I love when Wikipedia gets that specific and subjective. I can just see history PhD students in 500 years' time writing their theses on which of those things was the more common criticism of Sneak King and what that tells us about humanity's reaction to the great alien invasion of 2059.

Then there was the time they teamed up with the Na'kuhl to get advanced weapons that would allow them to invade the US in return for helping the Na'kuhl build a conduit to get them back to their own time. I'm surprised Wikipedia overlooked that.

At the interview, they ask you whether you ever watched Trek, and everyone knows to say no. So then they follow up by casually mentioning that they're currently producing an episode where Wesley Crusher single-handedly saves the Federation and is promoted straight to Admiral and watch for your reaction. "Sounds… like……

Another interesting fact from that Esquire article: his parents were going to call their baby Peyton whether it was a boy or a girl. Apparently Peyton passes as a girl's name too? Maybe Peytona?

I also shook my head at the scene where they're preparing to launch the rocket and the General's basically just bullying his subordinates into it by calling them scared. I was just waiting for one of his subordinates to say "Get stuffed, I'm not going to launch a weapon that will probably destroy the Earth just…

That's the first one I thought of too. It was an awful awful song. The chorus was "I could never/Wear that sweater/I could never/Wear that sweater" and, as Australians never say "sweater" (we say jumper), it was painfully obvious that they'd only used the word for the shitty near-rhyme with "never". Which might be…

Agree completely. We Can Be Heroes and Summer Heights High were great, but he hasn't been half as good since. I found this series better than Angry Boys, but not much. It's not that his characters are unlikeable - Alan Partridge and David Brent are just as unlikeable, but they are done with much more subtlety. Steve…

I hate it when your rivals don't consider you rivals back because you're not important enough.

My post was a bit of a generalisation!

Melbourne's rival town is Sydney.  They're so flashy and cool, doing drugs and going to raves. We're sitting in an alternative cafe with a book and a pour-over coffee wearing a home-knitted jumper. Small problem with the rivalry is that they are 1200 kilometres away, so if you're mad at them you have to catch a flight…

Those VHS boxsets were massive too. When they gave it to you wrapped up you would've thought they had bought you an Xbox or something.

Today anyone can have every episode of their favorite show by download, DVD or Netflix but back in the day it took a special kind of obsessive to make it happen using their VCR. I knew a guy who had every episode of Seinfeld on video tape. The tapes were marked with coloured labels according to season and took up a…

In Australia, it's a footpath.

While visiting San Francisco one time the movie on TV that night was "The Rock" - and we had visited Alcatraz that very day! But the movie sucked. So screw San Francisco.

Hey, he didn't just *win* a beer drinking contest, he set a world record for sculling a yard glass, which he won while attending Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. How's that for simultaneously establishing your intellectual and working class credentials? Sadly the record no longer stands but he got plenty of political…

My favourite is the word for the bit of concrete you walk along next to a road.  It's such a simple concept, but Americans, Poms and Australians have completely different words for it.

You're right.  That's a paddling.

It's worth mentioning that the whole booting thing was a parody of an incident in Singapore at the time where an American teenager was sentenced to flogging for graffiti, causing a major international incident. Opinions were divided between "capital punishment is wrong" and "flog the little turd".

I am Australian and I was just thrilled to see The Simpsons mentioning our country. I thought a lot of the humour in this episode was the meta "we Americans assume that this is what Australia is like".

Foster's is actually huge outside Australia, particularly the US and the UK.  I saw the numbers a few years ago and it is ranked number 6 beer brand in worldwide sales. Number forty-something in Australia.