We find that hard to picture. Yeah, they could do voice-mails or a weird text or e-mail once in a while. Somebody picks up his phone and says "Don't you message with anyone who likes you?" "Yeah, but I guess it's been a few weeks." If the internet and Rockford had shown up together, Jim's eye-rolling face should have been a meme. Only absolute and total deal-breaker is if Angel shows up as a woman with huge ta-tas and tight -t-shirts.(They could even do that, if somehow those people managed to have the same relationship and not some dumb will-they-or-won't-they?)

is if Angel shows up as a woman with huge ta-tas and tight -t-shirts

This confused me for a hot second, because... Angel/Boreanaz. Very disconcerting. Then I remembered the actual Rockford Files.

I dunno, man. My love for Jim Rockford original recipe runs pretty deep. We'll see.

Also, one of the best TV show theme songs.

I associate The Rockford Files so completely with James Garner's charm and the vibe of 70s California, I can't imagine anyone doing well in a modern remake.

I just want to know who's going to play Mariette Hartley in the inevitable Polaroid ads. I'm also not sure why I immediately thought of Stana Katic rather than Emily Deschanel (probably for the same reason I briefly thought Boreanaz was Canadian -- I seem to have mentally jumbled my Whedon-series leads.)

This episode of free-association brought to you by memories of watching whimsical camera commercials with my mother at a formative age and asking "Is that Mrs Rockford?"

Fillion would make a much better Rockford. He's got the easy charm and the edge underneath.