You're gonna be bothered by how cool I am.

From this lovely poster for BNAT X (you may have to look hard to find it - it's in the bottom right corner).

One week from tonight, I will begin the (fairly arduous and unnecessarily long-taking) trip out to the Long Island airport for a weekend of intense movie geekery in Austin, TX. I'm so excited I can hardly stand it!

From this lovely poster for BNAT X (you may have to look hard to find it - it's in the bottom right corner).

One week from tonight, I will begin the (fairly arduous and unnecessarily long-taking) trip out to the Long Island airport for a weekend of intense movie geekery in Austin, TX. I'm so excited I can hardly stand it!

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This is kind of complicated. I mean, I miss The West Wing, but I feel like it ended at the right time, and I can pretty much watch it whenever I want with DVDs and Bravo. I miss MST3K immensely (and kind of squeed that it was in the question), but I can also catch that whenever - and it kind of lives on with Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic.

The show that breaks my heart that it didn't last any longer than it did was Class of '96. I don't know if you ever caught this FOX university drama when it aired in the winter of 1993 (I think it was a mid-season replacement show), but it was wonderful, and I think it still holds up. Or, let's say, I would if I could see more than the handful of episodes I still have on VHS. There's a DVD on sale somewhere, but I think it may be bootlegged (not that that will stop me - muahahahaha!).

*ahem*

The show followed seven students at a fictional university called Havenhurst. The storylines were fairly standard, but the college setting provided an interesting twist on familiar themes. One of my favorite episodes dealt with a philosophy professor whose job is threatened because the students don't like his abrasive manner and some people decide that he must be a racist and sexist. He offends some of his female students who think he should include women philosophers, even though there was no such thing in the classical period which he's covering, and everything snowballs from there. He's telling it like it is instead of pandering and condescending to the various subsets of the campus, but very few people seem to understand that. He refuses to defend himself, even though he's done more for the civil rights movement than the students who are calling him a racist. He eventually turns in his resignation and one of his students, who is one of the few people on his side, finds out that he's been getting threatening phone calls. He has an incredible short monologue in this scene, where he tells this student he feels sorry for him - "You're the whipping boy. Everybody's the victim but you."

This was a really well-written show, and I'm sad that it didn't last longer. The timing was just wrong - the 90210 kids were going to college the fall after this show aired, and TV execs probably didn't want two college shows on the same network. I think it might have had a bigger success if it had come out in recent years.

I also really loved the theme song. Here's a vid of the opening credits. You may or may not recognize Gale Hansen as "Nuwanda" from Dead Poet's Society. And yes, that's formerly-of-MTV Kari Wuhrer.

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This is kind of complicated. I mean, I miss The West Wing, but I feel like it ended at the right time, and I can pretty much watch it whenever I want with DVDs and Bravo. I miss MST3K immensely (and kind of squeed that it was in the question), but I can also catch that whenever - and it kind of lives on with Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic.

The show that breaks my heart that it didn't last any longer than it did was Class of '96. I don't know if you ever caught this FOX university drama when it aired in the winter of 1993 (I think it was a mid-season replacement show), but it was wonderful, and I think it still holds up. Or, let's say, I would if I could see more than the handful of episodes I still have on VHS. There's a DVD on sale somewhere, but I think it may be bootlegged (not that that will stop me - muahahahaha!).

*ahem*

The show followed seven students at a fictional university called Havenhurst. The storylines were fairly standard, but the college setting provided an interesting twist on familiar themes. One of my favorite episodes dealt with a philosophy professor whose job is threatened because the students don't like his abrasive manner and some people decide that he must be a racist and sexist. He offends some of his female students who think he should include women philosophers, even though there was no such thing in the classical period which he's covering, and everything snowballs from there. He's telling it like it is instead of pandering and condescending to the various subsets of the campus, but very few people seem to understand that. He refuses to defend himself, even though he's done more for the civil rights movement than the students who are calling him a racist. He eventually turns in his resignation and one of his students, who is one of the few people on his side, finds out that he's been getting threatening phone calls. He has an incredible short monologue in this scene, where he tells this student he feels sorry for him - "You're the whipping boy. Everybody's the victim but you."

This was a really well-written show, and I'm sad that it didn't last longer. The timing was just wrong - the 90210 kids were going to college the fall after this show aired, and TV execs probably didn't want two college shows on the same network. I think it might have had a bigger success if it had come out in recent years.

I also really loved the theme song. Here's a vid of the opening credits. You may or may not recognize Gale Hansen as "Nuwanda" from Dead Poet's Society. And yes, that's formerly-of-MTV Kari Wuhrer.