*Marnie* wrote most of (or at least a bunch of) Hannah's papers in college? No way. And Desi sounded like a completely different character this week. Not the best written episode…

Ditto for Earth Wind & Fire. One just took such groups for granted growing up at the time. You know, tracks as good as 'Dreams' and 'Serpentine Fire' would surely be coming down the pike all the time….

That track, Rock Lobster, and Planet Clare are friggin' perfect and will still be starting parties 100 years from now. Count on it.

Mono 'I Saw Her Standing There' is life-changing. It suddenly becomes one of the greatest, rawest tracks you'll ever hear.

I heard it as the beginning of 'Kung Fu Fighting'. CHA!

ER is on daily in NZ (hence probably also in Australia) on a cable channel called 'Vibe'. Hard to believe that it's not playing somewhere on US cable, unless on-demand delivery (which isn't as developed down under) has superceded that.

Their 'Girl U Want' cover - http://youtu.be/EH8YJ7nd4xc - is pretty, pretty good.

Becca (Kellie Martin) on Life Goes On (1989-1993) is also in that lineage. Chad Lowe's character on LGO also feels somewhat similar to Jared Leto's.

I remember reviews of the first few episodes saying things like, "Watch Danes now, it's the last time you'll ever get to see her for free" (i.e., that she was going straight to movies).

The cliff-hanger where a slumbering Max was left with a tarantula crawling up onto his face freaked me out (e.g., gave me nightmares) as a kid. And how 99 saves him…could a woman be more perfect? (7 year old mind says 'No!')

Yep, it was the show's first cross-cutting montage (as well as one of its best ever uses of music). It's *the* moment in (as Todd vdW suggests) *the* episode when the scope of the series became apparent, when Mad Men became Mad Men.

Ditto for Can's Vitamin C - http://www.youtube.com/watc… - which is from 1972, but turns up as a plausible contemporary club track in Almodovar's Broken Embraces.

There is, perhaps, that small matter of Nabin-bait, Elizabethtown.

It was also *incredibly* influential: lots of important people, e.g., Bee Gees (How Deep is Your love) and Billy Joel (Just the Way You Are) immediately marched into their studios and tried to copy bits of INIL. Anyhow, INIL, which went to #1 in the UK, is certainly one of the best ever #1s (along with things like Je…

At least it's got us thinking of that helluva good Roberta Flack song:
http://youtu.be/eHCjJ_kWpJc

Not really. In the book, Rob has to learn to let pop culture go, that you can't stay on top of what's cool forever, etc., and there's no big success for him looming on the horizon as the book ends. That's not an acceptable 'happy' ending for characteristically more 'success'-oriented Americans, so the film fabricates…

Nice job (finally!) with all the podcast links, and all on one page too. (There's been so much to bitch and moan about recently with AVClub that I should give kudos to something that's recently improved.)

Agreed. And won't Saul have no 'enemy of the state' leverage over Javardi once J. moves up to #3 since at that point Javardi will *be* the Iranian state?

And in Lost Highway. See also Lilja-4-ever for Rammstein as soundtrack to human trafficking/child prostitution. Sometimes heaviness just has to be German (at least in English - it's weird).

Von Trier - messing up heads since (at least) 1991. Soon, a billion customers served. Please drive around.