Yep, it was "President Dean."

Pretty much my favorite 30 Rock joke ever.

The scene where he lusts after the view from DuVall's penthouse then comes on to the agent made me really happy for about two seconds. Okay, we're not going to ignore the obvious! But then I realized that they are making Ellis's apparent bisexuality part of his villainy (shades of "Basic Instinct") and I started to…

An MD-JD-PhD who solves crimes!

I was confused by this too … I thought that Frank knew about the earlier tryst and maybe it involved the Brooklyn Bridge in some way.  But then he clearly didn't know about the earlier tryst. Something got elided. Brian d'Arcy James played the hell out of that scene, though, and the one with DiMaggio later.

Canonization of Nancy goes back quite a ways. Bill Griffith has been pounding the Bushmiller-as-Zen-master drum in Zippy the Pinhead for decades.

The Dirk line reading that made me snort milk out of my nose was when he said that all you have to do to get the "undergraduate ladies" hot is to tell them "Your photography has … potential." So specific, so true.

"shiny, sunny optimism behind biting and smartly constructed jokes"

Oh man. I still miss it. But I have Dan Byrd in Cougartown to partially fill the void.

You are right, sir — thrown off by forgetting that two eps aired together on premiere night. Will fix.

Noel saw "Arthur Christmas" with our daughter and loved it. "New classic" were his exact words.

But with a film strip, there was always the chance that you'd be chosen to turn the knob to advance it. That mechanism has always stuck with me as the feeling of something being substantial and well tooled. That little basso "thunk" of the next frame sliding into place.

However did you guess? (Although I still live in the Bible Belt, and in some of the public schools around here, I wouldn't necessarily be surprised.)

The educational film I flash back to (other than Hemo the Magnificent) is What On Earth?, a NFB short where aliens reports on the inhabitants of Earth — automobiles. At the end they explain that the earthlings are plagued by pesky parasites (humans).

There's a brief shot of a conveyer belt sushi place in the film … to make the point of how different Jiro's approach is.

The way he leaps into the frame before happily doing the running man on "What Up With That?" kills me every single time. The sketch does have one other reason for existence, which is Hader's Lindsey Buckingham, but even if it did not I would love it for Sudeikis' dance.

By the way, to save your searching, the song as Robin was moving out of the apartment was Florence + the Machine, "Shake It Out."

See, I knew it would get interpreted as coy, but I didn't read it that way, because they set it up so nicely with Marshall refusing to treat anything as settled during the run-up to the wedding. It's not a tease, it's hard-nosed realism. And a reminder that in love, people are always making absolutist statements like…

Yes, that was a nifty moment.

Missed that completely! And Noel, although he'd been alerted earlier in the day that Conan was going to be in the background sometime in the episode, didn't see it either. Nice Easter egg.