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So far, faraway; spaceman.

Apparently, during the Colin Baker years, someone messed up real bad. Watch from the beginning for the whole technical fault at the BBC.

May the luck of the Irish smile on them.

Now, this is how you open a cooking show!

Plibts! Well, I just found out that Richard Dunn died last month. I guess that man milk really was too much for him. Here’s the memorial website. He will be missed!

Some history and trivia on the famous Tonight Show desk. Just, because.

The beginning monologue from the first episode of the original series. It boldly began here.

Watch out for that big crank — legend has it that it won him the job over others such as Drew Carey, Paul Provenza and Jon Stewart.

Sid Caesar and Nanette Fabray, married and upset.

The first time stand-up appearances of Steve Martin, Jay Leno, Dave Letterman and Eddie Murphy on Carson’s Tonight Show. Yeah!

No jokes today, just the honorable ending to a great television program. Now the jokes.

Ya ne znayu, gde etot klip ot potomu, chto oni russkuyu rech’. V samom dele, ya pytalsya issledovanii’ v Internete i prishli ni s chem. Vo vsyakom sluchae, pol’zovat’sya nekotorymi iz luchshih yumor vo vseh byvshih sovet·skih gosudarstva. V sleduyushchii’ raz! – Naimenyee lyubimyi’ syn Materi Rossii, Pavel Chekov.

Those Star Trek TNG cast members must have been getting paid rather well. Too bad they could never remember there lines.

And now, for no reason, here’s a step by step guide for drawing Peter Griffin. While American Dad alien, Roger, is clearly Seth MacFarlane best cartoon character, Peter Griffin still isn’t all that bad. Next time, step by step Step by Step.

In an interview with BBC Worldwide, Patrick Stewart tells us Gene Roddenberry’s thoughts on hiring a bald actor to play Captain Jean-Luc Picard. At the first Star Trek: The Next Generation press conference…

Reporter: It doesn’t make any sense, you’ve got a bald actor playing this part [Picard]. Surely, by the 24th century, they will have found a cure for male pattern baldness.
Roddenberry: No, by the 24th century, no one will care.

A website dedicated to Nelson Muntz only needs to contain one thing. Sure, there’s also that relationship he had with Lisa and that time he made Bart kill the bird, but those episodes were boring. I’m talking about his catch phrase — you know, the thing he shouts every time someone commits a buffoonery. Also, someone go make this into an interactive website.

I drove behind this on the way home from work today. It could probably have ten different meanings, but I like to pretend that it’s a reference to this incident.

Sometimes I feel as though I’m the only one whoever liked this television series. Sigh.

The sobering truth about the life and adventures of comedian James Quall off the set of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! I’m Quall.

Now, coming at you from the greater Chicago area… home of the Bundy’s… and the home of the big wind… while still under the reign of William Clinton… and brought to you by magnetic tape… here we go!

Featuring the voice of LeVar Burton in the Intel commercial.

Back when the world still had Wendy’s fast food all-star, Dave Thomas.

Don’t forget to check out freed-human and Gothic killing machine, Morpheus, starring in Bad Company.

Watch out for IBM’s secret outsourced scene.

Alright, so I’m 90% sure that’s Greg Kinnear in the Eagle Vision car commercial.

Well this last block features two of the same ads as the previous, and there’s nothing funny about that.

[Adult Swim]