'I'm going to bake a cake in the shape of the moon blowing up' is definitely my favorite Mr Show quote. What a genius sketch, it hits every single note perfectly.

In Stephen King's IT, the evil remains unnamed so as not to dignify it. I'm guessing it's an allusion.

That is an excellent point! Also, a dead relative leads characters into 'heaven' in both. Not to mention the name 'Jacob'.

Jacob's Ladder
If there's anything that this episode, and by extension all of season 6, reminds me of, it's the movie 'Jacob's Ladder'. Odd supernatural goings-on, a sideways reality where a character has to learn to 'let go', characters struggling with family emotional trauma.

Anthony Cooper
Remember when Anthony Cooper was in a car accident and then woke up on the island? Yanked from the alternate timeline, perhaps?

Except that in one of the time travel incidents the statue can be clearly seen. Oh well.

My first inclination when I saw the water so high was that the island was actually rising out of the sea.

Law & Order
I have long since outgrown my Law & Order phase, but the episode "Aftershock" where the characters watch an execution and then deal with it in their own (incredibly over-dramatic) ways stuck out in my mind. I think it was the shock of seeing the characters outside of their job for the first time ever.

I totally agree with the 'alterna-verse as ultimate fate' argument, and here's how I think it's going to play out:

Two in particular
These two articles were separated by only 2 weeks. I identified way too much with each of them and decided that maybe I should take myself a bit less seriously.

Ore No Ryori
Ore No Ryori is the best cooking game ever. Where else can you pour beer, make shrimp tempura, chase down customers who don't pay, and squash roaches, all while making sure the soup doesn't stay on too long?

Army of Dorkness
Apologies for the awful pun.

It could also be in reference to the "all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again" time loop idea that Esau/Blackie and Jacob were referring to. Maybe the needle needs a little push to come unstuck in its groove?

Charlie Fucking Sheen
I know candidates should be generally well-respected, and that's iffy for this guy, but I just cannot stand him. He's like a humour vacuum that sucks in all the humour around him and deposits it straight into his shit-eating grin. Sometimes I see people around me laugh at Two And A Half Men and…

When I'm trying to decide if a musician is decent without ever having heard them I usually ask two questions. I ask drummers if that's their only instrument, and I ask everyone if they like Creed. Positive answers usually do not bode well.

Whenever anyone talks about needing to be knocked out and time travel or space travel I always think of the Stephen King short story "The Jaunt", where humans have teleportation machines, but if they go through conscious it seems to last an eternity (as in millions of years).

Rumination of artistic limitations
It's a testament to the film that the most terrifying limitation is "do whatever you want" and a testament to the filmmaker that he still comes up with something riveting. The "tinyfilm" was incredible, and a joy to witness.

Although the finale title does geek me out to embarrassing degrees, I'm very curious about episode 14. The Constant has been far and away my favourite episode in the series, and this seems to be making a direct reference to it. Whether or not that extends further than the title, I don't know.

Another good sci-fi analogy would be Solaris, where Solaris recreates people from your past not like they were, but how you remember them.

I actually don't think that Baltar is a cylon, or at least I hope he's not. I've always seen Baltar, especially at the beginning of the series, as the embodiment of the human race. Arrogant, brilliant, sensualist, unwilling to take responsibility for their creations, only interested in saving their own skins.