Despite all the talk here of Ebola, as a microbiologist, I'd like to say that glanders is real but frankly not that scary. It was used (not very successfully) in WWI. It mostly affects horses, occasionally people, and with modern antibiotics it's basically harmless. I'm willing to be made wrong if in a future…

Did anyone notice that "poor Martha's" monitor appeared to have programming code on it. I couldn't read it, but the series of indents sure looked like code and not text that you'd think a secretary would be dealing with.

Well, those and Peter Schilling's "Major Tom (Coming Home)" and Nena's "99 Luftballoons". But I guess having already been used in "The Americans" rival "Deutschland 83" disqualifies them?

I'm sorry, but I just don't see a serious classical music fan listening to a recording of "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik”. It's just not that deep of a piece. Personally, I would have gone with Glenn Gould's recording of the "Goldberg Variations". It's fairly well known in pop culture due to Gould's eccentricities like…

Lois faces the most dangerous threat to the Daily Planet ever. No, not some nefarious plan of Lex Luthor to destroy the building. Far worse — it is The Internet killing print journalism!

I know I'm showing my age, but I liked the reference to the actual Berserk deaths — one of the first videogame scares. I imagine most of the audience only knows the game from the Simpsons nerds' "Stop the Humanoid. Stop the Intruder" in the classic episode where Homer goes back to college.

The weird thing is how she stayed basically the same in looks for decades. From this to Murder She Wrote she was basically ageless. She basically always looked 50 despite being 30 to 70 in real life.

How about 1980s A&F, when they were basically an L.L. Bean knock-off? Preppies know how to dress. I don't know why that fell out of fashion.

Maybe artesianal microketchups aren't sweet, but mass market ones like Heinz basically are just corn syrup with a bit of vinegar and tomato.

Actually I don't think many scientists as such care that much about NASA as opposed to the NSF and NIH which is where most scientists get their funding. There really isn't a whole lot of science in space exploration. It's a difficult engineering problem, granted, but putting things in orbit and even sending them to…

That penny thing has to hurt. I mean Dave Barry and Stephen King founded "The Rock Bottom Remainders" after being traumatized in the 1980s by having their books put on the $1 table…

Ah. Looking it up on Wikipedia I see you are right. As the sequel series had different names (to match the novels they were based on) I didn't know they existed.

But hasn't the US series gone beyond the UK ending at this point? The UK version ends with FU becoming Prime Minister after all.

But the fact that SF/Superheroes are now mainstream rather than niche doesn't mean that nobody's a nerd, only that those particular things aren't nerdy anymore. There's plenty of niches that are still nerdy.

Actually, despite the growth of Disney's properties in Florida, only a small amount of the "Reedy Creek Improvement District" (Disney's Florida fiefdom) *is* developed. It's 33 square miles — the size of Manhattan!

Yeah! The next thing you know, they'll start making movies about that cheesy-ass pirates ride!

At first I thought it was the Meet the Feebles team, which would be very different and surprisingly open-minded for Disney.

After Promethus?

But what's wrong with that? I mean, I personally can't be bothered with decorations, because I'm inherently lazy, but presumably the whole reason why people bother having elaborate Halloween or Christmas displays is that they want the attention. They've earned it in my opinion.

To be fair, the Shoggoths were unnatural monstrosities violating physical law which caused madness by just beholding them. That's not really slavery — that's basically a more horrific version of Frankenstein.