Also … Lord almighty the cinematography on this show! So many images, from musicians to kids playing on the beach, to food to the ribbon on soldiers' berets fluttering in the breeze.

I loved that Cajun episode. Every time I see someone repeat the cliche that Bourdain only writes about and features upscale restaurant cuisine, I want to drag them in front of that episode and see him in complete rapture at the most humble of ingredients and with people who love what they do.

Steve Martin has a great piece on Earl Scruggs, which first ran in January in the New Yorker.
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Before him, no one had ever played the banjo like he did. After him, everyone played the banjo like he did, or at least tried.:
http://www.newyorker.com/on…

"We're not taking Hope to that petting zoo."

Also, credit to the source material, the book written by John Voelker (pen name Robert Traver), the real life attorney and judge (and fisherman) in the UP. And Preminger & Co.'s ability not to screw it up.

Yep. Rosa's shown up quite a few times.

I volunteer at a folk/acoustic club, and when they were around a couple of months back, I was getting the room ready during their soundcheck. They were still working out some of the songs on the new album, and it was amazing hearing them fine tune the end of one tune - tweaking a harmony vocal here, a banjo line there…

Bright Lights Tonight was my first introduction to Richard Thompson (and Linda, of course). Timeless stuff.

Love Kirsty. And am ashamed I didn't recognize that was her "baby" plea in Tracy Ullman's version of "They Don't Know About Us."

Yeah, I really wanted to like Bashir early on, but he was an odd fit at the beginning. And you find yourself looking on him much as O'Brien did. And yet

Maybe the Real World hasn't cast a lapsed Amish person, but there was a whole summer series, "Amish In The City," about Rumspringa. Which I didn't remember until you brought up the possibility.

And in unneeded trivia, he's the nephew of Malcolm McDowell, she's Cyd Cherisse's niece.

It seems like it was Guatemala. Whichever one it was in which they had a guy pass out and require medical attention to the point he couldn't attend the next tribal council after he'd been voted out.

Every morning, on the drive to work in Detroit, if the station is tuned to a Windsor station and there's a news report mentioning the OPP, I shout out: "Yeah, you know me!"

Even if it was scripted, I find it highly plausible and amusing that when faced with an awkward "someone gave me a gift and I didn't get one for him" situation, Wil Wheaton conveniently has a 12-sided die in his pocket he can hand out.

I remember the year when I was about 8 or 9 and my brother turned on the Williams version when my parents were out. They came home to find us hiding under the folding card table that we'd set up in front of the TV, specifically to hide beneath, but continue watching. (Kid logic.)

I'm a Trek geek from way back, but I'd completely forgotten this film existed until reading the review. In fact, the only memory of I have having seen it was recalling the Comic Book guy type sitting a row in front of me absolutely lose his shit when Donna Murphy ended up in a lake and then had a wet t-shirt on.

"Are there any Occupy Wall Street muppets?" Did I actually hear that?

Yukon Cornelius!
"Bumbles bounce."

Myth trivia! Adam is in Billy Joel's "You're Only Human" video, playing a near drowning person. (Even with the same glasses — or same style, anyway.) Please note: Both song and video remain cheesy, despite Adam's presence. And there are no explosions. http://www.youtube.com/watc…