AKA Craig Ferguson's bread and butter.

On the last day of my Grade 10 history class, our teacher let us watch any film that a student brought in. Only two of us remembered to bring DVDs on that day: I had Airplane! and another student had Anchorman. Being 2009, everyone had seen Anchorman at least 4 times, but only a handful of us had seen Airplane!.

Or he could have come dressed like the Freak Wharf cover art! Honestly, when it comes to PFT the nautical-themed apparel options are endless.

Always glad to see Paul F. Tompkins on TV, but it would have been nice to see him in more than 1 scene (i.e. somehow tie him into the assassin plot). On a related note, this is the 2nd time PFT has guest starred on a cruise episode of a Fox comedy; he also provided the voice of Herman and Marilyn on Bob's Burgers'…

My Jeopardy feed was also pre-empted by the Boston State of the City address, but fortunately I noticed the gap in my PVR schedule early enough to record the Newfoundland feed at 6:30 EST. I'm not usually fond of the single def NTV feed, but it works great in a pinch (like when Patriots All Access is on Fridays.)

Start the clock.

Sleater-Kinney - Surface Envy
Fitz & The Tantrums - Pickin' Up The Pieces
Tom Waits - Hell Broke Luce
Stevie Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You
David Bowie - The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
The Stampeders - Sweet City Woman
The Dead Weather - Lose the Right
They Might Be Giants - Yeah, The Deranged Millionaire
Rush - Presto
F…

Well, unlike last week's CBB, today's epp really started to drag near the end after Todd's (permanent?) exit, as even Scott acknowledged. The Don Darling character started off reasonably well, but went absolutely nowhere.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - And No More Shall We Part (Live from KCRW)
Sloan - Follow The Leader
Buffalo Springfield - Mr. Soul
Talking Heads - Take Me to the River
Father John Misty - Bored in the USA
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Sam Roberts Band - Angola
The Cure - Close to Me
Motorhead - Fire Fire
Leonard Cohen - Take This Waltz

Yeah, now that Womp It Up is expanding the Womplerverse on its own it kind of takes the novelty away from the 1-2 CBB Wompler episodes/year . They're still very good (and I appreciate how they've incorporated some of the characters from WIU), but I don't think CBB listeners feel like they have to vote for those…

Modest Mouse - Ansel
Foo Fighters - All My Life
The Dubliners - Molly Malone
k.d. lang - Helpless
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Gates to the Garden
Motorhead - (We Are) The Road Crew
Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson - Good Hearted Woman
Ron Sexsmith - Heart With No Companion
Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea
St. Vincent - Psychopath

I didn't get that one, but I did get the William Henry Harrison question because the election of 1840 was the subject of last week's Whistlestop podcast.

As a regular player of Civilization, I am hanging my head in shame after getting the FJ question wrong (My mind automatically went to the Oracle at Delphi, which of course is not even one of the seven).

( Crosses name off "People to Kill" list, applies lipstick, leans back on sofa with a look of contemplation)

This is a distant second in my list of Scott Aukerman videos of Christmas covers, since nothing can beat this: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Glad to see someone else with Metric in their Top 5. Pagans in Vegas hasn't been getting nearly enough end-of-year loving.

My Top 20, in order (fairly heavy on the Canadian stuff, eh?):

I love Hanford's John Lennon, but Christ alive would it kill Aukerman to put him on with some other funny guests?

"So he did do 'Stiletto', he did do 'Captain Jack'… and then he did 'Downeaster Alexa', which nobody wanted him to do, but he said 'This one's for me.'"

The whole Deborah/ Janet's Granites/ Bab's Slabs alone had me in tears. Gemberling's weird comedy works so well on CBB it's a shame he's not on more.