Hawking: "LISTEN shipwreck I DARE you to pinch that waitress' FANCY ASS" [I have no idea how to transcribe Hawking's robo-voice]

Wow, you're friends with Stephen Hawking?

I've only ever heard "Oh Comely", "King of Carrot Flowers" and "Holland, 1945". They're all great songs, though I think he honks the ronk a bit too much in "Oh Comely"—he has a way of reaching for the highest part of his range that can be a bit grating (to my ears, anyway).

I believe that should read: "artists who usually sang". *billy boy is carried off on the shoulders of grammar lovers; women swoon; Lake Como is moved to Canada so that billy boy can stand near its shore & bow to the crowd while wearing a crown composed of the feathers of rare and diseased birds; billy boy is offered…

"These ISIL guys remind me of an out-of-work schoolteacher."
"Why's that?"
"No class"

I take your point, though the fact that people do it doesn't make it right and doesn't mean I have to support it. There may be other good reasons to support it, but the fact that it's already happening doesn't strike me as one of them. That same logic could be applied to any number of awful things that are already…

Well that's not quite fair. There's still the justice system, so it's not really impunity (though I understand that the point of the site is to deal with those against whom no charges are laid). Also, it's not really clear what the effects of being listed on a site like that would be—they could be much worse than…

No apology necessary at all.

I will say that the whole plan to have her and the alleged rapist on the show had a very Jerry Springer vibe.

I think he was saying that it was ok for her to tell her story on the internet; I thought his problem was with her providing a vehicle for other people to bring false allegations. I see, though, that that doesn't quite jibe with his giving her alleged rapist the benefit of the doubt. So: *shrugs*

I thought Don told her that she had every right (and perhaps even an obligation?) to tell her own story, but that her website would inevitably lead to innocent people being listed on her site. I could be remembering that wrong, though.

"Mr. Herpes, your script is nothing but 40 pages of dogs getting shot."
Herpes: "I write what I know!"

Story time: there was a chap in my grade 7 French class who got docked marks on his paper for handing it in late. The teacher put an explanatory "En retard" in red ink at the top of the assignment. This kid actually went up to the teacher and said, "Uh…I realize that uh…maybe my paper wasn't that good…but you…

"Why won't the a.v. club return my calls?" - Dawes, sitting forlornly beside the telephone

I have a son who's just a couple of years younger than the protagonist, and watching the film with him was both wonderful and incredibly awkward, especially for him. Mason is a LOT like my son, to the point where he turned to me after the movie and said, "so, uh, yeah if you were ever wondering what it's like to be…

I have a question, two follow-up questions, a prolonged withdraw-entrap stare and an unexpected high-five. Nurse, hold my calls! Nurse? NURSE! *houseplant with nurse's hat perched on top is petulantly kicked by billy boy*

I would take it as a compliment that @visualAIDS is so fond of your writing that he/she is willing to go through the effort of lurking naked in your closet.

I would have guessed Sori, which is a nickname for disorienting, which is an anagram for disintegration, which is the greatest Cure album ever. Because we all know that O'Neal is mad for anagrams. Well, not really. But it was fun to work out! Well, not really.

The Bell knows that we'll be stronger for having to face these difficult issues ourselves. Well, that or it got poached by The Dissolve.

How crazy is it that my biggest problem with the episode is that it has nothing to do with Shenandoah? The song is about a white man falling in love with a Native American chief's daughter. Why use that song? Why name the episode after it? WHAT DID I MISS?