Michael Jackson Invades The Simpsons, the Best Comic Adaptation You May Not Have Heard Of, and Brad Pitt Plays Moneyball

Sept. 17-23: Laura Dern is a naughty southern belle, Christopher Walken is McBain, Home Improvement vs. The Torkelsons, Mariah Carey glitters, the first of the giant 9/11 charity concerts, Harry Connick saves a dolphin, Steve Buscemi is a nerd, River Phoenix gets a date, Taylor Lautner gets abducted, and the best thing about New Girl isn’t the girl. All that and more this week on Thirty Twenty Ten, your weekly look back on the week that was 30, 20, and 10 years ago.