Pop Culture: Annotations to favorite tv shows

Serious and/or hip programs -- such as John Stewart's, The West Wing, Law and Order, JAG, Boston Legal, The Sopranos, The Simpsons, SNL and South Park -- sometimes make reference to political and cultural issues outside the mainstream, especially the mainstream bounded by Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and the 11 O'clock News. FootnoteTV provides background dope for the perplexed and the bemused. <http://www.newsaic.com/ftvindex.html>