People really gloss over just what a creep Jack is in the book, too. Yeah, maybe his story has a *little* more nuance, but the most recent thing he did in the book prior to the story starting was get fired from his teaching position for administering a brutal beatdown to a student who slashed his car tires. On school…

And look how it paid off later. All he had to do was Rasta-fy him by . . . 10 percent or so.

"Hitler, North Dakota?"

cf. "Singin' in the Bathtub," an actual song that showed up in a whole bunch of Warner Bros. cartoons:

OK, true story: I went on a group trip (around 20 people) to Australia at the end of 2001 that lasted about 16 days. While there, one of the days we visited Kangaroo Island, which is a real live place just off the coast south of Adelaide. (The ferry crossing there, on a giant catamaran through choppy waters, is its…

10 times a time?!? Unpossible!

I'm pretty sure there is no synth on "Head Over Heels," although there is an electric piano.

Love this band. Love, love, love them and always have. One of my favorite Go-Go's related stories:

It's great that he's also blissfully unaware of it, but I like when he acknowledges it: "Fry, I'm sorry you lost the woman of your dreams, but you still have Zoidberg. YOU ALL STILL HAVE ZOIDBERG!"

Not to mention the sign on the community center:

This gigantic woman will devour us all! AAAAAAAH!!!  *dives into river*

Love this song. Still own my original copy of this album on vinyl, and still listen to it.

Whammy! contains my absolute, stone-cold favorite B-52s song ever, "Legal Tender." I kinda hate that my favorite song of theirs is Fred-less, but I can't argue with how cool that song is.

The guitar part on "One Thing Leads to Another" is one of my absolute favorite things to play. It's amazingly, deceptively simple, and on its own it sounds like pointless vamping. But place it with the beat and the production and it becomes something totally different.

Also the park ranger repeatedly being fooled by Bender into trying to take a picture of Bigfoot. And his trying to place an ad for a "top quality exercycle for sale," which we later see on a satellite in space.

You are all crazy, "That's Lobstertainment" is hilarious.

It's worth it just to get to one of my absolute favorite jokes on any show ever:

"This is, by a wide margin, the least likely thing that has EVER happened."

I recently re-watched all the original FOX episodes in order, but initially skipped "Jurassic Bark" when it came up, and only watched it when I finished the rest. It's just as impactful the second, third or fourth time as it is the first.

" Lovece also quotes cartoon historian Jerry Beck, "