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What Was the Best TV Riff on It’s a Wonderful Life? David and Maddie wish everyone a Merry Christmas

What Was the Best TV Riff on It’s a Wonderful Life?

Was the Original Ending to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Changed Due to Viewer Complaints? Santa delivers the misfit toys

Was the Original Ending to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Changed Due to Viewer Complaints?

L.A. Law Had a Surprisingly Dark First Christmas Episode Sid Hershberg gives a speech

L.A. Law Had a Surprisingly Dark First Christmas Episode

Happy Days’ Season 10 Christmas Episode Reminds Us All Why Season 10 Was So Terrible Fonzie is with Ashley and Heather

Happy Days’ Season 10 Christmas Episode Reminds Us All Why Season 10 Was So Terrible

Did How I Met Your Mother Work an Insult of the Show By Jason Segel Into the Show Itself? Jason Segel on How I met your Mother

Did How I Met Your Mother Work an Insult of the Show By Jason Segel Into the Show Itself?

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Who Was the Garage Band Singing ‘Daddy Cop’ in the Latest Episode of The Rookie? 1

Who Was the Garage Band Singing ‘Daddy Cop’ in the Latest Episode of The Rookie?

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

Pop Culture Wake-Up Call – Friday I’m In Love 7

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

What Was the Best TV Riff on It’s a Wonderful Life? David and Maddie wish everyone a Merry Christmas

What Was the Best TV Riff on It’s a Wonderful Life?

Today, I want to know which TV riff on It's a Wonderful Life was your favorite?
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Was the Original Ending to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Changed Due to Viewer Complaints? Santa delivers the misfit toys

Was the Original Ending to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Changed Due to Viewer Complaints?

Brian explains how the Misfit Toys weren't originally saved in the first version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, until fan outcry led to a change!
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L.A. Law Had a Surprisingly Dark First Christmas Episode Sid Hershberg gives a speech

L.A. Law Had a Surprisingly Dark First Christmas Episode

We continue our look at some notable 1980s Christmas episodes by looking at a surprisingly dark first Christmas episode for L.A. Law.
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Happy Days’ Season 10 Christmas Episode Reminds Us All Why Season 10 Was So Terrible Fonzie is with Ashley and Heather

Happy Days’ Season 10 Christmas Episode Reminds Us All Why Season 10 Was So Terrible

We continue our look at some notable 1980s Christmas episodes by looking at the Christmas episode from Happy Days' infamous 10th season.
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Did How I Met Your Mother Work an Insult of the Show By Jason Segel Into the Show Itself? Jason Segel on How I met your Mother

Did How I Met Your Mother Work an Insult of the Show By Jason Segel Into the Show Itself?

Brian explains how How I Met Your Mother worked an insult of the show by Jason Segel into an actual episode of the series
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Wiseguy’s Christmas Episode Showed Just How Different Its One-Off Episodes Were Don Aiuppo makes his move

Wiseguy’s Christmas Episode Showed Just How Different Its One-Off Episodes Were

We continue our look at some notable 1980s Christmas episodes by looking at Wiseguy's only Christmas episode, an episode that highlighted the unusual nature of the show's one-off episodes.
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The Golden Girls Had a Ton of Plots on Its First Christmas Episode The Golden Girls are held hostage

The Golden Girls Had a Ton of Plots on Its First Christmas Episode

We continue our look at some notable 1980s Christmas episodes by looking at a the first Golden Girls Christmas episode, which had a LOT of plots.
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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

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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