Dammit, I wanted to post the panda line. This episode had a crapload of great bits, but that was the line that still had me chuckling hours later.

Hey, somebody knows who I am! Internet validation! Sweet!

Julianne Nicholson
I never thought she was especially cute until one episode of Criminal Intent when this dyke was hitting on her, and she suddenly became attractive. I'd like all of you great wits here at the AV Club to suggest a name for this phenomenon.

Ben, the two of us need look no more
I'm a child of the '70s. The first album I ever owned, that was mine and mine alone, was The Jackson 5's Greatest Hits. I played that thing endlessly. My favorite track was "Ben", and yeah, I knew it was about a rat and I didn't care.

Were this world an endless plain…
"…most of us don't own whaling ships (sigh)…."

It's "come at the king", not "shoot at the king".

I'm here in my official capacity as a lesbian to tell you that we do not find Kate Jackson particularly attractive.

Thanks for pointing that out, steph. As someone who found Capriati's early-aughts comeback highly inspiring, I will brook no trash talk about her. That US Open semi against Justine Henin in '03 was one of the best tennis matches I've ever seen.

I used to hang at the Continental around that same time. One of my roommates was in love with Jesse Malin so we had to go to every D Generation show.

I saw that episode. The answer to Final Jeopardy was "Who is ZZ Top?"

Here's the part where I brag about how I played CB's a bunch of times in the late '80s/early '90s. The "dressing room" was barely a closet and was made even smaller by the nine gajillion layers of band stickers on every available surface. The bathroom was a vomit-spattered torture chamber and Hilly's dog regularly…

But in the stereotypical Boston accent, "Spartan" would sound more like "spatten" than "spahtin".

wookiee, I'm with you on Anya. Sure she was funny, but I never got all the love for a character who showed zero growth.

We! Are! Spart!
Here's a completely trivial thing that nonetheless always bugged me (and it's been quite a while since I've seen Revelations, so I may not have the details exactly right):

A is for Andorian antennae
When I was a kid, the part where the Andorian's antenna breaks off always freaked me out for some reason. Thinking about it even now makes me want to lie down with a cold compress on my forehead.

All right lexicondevil, you—and this article, which reads like the soundtrack to my childhood—have convinced me that I need to read this book. Since I'm broke at the moment, let's hope the Multnomah County Library system can do me a solid on this.

"Rubberband Man" is awesome, but I vote for "Tell Me Something Good".

Can I get somebody to geek out over scrapple?

Ah, New York in the '70s
I'm a fan of the original not because it's a particularly good movie but because of what Nathan rightly calls its "exquisitely observed sense of time and place", and because Walter Matthau is pitch-perfect as the transit guy. (Jerry Stiller is also great.)

Totally pointless, but I can't help it
If you're going to bother typing diacritics, you might as well put them in the right place: it's Roisin, not Roisin. (I'm assuming that this was the reviewer's mistake and not the author's.)