Best prank call ever.

I guess the A.V. Club's familiarity with its locale causes the staff to think that Chicago is some sort of independent state? I have to assume there is an Urban Outfitters on State Street in Chicago, and that's what they're referring to. Because State Street in Madison would be unlikely, both because CH would not make…

No doubt. Even in the nicer Pittsburgh suburbs, $300,000 really ought to get you more than one bathroom, regardless of any other renovations. The pool, unique poolhouse, and some of the other nicer features should put it a little higher than other houses in the area, but then there's the problem of having the nicest…

You got it backwards. Pittsburghers think it's creepy to live near Fayette County, a feeling which has nothing to do with the presence of this house.

Clay Henry apparently didn't really catch on. And I bet he's still saving lives/not looking at dirty pictures of children. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I really hate how someone can get drawn into an interview (like Maron's podcast) and it gets conversational, so they spill their guts a little bit, and one snippet becomes this big story. People are reacting as though Cenac went into WTF with an ax to grind over one confrontation with Jon Stewart, when I really think…

My sister moved to Australia a few years back and brought her dog with her. Based on what she told me, it seems they take this stuff extremely seriously. You're supposed to quarantine for at least a couple months, I think, and they really do enforce it even with obviously healthy animals. I really don't think this one…

What you were really thinking of is how "Hey Jude" does not actually have a key change.

Context is everything. If music professors are using Manilow songs to demonstrate direct modulation and how it can be a clumsy compositional device, then I'm fine with it as long as they also demonstrate other methods of modulation (which they would pretty much have to do).

The same thing jumped out at me. There is no key change, but rather there is a brief tonicization of the subdominant before returning to what strikes me as clearly F major. The author seems to be referring to the outro, in which the key remains the same but the progression changes significantly along with the vocal…

I admit I am no Stravinsky biographer, but it seems to me he got along pretty well without the encouragement that Tori Amos wants to go back in time to give him. It's not like he stopped and gave up after Rite of Spring. Unless she thinks that this disappointment led to "Circus Polka," in which case, sure, go back and…

Everybody knows that the Sherlock Holmes stories were set in Victorian England. What this new episode presupposes is: yes, that thing, exactly.

I haven't heard Beyonce's album. Was it a highly enjoyable collection of songs that sounds almost exactly like a breakup album she put out over 10 years ago?

Best arugula salad in the LP. No charge for extra tofu.

Chris Kyle took mah jerb!

You guys are really speaking my language. My two favorite NPs tracks. I'm a sucker for that textural crescendo.

Finally, the correct answer.

Look, everyone's gonna complain about this list and all, but it included Milos's lament about the refrigerator being so, so messy that it keeps him from being the worker man he desires to be. That alone redeems the list of any sins.

"It" = the ball of phlegm consistently lodged in Seth Rogen's throat. Was that not clear?

I assume the use of that word means that Sony will not treat it as a breach of contract if theaters decide not to show it?