Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for January 11, 2017

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what's new in sitcom technology now your favorite wacky-family sitcom offers exciting dvd-style extra features! cast commentaries - fascinating insights from the stars themselves! oop: i'm really good in this scene! no - watch what i'm doing! extended director's cut - chock full of deleted jokes, plot contriv-ances, crowd scenes, helicopter shots & other digressions that really pump up the laffs! man: stampede! learned annotations - analysis of the genre by bernard ubby, ph.d., author of "rob petrie's ottoman: furniture groupings in the american sitcom." ubby: consider the centrality of the sofa to the comic mise en scene. prognostications - psychics reveal the stars futures in the "where will they be then?" feature! psychic: the annoying child star will rise to dominate world culture in hideously unforeseen ways...