What do you mean conservatives aren't hip? Just the other day I learned that new dance craze called the Twist. Of course, that rock and roll music I heard while dancing isn't going to last long.

I just hope he doesn't do a Powell.

Too many unnecessarily explicit sexual references and Dick Clark should have been left alone. C'mon! The poor guy had a stroke. I'd love to see how eloquent you'd be if it happened to you. Aside from that I agree with your sentiments. There is a stapler on my desk that is more interested in movie awards than I am.

"Their lack of job skills passed from one generation to the next"

That may explain the high unemployment rate and multi-generational welfare culture in so many inner cities; all those inner city youths are home schooled.

Another scene you'll never see on a modern show happened on the "Andy Griffith Show." Opie was having problems with a bully taking his lunch money and refused to tell his father. Andy eventually discovered and instead of embarrassing his son with this knowledge, simply mentioned during a fishing session about one of the Founding Fathers (I forget which) saying a man should be "willing to give a fortune in charity but not a penny in tribute." The episode ended with Opie walking into the Sheriff Office with a black eye stating proudly how he fought the bully to the praise of everyone present.

Hey! I'm a Trekkie and play WoW and ... uh, never mind.

There was one episode of "Leave It to Beaver" where a girl invited Beaver to her birthday party only to discover when he got there that he was the only boy among a group of girls. The father of the girl, seeing how uncomfortable Beaver was with the situation, invited him to his den and showed off his antique gun collection. He even let the fascinated and gleeful Beaver hold one of his pistols.

Can you imagine such a scene appearing in a modern show?

72 virgins? So when terrorists are martyred they go to a Star Trek convention?

Replace "Big Game Hunter" with "Killer of Endangered Animals" and he'll resonate very well.

Kingpin was already used in "Daredevil" and except for the upcoming Avengers-related movies Marvel is trying to keep them separate from each other. That's why in "Daredevil" Ben Urich wasn't working for the Daily Bugle.