Damn it. I wanted to try to write it the way TJ says it, but couldn't get my mind around how that might look. Your guess is pretty good, though.

This was a season five episode, so if it changed at all, it was later than that…

Yeah, but I liked that element of it. It's the best way to play off the momentous events of the episode before it. Certainly 'Red Lights' is stronger, but 'Road Trip' is fun but also important, I always thought.

Y'know, I only just paid attention to this the other day when watching an episode, but: the opening sequence has shots of a town that is so very clearly not even remotely Stars Hollow. I wonder why those never got replaced by actual shots of the Stars Hollow town set? It's not like they didn't have plenty of…

Well, a good number of episodes have Luke & Taylor scenes. But those and Luke-Jess scenes make up 98% of the Danes Anomaly scenes through the seven seasons, I suspect.

Jess-post-Stars-Hollow vies with season-four-five Marty has the Best Boyfriend Rory Never Had.

Hmmm, all these comments got me intrigued, but as far as I can tell it's out of print? Not on itunes & one third-party seller on amazon. Is that about right - is there any way to legally acquire this album?

Ah, thanks @avclub-5b8e4fd39d9786228649a8a8bec4e008:disqus: that's very interesting. I did wonder whether part of Basil's motive was that Sybil had some money (despite her lower class - money & class are/were not always related). That explanation makes a lot of sense.

This comment will probably get lost, but I just - entirely coincidentally - stumbled across this rather relevant entry of Letters of Note:

@avclub-44cc6099e4e6b11a473dd73a97ba9810:disqus thanks - will check that out. One of my colleagues is a big fan of that show, but I've not seen any of it.

I never listened after I read how bad it was - but doesn't Davies spend a lot of time saying that he never really understood why the show was popular? I recall someone saying that.

I'd really like to read something more about class in Fawlty Towers. Specifically about where Basil fits into the system - as opposed to where he thinks he does/want to end up at. I suspect a lot of the subtleties are lost on those of us not from Britain.

God, 'The Psychiatrists' is fantastic. Basil's barely-suppressed sex obsession explains so much of his behaviour.

Ah, only saw this after I posted my similar answer. But that triffle stuff is fantastic.

It's near-impossible for me, but to throw one in that doesn't get many mentions: 'Gourmet Night'. It has wonderful escalating disasters, Basil's snobbery in full flight ('you put "no riff-raff" in the advertisement!'), high farce and some wonderful physical comedy, peaking with Basil trashing his car with a bit of a…

It's the one thing Blur fans, Blur critics and Blur themselves all agree on…

I claim no expertise, but wasn't part of the issue that Sorkin wanted to focus on 'The West Wing'? Not that he dumped 'Sports Night' as such, but just that he didn't fight particularly hard for it?

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Very astute of him, really - that would continue to be an issue for Lorelai & her partners.

I saw him on some idiotic list recently of 'Characters you're supposed to love but are actually hateable'. And I thought, wow, did you guys ever get that completely backwards.