Hey, this would have been an A+ episode for me if Neil Gaiman had brought Amanda along.  As it is, it was pretty damn good.

Hader's Garrison Keillor was far and away the best impression from the "Live With…" skit.  Just the way he said "owls" had me rolling.

I think the main joke was that the song was built on references only someone from Massachusetts would get.  They sort of let that go, though, once the cameos started piling up.

Jon Huntsman is candidate funny, but not "should be on late night TV" funny.  And sorry to break the bad news, but the Republicans will never nominate a man who looks like Jim Jarmusch dressed for an Episcopal wedding.

I liked the Fringe parallel Todd found with "Mirror Image."  People don't often compare the two shows.  The comparisons came up more with Lost.

Well McCarthy was right in that Soviet communism existed, and that it was interested in consolidating power.  The wrong part was in thinking that they had or thought they had any hope in Hell of taking over the US, and that somehow liberal intellectuals were a key to accomplishing this.  But I can understand how…

According to the Fringepedia article on this episode it's "Me Oh My" by Bryan Ferry, so good going CarbonYeti.  I've listened to a lot of Roxy, but I guess I was assuming it was someone younger.

Did you know what it was Eugene's stalkee was listening to in her apartment?  It sounded kind of Bowie-ish, but I know it wasn't him.

We did get some good Astrid insights during her scene.  And Nina is awesome in her ambiguous evil, as ever.  I guess I had issues with the case not being all it could be.  And I'm not sure that the actor playing Eugene was very good.

Good catch.  Shirley's my favorite character on the show, and it's good to see when a writer really gets her.

Heh.  Actually I think you're thinking of the late Rick Aviles.

He's a favorite of PT Anderson in general.  He was Adam Sandler's employee-buddy in Punch Drunk Love too.

Ron's random compliment to the guitar teacher did get the biggest laugh out of me.

Jane's sleight-of-hand in the teaser cracked me up.  I have to wonder if Brad made up his ex being a magician just so he could see that.

They'll come in handy when we see Elton John with Scooter.

I'm not sure Robert Sean Leonard wants more screen time.  He seems to take the same "Give me 90 seconds and I'll make it count" approach that Steven Hill did on Law & Order.

Yeah, way to play to all the stereotypes, dad!

At the point the story takes place in, Germany had surrendered, or was really close.  Japan was very near the breaking point.  It may actually make it worse, knowing how close these guys were to the finish line of the whole war.

To be fair, standing stock still is a hard thing for higher lifeforms to pull off.  Living statues can do it, but even they will do some twitch here and there to keep you guessing.

Jimmy James and Milton!  I tell ya, Peter never should have tried to take the red stapler.