesame Workshop to resurrect The Electric Company. (h/t The Shifted Librarian)

Hey, does anybody out there remember the 4C Bread Crumbs commercials, which showed the actors only from the chest down? I’m trying to dig up the one where the daughter wanted to expand her cultural horizons, and the dad kept repeating “She called the Fiji Islands…”

Thanks to a screencap by a prepared fan, we know some more details about the man in the coffin. Since it’s so wrinkled, we don’t know everything. As far as I can tell, it says:
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The BBC reports that John Inman, probably best known for his role as Mr. Humphries on Are You Being Served, has died at age 71.

I’ve mentioned Tom Smith’s Jim Henson tribute song, “A Boy and His Frog”, before. The other day, I was searching YouTube for Sesame Street videos, as Erin read the lyrics in Sesame Street Unpaved, when I came across a video that did a wonderful job of matching the song.

I think the part that hit hardest was as Tom sang, “And though not quite in your voice, I’ll say…” as a scene from The Muppet Christmas Carol played. :-(

This BBC video purports to show us. It’s very graphic, so be warned.

Eep. The girls didn’t like riding the ferries anymore after a late-night safety drill proved a bit too unnerving.

No way are they getting anywhere near this plotline anytime soon….

I didn’t know about the Sagan memorial blog-a-thon until today, but I suppose this would be a good time to pull out the autographed copy of Cosmos I liberated from my parents’ bookshelf on Thanksgiving and review it with da gulls.

Or maybe, since I’m at the Bangor library, I should check and see if they have videos of the series…

My most annoying answering machine message ever involved the opening theme music to Cosmos, in its entirety. I knew the trick to skip the outgoing, but nobody else who called me did… :-)

Thanks to Alex for the link.

Hmm. If this were Babylon 5, it would make a certain amount of sense, but how far away from Roddenberry’s ideals can you get and still call it Star Trek? (Thanks to Laura for the link. Hope things out there get better fast….)