I remember, very distinctly, that I loved the final scene and that the choice of "Sloop John B" with it's nautical theme, overcame any lyrical hiccups.

I remember, very distinctly, that I loved the final scene and that the choice of "Sloop John B" with it's nautical theme, overcame any lyrical hiccups.

Names with a connection to our family history got preference.

Thank you for confirming my suspicion that the decision, in the end, came down to Trump wanting to align himself with the more recognizable charity, and then the NBC/Arsenio inside baseball.  Too perfect.

Thank you for confirming my suspicion that the decision, in the end, came down to Trump wanting to align himself with the more recognizable charity, and then the NBC/Arsenio inside baseball.  Too perfect.

I liked Penn's point about the original version of the ad not speaking to him because I genuinely felt like he understood the point of Clay's charity and saw the ad going the other way from it.  If Clay's complaint was Penn shot an idea down without coming up with anything to replace it, well, Penn did just that, and…

Last season, during the 7-Up shoot, I was sure that John forgot to get all of the shots they needed with Dee Snyder before they shaved his beard and had him go Twisted Sister.  I was waiting for it, waiting for it, waiting for it, because the editing made me think that it was going to be a thing and a thing…and then…

She does have Poison Ivy's hair.

Much like Shatner's question in Star Trek V: "What does God need with a starship?", I openly asked "What does a hairdryer need with a touchscreen?"  Let us redefine progress to mean that simply because we can do a thing (like put a touchscreen on a hair dryer), it does not necessarily mean we _must_ do that thing.

I actually went back and Zaprudered that and came to the same conclusion, only to wonder if they're just doing that to see if we're paying attention to screw with us.

Maybe I'm reading a little too much into things, especially knowing that Clay Aiken's tweet about Aubrey and bullying was in the back of my mind, but am I alone in thinking there was an irony in showing Aubrey delivering her check to GLSEN and then talking about how much it means to her and how the memories of the…

While realizing fully that The Celebrity Apprentice is all about "synergy", was anyone else disturbed how deeply embedded the Magic Johnson Foundation became in the Walk with Walgreens program, what with the bracelets and such?  To have Arsenio's team win what kind of felt like it could have been a toss-up, then…

My note here is solely to drop props to the music supervisor for using the vastly underrated "Mother, We Just Can't Get Enough" by New Radicals in the "showdown" between Locklear and Miller.  On a series that had tons of great music choices, that is one of my all time favorites.

In the DS9 Companion, it was stated that the producers thought that Frakes and Burton would happily show up, wear the uniform, stand in the background, even just as a wink, but that if they were there, it raises issues as to why the other cast members weren't, and so they decided against it.

My wife and I were discussing this episode, she felt it was a low point in a season where they had raised the bar, I thought it was very very funny, but I realized, almost all of my laughs were basically the spoofs/subreferences on baseball movies (the speech, the coach echoing the manager, and the mound conference…

Memory
I was a first year social studies teacher in 2001, when 9/11 happened, it was my tenth day on the job. I had no idea what to do, but I was strangely comforted by the fact that no one else did. There's a lot of reactions from that era which felt good or right, but perhaps in hindsight, we view with a tinge of…

The Old Curiosity Shop, because she read it, it pretty much killed her.

I was wondering if Sheldon being "nicer" has to do with the influence of Amy on him. Amy clearly cares about social niceties in a different way than Sheldon. Sheldon understands them academically, textually, but does not feel them. Amy understands them and wants to study them further, even if they do not make sense…

Subtle, very subtle note:
Did anyone notice that, while waiting in line, Leonard was, in fact, reading ~Eat, Pray, Love~? I thought it was a nice background touch that might be nothing, but might be something.

Is it wrong that I presumed Penny was more familiar with the Kobayashi Maru from the 2009 reboot than Wrath of Khan? Also, that was a wonderful bit of standing pop culture shame on its head, as it's usually the guy who knows something about chick flicks or boy bands who draws the tuts and ire of the gang, so the…