The difference between major and minor keys comes from the way whole and half-steps are distributed through the scale (a whole step is separated by two keys on a piano, including the black keys, while a half step is the step between two adjacent keys). Starting with the base note ("tonic") of the scale, the steps of a…

Oh no, I've said too much.

Excuse me while I whip this out…

Boosh and/or Kra-kow?

I just started watching Happy Endings last month. I don't think I can handle another loss like this right now.

Damn mobile interface.

Is that a thing?

Hey now, I love being pretentious about craft beers, but I also spent entirely too much time as an awkward adolescent reading fantasy books and watching anime, and I'm working on a PhD in particle astrophysics. I think I've got that geek cred locked down.

@avclub-41e23e24ee2670c4128cd7e5e5ee42ab:disqus Correction: James Casey can be whatever he wants to be, because James Casey is the best.

@avclub-41e23e24ee2670c4128cd7e5e5ee42ab:disqus Correction: James Casey can be whatever he wants to be, because James Casey is the best.

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That's absolutely the most Hawaiian reference.

Irene!

I know I'm six days late, but I don't think enough people appreciate the beauty of "Candle on the Water." I have never not loved that song.

That's a good point. I actually had not watched Annie Hall the first time I saw 500 Days, but that split screen definitely has echoes of the subtitled conversation scene from Annie Hall.

That and the split-screen sequence were both really terrific; it's too bad the rest of the movie was so aggressively mediocre.

I don't understand how this was not mentioned in the Q&A, especially since the (500) Days of Summer scene always struck me as an homage to Ferris Bueller.

I think Archer's an electrician.

Sour mix in a margarita? What is this, Auschwitz?

I'd better start limbering up.