Bender singing is always awesome. Loved the song he wrote for Amy to help her through her pain.

Volkswagen had the best line
"Women are soft and gentle, but they hit things."

Norah Jones's album was lovely the first five hundred times I heard it. Unfortunately, I heard it easily fifteen hundred times and I worked in a bookstore when it was released and we were ordered by our corporate overlords to play nothing but Norah Jones and Josh Groban for nearly a year. After that I couldn't stomach…

Rock song opening
In case no one has mentioned it yet, that rock song that plays on the jukebox over the opening scene is "Ring the Bells" by James.

For a whole summer I thought the James song "Sit Down" was an exact description of my life.

Up
Up absolutely broke me. It should have come with a warning: "WATCH WITH CARE IF YOU ARE A) a bleeding-heart for animal suffering, B) someone who has recently lost a grandparent, or C) the child of a divorce you haven't completely worked through yet. IF YOU ARE ALL THREE, STOP WATCHING IMMEDIATELY. " That could have…

Invisible friends
Am I the only one who spends part of each new Futurama episode wondering what they are going to say on the commentary when said episode is on DVD? Surely I can't be the only one. Futurama commentaries are consistently the best.

Huh
I never knew there was a prequel to American Movie. Live and learn.

Ray Wise, huh? You don't say. Excellent.

Worf also gets the best line in "Icarus," namely: "With all due respect, BEGONE!"

Hey, speaking of which, when you drive toward Riverside, Iowa there is a sign that says "Future birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk." Neat!

There is only one Jew in all of Iowa and I've met her.

6 things, of which #5 is kind of a spoiler
1. It's Crazy Pete Hutter! Don't touch his piece.

Christ, no
Oh, Teri Polo. You deserve so much better.

Other Kinks songs they play on the radio:
Well-Respected Man
Tired of Waiting for You

Agreed; that primer rocks. It was brought to my attention by a friend who teaches music at a local college. Last summer he taught a class on metal and made his students listen to the Kinks before anything else. Kind of like taking a class on Hitchcock and watching "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" on the first day.

"Also if the first time you kiss a girl she turns into a terrible special effects monster, I'll bet that messes you up real bad."

Just my luck, I'd probably die with a copy of Watership Down in my hands.

The world would be a much better place if all our babysitters were occasionally Madchen Amick.

St. God - good point. You could easily imagine that the non-Enterprise scenes were recycled from an old Twilight Zone. This does not in any way diminish my enjoyment of the other episode, although I can see how it would for some. I happen to love both TZ and intertextuality. In related news, who's stoked for the new…