If I remember correctly, the book claims that the only time Chris Morris ever apologised for anything he did was when he contacted Deborah Curtis to apologise for the Ian-Curtis-corpse bit in The Day Today. Apparently, the daughter was a fan of the show, and she got her mother to watch an episode with her…only for…

Nathan Barley is indeed good - I think it took a couple of episodes to get going, but overall it's pretty solid. Should've gone on for at least one more season.

I think Jam could be the best thing Chris Morris ever did, but while I've re-watched the entire run of The Day Today and Brass Eye more times than I can remember, I've only watched the entire run of Jam twice. I'm not sure why that is.

"HOW'S FLAPPY? HOW'S FLAPPY?" *maniacal laughter*

Cleveland is a shit place? You mean…Ian Hunter was lying??

Ford was described as being cast against type in The Mosquito Coast, which I suppose was true at the time…but it doesn't seem so incongruous now, what with "grumpy asshole" being his default onscreen and offscreen persona for, what, the last 20 years?

Trab pu kcip! Trab pu kcip!

It's impossible not to get the "suicide note" impression from the final song, yep. But, I dunno, if you read Richey's original text, with all the sad drunken Olivier-in-The Entertainer music-hall character stuff, the intent of the piece is more debatable. It's definitely still a valid reading, just not as blatant.…

Re: Jubilee, my recollection is that she was introduced front and centre as the audience-surrogate character…but faded into the background before the first season was out. It seemed pretty obvious that the producers either lost interest in Jubilee, or realised how lame she was to begin with.

Also, "Michael Picasso," Ian Hunter's song about Mick Ronson (after Ronno died from liver cancer).

Other Manics songs about Richey: "Nobody Loved You" on This is My Truth Tell Me Yours, and "Cardiff Afterlife" on Lifeblood.

"The makers of JLU heavily based their version of Question on Rorschach, so this is a rare instance in which a character is based on a character based on itself."

I read an interview with Bruce Timm (or some other DCAU honcho) saying that the first time Jeffrey Combs delivered dialogue as The Question, everyone felt like they wanted to drop the rest of the Justice League and just make the whole show revolve around The Question.

Pure West.

Instead of the 5½-hour cut of Fire Walk With Me, we get this piece of shit???

And Tommy Smothers was quite forgiving of John Lennon and Harry Nilsson, after the pair of them got smashed on brandy and heckled the brothers' comeback show at the Troubadour in '74.

That was the "Touch Me" performance in which Robby Krieger's got a black eye, right?

In the Donner cut, they end up back in the Phantom Zone.

Anyone else noticed how Malcolm McDowell's normal speaking voice has morphed into a sort of mid-Atlantic thing from all those years of living in America? I mean, when you hear him being interviewed, he still sounds mostly British, but he has this American twang on certain words. Like when he's talking about Kubrick,…

I love how Stamp's voice goes from posh to East End when Zod loses his shit: