I didn't look at the wig because I was taken by her shoulder pads.

I really wish that FJ was "An Album Cover" instead of "Album Covers."

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who caught that. Just right into his pants…

Being raised in the Chicago area, I got it right. (My Californian husband also went with the stock market crash.)

I initially guessed James Buchanan, then realized at the last second that it was Pierce—I wouldn't have had enough time to change my answer.

Oooh, that's within the realm of possibility… Except that the FBI isn't really a "drop in on your spouse at work" kind of place.

The stuff he wrote about Meyerbeer was worse, but there are some Mendelssohn slams.

As a musicologist with a specialty in Mendelssohn reception, I had a tingle of satisfaction with Alex condemning Wagner.

Not to mention the girl with a migraine in that Excedrin commercial.

Before I had the baby, I resented how much people focus on parenthood as the ultimate achievement of adulthood.

Oh, Kumagoro. No.

Great point about the Previouslies. That should be a TV Club roundtable—how Previouslies have changed the structure of dramas. They used to be reserved for two-parters, then got used in the rare episode that really needed a previous episode in order to make sense, and now that dramas are pretty much expected to be…

Yes, they see the scores. There's a display near the game board that's kept out of the camera frame.

And Arthur Chu can stammer about it in the Tournament of Champions.

This show has gone from "Oh, Martha. No." to "Oh, Stan. No."

"I'll take LOOK HOW HUMANE WE ARE!!! for $800"

This was a clue that highlighted the age difference between me and my husband. We're a decade apart, and sometimes a bit of pop culture knowledge will come from a time when he was at the age of absorbing EVERYTHING and I was either too young (or too nonexistent) to be exposed to it.

I'm going pretty obscure, but very personal: Steve Troop. Melonpool was one of the first webcomics, and it had a good run, despite a few hiatuses (due to Troop being kind of neurotic). He keeps saying he's going to do another movie. I've seen evidence that the movie could exist. But…realistically, I don't think it's…

Right. Part of the beauty of the book is that it only indicates the flaws in the system as Jonas starts perceiving them.

(I also had trouble logging in, and it bounced me to my other account. Anyway…)