I predicted that the Hugo children would be blond(e) versions of the real children, but it was still a fun visual. It would have been even better if their shirts had been the color wheel opposites of their regular shirts. That would have had Tina and Gene in the previously unseen orange and purple, but Louise…

I think maybe longer ago than that by now, but certainly long after this episode.

The Burns scene actually seems more Scientology-specific rather than less, since it refers so clearly to "tax-exempt status." I never heard that Heaven's Gate cared much about taxes, but Scientology certainly does.

I never heard this word as an adjective before. If I were a New York Jew, would I have? (I rarely hear the noun in real life, but I know what it means.)

It was probably my own exhaustion after a hard work week, but I thought that this game had a number of awkwardly worded clues. One that stuck
out was the Benz clue - because of the focus on Mrs. Benz and not on the
also-mentioned Karl, I somehow thought that they wanted her maiden name
and that it might be Daimler. …

So it is the novel? I read several pans that described the awful prose at length but never referred to the second-person-ness.

Her hair did look off.

Are you maybe thinking of his autobiography (which got more mixed reviews, but I never read it)? This is about a college track team in 1970s Boston haunted by a demon. It has several bad sex scenes.

His novel has been released and is apparently very, very bad (at least according to the review I read).

There was a time when I was enough of a young political nerd that I could have named most Senate committee chairs (long past - after a while it became too hard to keep track of the constant changes), but subcommittee chairs? Since there are several Senators running, that was a cruel clue.

"Or nothing" is an acceptable option. I didn't hate this, but I have increasingly come to believe that the Disney/Looney Tunes/Peanuts/Muppets characters do not have to be constantly re-deployed for new generations. Surely there must be a new genius out there somewhere who can create his or her own group of great…

It was OK, but I have no real desire to watch it again. I think I liked it better when it was called 30 Rock. I was also not expecting a pointless musical guest cameo.

The Million Moms are a letterhead organization and their founder Rev. Donald Wildmon is best known for accusing Mighty Mouse of cocaine use, but the professional reviews are starting to come in, and many agree that the show is pointlessly cynical and explicit.

Is there any known reason why there has never been any attempt to incorporate her into the Muppet universe? It would be one thing if the Muppet Show cast were considered an unalterable group, but instead there have been quite a few new Muppets added in the last thirty years, some of which (such as Pepe) have become…

I don't remember those (they might be after my time), but I did own a Nature Book and an Almanac (and a third one along the same lines?) that were also chapter-book length. They were pretty good, if I recall correctly.

Although it was lame that his real name turned out to be Rich Texan, I always thought he was an OK character, certainly more entertaining than his contemporary Gil.

His self-penned IMDB bio claims he is an ex-lawyer as well, so he would have to be a pretty versatile guy.

Yeah, this may have started as a political homage, but it seems to have attained momentum beyond that.

The actor has a fairly extensive IMDB resume, so it looks as if claims that he was the real manager are unlikely.

That was a typical sitcom punchline with no real world consequences beyond the gag. The show would have been above such things in Season 2; by Season 9 such standards were long gone.