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I hope some bloke got fired for that blunder.

I just assumed that this was the movie made by guy openly following me around at work.

How could the show that made Mona and Jenna and Lucas and Melissa (and to a lesser extent Noel and Toby) such intriguing foils for the girls now give us an antagonist as colorless as Shauna?  When the characters were intriguing, it was at least interesting to watch them do stuff, even as that stuff turned out to be

Good point.  The lighting during Emily's interrogation is also pretty interesting visually.

Randall's monologue to Lee Patrick in Dr. Lao is amazing.

There are some cute jokes hidden in the potholes: The words "high" "cultural" "significance" are hyperlinked to articles on, respectively, High School Musical, Paris Hilton, and Pokemon.  The compression method is called "Honda-Beech", and is linked to the novel/film On the Beach.

The Harvard psychologist Amy Cuddy gave a really moving TED talk about how her research was inspired by coming back from being in a car accident that gave her brain damage and ended her dancing career.

What's odd is that it comes right before a mention of glass-blowing, as though there were some connection between the two activities.

Armie Hammer is a descendant of industrialist Armand Hammer, who was named in honor of the Communist symbol by his father, a well known socialist.

Benedict Cumberbatch doesn't even have the most implausible name in his own family.  His sister is named "Tracy Tabernacle."

Do you mean Alison Doody?

Fun fact: Author Michael Chabon grew up in Columbia, and wrote an essay about it you can find on the web.

Yes, much like how this Onion article kept manufacturers from ever making a razor with five blades.

Ironically, the winner of the show, an NYC firefighter, died shortly afterwards on 9/11.

A glance at the TV Tropes page of Victorious will make it clear that it was a super-dirty-minded show filled with double entendres.

There's always gotta be one.

Yes, but that's the second part of this two-part episode, not Season 2.