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Schoolhouse Rock first showed up in the U.S. in the 1970s as an interstitial cartoon that aired during Saturday morning cartoons, like a commercial right before the 10:00am cartoon shows. Below is a table of when each season began. The […]

We’re down to the last two female TV characters: Lucy Ricardo and Abby Sciuto. They both won handily in the Final Four, but who will be the final winner? Vote now in the Championship Round! The deadline is Tuesday evening, […]

We’re down to the top favorites in each division: 1949-1974: Lucy Ricardo 1975-1995: Sophia Petrillo 1996-2007: Abby Sciuto 2008-present: Violet Crawley They all won their divisions pretty soundly. The closest was Sophia Petrillo beating Jessica Fletcher (Murder, She Wrote) by […]

We’re down to the top two favorites in each division! The closest contests were: Leslie Knope over Amy Pond by 3 votes Jessica Fletcher over Rose Nylund by 4 votes The two big winners were both 75% to 25%: Abby […]

This is where it starts to get hard. As if it wasn’t before. We had a couple pretty close matchups in Round Three: Mary Ann beat Laura Petrie by 2 votes Amy Farrah Fowler beat Olivia Benson by 3 votes […]

Wow, were there some close ones in this round! Emma Peel beat Elly May Clampett by 1 vote! Lucy Ricardo beat Uhura by 1 vote! Xena beat Louise Jefferson by 1 vote! Jessica Fletcher beat Wonder Woman by 1 vote! […]

Well, that first round was interesting. Here are some observations: Genre didn’t seem to matter, so people are actually evaluating characters, which is nice. All four of the Golden Girls won the first round. The 1975-1995 division didn’t have any […]

Often there can be too much emphasis in Hollywood on male actors and characters, so for the rest of July we’re going to be voting on our favorite female TV characters. Not the actresses, but the characters. We had a […]