As soon as I get my residual check from Vega-Choppa.

"He's still receiving residual checks for a few of the movies he's been in," she said.

And I'll bet my next residual check that when the smog cleared, not one of those "reality" producers would be left standing.

And he will do it year after year until the billion-dollar residual check is in the mail.

"I'll buy a stamp with my next residual check," he said.

Unionized writers receive residual checks, for example, when their shows are syndicated.

Without union writers on the reality shows, no one gets a residual check if a program is rebroadcast.

On Saturday, a residual check for the 18th rerun of a "Seinfeld" episode I wrote nine years ago.

Mr. Vlaming still receives residual checks for reruns of that episode.

While her brief role was later cut, her residual checks still arrive.