He has a few of those 70s cop show scores in various places in the Simpsons. My favourite is the one from Separate Vocations. Though I do still hum the one from this episode every now and then.

Could you give me some examples of good Fox musicals? I've been watching a lot of MGM musicals, as well as some WB and RKO ones lately, but I don't think that I've ever watched a Fox one.

I really liked A Walk in the Woods, but it probably had a lot to do with me actually reading the book while tramping, and therefore relating to it a bit more.

I agree, just not very good at all. The one line I did like was the super saying "no maniacal laughing either."

What about those of us who are fans of Broadway (up until the '80s) and Sondheim but think Bernadette Peters is pretty overrated (especially on the latest Follies recording, which I think she mangles)?

I actually did mean to watch Ali: Fear Eats the Soul a while back, but for some reason my DVD didn't work properly. 

Easter holidays end my first term at university and begin a two week break. Not coincidentally, the long weekend had me watching a lot of TV and movies.

Do you find it difficult to watch Phoenix games? I spent a few years in Italy when I was young, and was obsessed with soccer and watching Serie A/Champions League/World Cup games. The standard of the A-League looked too amateurish, and I stopped watching after the first half of the Phoenix match as it was already…

My favourite part of the joke is actually that Wiggum sort of hmms in approval after this speech, as if the speech could actually be convincing instead of the ramblings of an insane man.

This is a top 3 episode for me, and lately I've been asking myself a few questions about. First, was this a pre-existing musical adaptation or did Mr. Sinclair commission it? Second, if this wasn't a pre-existing adaptation, how did they afford to pay for an orchestra/orchestra recording?

The idea is that you're not really supposed to tell the difference, because they all have a house style and it is generally designed to make the show look very similar from week to week. From Buffy and Angel, the only directors I can really tell off the bat are Whedon and Greenwalt, because they tend to use longer…

I was discussing that they essentially brung Jon Benjamin to play Archer in many ways while watching this episode. I think it worked especially well because of the deep bass-baritone quality of his voice, which made a lot of jokes funnier just by him saying them.

I also know an anime enthusiast with a neckbeard. Is it a stereotype of anime culture?

I went through a Better off Ted semi re-watch (My brother watched all the episodes and I saw about half). It is still really funny, kind of a shame it never got the sort of fanbase that saves low-rated TV.

Hmmm.

To be fair, season 6 is a terrific season for Homer, in sub-plots and in A-plots.

as a general question, do people often make Simpsons quotes without recognising which episode they are from? I do it quite a bit, particularly if I'm not in the middle of a Simpsons re-watching binge.

I actually much prefer the original Cape Fear to the Scorsese one. I watched them one after the other, and the thing that struck me most about Scorsese's one was how little it looked like Scorsese. It looked a lot like a poor imitation of a DePalma movie (hardly my favourite director, but better than this), and was…

I preferred Mad Dog and versus Rama and his brother.

But if you get a great staff some of them can bring variety to the show with their different voices/specialty narrative tricks. Examples include Larry Charles on Seinfeld and Tim Minear on Angel.