Who sends a VHS? Who has a VCR? Surely that thing would have been on the internet.

I'm going to guess that the pizza a reference was to Herman Cain; and the topless Tuesday reference was about tumblr.

Having recently listened to Rob Thomas on the Nerdist Writers Panel he admits that he didn't have any mystery writers on staff, so the PI and mystery arcs were not really well developed, he was more interested in characters.

Three letters for you; N, B, C.

Yes, yes it is. Does our two votes count as a majority?

HIMYM uses a 'laugh track', it films the episode then records the reaction of the audience watching it. 2.5 Men, Whitney, 2 Broke Girls and TBBT are recorded in front of an audience, which is a different thing, because they can pause and play for laughs, HIMYM does not.

FWIW 2 Broke Girls is the better of the two Whitney Cummings EP-ed shows this week.

And bold, the last four minutes of Isn't She Lovely are a harmonica solo over Stevie giving his kid a bath.

They never went to war against "Quatar" but did go to war against Qumar in season 4.

The Black Vera Wang aired May 2002.

"He was the son (or nephew?) of a major campaign contributor", I don't think so. In season 5 Jesse Bradford is the nephew of a Senator. This guy was just a guy.

It took John Cleese and his then wife three years to write the second series of Fawlty Towers, and contributed to their eventual divorce.

It's obviously a Ray Winstone impression, and in press interviews Jodie Foster said that Mel called up Ray to get the accent right. But then Yankees can never tell any accents outside of thier own, hence the running jokes in Flight of the Conchords; except I would have expected better here. And why no mention of the…

Cheers.

I thought Andrea Riseborough was good, but I guess that there was an element of "I've been there" whenever they showed the seafront.

He tells a story about how Zeigler was good for the East Coast, and it's true.

He tells a story about how Zeigler was good for the East Coast, and it's true.

Yes. Well recalled.

Yes. Well recalled.

They were American when I left!