It's from a series of web videos that aired on NBC.com before the first season starring Dan Harmon.

late term syndication is so that the show has as many episodes as possible for the first cycle so that they can make more money. After the first cycle the price drops substantially.  It's like buying a year old tv vs the new model. the more episodes that the show has, the longer it can go without repeating, which…

NBC is a part producer of the show, so they get syndication money as well. Plus with confirmed money from TV syndication, Sony will probably do deals that are cheaper for NBC and more expensive for Sony in the short term because they know they're making money from syndication.

Does comedy central have enough money to pay the whole cast? They do air Futurama but at a vastly reduced episode order and animated shows are cheaper to make.

They wait as long as they can because the faster they go into syndication the faster they get through the first cycle to the second where the rates for pick up drop substantially. The fewer episodes, the shorter the first cycle money can come in.

Lex did not understand that song at all. I think she tried to make the daddy part sexy? I always thought it was about child abuse and killing his dad.

It seemed like it was on purpose. Trying to be all scuzzy and punk as a stylistic choice.

yes, she narrates the audio book and it makes it that much better.

No mention of the absolutely pitch perfect eager prostitute joke? I wasn't even paying attention and that had me laughing for so long that I missed the rest of the scene.

And Tinker is on Cougar Town and Glee

With both the Wire and Friday Night Lights on his resume, he'd have to be a terrible person to not do well.

You beat me to it. I was actually getting annoyed by the baseball number in the first episode and all of the praise for it, when for me, it was a number with choreography that Adler and Ross would have called cliche

I think this just isn't the priority it was for him last season. Instead of having the time to edit and really work on his scripts (no listed co-writers this season) he had to get them done and that probably involves taking the easy way out.

there's this great scene that I think was cut from this episode between Mrs. Hughes and Mr. Carson about Mary as a child (I'm keeping it vague in case it shows up in the finale) that really fills in Carson's love for her and broadens Mary as a character. I just can't find any record of it existing online.

The Jeune de Paris was a great SNL sketch, especially since Paul Brittain is gone, it gives the show that happy wackiness that Lord Wyndemere was so good at. Plus the Joan of Arc and Nosferatu were spot on

that's exactly what I would have done, except it wasn't recorded so I watched it today

exactly, I heard Louis CK say somewhere that the guy sitting next to him on the plane with the internet joke was himself, he just didn't want himself to look like such an asshole.

It's been on Netflix instant for quite a while, but be warned, it may give your mom an excuse to pull out her Phil Ochs records and tell you all about them

Thanks, the stupid younger son who needs to do something with his life who would have become a cardinal in Renaissance Europe

Was anyone else confused about how Bobby Newport was related to the rest of the Newports? Is he Nick Newport sr.'s son? the older son of Nick Newport jr.? For a show so serious in it's continuity that's a pretty big open question.