“to be susceptible to blackmail you have to have done some reprehensible shit.”

I’m sorry to be so pedantic, but to suggest that they “improvised” that line does a disservice to Alex Lacamoire, who wrote the arrangement and musically directed them. It was a planned addition (and a beautiful one).

Whoa now, she’s in Burlington, Illinois, not “just outside of Chicago”. You have to drive an hour before you’d reach even the near suburbs of Chicago from Burlington. I know that’s not really the point, but let’s not misrepresent.

I think, on occasion, about the fact that Rose was surely sexually active with Cal (“you are my wife in practice if not by law”, as well as his almost offhanded“I had hoped you would come to me last night”) and that Jack was almost certainly a virgin (everything about his behavior and the way he discusses women) and…

Is your sister the baseball-playing nun in that M. Night Shyamalan movie?

It is my dearest wish that in 2019, Michelle Obama becomes Mayor of Chicago and Barack does the occasional color commentary for the Bulls while working on his books or whatever.

I mean. Serena wasn’t Gossip Girl, it was Dan Humphrey the whole time. I know what you meant, but attention must be paid. Dan was Gossip Girl THE WHOLE TIME.

“Everybody knows that the Giants took a stand in the Battle of the Washington Redskins. What this tweet presupposes is... maybe they didn't? "

I think it’s based on the first Broadway production, actually, which was already quite sanitized/commercialized. The original Chicago version is much more raunchy and cynical, with some significant plot differences. Also, Sandy is named Sandy Dumbowzki and there are a surprising number of Polish jokes.

Good lord, who is that wizened old pensioner wearing Jughead’s crown?

My stepfather was James Gandolfini’s stand-in for The Sopranos, for a time. It never felt right to say “wow, that was an excellent choice in body type/hairline matching”, but it was.

I will never tire of watching Mr. Toad punch that grimy little pimp.

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? is a a sibling-issues movie, not a parent-issues movie, wouldn’t you say?

I feel that Grey’s Anatomy gets dismissed in discussions like these, and I’m never sure why. Dr. Yang’s abortion was shown, feet-in-stirrups and all, four years ago. It was groundbreaking at the time.

A) while Yul Brynner certainly isn’t Thai, he’s also not exactly white, as his mother was Buryat (indigenous Siberian)

Lili Elbe’s wife, Gerda Gottlieb, was also a real person (and a notable erotica artist). Her story is also worth telling.

First, mix olive oil, red wine vinegar, salt and mustard powder. Now take shredded broccoli stem and carrot and let that marinate in the vinaigrette you just made for like ten minutes.

I’m entirely certain that Nana Visitor did it on Deep SpaceSpace 9 in the 1990s, probably contemporaneously with Alyson Hannigan on Buffy.

Patrick Stewart is no stranger to unpopular cake messages.

Sometimes I also refer to the goat cheese as “queso” in the spirit of inclusivity.