It's never stated outright, but he apparently got caught looking into the windows of the high school locker room. It's most heavily implied in the Maeby episode.

Siri was originally an app in 2010 before Apple bought it and integrated it into the OS. Not sure if it worked exactly the way GOB uses it at that point, but it's a pretty minor anachronism, if at all.

Yeah, it seems odd to call out that song since it's probably the most subversive thing in the show. The women are singing it earnestly, and all the male villains are singing it sarcastically, which underlines that they're pig-headed and are, in fact, the villains. It would be another thing entirely if Finch sang it…

Yeah, even the big blockbuster movie with Patrick Stewart is 13 years old at this point.

There's definitely a preoccupation with death and suicide so far this season especially, but yeah I don't think the show is going to "6th Sense" Megan on us. It's more likely that they're foreshadowing something happening to her later in the season than that they're doing some kind of rug-pull reveal.

Yeah I read a review (I can't recall where) that called out how that scene was obviously a bunch of single shots because they didn't have both David Cross and Portia De Rossi at the same time, but it's really just for the reveal that Lindsay is the one driving even though she hadn't looked up from her phone the whole…

Callbacks that build on a prior joke are perfectly fine. Callbacks that are just repeating a joke from an earlier episode/season feel like cheap pandering.

You actually can't see the plates in the scene with Carr in Indian Takers, they're not revealed until the next episode, fittingly titled A New Start.

Yes they did, and the put out a video about it. They're in the Cinco de Cuatro scenes.

Yeah, that's one of the gags, like the true nature of FakeBlock, which are really made by how long the show goes between the setup and the reveal, which would be totally ruined by the various chronological re-edits that are starting to crop up.

Eh, I thought he was funny on the original series ("Why do I always assume everyone has read my screenplay?" is an amazing joke), but here he was mostly relegated to lame "old guy tries to act young/doesn't understand computers" gags.

Plus the fact that she tells George Michael she'll "text him from the car" on her way to film it

Yeah I think they could have stood to come up with a better signal to the audience of which one was which between George Sr and Oscar. It became so hard to follow that I basically just gave up caring.

Doesn't he end up on the gay pride boat wearing womens clothing in the pilot?

I didn't know either, but I watched like eight episodes in a row on Memorial day so I think I kind of zoned out a couple times.

Yeah, everyone's talking about her having plastic surgery but I think it's really just a bad wig and not having brown eyebrows that make her look odd. Once she cuts her hair and is no longer wearing a wig later in the season she looks much more like herself.

I'll grant you that they're more cohesively parts of a whole than most TV show episodes, but they're still individual episodes. They all have opening and closing titles and such. They still function on their own, especially with the focus on one major character per episode.

That might actually be a step up from being Rick Moranis' non-union equivalent on the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids TV show.

I didn't really get the Opie connection because Opie didn't have a brother, and that's not really how he talked (that would be more like "Gee paw, I didn't realize that [valuable life lesson]").

I actually think a couple of these first episodes, particularly the first one and Indian Takers, are some of the funniest of the season if you go back and re-watch them after watching the whole season. There's a lot of stuff you miss the first time when you're busy trying to piece everything together.