Woohoo! You caught Count Floyd with his pants down…

There is a Chippewa valley school district on the east side suburbia of Detroit. In a letter episode there are scenes at a club called the "Rusty Nail" which was a real dive club on Groesbeck in the eastern suburbs.

As a Gen Exer (cusp of Boomer), I grow increasingly glad I don't have children every time I watch Axl in action.  If my father had heard me speaking to my mother like he did in this (and basically every) episode, I would have beaten half to death.  The dickishness is, of course, hightened for comic effect but if it is…

Thanks, I obviously need to pay more attention to detail (and perhaps freeze frame a bit ) whilst watching.
I should have guessed it was, wait for it, 1984!
Good points on cloning tech although I still find 1984 implausible (but within genre parameters, I guess)

I haven't read through the comments on earlier episodes yet (binged through them all this weekend), so forgive me if this has been vetted already. I'm trying to envision the time line of the show's universe. The various clones all seem to be late 20s, early 30s (Allison and Sara have children at least seven, Allison…

I would expect that the disdain for musical theatre development is a nod to the subtext concerning the actual Stratford festival in Ontario. The history of the festival contains some pretty intense battles over the decision to include big musicals with populist appeal as a financial survival move. There is still…

I was hoist on my own dvr's petard. My seemingly foolproof instructions for it to capture "new episode or rerun once daily at or near 11:30 pm" was interpreted to mean record a one hour edited Beiber-fest at 10, then ignore the new episode!

Am I living in an alternate universe? The Detroit NBC affiliate reran the Justin Beiber episode!

I believe it was from John Rutter's oratorio Noah's Flood and to complete the Wes Andersovibe,it was also featured in the bird costume scenes in moonrise kingdom

I have read some studies and discussion of nerd-like obsessions and ASD from the perspective of evolutionary biology and neuroscience.  These are reflections, or perhaps manifestations, of the ongoing development of human brains in terms of size, number, and strength of neuronal connexions.  There is long tradition of…

See my comment below: I think the "Whitest Kids You Know" sketch had to be stolen from Lincoln Logs.  Thanks for the link; I thought it might only be available on The State DVDs.

I can't help feeling that the Whitest Kids You Know take on Lincoln is either (charitably) an homage, or (uncharitably) plagiarism of the great "Lincoln Logs" sketch from MTV's "The State":
Lincoln: I don't care about this country or anyone in it!  All I care about is booze, whores, and drugs!…What?  Who's There?  John…

I still don't quite follow the ultimate logic of Parish's plan. There was no discussion of whether or not the epileptic strobe lights of doom were being deployed in the rest of North America (not to mention the rest of the world, including the parts without electrical service). I suppose one could argue that the plan…

I still don't quite follow the ultimate logic of Parish's plan. There was no discussion of whether or not the epileptic strobe lights of doom were being deployed in the rest of North America (not to mention the rest of the world, including the parts without electrical service). I suppose one could argue that the plan…

Tonight, on Wings!…ah, who cares?

Tonight, on Wings!…ah, who cares?

I might be getting too intertextual here, but the character's names and the plot outine make we wonder if Dybeck is borrowing from Shakespeare's Henriad: John Gaunt (John of Gaunt) whose son, Richard, (his nephew Richard II) squanders the kingdom, so Cal's father (Gaunt's son, Bolingbroke=Henry IV) "takes matters into…

I would also nominate "Having an Average Weekend" (by Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet) from Kids in the Hall

The scene where the constable recited the details of Todd's possessions to be bagged and tagged was a homage to the scene in "A Clockword Orange" where Alex's possessions are similarly catalogued.

Just noticed that the immortal Damian Young was on the ludicrous "Person of Interest" on Thursday… haven't seen him lately. Beyond Pete and Pete, he was also awesome in Hal Hartley's films