Also "Cold Ethel". Fun* Fact: 76% of Alice Cooper songs are about necrophilia!

I think Mr. Adams is misinformed about the phrase 'cold open'. I've seen it used this way a few times on this site.

I believe "Sideshow Bob Roberts" started with the camera moving right through the clouds and onto the Simpsons' TV screen.

Marah - the song in question was probably The Revolting Cocks' "Beers, Steers, and Queers", but that requires some flexibility: TRC was a supergroup composed of members of KMFDM (among other bands), and the squeals at the beginning were actually Ned Beatty from "Deliverance". However, it's the only thing I can think…

I kinda envisioned it as a Doctor/Master thing… Like they're not really into the whole thing, and they have far more in common than not, but this is what they do. Especially if Hank ends up with Triana somehow.

I would like to see Hank become an actual hero, and Dean become a villain. It looks to be heading that way anyway, what with their differing reactions and all; and Dean was already head of the GCI, albeit briefly. Those two as nemeses would be fun.

Piranado vs Bearacane.
I will await my check.

Best thing about this Ep.: Bob didn't even have to cheat at all. He had 100% of the vote; which I imagine included all the non-animal, non-deceased Springfieldians.

The word EM is looking for is 'Gallipoli', which was first used as a metaphor for an impossible writer's room problem in a DVD commentary for a 'Simpson's' episode. I forget which one.

Way too much time on my hands: a 9% drop from 33% would come to (roughly) 30%. From 33% to 24% is a drop of 9 percentage POINTS. So much fun being a math geek.

Re Homer's final speech: I kinda thought thought the idea Homer was expressing was fairly Judaic, what with the earthly paradise if we follow God's law and all. Of course, most of my info about Judaism comes from Wikipedia and borscht belt comedians, so I could be wrong.

I don't remember the scene you're talking about in Grand Illusion but there's one just as you describe in Casablanca, with Paul Henreid drowning out Conrad Veidt.

The character of Delirium was initially based on Kathy Acker.

i believe it turns out he's actually Loki, the Norse trickster god, who was banished to Earth a la "Thor".

i believe it turns out he's actually Loki, the Norse trickster god, who was banished to Earth a la "Thor".

"Red Dawn: now with 20% more ethnicity!"

"Red Dawn: now with 20% more ethnicity!"

I am no Gaiman fanboy; I think he's talented enough, but he seems to think he's some combination of Douglas Adams, Lovecraft, and Jung. Still, I bristle a bit at the suggestion that he was punishing Wanda. The coda, rather than implying that Wanda is only rewarded through death, seemed to me to mean that, despite…

I am no Gaiman fanboy; I think he's talented enough, but he seems to think he's some combination of Douglas Adams, Lovecraft, and Jung. Still, I bristle a bit at the suggestion that he was punishing Wanda. The coda, rather than implying that Wanda is only rewarded through death, seemed to me to mean that, despite…

Aren't you guys contractually obligated to bring up Hal Hartley's "Trust" whenever you can?