I prefer the earlier skit where Bruce is apparently the same guy, but a shoe salesman.

And they're bad. And you know what? They taught a dog to smoke! Do you believe that?

Evil!  Impolite and evil!

Fine ham abounds!

I was in the right time and place to watch this show regularly through about the last half of its original run on CBC in prime time on over-the-air network TV.  I'm really grateful for how it helped develop and warp my sense of humour.

The premise of Broen/Bron sounds like the premise of the Canadian movie Bon Cop, Bad Cop, which is about the joint investigation between an Ontario Provincial Police detective and a Sûreté du Québec (Quebec provincial police) detective after a body turns on lying exactly on the border between those two provinces.

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@avclub-c1fe85b855c6d045b827f74a1e2c3fd7:disqus , Stannis seems to have learned part of that lesson, too.  At first, he thought that being king is all about what people owe him and maintaining his legal rights.  He still thinks it is about that too much, but he does seem to also realize that he has a…

So the snobs were right?

Second favourite to read about, or second favourite character as a "person"?

Umm…  basically, some of your assumptions about what will or will not happen are not correct.

@irrenmann:disqus   One of us!  One of us!

From the Newbie review:

they’re dead. Robb, Catelyn, Talisa, the rest of the Tullys,

Imagine if the Red Wedding killed people you actually liked and respected

According to the copy of A Storm of Swords on my Kobo, it is said by "a man in dark armor".

A part of me wondered if the show wouldn’t shove Joffrey’s wedding into the season finale

Roose says, “The Lannisters send their regards,” instead of “Jaime Lannister sends his regards,” which is a minor change, but I think that removes some of Jaime’s hand (har har) in the whole thing, which I don’t really like.

Yes!  It was pretty clear from the context what the proclone meant by "sovereignty-association", but I can't imagine anyone outside Canada knowing the historical context and baggage of that term.

Until we see a CN Tower, I'm skeptical.

The "Metropolitan Police" logo used in Orphan Black is basically a generic "police badge" outline shape around something that looks a lot like the shield at the middle of the actual Toronto Police crest