I do have a Paul McCartney song on my own personal Christmas playlist, but it's "Once Upon A Long Ago". Now *THAT* is a Christmas-song-without-being-a-Christmas-song if ever there was one.

+1. The Murder One theme (by Mike Post) is one of my favourite tv themes. I see on Wikipedia he won an Emmy for it — very much deserved!

Yep. I think that's one of the reasons why Hate Song's my least favourite feature on the AV Club. I honestly wouldn't mind some good, nasty snark, but to begin with the people interviewed only very rarely have anything funny or insightful (or sometimes even: at all) to say about the song they hate.

The Soviettes were a band where the only male member was the drummer.

Ah great. Now the AV Club looks just as crappy as The Dissolve. Scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll. Yay improvement. But I kid. Sort of. The responsive design is nice, and most of the rest is probably just a matter of getting used to it. (Although to be honest, I *still* haven't gotten used to The Dissolve's look and…

Yeah, that's what's getting to me as well. 'Terriers' is another good example: such a pity it was cancelled, but at least there was a proper ending to it. Bunheads just feels so painfully unfinished at this point.

Yep, we actually did that as well! Carmel was a disappointment — I couldn't see what was so special about it at all. But Monterey was very nice, and of course the subsequent road trip through Big Sur was another big pop-culture moment. There are *so* many movies where people drive down Highway 1…

I do also kinda experience that in reverse: I think of Amsterdam mainly as a big, crowded city I try to avoid as much as possible, but Americans and UKians often don't see it that way. :-)

I'm from the Netherlands, so pretty much every step I set into the United Stated is a pop-culture pilgrimage to me ("Ooh, so this is what a Taco Bell looks like!"). A couple of years ago I visited San Francisco for the first time, and almost everything I encountered was something I had previously only known from a…

Does anybody know what the instrumental music was that was playing during the game-finish scene? It sounded very, very, very much like 'Sirius' by the Alan Parsons Project, re-interpreted to avoid having to pay license costs, but still suspiciously close.

Does anybody know what the instrumental music was that was playing during the game-finish scene? It sounded very, very, very much like 'Sirius' by the Alan Parsons Project, re-interpreted to avoid having to pay license costs, but still suspiciously close.

But cautiously optimistic!

But cautiously optimistic!

I would love for these reviews to continue. I am not a contributor to the comments, but I love the Muppets and greatly enjoy your analysis of these classic episodes.

I would love for these reviews to continue. I am not a contributor to the comments, but I love the Muppets and greatly enjoy your analysis of these classic episodes.