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Netflix added Crazy Ex-Girlfriend last weekend so I expected iZombie et al. to come with it, but only Crazy Ex and Jane the Virgin are there. I know they're trying to build Emmy buzz for Crazy Ex so maybe that's why CW let those two shows go to Netflix so early.

The grades forging is Wargames.

You can't store arbitrary resolutions on DVD or Blu-Ray, so if the aspect ratio is wider than 16:9 or narrower than 4:3 the video has to be stored with the "extra" bars in the image.

Sometimes you also get the accursed non-anamorphic widescreen DVD, with bars all the way around if you watch it on a widescreen TV.

Ok, clue me in. I only see that the bar / restaurant is located at a complex of baseball parks. My best guess is the other side of the double entendre has something to do with the "bases as sexual acts" metaphor?

When I heard that Rebecca's mom would appear in last week's episode, I was 80% sure it would involve the Garfinkel ring. Josh would buy it for Valencia and Rebecca's mom would show up just in time to find out about it.

Rachel Bloom noted on twitter that Grocery Clerk With Half an Eyelid can do gymnastics and magic, like Josh.

left boob is smaller, obviously. The Right Boob memoir is also a tiny bit larger than left boob's.

I've been trying to identify the song too, and I think the best video match is "Allison Road" by Gin Blossoms but I haven't been able to think of a good match lyrically, but "Popular" is pretty good.

Now you've reminded me that I WILL NOT REST UNTIL WE GET A WEST BROVINAS BARBERSHOP SONG!

So you could have gone there if you wanted to?

I could make millions selling stocks, and bonds, and ties, if I tried! But I don't… but I could, but I don't, but I could if I wanted to!

Based on the headline I thought this was going to be about how the manufacturer reduced the size of the U.S. version and started using lower quality chocolate in the UK version.

I think they did this last year too. It will probably be removed on November 1.

George_Liquor is right that NTSC and PAL are standards for encoding color in an analog video signal. What's probably happening is the player converts 480i / 60 Hz output to 576i / 50Hz and vice versa. Run of the mill players usually don't convert and might refuse to play the disc at all, even if it's region free.

I had the sense that she was rewarding herself for getting Rebecca's couch back.

It just took too long to get it consumer ready. They nearly introduced it in 1977 but discovered that users handling them like LPs caused them to degrade much too quickly so they developed the caddy carrier.

In the last week or so I've noticed that sometimes my browser will freeze for a few seconds when I load pages here and some other sites. I assume it's a crappy script that pulls in ads or tracking cookies or something like that.