Mystery Movie Memory
That was a GREAT pop culture riff, and on a Sunday night too, just like when I was a kid.
And it didn't come out of left field. Nelson started hitting the Columbo beats in the Kwiki-Mart scene ("Oh yeah, one more thing…") Also, did I mention it was Sunday night? The set-up for that gag happened…

It's not people who don't understand.
It's Tivo.
Tivo hates Nascar.

Travolta's hair
Is Travolta going for early 80s Burt Reynolds or fuzzy GI-Joe?

The Counterfeiters
Great acceptance speech. I can't say I care too much about whether Austria ever won an Oscar, but at lease he got up with something to say and said it graciously and efficiently.

Marion Cotillard
I know she didn't expect to win (NO ONE expected that) but she could at least have given a shout out to Edith Piaf.

Oh gosh I'm so blonde and pretty and I just know you'll love this whole vulnerable shtick I've been working on.

Live from the 1950s!
Gotta love that old school announcer intro. Three seconds into the show and it's squarer than John Chancellor.

It's "roll in the hay", not "role in the hay".

The Essence of Greenaway
First develop a tableau of exquisitely rendered and achingly beautiful design which suggests that the works and artifices of humanity are transcendent.

North Dakota
Take it from me, Billy:
There are LOTS of good reasons not to go to North Dakota.

Matheson's prose
I went through a Matheson period in my teens and read "I Am Legend" and "The Shrinking Man". I really enjoyed his straightforward workmanlike prose and in retrospect I think it probably influenced my own writing style.
This is probably one of the main reasons I'm NOT a professional writer today, so I…

Congratulations!
She's already funnier than Amelie Gillette.

I love BASIC humour.

loosely goosely

Agreed, though the constructive thing about "pissing Calvin" stickers is they allow us to quickly identify and avoid the most obnoxious assholes.

Loosely.

That thing in that movie I seen
I seen that thing in that movie, and it was just like that thing I seen in that other movie. And when I seen it was a chick who looked like that chick from that other movie I seen, and that she was doing that thing like that other thing I seen, I said "That's just like that thing I…

U2's "Steel Wheels" period
Brilliant phrase that speaks volumes. Bravo!

The scary internets
I don't want to alarm anyone, but I think I may be on the Internets RIGHT NOW!
For god's sake, someone help me before the cyberstalkers and serial killers and identity thieves get me!

Buzz Cola
Maybe this was a bit too "on the nose" but if you're going to license an energy drink from the Simpsons, why wouldn't you just make Buzz Cola? Otherwise it'a a bit of a rip.
As near as I can see, Buzz Cola was the fictional progenitor of today's energy drinks.
Of course, I vaguely remember that someone…