Canada - Canadian Railroad Trilogy, if only to see every sporting event begin with a 7 minute anthem

"How much has he spent?"
"Well, imagine Elton John on the day he feels fat."

She has set her ex-husband's car on fire, so I think almost anything is on the table.

"This is like high school all over again."
"Sure, kind of. But *much* bigger."

Brett and the Big Brains

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Ship Song
Serena Ryder - What I Wouldn't Do
The Black Keys - She's Long Gone
Future Islands - Sun in the Morning
Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth
Pixies - Subbacultcha
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Broken Social Scene - Forced To Love
k-os (featuring Sebastien Grainger) - Surf's Up
Sharon…

The Mississippi detective and sudden monsoon lines are easily some of the best ever featured on the show.

I'd have to go with Ben as my favourite. Iannucci & Co excel at writing hilarious/old school/depressed politicians. It goes without saying that Peter Mannion was my favourite TTOI character.

For a minute there, I genuinely thought that Furlong was the new Veep, and I feared for this alternate reality America.

I agree, but…

I've found loads of previous players unlikeable or off-putting, but Alex was the first one I've genuinely despised. Everything about him just screams "I'm an irredeemable asshole." Only now have I truly understood Joan Rivers' poker player rant.

Considering the Maine seems to appear as a question at least once a month on the show, I was shocked that it was both a Final Jeopardy question and that all 3 contestants didn't get it.

Possibly the greatest intro lyrics of all time:

There's no question their past few albums have sounded very commercial-oriented (and have suffered for it), but from what I remember they said that they turned down six figures for having a song be featured in an ad back when they only had a couple grand to their names. I've got no problem with young bands getting…

May have been The Black Keys, who went on Q and told the story about turning down huge bucks early on for a dumb food commercial when they had next to nothing based on "integrity", and then realized how dumb that was in hindsight. Of course, that was a Jian Ghomeshi interview, so I'm just going off memory since I…

The Tragically Hip. It's been 17 years since Phantom Power came out, the last album from their incredibly consistent run of greatness that started with 89's Up to Here. Since then, their output has varied from okay to unlistenable (I'm looking at you, Bob Rock era). Their last album was spotty, but had traces of the…

Rosanne Cash - Tell Heaven
White Zombie - Thunder Kiss '65
Blondie - One Way Or Another
The Guess Who - Running Back to Saskatoon
Arcade Fire - Month of May
David Byrne & St. Vincent - Who
The Tea Party - The Messenger
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - As I Sat Sadly By Her Side
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You…

Absolutely, but Nick Cave was wrong to credit Johnny Thunders with writing Chinese Rocks (Dee Dee Ramone and Richard Hell wrote it)

True, but guessing Wales wasn't terrible, considering Canadian Banff is originally named after Scottish Banff.

Shhhhh!… The Maestro is decomposing!