Cantankerous
Grumpy
Kevin McHale sang strong as high school student Artie Abrams on this FOX show
Glee
Loathsome, or a baseball hit outside the lines
foul
The majority of our household trash ends up in one of these
a landfill
It contains 88,000 tons of steel
the Golden Gate Bridge
A child's teeter-totter
a seesaw
Chipper
Happy
In 1970s TV, he was Sweathog student Vinnie Barbarino; in a 1994 film, he was gun-toting non-student Vincent Vega
John Travolta
This bad, bad word also sounds like you've got bits of crackers all over your shirt
crummy
Carol Burnett famously sued the National Enquirer for this & eventually won
libel
The EPA says if your home was built pre-1978, beware of this heavy metal, banned in paint by the federal government that year
lead
Slang for a black eye
a shiner
Reticent
Bashful
Turns out Henry Jennings is pretty good at algebra, to the surprise of his parents, spies for Russia on this show
The Americans
Drop an "L" from the beginning of a word meaning "legal" to get this truly bad adjective
awful
Politicians figuratively do this when they trade favors to get support for a bibill
logroll
In 2016 a passerby on a Manhattan street grabbed an 86-pound, $1.6 million bucket of this off the back of an armored car
gold
Candle bracket
a sconce
Sawbones
Doc
High school QB Jason Street's life changed forever after he was injured in the very first episode of this show in 2006
Friday Night Lights
It followed "penny" in the name of an old-timey novel
dreadful
This chemical is used at crime scenes to reveal hidden traces of blood
luminol
The Panzerkampfwagen Maus, the heaviest of these ever built, weighed nearly 200 tons & had 8-inch steel armor
tank
An ape, or apelike
simian
Languid
Sleepy
In 1999 class was in session for Martin Starr, Linda Cardellini & Jason Segel in this rhymingly named NBC show
Freaks and Geeks
It means repulsive or 12 dozen
gross
This adjective means lazy or deficient in spirit
lackadaisical
A 14-ton replica coin in Sudbury, Ontario, is called the Big this, an element long mined there
Nickel
To envelop or to bandage
swathe