If Ryan Dunn had killed Nick Hogan in the crash, it would have been worth it.

She's a girl?!

Peter Gallagher Jonas
You should have asked him about his role in my made-up movie where the Jonas Brothers wake up and crawl out of the big bed they all sleep in to discover that they've radically aged several decades. Their older versions would be played by Peter Gallagher, Jon Cusack and Tom Hanks. (If we can't get…

Similar to some of the other posters, I tried reading a A Confederacy of Dunces for the first time a few months ago and couldn't get more than fifty pages in before giving up. I think the thing is that if you first read it as a teenager, it will be the best book ever written. But if you're older than the main…

@Alex Rogan: I actually read it at Memory Alpha, which is nerdy enough.

Now that I look that scene up on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watc…, I'm a little surprised to find that it was only about one minute long. For some reason, I remembered the scene as actually consisting of Cutty running for the song's full, glorious nine-minute length.

Apparently the novelization of Generations contains a scene in which Guinan explains to Chekhov that Kirk is still alive in the Nexus, which would resolve the plot hole in this episode.

@Flaubert Cooper: I think you mean "hyperbaric chamber". A "hyperbolic chamber" is a room you go into to exaggerate a lot.

I'm not proud of this, but…
Considering how full of fart jokes the cold open of this week's episode was, there will never be a better time to post my alternative lyrics to the theme song:

"The New Face of the TV Cop: Sexy, Swingin' and Single."
I've always loved this fan page for a fake 1970s cop show called Kresky, which is so elaborate that it becomes hard to believe that it didn't actually exist after all. (According to the site, it did actually exist, but ongoing disputes over the rights have left…

Everyone makes a big deal about how "The Inner Light" is a Beatles reference, but no one ever wants to talk how "Best of Both Worlds" is a Van Hagar reference.

The one line from Pootie Tang I use most is probably "Dirty Dee, you a baddy daddy lamatai tebby chai!" Is there a better line for confronting your enemies?

Jenna Jameson: Semen

Great Caesar's ghost!
I once saw an old episode of The Rockford Files that guest-starred not only Jackie Cooper but also Lane Smith, or, in other words, the future Perry White from the Superman movies and the future Perry White from The Adventures of Lois and Clark. It was pretty mind-blowing.

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
— Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"

Is it too soon to get sixies?
Damn.

Before The Simpsons parody, there was also that guy on Star Trek who tried to add Data to his collection.

"A lot of the Beach Boys' best stuff came out after Smiley Smile (Sunflower is probably their best album after Pet Sounds.) I'd list Holland as the last album and Love You as a Brian solo."

I think you're mixing up Weird Al and Gallagher here. But I love imagining Weird Al the prick, just ranting and screaming and swearing at his band. The transcripts of the infamous Buddy Rich tapes get vastly more entertaining if you pretend it's Weird Al berating some hapless accordionist.

Apparently Cobain's response to Al's request was simply, "Yeah that's fine. Is it gonna be a song about food?" Al also said in an interview that he ran into Kurt in a restaurant a while later and asked if he could do anything to express his appreciation for letting him do the song, and Kurt just had Al sit down and…