The band-aid thing was not on her forehead when she was doing the confessionals, but there was quite a bit of makeup and it looked like it was covering a scar or suture.

@Yes Indeed,
"On a lighter note, hearing a rock and roll song like Satisfaction made me start looking around for someone with a boombox on the street. It took a minute to realize it was just the soundtrack of the scene."

Because in college they can have sex, drink, and otherwise behave like adults, whereas in a show about high school they wouldn't… never mind.

At the end they said that the winner's dish would be served at the space CENTER. That suggested to me that they were weaseling out of actually sending it to space.

Reminds me of this week's episode of Mad men, where they gave out Cleo awards for "Best Floor Polish Ad" and "Best Cake Topping Ad"

Toss Bravo in there, unless you are lumping them in with NBC.

The Bravo TV blog that announces the location contains the line:

Feckless thug
I still use this insult whenever I get the chance — which, sadly, is not that often.

I can't parse this sentence
Yes, before the Simpsons could go to Delaware one of their kind had to leave whatever their home state is for what I believe is the first time when Principal Skinner visits the Simpson home following one of Bart's signature pranks and solemnly announces of Bart's behavior, "We have…

CIA, not CIA
I totally expected some reference to the Culinary Institute of America in this episode. There was not one.

I also noticed that both Chef Dufresne and Chef Ripert said "ji-ro" AFTER Director Panetta did. My thought was that they didn't want to seem rude by correcting him.

I thought they were just tasting the sauces off the knives. A fork wouldn't pick up enough sauce to taste, and it would be rude to reach for a spoon. The knives were big table knives with rounded ends, not steak knives, so they were functional and at hand.

"Who ARE you?!?!?"

Whenever I hear a comic tell recycled jokes I think about all those singers who do just fine singing recycled songs. Sure, a new album comes out every few years, but between then and now they re-use their material.

12/64. They were moving into 1965

@bobbobato,

Did I miss something in the review?
Zack wrote: "there's even an implication that the heroes end up in a universe that isn't the one they started in. (Although I'm not quite sure about that, which I'll explain in Stray Observations.)"

Jonathan Thymius
So what was the joke that Jonathan Thymius massacred? It was something like:

Kind of like how Carry Bradshaw has a weekly column in a local newspaper and yet makes enough money for a tony NY apartment, gorgeous clothes, shoes to die for, and endless cosmos with the girls.

If not for the sports fandom, I'd want to hang out with this group of folks more than almost any "Friends" in sitcom history. That's why "How I Mey Your mother" edges them out.