It has to have been intended as such, turned down by him (for whatever reason), and left in, I would think.

I did get it! But I read a lot of word-and-phrase-origin books as a child.

A lot of people felt that way about Julia! (Not saying I agree with that, but some people on other message boards believed it very vocally.)

I was pushed against a wall once and went through more than one period of being bullied and/or ostracized, but I was never actually in a fight. You mention that you are British - maybe British school culture is different? Although honestly, the American stereotype of "There are rigid cliques and everyone…

I'm disappointed that Gaye is actually an Aries (born April 2 according to Wikipedia). It would have been pretty funny if even that was wrong.

And while the seventies were in some ways a more sexually loose time than today, a mainstream network ad could never have had that level of double entendre - especially with a racial angle!

You are correct:

Nice job, but I don't think the show is supposed to be set in any specific real city. Besides the "landmarks and amenities" listed, the city also has a college, TV station, minor league baseball team, racetrack, revolving restaurant, and probably more stuff I can't remember. I doubt if any one New Jersey city has all…

The "As God as shown us, by turning stones to bread" line drives me crazy. Didn't anyone involved have actual familiarity with the Biblical text (in which Jesus refused to turn stone to bread, in a context that had nothing to do with feeding the hungry anyway)? Too bad Johnny Cash was in a downward part of his…

I think most of them just feel no real connection to their remote British ancestors, who probably came to this continent three or four centuries ago. They also may genuinely not know in many cases whether said ancestors were English or Scottish or a mixture of both. However, Wikipedia says that self-identifying as…

Let me be That Guy: I think you have the names backwards. Abbott is the manager, Costello the newbie. (But confusion is oddly appropriate!)

It actually means the opposite of what you think: it's comparing him to Jesus!

You can't keep a good man down: http://www.avclub.com/artic…

It took thirty years, but Mills got his revenge on Letterman for forgetting his name (by prematurely releasing the news of his retirement).

There still seems to be a psychological 5-win barrier for many.

I think that was part of the joke. (Gimmick poster.)

I have to disagree with the claim that people are "not allowed to hate" it. Just look at all the surrounding comments! The general public may still like it (I guess - probably the average person hasn't given it any thought in years), but Internet opinion must be about 99 to 1 against.

I have definitely heard Ku Klux Clam mentioned in syndication. Maybe it was only in "Itchy and Scratchy Land," not this one.

The earlier seasons (especially Season One where Dwight stole Jim's clients) made clear that Dwight was the original aggressor in the relationship and therefore made the pranks more palatable. As that became less clear (especially here where the prank was directed toward another person!) and the pranks became more…

Denver voted down the 1976 Winter Olympics after they had already been awarded!