One-hit wonder? Really? Are you going to deny David Geddes his #18 hit (and even CHEESIER '70s story song) "The Last Game of the Season (A Blind Man in the Bleachers)": https://www.youtube.com/wat…

My friends used to rent a house from Thierry in Studio City! He certainly is real and is as weird and wacky as he seems, though to what extent he plays up the "oblivious Frenchman" role I don't know. I read the movie as Banksy taking advantage of a possibly mental ill, and certainly self-deluded, person.

Tears for fears.

Thanks, Jay, I was about to make the same point. Also, Alhambra is an incorporated city, not a neighborhood. Fact checking done!

Flynn and McKay are old friends…he's busting his balls.

I will thrown in Sinead O' Connor's excellent but inexplicably paranthesized "I Want Your (Hands On Me)".

You know, with the resemblance between J.P. Manoux and Jim Rash, they might just be setting something up for later in the season…

She's also Jack's wife in Jack-In-The-Box spots.

Hey, I'm on that podcast! Thanks for the props, guys. We do a live show in L.A. at Largo, once a month (usually consisting of 3 episodes: Sparks, Beyond Belief, and one wild card, plus assorted ads, interludes, and songs). Those live shows get recorded and archived by our writer/producers, who then decide which…

I think the Walkman was out in '79. Rubik's Cube, on the other hand, hit the American market in '80. That was the only anachronism that jumped out at me…I felt like it nailed the period details, as someone who was 10 in '79.

To enjoy the "I Want A New Drug" video even more…
…imagine that Huey is singing to the sullen teenage boy in the striped shirt rather than the girl with the flower in her hair.

I hate to be that guy but…
…my copy of Elephant only has 14 tracks on it.

In fact, after listening to the whole thing and the shitty audio for the second half in particular, I would submit that the medley, up to '81, is the "professional" version I remember taping off of Westwood One, and everything after that was done by someone else, taping off the radio, tape-to-tape, and their kid…

Believe it or not…
This medley has been around for a long-ass time, as I first taped it off the radio in 1981, when it was part of some kind of "25 years of Rock'n'Roll" special (which may explain the 1956 start date). Obviously, whoever first compiled this has updated it since then (though not in 19 years,…

Todd, if you want to check out some L.A. theater, may I humbly and shamelessly recommend a show that I'm involved in, and would totally be up your alley, if only for the number of guest stars we've had from Community!
http://thrillingadventureho…
I think we're sold out for January, but we do it on the first Saturday of…

A Shout-out For Bateman
Jason Bateman, to me, provides the crucial grounding that made AD truly great. I loved how he would react in such a straight way to all the wackiness around him, and how he would be so high and mighty toward the idiots in his family, while making horrible errors in judgment himself. Brilliant.

R.E.M. and Neil Diamond
I always thought that they unconsciously, or consciously, cribbed some of the melody of "Solitary Man" for "Driver 8". Am I high? Let me rephrase that. I know I am high. Am I wrong?

Rivalry With Glee
At least part of the reason for the running anti-Glee gags is that Glee shoots on the Paramount lot, a couple of soundstages away from where Community shoots. You can hear them singing from the Community set sometimes.

I'll see it anyway
Big fan of Ricardo Darin, due to Nine Queens, and especially, The Aura.

I nominate…
Prince's "Around The World In A Day", which followed "Purple Rain". Not that he hadn't created some experimental, challenging, or downright loopy stuff on his previous albums, but the fairweather fans expecting more "Let's Go Crazy" got trippy psychedelia, the Keith Jarrett-inspired "Condition of the…