Steve and all-- This isn't an "episode" in a regular series, but it's in a sort of regular feature in a regular TV show, if that counts. Letterman has a now-and-then feature on American humor (A Mark Twain Moment in American Humor, I think it's called) that has a MT look alike (white suit, white hair and mustache) sitting in a rocking chair to deliver a joke or an observation that is sort of humorous but is definitely caustic and sardonic. Thanks for this list of book spinoffs--I've been trying to gather all of them myself as they've appeared on the Forum, but here they are all in one place. It's an interesting topic and I can use these in a course. Terry Oggel