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| Page 2's Drop-Two List | ||||
| Subject | Two to drop | Why | ||
 "Friends" |
Joey, Phoebe | The other four are with each other. | ||
| NCAA Tournament seeds | No. 65, No. 16 (East) | They're just gonna lose to Duke anyway. | ||
 'N Sync |
Lance Bass, Joey Fatone | Budding movie careers, and they don't sing anyway. | ||
| Harry Potter posse | Hermoine Granger, Ron Weasley | Sidekicks don't sell movie tix. | ||
| Fall TV lineup | "Emeril," "Inside Schwartz" | Equally terrible plot vehicles. | ||
| "Gilligan's Island" | Mrs. Howell, the Skipper | Money, food sponges. | ||
| Ballpark giveaways | Schedule magnets, "tankards" | Make way for more bobbleheads in '02. | ||
| The Jackson 5 | Marlon, Randy | Lack of quality solo efforts. | ||
| "The Sopranos" | Hmmm... | Do a pretty good job with the whole "eliminating" thing on their own. | ||
| NBA Top 50 | Rick Barry, Scottie Pippen | General surliness. | ||
| "The Facts of Life" | Cloris Leachman, McKenzie Astin characters | Couldn't possibly cut Jo, Nat, Blair or Tootie. | ||
| Destiny's Child | The Other Two Who Aren't Beyonce | Because we can't even name the Other Two. | ||
| Olympic events | Curling, closing ceremonies | No one's watching. | ||
| Led Zeppelin | John Bonham, John Paul Jones | Come on -- it was a two-man group. | ||
| Chicago Cubs double-play combo | Tinker, Evers | "Chance" is the one with the most rhyme potential. | ||
| The "Star Trek" cast | Sulu, Chekhov | Who needs helmsmen in a recession? | ||
| "The Brady Bunch" | Cindy, Oliver | Nobody likes a tattler -- or a jinx. | ||
| NBA rules | Palming, over-the-back | Counterweight to new zone rules. | ||
| "West Wing" | Bald speechwriter, Sam's new love interest | They feel forced. | ||
| Original Dream Teamers | Christian Laettner, Clyde Drexler | Laettner should have never been there in the first place; Glide was one-dimensional. | ||
| "Family Ties" | Meredith Baxter-Birney, Brian Bonsall | Did you think we'd drop Skippy Handelman? | ||
| "Rocky" franchise | IV, V | Sports Guy would agree, too. | ||
| College football conferences | WAC, Mountain West | No more BCS whining. | ||
| Holidays | Arbor Day, Sweetest Day | You should celebrate trees everyday. And it's a Valentine's Day knock-off. | ||
 Late-night TV hosts |
Jay Leno, Craig Kilborn | Did you think we'd say Charlie Rose? | ||
| Office pop-machine offerings | Mello Yello, Mr. Pibb | What flavors exactly were they supposed to be? | ||
| College football awards | Davey O'Brien, Maxwell | Aren't these covered by Heisman? | ||
| Ancillary "Simpsons" characters | Patty and Selma Bouvier | They started it with Maude Flanders. | ||
| Sons of Rick Barry | Scooter, Drew | Jon and Brent have NBA jobs. | ||