I agree. It seems stupid, but it really reveals how strong a song is structurally. I'm only through "Airbag" on the OK Computer clip above, and it is tremendous.

I agree. It seems stupid, but it really reveals how strong a song is structurally. I'm only through "Airbag" on the OK Computer clip above, and it is tremendous.

The verdict is in: Tomorrow Never Knows cost the show $250,000, according to the Wall Street Journal, "about five times as much as the typical cost of licensing a song for TV." http://blogs.wsj.com/speake…

@avclub-a93a879594c13c12a83fd45ab289a022:disqus  Only in his mind. His body is in his parents' basement in Jersey.

Yes, Harry was talking to Stan. Pete probably has no idea what he's talking about.

What role did Jon Hamm play on Gilmore Girls? I assume it was a small, forgettable part, but I think I've seen every episode of GG so maybe my memory can be jogged. (Unless it was in the post-Palladino debacle of Season 7, in which case I'd rather forget.)

I know she's my age (30), too, but I also had to do the math and actively remind myself she's not a teenager anymore. She still looks like she's playing dress-up in the Donna Reed episode of Gilmore Girls.

"He wanted her to be the smart wife people take seriously, not the cliched trophy."

@avclub-c5d390f48e8f0fd4cbf2ab8d5c68cac8:disqus  The cable nets also behave (mainly) to avoid the scorn of skittish advertisers.

Awkward smoking can be realistic. I once went out with a girl who tried to light up a filtered cigarette with the wrong end in her mouth.

@beema The technical term is "convention whores."

I'm not a huge fan of the album as a whole, but I have to play "This Will Be Our Year" about once a week.

The early outro was a slightly modified cover of "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" It was close enough that you knew which song they were trying to evoke, but had no lyrics, and differed just enough to avoid paying the rights.

What, you'd never heard that about Harry Crane?

@avclub-858b67085072a6f2403cf500871f4068:disqus  I get what you're saying – in this episode alone, I wasn't thinking "there's Alexis Bledel and Dennis Haskins," I was thinking Rory Gilmore and Mr. Belding. I suppose the difference is that, unlike those actors with those characters, I identify Alison Brie just as…

@avclub-c65a46c16b70bf886e62e791cd4a80b3:disqus  Well, she certainly never had much competition from anyone on Gilmore Girls, with the exception of Kelly Bishop.

Trudy Campbell is nothing like Annie Edison. I recall being shocked when I realized they were played by the same actress. Character-wise, they bear no resemblance.

There has never – never – been a double album that wouldn't have been infinitely better condensed into a single album. But the ambition and decadence is kind of the point.

That's just Alexis Bledel not being that great an actress. At least Vincent Kartheiser didn't dance jubilant circles around her the way Lauren Graham could.

As a non-actor, I definitely read that as some beat/hippy bullshit.