Ask Alan: The one where 'Friends' kept retconning how Chandler met Monica and Rachel

Happy Monday, everybody! Time for another installment of my Ask Alan video mailbag, where I take any and all of your questions on TV. Send more to me at alan@whatsalanwatching.com.

Ask Alan: What broadcast shows would have been better on streaming — and vice versa?

Plus, most successful backdoor pilots, and what show do I wish I could watch for pleasure?

What's Alan Watching?Alan Sepinwall

This week's mailbag feels a bit more inside baseball and/or TV nerdy than usual, with questions on TV retcons — i.e., when a show rewrites a bit of its own pre-established history — weird requests of critics to not reveal certain plot points in their reviews, and a question about notable items on the bookshelves in my home office.

Review: ‘Scrubs’ is a rare sitcom revival that works

Zach Braff and company have returned, older and sometimes wiser

What's Alan Watching?Alan Sepinwall

First up, we've got retcons, retcons, and more retcons, inspired by the fact that the Scrubs revival retconned out the demolition of the original Sacred Heart building, which happened during what we either consider Scrubs Season Nine or Scrubs Med Season One: