The Maltese Falcon came out in 1941.

This scene seems designed to induce nightmares: https://youtu.be/9SDJCxx7k8A

If they can just load the plutonium onto a time machine and take it into the past, why did they have to bury it in the desert in order to transport it to the future (present)?

I'm sure the government sets them up with period-appropriate money on all their missions (hence why Lucy could buy a fancy dress last week). Still, it's weird how he didn't seem to be aware that telegrams charge by the word, so people tended to be very direct and terse in them. Also, they don't have punctuation…

Where's Catherine Tate when you need her?

Actually, I thought the subtle literary references put it a notch above the usual SNL fare.

Seriously???

"being at a police station all night answering questions"

"Shelby is all patched up and ready to get freaky with Matt"

Of all the popular game shows on US TV, the one that does the best job of rewarding actual intelligence in a meritocratic fashion is Pyramid.

1953's Nobel Prize in Lit went to … Winston Churchill

I was waiting for a mention of Lars. He was briefly my roommate in college, which is one of my biggest secondhand claims to fame.

And remember, future events such as these will affect you in the future!

Another Lincoln nerd (grew up in Springfield, IL) here. I thought some of the shout-outs were cute, and I liked that the closing credits listed people like Clara Harris and George Atzerodt by name, even though their names weren't mentioned on the show.

Mike Schur has explicitly stated that The Good Place works on utilitarian ethics: http://www.ew.com/article/2…

David Ortiz (Arias) is a star for the Boston Red Sox who just had his numbered retired. I know Mike Schur is a big baseball guy, and he grew up in Connecticut, so it wouldn't surprise me if he's a Red Sox fan and that was an intentional reference.

A lawyer named Eleanor? Gotta be Camryn Manheim.

I'm also a 2004 adopter (FB recently gave me a 12-year chip), and it wasn't possible to post a status until a couple years later, when the News Feed replace the profile as the thing most people came to FB to look at. And there was no archive of those statuses; you just had to hope that they popped up in people's News…

So he wanted to pave over a parking lot, and put up a paradise?

Looks like we've all forgotten this: https://www.youtube.com/wat…