You thought correctly. It may not have been funny, but it was a joke. ;)

"Peggy Wood"

I am grey and non-descript, but I cast a cool shadow, at least.

NOT-REALLY SPOILER:

Spoilers! Crucify!

Hey, I'll take a pun-thread (to the knee), though you might have missed the point of my joke.

Yes, please do.

"coronation"

Well, I understood it as they were saying it's vintage German brass, which would be pretty rare. And if they identified the pistol, the Luger's not common, either, but I don't know if they leave any particularly distinctive e.g. extractor marks, and they certainly didn't mention it.

Yeah, I don't know whether to be more depressed by the whole dissociation of quality and success, or that most people apparently heard "John Carter" and didn't think "… of Mars". I never read any of the Barsoom series, but I've sure as hell heard of them, and would have thought them a fairly recognizable bit of…

I worked for a short time in an arrow factory…

Reinhardt/Kircheis?

"The point is, nobody wants to see socially challenging films"
 —Cajun Clearwater

Sexxily.

It's loaded up and truckin', 's what it is.

The South?

To extend the analogy, people who watch broadcast TV with DVRs (or piracy) to avoid ads are punk hotrodders who strip the ad-laden body panels off their free cars so they now get from A to B in 42 minutes instead of an hour, and have no money — and as long as they stay a minority, the free cars keep coming, but the…

Yeah, I blame that sort of thing on my cyberbody, too. Who'd have thought these nifty little telescoping arms would be so bad at manipulating implements designed for human hands? And don't get me started on all the bipedal-prejudiced assholes…

I'm sure we'll find out how Aang died eventually; I'm not too concerned with the eventual fates fo every character, but what happened to the last Avatar does seem like one that needs addressed at some point, cf. Roku.

They have this new invention called a "video cable" — only a few scientists really understand how it works, but it can do seemingly-miraculous things like display videos from the laptoppy interwebs on a big sexy tv.