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The season one finale of Popular was basically every sweeps stunt ever, packed into one episode, with an on-screen notice it was happening.

The musical number is both the best part, and the thing that gave me hope that Glee would be awesome for YEARS.

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I fully respect people who have different feelings about different TV shows, but if you don't love Meghan, I genuinely believe you are probably a horrible person and definitely have terrible taste.

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It's season finale season, and I've been thinking about how great Restless was, and how it was partly so great because it was such a "fuck you" to expectations of season finales, while still giving viewers a ton of things to chew over during the summer break.

But looking at the ad reminded me of how the WB insisted on its ads facing each other, and complementing each other like this. Buffy says the WB's new Tuesday, Angel identifies what the network is in this cable package! Buffy says "season," Angel says "finale"! Two great tastes that taste great together.

I have virtually no memory of To Shanshu in L.A. I think all of my energy on May 23, 2000, was taken up with Restless.

*waves cheese at Tumblr*

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I have no idea what episodes either of these were for, but they were special SUNDAY episodes!

Which means whatever originally aired on Sunday nights didn't work out, and Charmed was a guaranteed ratings boost compared to the show it replaced.

Yeah. Just think about that sentence for a while.

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This episode featured Wentworth Miller playing a gender-norm-refuting bisexual gymnast who joined the cheerleading squad and then attempted to systematically ruin Brooke's life, until he was taken down by Nicole, Mary Cherry and Clea Duvall.

Naturally, they advertised it with the two-second plot of the women's soccer team players appearing in Sam's magazine shoot.

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I was fourteen when this aired, and even I couldn't take Abby's death seriously because it was so ridiculously over-the-top melodramatic.

And now Monica Keena and Michelle Williams both have actual careers. It's funny how life works, isn't it?

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Sometimes the ad copy just deserves special attention.

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This is just classic WB right here. Melodramatic text, perfectly brooding pretty boy, you can almost HEAR the Paula Cole... and then there's Michigan J. Frog, tipping his hat in the corner. Perfection.

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Somebody saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaave me...

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I think my favorite thing about Felicity was the way JJ Abrams kept getting bored  with his basic concept. "Okay, I recognize that we're a realistic drama about a student at a thinly-veiled NYU, but they're friends with a guy who markets Smoothaise. And her roommate is sometimes one of the subway mole people. And are we absolutely sure she can't be a spy? Fine, but then we're having a Twilight Zone episode. AND IN THE FINALE WE ARE DAMN WELL GOING BACK IN TIME."

I imagine being on the writing staff of Felicity was a lot like playing dolls with a four-year-old.

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Sometimes, even I find it hard to believe that a show ostensibly aimed at straight teen girls had an entire subplot where one of its characters spontaneously turned into Barbra Streisand.

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No one but me remembers this show. It lasted nine episodes, but lacked the homoeroticism of Young Americans. It will never come out on DVD. It will die when my video tape collection does

And I don't even care, because it was THAT GREAT and the rest of you just don't know what you were missing.

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passion. it lies in all of us. sleeping. waiting. and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir. open its jaws, and howl.

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I like to imagine this entire series was a prequel to Veronica Mars, which turns the cliched humor in each episode hilariously dark.

Although it does make me wonder when they formally changed their kids' names from Apache and Moonglow to Logan and Trina.

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Every word in that article is the gospel truth.

tv menu is just a wee bit out of date #RIPTheWB #ohwhatanight

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Things I had forgotten before finding this ad:

Piper owed a club

They had musical guests on Charmed

Dishwalla was a thing