"Lesson learned: Don't carry the chipmunk on your shoulder."

"How does it feel to have a psycho for a son?"
"It feels wonderful."

Turkey over the phone, the Butterball hotline scene, The West Wing

Turkey for Thanksgiving
Seven fishes for Christmas Eve
Roast beast for Christmas Day
Ham and lamb for Easter
Year-round pie

One of my favorite ever moments of unconvincing peril on this show. Filmed on the single most horizontal piece of Wales.

Steady as she goes.

"It so happens that your movie here is only MOSTLY perfect. And there's a big difference between mostly perfect and all perfect. Mostly perfect means slightly flawed. With mostly perfect, there's usually only one thing you can do."
"What's that?"
"Go through the script and insert Spinal Tap references."

This is for posterity, so please — be honest.

Rubbish! Filth! Muck! Slime! Boo! Boo! BOO!

"Fuck you, y'old Building & Loan!"

Sure, sure.

Personally it annoys me because when I scroll a big chunk at a time, it jumps forward suddenly, which resembles what the Safari address bar does when a page is loading, which makes me freak out for a second thinking I accidentally refreshed or clicked a link. But I'm getting used to it.

"Do a lot of the people die of the syphilis?"
"Oh, yes. Historically, syphilis is right up there with Germans. It wiped out the Romanovs, it decimated our fleet at Pearl Harbor, and of course, Fidel Castro impersonated Marilyn Monroe and gave President Kennedy a case of syphilis so severe that eventually it blew the…

"Monty Python: Teased in a pair of tweets" would be a great title for a reunion show.

Picard 2347, heavy on the cinnamon, light on the cloves.

Most people think of Valentine's Day as the celebration of the burning of a Catholic loudmouth, but it's also about love!

I don't remember the Hanukkah episode of Rugrats, but I remember the Passover one, with Angelica as the pharaoh. I actually learned a lot from it. Somehow being the whole half-hour long made it feel like an epic movie.

I GOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE!

You're right, this is awesome. I love that the article specifies he was "9 ½" when his father died.

I think that was a problem of season four (which I still see as the show's worst year, though that's not saying much). A lot of characters were sort of reduced to revisiting their most obvious notes to make way for Don's demons during that run of episodes, and Betty was a major casualty of that. Then they used her…