I think I have a very, very vague buried childhood memory of seeing that reported on the news. Although I have slightly clearer memories of the actual Headroom ads, my instinctive reaction to the mention of his name is a shudder.

The details have all faded from my mind, but I think Matt Jackson had a similar experience of guessing an obscure poem in FJ (maybe by Elizabeth Bishop?) instead of a well-known one (maybe Howl? - I guess I do remember the details after all). It was a runaway and he won the game anyway.

There is a bit of Buddy Holly also.

I knew the name sounded familiar, so I assumed it was the guy mentioned in the Teddy episode ("Friends with Burger-fits"). Thanks to Core Concept for the correct origin, but then what was the name of the best friend mentioned in the Teddy episode?

On another board he claims he misread the clue as NHL.

I kind of feel the opposite way - since they were careful enough to put the word "sequel" in there, they seemed to want a specific answer. I think maybe they were lenient because The Princess Diaries 2 was considered to be too obscure. If it had been a clue about The Godfather, Part II or even Jaws 2, she might…

Tai's vote for Scot proved to be a no-turning-back moment. He probably did not realize that he was creating a second-place tie between himself and Aubry, but once he did, he could not use the Super Idol for Scot without effectively removing himself.

Believe it or not, the whole thing is an Anglican in-joke:

I agree - the implication that the song continued off screen was almost better than actually hearing the whole thing would have been.

I never realized that Albright originated the quotation in the first place (but Wikiquote confirms that is correct). I wondered why no one ever mentioned that she was stealing a Taylor Swift line, but I guess she was really re-using her own material.

This is a pretty mild level of snark, everybody.

I do think the women are a bit underdeveloped as characters - Marta and Montserrat seem pretty much indistinguishable (personality-wise - obviously very different in appearance) for most of the movie. Then suddenly Marta is revealed to be a thief and literally a prostitute but Montserrat equally abruptly embraces…

I believe a number of city governments did ban the film, so clearly there was some mainstream opposition to it, but overall Roswulf is basically correct.

The hearing scene uses a Tennessee flag, but apparently because it was a generic-looking flag that they happened to have easily available. I don't think the movie is meant to be set in the South - the Southern-accented female student stands out vocally from all the other characters.

When I re-watched it as an adult academic, I most identified with Sutherland's plaintive cry of "I'm not joking. This is my job!" (Not with any of his other actions!)

Never believe anything you read, I guess.

The third preview scene (besides the ones Stegrelo and Col. Cliburn already mentioned) was A Viking Funeral, so Mel Brooks did not care much about chronological order either. But it did seem a bit of a dead-end joke for the category name.

I think the late Dissolve already covered all those issues! But personally, for whatever subjective reason, I find Animal House funny and this movie much less so. The best scene was at the end when Fr. Mulcahy blessed a jeep.

I heard it claimed that Korea is never actually mentioned in the dialogue. (I didn't pay close enough attention to see if this was actually true.) Supposedly Altman did this to hint that the movie was really set in Vietnam, but a studio executive (apparently more perceptive than studio executives usually are)…

The underlying subplot is that they drive Hot Lips to have some kind of nervous breakdown, right? I almost said "off-screen nervous breakdown," but it basically happens on screen, when she explodes at Col. Blake after the shower incident. At the football game later on she is a shell of herself.