Because he said as much in his DVD commentary for that episode.

Nathan Rabin gave my musical a thumbs up!  But I won't link to that again, because it got my post flagged as off-topic spam last time.

You know why that song gets a pass? Because on the third refrain, the lyrics become "The flesh will get weak and the ashes will scatter", which is a fairly clever change-up.

Watch for the old lady in any sketch.

Nah, you're right.  I've been slacking in the avatar department—I'll correct that.  (I've been lurking on the AV club daily since day one, though I post infrequently.)

Awww…  We can make this right.  Come over for wine and I'll let you sing Rent songs until the neighbors complain.

I'm about to do something I absolutely loathe, which is to hijack the thread in the interest of self-promotion. If you, my peers, decide to flag this comment out of existence, I will humbly accept your Caeserian judgement.

I have a theory that Tom Petty is the universal. If you had to program a party and had zero idea who would show up, Tom Petty is the closest you could come to satisfying the most guests.

Point well taken.

Right? Okay, I'm not crazy—all the Eastern Europen women in this city are painful-to-look-at-hot in their early-to-mid-20's, but boy-oh-boy do they hit a wall around 30. Hyphen.

Laura Nyro was hardly fat. But you can partially blame her for the female angsty singer-songwriter rock, whose fans were typically great in bed but messed up in the head.

Yes to DEVO, but Kraftwerk first. C'mon people…Kraftwerk caused the 80's!

It is absolutely one of the best covers of any song. Really chilling. Fiona Apple knows how to make a song intense.

With one of the least rewarding endings in video game history. I stayed up all night for this?!

No there isn't.

When did he stop by going by Pat O'Brien and start going by Mike O'Brien?

I can't like this hard enough.

Also Jeff and Beau Bridges. Also Chevy Chase, Steve Martin and Martin Short. Also a very random collection of people one time in 84 or 85. Probably some other times too.

Obscure.  Nice.