I first heard of Tarot cards when they were part of a major plot line on the original Dark Shadows, during the last century.

Maybe Padma was confused by the Muppets episode, but she kept pronouncing "Alamo" as "Almo."

I like the show's acknowledging that, although they've said that Cam is a musician, it's actually Jesse Tyler Ferguson who is a professional singer/actor.

I think Brick owes a lot to the youngest son on MitM.

I was expecting the birthday cake to be carved into Texas.  I wonder if they filmed that but cut it.

You mean it took only eight years for someone to import this great mini-series AGAIN.  It was on American television (well, cable) in 1994.

What I wish is that "rock star" would stop being used as the ultimate accolade.  I think this really started bothering me when Johnny Depp said that pirates were the rock stars of their day.

I've been puzzled by where the whole Geoff thing is going.  Ferguson, whose schtick is deconstructing talk show conventions, started out with Geoff as a sendup of sidekicks.  Geoff originally has a limited set of things he could say, and CF controlled the responses.

And, of course, many of the writers of The Larry Sanders show had been Letterman writers.

I understand that you watch Monday to Thursday.  But I'd have loved to hear what you had to say about Letterman vs Herman Cain.  Especially interesting on the subject of sexual harassment.

Not from Cougarton Abbey?

Are you planning to take a look at the original, British Free Agents on BBCAmerica this Saturday night (10/8)?  I'd love to read your take on it.

Red-SOLED shoes, not red-heeled.

Small complaint, though.  At some point they run over to "seventh and 71st."

Cumming.

Yeah.  Juice identified himself as "a Puerto Rican from the Bronx" to explain why he couldn't speak Spanish.  Which is an odd explanation.  Why wouldn't a Puerto Rican from the Bronx speak Spanish?  If he'd said his family was in New York since the fifties, or something, it might make sense.

What Cathy has been ignoring since the very first episode is her family's desire to spend some of the time she has left with her.  Shouldn't Paul have said something about that?  That it wasn't just a vacation.

The On-demand episodes are 1 hour long, as opposed to 1-hour-including-commercials.  I watched the first three on On-demand recently, but couldn't pick out what the additional material was.

Darrell, not Darrow, I believe.

Re:  Gossip, on This American Life