I like to think that that Cubs joke was originally about the Red Sox. They showed you, Apatow!

It looks as if you are right - wi-fi, Angelina Jolie, Apatow movie titles, Kiss in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, appearance by Cletus (a character of mid-90s origin), etc.

This definitely provided support for those of thus who view the show as having a New-Englandy feel despite Loren Bouchard's repeated statements that it takes place in New Jersey.

To what extent was this modified from the original script written in 1989? I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but I doubt if a dildo joke would have been allowed by Standards and Practices then, and Chalmers was not a first-season character. Did anything beyond a skeleton of an idea survive?

I would be interested to see someone do that. Would it be quite this bad? Except for the vocals (Luke Bryan in particular has a rather distinctive voice), it is almost impossible here to tell where one song ends and another begins.

The gods of other religions actually have sex with the women they impregnate. An actual virgin birth is a pretty rare thing in mythologies.

I think that, like communal showers after gym class, they are a relic of yore that has lived on as a plot device.

There actually was a controversy last year (or maybe it was the year before already).

The singer was Canadian, actually.

At some point that became my favorite also. The child actress seems to barely understand what the line means, but that makes it even more funny rather than less.

It now seems clear that NBC dominance of Thursday nights really was begun by a demon, or at least by someone who might as well be one.

These clips remind me of one of the reasons why Bill Watterson did not want to make a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon - he did not want their voices permanently linked with an actor. That is NOT what I would have expected B.D. to sound like.

No, actually I think Castaneda is mostly forgotten today.

I seem to recall that even at the time Manson said, "I was less offended by his threat to kick my ass in than by the fact that he put me in the same sentence as Courtney Love."

I still remember the shock I felt at the end of that one. It was very effectively done.

There are precedents for this. Ronald Reagan (when Governor of California) pardoned Merle Haggard for his criminal youth. Jimmy Carter pardoned Peter Yarrow for sexual offenses with a minor even though the offenses were committed after he was already famous! In general, even for non-celebrities, "I have reformed my…

I actually had one of those Happy Meal books (or at least some kind of movie-related storybook; not 100% sure if it came from McDonald's) that told Santa Claus's origin story, and I assumed that that was the whole movie. Not until years later did I learn that there was a present-day plot involving evil Dudley Moore.

One thing about Christie is that she was willing to make anyone the murderer. Those other Golden Age authors had their limits, but not Agatha.

Good name/comment synergy.

I believe the name was actually obsolete or at least archaic until Hardy revived it.