@avclub-650791898dd05ac4d665569d95c8ba08:disqus I thought it was a Sidehackers reference.

That Thing You Do! is about as flypapery as a movie gets for me. I've probably seen half or more of it 7 or 8 times, and seen it from the opening credits once.

Hey, me too!

I actually have (well, had) an Aunt Irma.

We are never ever ever going back to Krypton.

The problem is everyone, other than Craig Fergeson (not counting the fake-news shows) does awful interviews these days, because nearly every guest is on to plug something, and both the interviewer and interviewee are terrified of straying from the three anecdotes that were collected in the pre-interview.

@Santoshjs:disqus He may claim to aspire to Letterman-like subversion of the form, but when push comes to shove, he'll go with the safe and traditional every time.

How is it that no one has posted this here yet? http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I don't know that Larry's a hack exactly, it's more that he's very good at a job that strongly values familiarity over innovation. Certainly he's closer to Carson than '80s Letterman. I'd say he's better at what he does than Leno, while showing the same resolute lack of innovation.

Or Twister.

Weird Al actually wrote it without having seen the movie. It was released within a couple of days of the opening, and he had written it based on spoiler posts on the Internet.

On the other hand, the therapist can always use the excuse "Well, Freud and Jung both did it, so how bad can it be?"

That almost seems like cheating.

That was my initial Weird Al era as well, and now my kids have discovered him thanks to Sirius/XM Kids Place Live. They mostly play "The Saga Begins" and "Yoda" but it was a good starting point.

My favorite - Genius in France, style parody (pastiche) of Zappa: http://youtu.be/5VuiBBX6aZA

It can be yours: http://www.errorwear.com/sh…

It's true, the Unix guy is always the one on the staff who's both scary-smart and scary-weird to this group of people who are often either scary-smart or scary-weird to everyone else.

@avclub-080acdcce72c06873a773c4311c2e464:disqus I like to think that you typed that from memory.

As a Middleman fan who still hates Secret Life of the American Teenager (without ever having watched an episode,) I feel for you.

I was a geek in highschool, then a freak in college and through my 20's, and over the last 13 years, I've been slipping further and further back into geekdom.