You don't HAVE to see every episode in order to follow it, but there are lots of odd little callbacks that make it worthwhile.

Eighty-five percent of what kind of backward population votes for this woman?

Except that South Fork is exactly what that part of Long Island is often called. Westhampton and points east are South Fork; Aquebogue and points east are North Fork. Riverhead lies at the junction.

I spent some time at a.t.s.; those people had pretty much trained themselves to hate anything with Jennifer Crittenden's name on it.

Great. Now I have to re-watch the garage scene to see whether Emily Thorne/Amanda Clarke is lurking behind one of those support columns.

While it was pretty clear that she was in an altered state of some kind, it was never established what was doing the altering. Charlie asked if she was stoned but she didn't answer.

You have to JUSTIFY that sort of thing? Ah, dammit.

Flung spume and blown spray, baby.

Likewise, in the same spoof, Archie's character notes that people aren't laughing AT him, they're laughing WITH him and that's why the show is such a hit.

We knew it was a wrongful termination suit, but we weren't sure whose termination it was.

I keep thinking that, based on his look and some of his lines, they really wanted to get Stephen Root (coincidentally also from Office Space) but he's already been on the show in another role.

See, and I figured the Funyuns were nixed not so much because of the sodium but because onions are toxic to dogs.

This comes as a surprise to nobody, I'm sure, but unless it's a routine bit of some kind that ends the same way every time (e.g. Samurai, Theodoric of York) SNL has always, always, always had trouble coming up with endings for most of their skits. Many of these people did come from National Lampoon's radio program, so…

There was at least one reading of this line that had me flashing back on Sting as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in the fight scene near the end of "Dune", hollering "I will kill him!"

*Lorna Dome
*Domesbury
*Children of Dome
*God Emperor of Dome

I've read through this entire thread and noticed that nobody's brought up Firestarter, Cujo and Christine. There's a reason for that: they're not very good. Christine, especially, read like a treatment for the movie that he figured was inevitable. At a couple of points it was pretty clear that he was having trouble…

It was the first episode of Season 2. They were doing a Ford/Carter debate sketch and Chase tipped his entire (unpadded) podium forward, falling with it and injuring himself. He literally phoned in his performances for the next two weeks: the first time was especially funny when he did the weekly fall by having Gilda…

I was actually a little sad that "Black Vet" wasn't going to be an actual thing.

The whole "How hot is the real-life girlfriend vs. TV girlfriend?" debate is in nearly all the threads here, especially whether or not they're attainable or whatever, but let's remember: John Lennon and Paul McCartney could have had literally any woman on the planet they wanted, and look who they ended up with. You…

Is that you, Marc Maron?