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REVENGE OF THE JINGLER

All right, all right. I apologize. The last pop quiz about music videos stuck in between television programs (what some people insist on calling “commercials”) apparently disappointed some people who expected the question to deal with the product, rather than the lyrics themselves. Still, there are plenty of golden oldie pop singles—okay, “jingles”—whichContinue reading “REVENGE OF THE JINGLER”

Neglected Sitcoms

Last week, we touched on some of the problems for me in assessing comedy of the middle of the twentieth century, as I have occasionally threatened to do in a series called “Is That Even Still Funny?” One problem was that there was so MUCH of it. Except when the news was on, andContinue reading “Neglected Sitcoms”