@EvelKareebel:disqus Thanks for that - of course it's a fairly lightly populated county…but, fair cop, it's my parents who watch it not me (hence my misspelling too). @avclub-183f50a7700982a3ed18ff6d7a5777bf:disqus Yes, versions of the joke apply even to roving cases like Miss Marple but it's the single village/county…

A crucial point, one that may not be obvious to Americans, is that the genre of 'weekly small town murder mystery' is huge in the UK on TV, e.g., Midsummer Murders. It's a running joke about such series that tiny villages are having multiple murders every week so that they're more dangerous than Baghdad or Kabul when…

The woman who plays Osha has an interview on youtube about this with respect to her wild-ling character's sex scene. (She was thinking merkins and also offered months ahead of time to grow her pubes out, but the producers absolutely nixed those options.)

Here's one: 'Oh, Maker': http://youtu.be/DJEWjtRd6hQ
You're welcome.

So he came back to here?
In the future.
Jesus.

What have we done to deserve this?

'That's Shoah Business' jokes will be Shoahn the door.

Ack, you're right. My apologies.

Presumably the writer meant 'the signature anthem of Nicks' solo career'.

I wondered about that too. E.g., the opening of Pink Floyd's Run Like Hell has a similar guitar figure.

Lifetime pass for Don't Stop and You Make Loving Fun surely?

I thought it was 'White winged girl' which….made no sense whatsoever.

I don't think you're ready for this jelly.

Up, like Wall-E, has kind of a lumpy, episodic narrative. That's a decay from the kind of perfect unified narrative you get in the true Golden Age stuff. Still, both Up and Wall-E are great so no one's complaining. But they portend the kind of creative exhaustion (or at least ennervation) that ultimately produces…

Yes it was. 5+ years later and I'm still catching up on the odd thing from that year - Enchanted and Gone Baby Gone most recently - and the strike rate for things being at least very good, including as it happens both E and GBG, is simply stupendous. A whole decade's worth of good movies were packed into one year.

Is Marley Shelton's leggy, sexy surgeon.

27. "Superman Supercool" by Jacky Chalard. Here's the 8 min 30s 12" version: http://youtu.be/pnZRhizlTls

It got to #2 in the UK! It was also voted 'Song Most likely to Clear the Dancefloor' in various end-of-year polls in 1981. Both Love Will Tear Us Apart and Atmosphere got to #1 in New Zealand in 1981. Strange Days.

Ha! I'd forgotten about that. How the hell did that happen again…? Anyhow between that and offering sex to Stan last week to fix the rat, Peggy's quite the sexual wheeler-dealer.

And Wire.