@avclub-33807fbc68d335db8080d3c10cb78822:disqus He also writes, produces, directs and stars in Children's Hospital and now writes and produces News Readers.

Hey people, where's your optimism? Lots of shows the AV Club loves would sound terrible as 2-sentence pitches. Nothing sounds good as a pitch! 

Kaputt is the greatest album of the last decade. I do not think this is hyperbole at all.

Maybe I'll check it out. But I'm still in mourning for The Thick of It and don't know if I'm ready yet for another political sitcom, different as they might seem.

My stint as an employee at a children's book store introduced to me to Putumayo collections and then Putumayo introduced me to some phenomenal music. Hindsight shows me that they're not phenomenal compilations, but they're great as foot-in-the-door introductions to various "world music". (But I suggest avoiding most…

Totally this. And my dad had really weird taste in music (sample road trip music: Talking Heads, followed by the Gipsy Kings, followed by Peter Gabriel, followed by Ace of Base), which I think has led to my own very eclectic taste, for which I am very very thankful.

Agreed. Davy Jones was a treasure!

We should hang out. This is a great list.

Classics:

Add my vote to Graceland (also a great album for kids!)

I've used this as a lullaby before. And, ironically, Joanna Newsom's Baby Birch.

Same happened to me with the Rolling Stones in art class in grade 9. I think that especially after age 10, a lot of music taste has to do with how you're exposed to it as much as what the music is. If my parents had played "Exile on Mainstreet" for me at that age, I would have dismissed it with an eye roll and asked…

I HATE DONKEYS, I hate you.

(nevermind, Basil Octopus figured it out!)

George was briefly in Five For Fighting!

Agreed. I thought, "if this is product placement, there's an angry Dr. Pepper exec out there somewhere".

Iirc, Lewis and Blake Sennet were actually a couple for a while. I think that might shed some light on the band's breakup and his statement. It's a shame, though, because they were great song-writing partners. Neither of their solo projects really reached Rilo Kiley heights, song-writing-wise.

I thought that Schmidt said that "pogo" was an acronym, and I spent the rest of the episode trying to figure out what it was for.

And I thought it was supposed to be "pin"

Man, for being a supposed romantic failure, Kate sure gets some super-cute guys. I must be failing wrong.