Will Ferrell | Eric Robert Nolan, Author

“Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues” (2013) might not match the magic of the original, but it was still damn funny; I’d give it a 9 out of 10.

Occasionally a major gag was so bizarre that it was more perplexing than funny (Dobie the shark, the RV accident, the ghost of Stonewall Jackson). But this movie is mostly a great and nicely quotable farce, as the first one was. Predictably, the biggest laughs result from Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) and Brick Tamland (Steve Carell). But Paul Rudd and David Koechner both are still perfect as Brian Fantana and Champ Kind, and they add a lot.

I think movies like this tend to work best when farcical, over-the-top characters are played against “straight men” characters; here, Ron’s dinner with his girlfriend’s family is a perfect example.

Weird world — I thought that the guy in Marvel’s “Ant Man” posters looked familiar. That’s Rudd.

… of all things.

I think we might have been talking about Halloween season fare that was safe for young children. Because my favorite standbys, like “28 Days Later” and “Dawn of the Dead” (both of them), aren’t exactly appropriate for the grade-school set.

I remember watching “Bewitched” in syndication on broadcast television — with no sense of irony or nostalgia whatsoever. I’m willing to bet a lot of my younger friends have never even heard of it.

I saw — and really liked — the 2005 film remake with Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman precisely once. Maybe I’ll check that one out again before Halloween.

Anyway, I feel certain that the last photo still of Elizabeth Montgomery here did not appear on the 1960’s program.