In a twist on the original, this one is about the less-than-loveable George Bailey III, who gets to see how much better life would be if he'd never been born.
Secondly – unlike the Klaxons – there's something loveable, inclusive and less self-consciously cool about the Devonshire trio.
There will be more events like Star Wars Celebration - great fun for those who are there, dressed up as Princess Leia and Han Solo, perhaps less fascinating for those who are not - and fewer loveable social media loose cannons such as Leslie Jones.
He seems somewhat dulled now, less sharp than he used to be, but with enough loveable charm to anchor the show as a legacy personality.
The missionaries made them wear something called a Mother Hubbard, but Gauguin knew that underneath these frocks they were all loveable and their breasts were still there and were no less nice for not being visible to the naked eye until they were undressed.
She seems to be much less wide-eyed as in previous seasons yet she still maintains a loveable sense of naïveté.
No less than France's most famous thespian Gerard Depardieu has returned to portray big, dumb loveable Obelix who fell in the magic potion as a baby.
His loveable alien dad in Third Rock from the Sun would have condemned a less adventurous actor to perpetual typecasting, but he played off that persona as a creepy serial killer (in TV's Dexter).
Meanwhile, from a contemporary perspective, the tit-swaggering Widow Bigbeck is less offensive than the caricature of the inscrutable Oriental mandarin Mr Wang, dinging his bell and wittering like a loveable pantomime villain.
