Another oldie but ass-kickie: "Fear of Trains."

"The Night You Can't Remember" is probably my overall favorite, but lately I've been listening to "I'm Sorry I Love You" a lot.

I learned from Sports Night that Zamphir, Master of the Pan Flute, is very, very cool.

@Sajanus: Oh, I don't know…I'm the same age as the characters in this show and so are most of my fellow graduate-students…and none of us are buying houses. And we're all still TAs or research assistants, and more or less act like goofy college students with an earlier bedtime.

You read my mind - thank you for bringing up Buffy so I didn't have to.

Interesting…I wonder what Heroes would be like as a viral marketing ploy for the new Tron franchise? I might possibly watch the shit out of that.

Why, yes, the HRG-female was on one of the many Law and Orders. She was also on Angel for about a season and a half back in the day.

I mean, I guess only one person has to submit your name for you to be nominated, so calling oneself a "Nobel Peace Prize nominee" is essentially meaningless, but still…whiskey tango foxtrot.

Did I read that right?
Rush Limbaugh was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007? By whom? The dancing elves in his head?

John Cage.

Smile…no one cares h0w you feel
Be vicious, vain and vile
Everything's yours to steal if you just smile

That is beyond fantastic. If, as my sister claims, awesomeness can only be measured in units of cheese, that is six generous wedges of stilton surrounded by roquefort crumbles.

"Detached & polite" jokes are the best kind of jokes…
…just as technically is the best kind of correct.

That's too bad. I was enjoying them. And it hardly needs mentioning that all internet content should be determined by my personal taste.

RE: so many of the TNG episodes felt like "discover this" or "wriggle your way out of that"

May God hate you and all your kind, may you turn orange in hue, and may your head fall off at an inconvenient moment.

Huzzah with caveat
Glad to hear about the proposed Next Gen recaps, Mr. Handlen, but are you ever going to finish the X-Files?

After "The Friendship Algorithm" I was really expecting Raj to be the acquaintance. I guess either he's moved up the line or Howard has moved down. You'd think Howard would be psyched about that, seeing as how in that episode he was begging to be dropped from Sheldon's friend roster.

Good points, PL. Still, I'm starting to get the feeling lately that Leonard doesn't actually care for Sheldon at all. I used to believe it, but now…well, I'm waiting for the Big Bang Theory version of the "Camden" episode of Spaced.

Many of the episodes are ripped from the Big Book of Sitcom Cliches. See "The Panty Pinata Polarization," "The Dead Hooker Juxtaposition," and "The Financial Permeability" for starters. But generally the show can take the cliches and twist them into something better because in the end, the plot of the episodes doesn't…