The Targaryens are sort of like the Normans, but also a bit Roman, tracing their origins back to a long-vanquished, slaveholding imperial civilization.

Robb has the interesting distinction of not being a particularly crucial character while appearing to be - he is never a POV character in the books and if I recall correctly didn't have a single line of dialogue in ACOK. His story is mostly told through other characters. The focus on Theon is actually appropriate…

The crowning scene
Was even more hardcore than I had imagined. That "THUD" was amazing.

Meh.
He's no Nazi…but if you're going to make an attempt at pitch black humor you'd better be sure that it's going to work.

SPOILERS

SPOILERS FOR FUTURE BOOKS:

Infidels has a lot of political stuff - Union Sundown, Neighborhood Bully, License to Kill. Plus a lot of weird knocks on the space program.

Sansa is the one who is an asshole to Arya, not the other way around - she blames her own flesh and blood for what happened on the Kingsroad rather than her sociopath boyfriend. Sansa is generally a pretty unlikeable (if occasionally sympathetic) character that interesting stuff happens in proximity to.

Ron Swanson's dinner
Steak, bacon and Lagavulin 16. Has there ever been a TV character with a finer palate?

It was Halo. Very recognizable to anyone who has played it.

The Halo-centric respawn gag irritated me
No game of Halo has ever gone down like that, nor will it ever. You get negative points for suicides and if you have taken damage from another player before you kill yourself it counts as a kill for that player.

The southern Dornishmen are indeed darker-skinned, and Arianne Martell, who eventually becomes a POV character, probably would fit right in with the Dothraki aesthetically. Also, the inhabitants of the Summer Islands, south of Westeros and independent of the Seven Kingdoms, are black and are portrayed as a civilized…

I do really like the actress they got to play Arya - although she actually looks like she could be the daughter of the actress playing Catelyn, which is ironic given how she's supposed to be the only Stark child to look like Ned.

Given the overwhelming majority of the horrific violence in A Song of Ice and Fire is perpetrated by the near 100 percent white Westerosi the racism thing is completely off-base.

Rome did not suggest that Caesarion was not Caesar's son. They pretty much spelled it out directly.

Friday Night Lights - "Last Days of Summer"
This would actually be a pretty solid episode (some very good stuff between Matt and Julie, in particular), but the twist at the end of the episode basically killed the series for me until I came back in season 4 and realized they still had an amazing show.

No words on Contest Searchlight?
It was pretty much a dead-on parody.

Quinn is a lot of fun on Opie and Anthony and the cancellation of Tough Crowd should not have happened, even if it did lead to The Colbert Report - think of all the shit shows Comedy Central has cranked out in the last seven years. There are way worse comedians with a lot more success.

"Planet hiding behind the sun"
ASTRONOMY FAIL

Additionally, there are two giant threads where Bobby Whitlock and his wife (username happytobealive) talk a ton about his time with Derek and the Dominos here: