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Assuming you haven’t bought tickets to the symphony lately, your only exposure to classical music has been hearing it as the score playing in the background of movies. In that sense, musically, that stupid superhero movie you watched might just be the highest form of art you’ve experienced all year.

Those movies are going to be the absolute pinnacle of any composer’s career. Before that, they’ll be doing even sillier stuff, and that goes equally for the most famous composers of all.

6 John Williams Did the Original Theme Song to ‘Gilligan’s Island’

In the 20 years after 1976, four new movies broke the record for highest-grossing movie of all-time: Jaws, Star Wars, E.T. and Jurassic Park. All four of them were scored by John Williams. But a decade before the earliest of those four, Williams was enlisted to write the theme song to a TV show — a new series called Gilligan’s Island.

The Little Couple alum, Bill Klein and his daughter Zoey Klein went on an excursion, but they were disappointed when he had a run-in with the “fish police.” The former TLC star seemed irritated and angry after the clash, so he took to social media for some advice. Read on to find out what happened.

Bill Klein Knows A Lot About Animals

The Little Couple fans know that one of the businesses that Zoey Klein’s dad owns is a pet supply store. The Rocky & Maggie’s Pet Boutique and Grooming Salon was named after the family’s two adorable dogs, Rocky and Maggie. Unfortunately, Rocky passed away, but they still have Maggie and several other pets.

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Bill Klein also knows a lot about fish. After all, the TLC family lived in Florida for a long time and Will Klein loved fishing. More recently,...

The Simpsons season 35 is likely to address NFTs in an episode, but South Park already covered the topic before it became old news. The longer production process of The Simpsons makes it difficult for the show to stay current with topical issues. The Simpsons should focus on its own strengths instead of trying to copy South Park's writing style in season 35.

While The Simpsons season 35 will seemingly satirize an infamous viral trend, this storyline is likely to draw attention to a problem that makes South Park look better than its competitor. Since the series began, The Simpsons has been a phenomenally influential show. In the late 1980s and early ‘90s, the outsized success of a ribald adult animated comedy on prime-time television led networks to green-light projects like Fish Police, Capitol Critters, and Family Dog. A few years later, a string of more successful projects like King of the Hill,...

The cultural impact of The Simpsons is unmatched, making it difficult for any spinoff to recreate its success and influence. The decline in quality and creativity of The Simpsons over the years makes it unlikely that the show could sustain a spinoff at this stage. The Simpsons has already inspired countless imitators and spinoffs, making it difficult for a new spinoff to stand out in an oversaturated market.

While The Simpsons has not yet spawned a spinoff after over 30 years on the air, there are many good reasons for this. The Simpsons is one of the most influential TV shows of all time. The series redefined the network sitcom with its cynical, smart brand of humor and proved that animation wasn’t just for children via its outsized commercial success. Not only that, but the so-called Golden Age of The Simpsons (approximately seasons 3-12) earned some of the best reviews in television history.

The effect of The Simpsons on pop culture can’t be overstated. In the early nineties, the show tapped into the cultural zeitgeist in a way few others had before. Indeed, no other cartoon show could reasonably emulate it- but Hollywood couldn’t help but try. Capitol Critters, Family Dog, and Fish Police were just a few of the shows that tried to be “the new Simpsons.” Still, the only one that really came close was ABC’s The Critic, starring the voice of Jon Lovitz as Jay Sherman, perhaps the world’s least-loved film critic and the subject of this Gone But Not Forgotten episode.

Unlike other wannabe animated hits, The Critic could boast a legit connection to The Simpsons, with it also being a production of James L. Brooks’ Gracie Films. At the same time, creators Al Jean and Mike Reiss had been showrunners on The Simpsons during...

I was something of an odd kid growing up so it may have made sense that I liked odd comedians. My memory was that I was the only person in our household who liked Ernie Kovacs; I must have been about 7 or 8 when his TV show was on. I thought he was funny and just so damn strange.

The same must be said as well for Jonathan Winters who died Thursday at the age of 87. A remarkable improviser, he could become anyone or anything. Hand him a prop or a hat and he could do four or five characters one after the other, morphing from one to the next in a heartbeat. Famously, Jack Paar just gave him a stick and Winters turned in character after character , including a terrific imitation of Bing Crosby.

I have a memory of Winters on The Jack Parr Show simply taking it over. Parr...