The Australian version was intended to be a super-reality show, taking elements from a bunch of other successful formats (competition, performance, "personal journeys", learning, all that shit).

It's a great answer, because it implies he'd like to, but, in reality, he totally agrees, so he's not really lying, and you can see his Jesus movie totally guilt free. Unlike the Jews.

This was a Catholic school, too. He found the whole "english mass"thing, amongst others, heretical.

My uncles were at high school with Gibson. His father apparently used to apparently regularly interrupt PTA meetings and the like with crazy anti-Vatican II rants.

Yeah, I wonder why he didn't cotton on. Usually, when I scream racist threats at my girlfriend, she gets pretty upset.

Nah, the Connie Francis is fucking great. I'm a big fan of the more random futurama episodes, but Jurassic Park is a well written episode. Something being sad doesn't mean it's necessarily treacly.

I just looked this guy up on wikipedia. He's responsible for about 75% of my favourite episodes (including 2 Cars in Every Garage, 3 Eyes on Every Fish, which remains my favourite). What a talent.

My understanding is if what you're quoting is a question, the question mark is inside the marks. If you're asking a question about the quotation, the mark is outside.

Parents
It's probably just a generational thing, but my parents seem unable to accept that television can be anything other than a bit of mindless diversion.

I feel a bit sorry for Garrett. The guy always struck me as a genuine dude. I've never been able to figure out what he was expecting to do by entering parliament under the Labor party (and then taking a cabinet position).

Chrissie Amhplett has MS now. Kind of a bummer.

"Did you mean to say [X]… well, then why did you say [Y]?" has become a staple part of my repertoire whenever a situation requires me to be as much of a prick as possible (eg: petty fight with my girlfriend).

Jesus, that quiz night episode is so good.

How's Tall Man managed to make its way to America?

Wait, where does Sherbert fit into all this?

Ah, maybe I'm getting my terms confused, AB. It's before my time. I was under the impression that the "pub rock" thing included the inner-city stuff happening round that time (Radiators, Hard-Ons, no?)

Anyway, Australian "pub rock" is different from British pub rock, by 10,000 miles, and 5 or 10 years. Australian pub rock primarily refers to the late 1970's - 80's bands who would gig almost constantly around Sydney and Melbourne's (with occassional jaunts to rural & reg'nal Austraya) inner-city venues.

Cold Chisel are fucking brilliant. I won't countenance a word against them.

Russell Crowe went on Conan after the phone throwing incident to apologise.

Don't recall mentioning any of those four, actually.