I'm pretty sure the last time we saw Ted he was paralyzed in the hospital.  I can't believe he survived that fall.  I am guessing Vince Gill originally didn't mean for that to happen.

Eolith  I'm pretty sure somewhere in the first season we do learn that Carrie got recruited right out of high school.  And I do buy her as being in her early to mid 30s.

"Go ahead and scream your head off.  We're miles from where anyone can hear you."

Well, it's official.  I can't have children.

I really thought every clip was just going to be Jimmy Fallon.

I highly enjoyed The Social Network references in this season.  And I did think we were watching a Palo Alto pool party.  I kept waiting for a chimney to collapse. But the reason I loved these jokes is because I remember seeing Jesse Eisenberg on a talk show once saying that people on the street confuse him with…

Are we talking about fat Tracy or skinny Tracy at the end?

I had to look that one up on IMDB after hearing the joke because I figured it must be an Imagine film.  And sure enough…

Thanks for putting that damn Friday song in my head, Aaron Sorkin!  Argh!

That George Maharis article is a great easter egg.  It also makes a connection to a previous season's joke of Barry Zuckerkorn and his "Laker tickets" and his case of poison oak.

Between that and the donkey punch, they're really going for jokes of people taking hits to the vagina.  Which I suppose is a reversal of the old hit to the balls gag that so many comedies do?

I spent my entire weekend on a Quantum Leap marathon.  I did not leave the house for four days.  I'm not kidding.  I'm about to get laid off from my job, and I'm a little depressed about it, so Dr. Sam Beckett is curing all my tears with a prescription of his delicious sexiness and a lollipop.

Hey, one of my film teachers from film school was an editor on this movie.  He called it "the highlight of his career."  10 years later, and I've still never seen it.

That was the most important lesson I ever learned from Breaking Bad.

Ha, you should meet my family.  They're all about Duck Dynasty.  My mother is completely addicted to reality television and conservative talk radio.  And she thinks I have mental problems because I like Breaking Bad.

These are good points about Sorkin.  I used to love his works.  The only one I hadn't seen was The West Wing, which I started watching a couple of weeks ago and gave up halfway through season 3.  That show is making me painfully aware he can't really come up with an original story idea.  Every plot, every character,…

I feel I have vagina-swinging condescension for this show. :)  Seriously, it is way too soapy for me, but I do watch it.  I get bored sometimes, so I watch Grey's Anatomy.  In the beginning I thought it was awesome, and then I discovered cable TV shows and realized what horrible taste I'd had in television all my life.

The whole episode was worth it for, "Do you know what they're talking about in there?" "Yes.  They're celebrating because you're not in there."  I howled.

So we are in the Nixon era now.  I was born during the Nixon presidency (the very, very end of it).  Now I feel old.

And now I just got it too.  I must be an innocent.  It wasn't until last month that I finally got the Seaward joke.  And I had to have someone tell me it was a joke and I had to think about it for a few minutes before it clicked.  Same deal here too.