Last Sunday night Adult Swim's stop-action, pop-culture-slaughtering, hit show "Robot Chicken" began the second half of its fifth season, and fans rejoiced in the thought of ten new shows. But why wait?

You'd think the "Robot Chicken" people would be tired of "Star Wars." They've done three entire specials about it, after all, shouldn't they have run out of ideas by now?

What happens on the day that people just stop dying? That's a good thing, right? Except for the rapid overcrowding, of course, and the fact that people still feel pain, and the moral implications, and the effects on religion, and the rather urgent question of who or what, exactly, caused the change in the first place.

What do you do when you've massacred a traincar full of people, turned your girlfriend into a werewolf, and been banished to purgatory? In the BBC's supernatural horror-comedy show "Being Human," apparently you move to Wales.

The older I get, the more of my childhood memories get retrofitted for a new generation. Generally speaking, as a member of the previous generation, I was good with the original versions.