Matt Baume

In the early 1980s, a young actor named Danny DeVito had a grudge against the network ABC, and he settled it the way any reasonable person would: By blowing up ABC headquarters. That started some dominoes falling that would eventually change the face of television, with shows like Cheers, Seinfeld,

Hello, here's a rare Monday-afternoon bonus video! Usually I post these on Sundays, but because we've had a lot of folks joining from my new Brokeback Mountain video, I didn't want to keep you in suspense for a week with this one: The best (and mostly worst) Brokeback Mountain jokes from the early 2

Picture it: New York, 1974, and you're going out on the town for a night of classy theatrical delights ... at a new off-Broadway show called Let My People Come. This was an absolutely real, actual show that became an unlikely hit, and also touched off a years-long controversy (but not for the reason

Hello there! In this week's bonus video, we're taking a look at some highlights from the life & career of Anthony Perkins -- in particular, how guarded he had to be while being interviewed by Mike Wallace in the 1950s. On the outside, he was a young 20-something heartthrob, but secretly he was roman

Backup link in case the video doesn't play: https://youtu.be/QdnZEXEF1Ck It's Mother's Day, and you know what that means: Time to celebrate the iconic 1965 sitcom My Mother the Car, widely considered the worst television show ever made. But I think it's the best! Not because it's good (it's not) but

Dynasty's known for cliffhangers, and the bizarre UFO scene in the finale of the Colbys spinoff is -- I think -- their greatest work. Alas, America didn't quite see it that way, because the show was cancelled before it had a chance to explain itself. But we can still speculate about what the hell th