I'd figured the Billy Joel one would just be dead obvious.

How old were you?

I keep trying not to stress myself out about it (I've got enough else in my life to stress me out right now), but I don't know that it ever quite leaves my mind that I've gotten this far and could well continue to miss out indefinitely.
Hooray! An AVC week tailored to me!

Trouble with the wife, I assume.

I might be misremembering, but didn't the soundtrack actually have two B&S songs played almost back-to-back?

Of all the Tumblr blogs I have ever seen, this is definitely one of them.

I have such a hard time hating on a guy who's been making novelty K-Pop songs for years and has responded to his breakout hit by… doing exactly what he's already been doing.

Also, Todd, at some point I think you ought to take some time to talk about the direction in some of these episodes (separate from the great thematic analysis you've been doing all along), because I tend to find the camerawork and framing and like attributes a lot of fun to examine without being so showy that they get…

Charles Kingman. Not Eastman (I assume East Hastings got in your head while you were writing that sentence).

Sarcasm comes through so well in text.

Dr. McTeague(?) is one of my favorite one-season characters on the show (second only to Brian Cabot, really), partly because he manages to be on-point and insightful without being presented as the magic shrink who helps Geoffrey reach a breakthrough and cure him. Therapy is always tough to present well on screen.

Maybe it's the family connection that explains why (as with girl-who-plays-Juliet and Jerry last season) I get more out of her relationship to Frank and Cyril than I do from the whole thing with guy-who-plays-Edgar.

And Ellen really was flubbing the meter in her scene as well. [Mild spoilers] I would've liked to see that scene done "properly" later in the season, since "Reason not the need…" is one of my favorite monologues, and Charles does great with it in S3E5, but unfortunately, Barbara's not in that scene and it turns into a…

Not necessarily. It probably involves the same kind of suspension of disbelief that comes up in practically all forms of role-play.

You're absolutely right; that conversation never did happen. The universe sprang into existence just ten minutes ago, already populated by the spontaneous formation of human and other life, and with all of us already implanted with a set of false memories of many billions of things that "never happened."

Worth it if only for "The Late Phillip J. Fry", which also features an entertaining musical number.

And the spork gag was amusing for its three seconds' worth of airtime. Same for the Rubik's Cube.

Is that like taking upirs in the evening and downirs in the morning?

We're saying you ain't got competition.

I wish that sentence didn't make sense to me.