I'm surprised that nobody has noted the 2001: A Space Odyssey reference/homage in this episode, when Ginsberg is trying to read their lips through the glass in the computer room…or maybe it was just so obvious, no one saw it as worthy of a mention?

Haha, all of the other responders to your post have obviously not done time in the trenches of white trash America like I have. That "born again Christian" character is probably one of the most spot-on accurate portrayals in the entire series.

I've always been a sucker for solos which, though they may not be technically amazing, have a lot of passion…to wit:

I personally liked the [largely unrecognizable] Chicago of Batman Begins better than the too-obvious-Chicago of the second film…

Let's not forget the three "afro futurists" who invented techno: Kevin Saunderson, Juan Atkins, and Derrick May…

I would have to go with the "loft party" performance by the 1970 version of Alice Cooper (post-Easy Action and pre-Love it to Death) in the film "Diary of a Mad Housewife"…which presumably would include more songs than just the Steppenwolf cover that made it into the movie:

All right, come out with your hands up, two cups of coffee, an auto freshener that says 'Capricorn', and something with coconut on it!

hey…d'ya think Jesse remembers the trick with the red phosphorus from Episode One…yeaaaaah…I'm thinkin', yeah…

Yeah, I was waiting for someone to mention Linnell's "State Songs"…I vote for any of the songs on that album (personal favorites are "Arkansas" and "New Hampshire") to represent the relevant states.  Though most of the people from said states would not be too crazy about the lyrics, which for most states are not…

Speaking of the MASH finale…I'm 54 now, but I swear, I only have the haziest memories of how we used to share and transmit information pre-internets…

Kind of like Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud-lite…starts out okay but gets a little too bright and "poppy" (compared to MLHBAC, anyway!) at about the 3-minute mark…

Laibach, "a weird German industrial group," as if people reading AV Club haven't heard of them?!  Let me guess, you just "discovered" them.  Laibach are amazing, and important, and you have to understand their fascist imagery in the social/political context of 1980s Slovenia.  Also, they didn't just "do a version of…

Yes, the "immigrant worker" dream is one of the most realistic and creepy for me, especially because of one perfect touch: as Dream Tony advances toward the shadowy Livia figure, a floor board makes an ominous, very loud creak, and that's exactly the sound that wakes Tony out of the dream…gave me a great shudder the…

Oops!  I take that back…it was the original version of "Lucille Messed My Mind Up" (from Simmons' own album) that appeared on Zapped…but everything else I said above holds true.

Oops!  I take that back…it was the original version of "Lucille Messed My Mind Up" (from Simmons' own album) that appeared on Zapped…but everything else I said above holds true.

Zappa's "Why Does it Hurt When I Pee?" actually dates back to 1970, when it appeared on the Warner Bros/Bizarre Records sampler "Zapped" ($1 plus postage, woo-hoo!  Advertised on the inner sleeve of various Warner Bros. albums, along with their other dollar-per-disc samplers)…Jeff Simmons also sings on that version,…

Zappa's "Why Does it Hurt When I Pee?" actually dates back to 1970, when it appeared on the Warner Bros/Bizarre Records sampler "Zapped" ($1 plus postage, woo-hoo!  Advertised on the inner sleeve of various Warner Bros. albums, along with their other dollar-per-disc samplers)…Jeff Simmons also sings on that version,…

"Out to prove that women are just as capable of being violent, sexually transgressive psychopaths as men (a hollow triumph if there ever was one)"

I just gotta say, after spending several years living in Thailand—and many more traveling there—where the utter dregs of UK society go to fuck, get drunk and fight (those three very specific goals being ALWAYS on the docket, in equal parts, every night they go out), that the Scottish rendering of the English language…

I just gotta say, after spending several years living in Thailand—and many more traveling there—where the utter dregs of UK society go to fuck, get drunk and fight (those three very specific goals being ALWAYS on the docket, in equal parts, every night they go out), that the Scottish rendering of the English language…