Glad you liked it, Spooky!

Great choices, guys. There's no convincing the haters, but I'll add to the playlist — here's a fastball down the middle, and a change-up:
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It's Not Work., the book in Will's bag was the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, so apparently it's Wittgenstein that he enjoys reading for fun.

ethnic flensing

The two comedians who took Louie out to the club were Godfrey and Ardie Fuqua.

Another Woody Allen comparison
And a lot of this has been said about previous weeks' shows, but I saw "Annie Hall"-era Woody's influence again pretty strongly here, particularly in "Going Out." Not just in how both men are single comedians in Manhattan in their early 40s, but in the way the city itself becomes a…

Can anyone explain the weird bit about Angelo's first wife, her family, and them "losing face" somehow?

Whereas Valerie's dress spread the twins around a little bit.

From the pullback onward, through the musical montage, that was a total Scrubs ending.

Joni Mitchell - Rainy Night House

I guess "disrespecting your cherished notions of how comic book characters should behave" was a theme of the 1989 parade.
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If it's any consolation, that's Tina Fey directly below Palin, doing her very best sexy-librarian "I'm removing my glasses."

Upon further reflection, my last item should have been:

Godspeed You Black Empanadas!

I love the image too. The only mental hospital I've ever been to (visitor, not a patient) had a dingy linoleum floor much like that one. The woodgrain paneling adds a perfect note of sad rec room. The combination suggests, somehow, the forsaken corner of a decrepit pizza joint, or perhaps your bachelor uncle's…

Borne on the Wind-Wings of Pegasus Kitties

If I were not before the bar
Something else I'd like to be.
If I were not a barrister
An engine driver me!
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- The Sorrow and the Pity and the Pity

- Bright Lights, Big City, Big City?

When you got high for the first time in the camps down by the banks of the Mississippi River, Riff?