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Scarecrow and Mrs. King Had a Surprisingly Sweet Cold War Christmas Scarecrow was shot

Scarecrow and Mrs. King Had a Surprisingly Sweet Cold War Christmas

Most Viewpoints on Characters in Films Are Based on Your Personal Headcanon Supergirl smiles

Most Viewpoints on Characters in Films Are Based on Your Personal Headcanon

Hooperman’s Christmas Episode Reflected the Unusual Nature of the Series The cast of Hooperman celebrate Christmas

Hooperman’s Christmas Episode Reflected the Unusual Nature of the Series

Should There Be a Separate Holiday Billboard Chart? Mariah Carey sings Christmas song

Should There Be a Separate Holiday Billboard Chart?

Highway to Heaven Made Great Use of Its Guest Stars in a New York Christmas Episode Basinger is in New York

Highway to Heaven Made Great Use of Its Guest Stars in a New York Christmas Episode

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Does Neal McDonough Really Refuse to Ever Kiss His Female Co-Stars? 2

Does Neal McDonough Really Refuse to Ever Kiss His Female Co-Stars?

Do Christina Applegate and Ed O’Neill Have a Good Relationship? 3

Do Christina Applegate and Ed O’Neill Have a Good Relationship?

How Did The Big Bang Theory Film Howard in Outer Space? 4

How Did The Big Bang Theory Film Howard in Outer Space?

Why Wasn’t Madonna Included In ‘We Are the World’? 5

Why Wasn’t Madonna Included In ‘We Are the World’?

All Ten of the Only Murders In The Building Opening Title Easter Eggs 6

All Ten of the Only Murders In The Building Opening Title Easter Eggs

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Pop Culture Wake-Up Call – Friday I’m In Love

Scarecrow and Mrs. King Had a Surprisingly Sweet Cold War Christmas Scarecrow was shot

Scarecrow and Mrs. King Had a Surprisingly Sweet Cold War Christmas

We continue our look at some notable 1980s Christmas episodes by looking at an episode of Scarecrow and Mrs. King that showed how just powerful Mrs. King's goodness was on that show.
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Most Viewpoints on Characters in Films Are Based on Your Personal Headcanon Supergirl smiles

Most Viewpoints on Characters in Films Are Based on Your Personal Headcanon

Brian explains how important personal headcanon is to people's reactions to character depictions in film and TV adaptations of comics.
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Hooperman’s Christmas Episode Reflected the Unusual Nature of the Series The cast of Hooperman celebrate Christmas

Hooperman’s Christmas Episode Reflected the Unusual Nature of the Series

We continue our look at some notable 1980s Christmas episodes by looking at an unusual Hooperman episode that spotlighted why the series was so different from other shows of the era.
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Should There Be a Separate Holiday Billboard Chart? Mariah Carey sings Christmas song

Should There Be a Separate Holiday Billboard Chart?

Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas is You" has now had more weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 than any other artist. Should that be how the Billboard Hot 100...
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Highway to Heaven Made Great Use of Its Guest Stars in a New York Christmas Episode Basinger is in New York

Highway to Heaven Made Great Use of Its Guest Stars in a New York Christmas Episode

We continue our look at some notable 1980s Christmas episodes by looking at a Highway to Heaven episode about New York City that is sold by its prominent guest star.
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Frank’s Place’s Only Christmas Episode Was a Doozy Frank celebrate Christmas

Frank’s Place’s Only Christmas Episode Was a Doozy

We continue our look at some notable 1980s Christmas episodes by looking at Frank' Place's only Christmas episode, which included an offbeat Hannukah dinner party.
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St. Elsewhere’s Christmas Episode Perfectly Captured the Show’s Mix of Comedy and Drama Santa has a heart attack

St. Elsewhere’s Christmas Episode Perfectly Captured the Show’s Mix of Comedy and Drama

We continue our look at some notable 1980s Christmas episodes by looking at St. Elsewhere's only Christmas episode, which captured the spirit of the series well with the title alone, "Santa is Dead."
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Was ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ Almost Too Depressing to Exist? Judy sings a Christmas classic

Was ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ Almost Too Depressing to Exist?

Brian revisits an old Christmas legend about how a classic Christmas tune was saved from the literal wastebin
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The Facts of Life’s First Christmas Episode Was a Very Hoyay Holiday Blair and Jo reunite at Christmas

The Facts of Life’s First Christmas Episode Was a Very Hoyay Holiday

We continue our look at some notable 1980s Christmas episodes by looking at a very Hoyay holiday in the first Facts of Life Christmas episode in 1983.
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Like Most Episodes of China Beach, The Show’s Christmas Episode Was Bittersweet Dick Richard kisses McMurphy

Like Most Episodes of China Beach, The Show’s Christmas Episode Was Bittersweet

We continue our look at some notable 1980s Christmas episodes by looking at a China Beach episode where a short staff due to the Christmas holiday deals with an influx of wounded on Christmas...
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