I scoffed (to put it mildly) when the anonymous tipster said Adnan had stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars from the mosque. It immediately reminded me of a This American Life segment about a guy whose life was destroyed by a clique of small-town rumormongers who spread stories about him being a child-molesting…

It'd be a bit irresponsible to report a lie. It'd also be a pain in the ass not to bring it up at all, since apparently a lot of the impetus for this episode was people on Reddit and contacting Koenig directly saying they know the truth about Adnan. Not bringing it up would make their conspiratorial thinking more…

[H]e's right to be angry about this, since it is indeed entirely unfair to him. But that just begs the question of why Jay's (understatement alert) unfair treatment of him doesn't elicit any of the same feelings.

I'd assumed he misspoke because Colbert kept repeating the word "bill" and got it lodged into his brain.

At a White House party, a woman once approached President Coolidge saying she'd bet her friend she could get him to say more than two words.

I was away from watching the Simpsons regularly for about five years until this season, so was it normal that Kirk and Ned's voices were so much lower than I remember them being from the golden age?

Great moments in misunderstanding jokes from childhood:

“And so little time to get out of the way…! Now less…! Now none!”

And the fact that he calls Wiggum "Chief" in the same sentence where he doesn't know what he does for a living. So it's really best-adapted where you can address someone by their job.

From my point of view, he posted it 166 hours late. I don't care if it was a holiday, the previous review said “next week,” dammit.

I just remembered, when I was a kid and saw this episode first-run, that line slayed me. Looking back on it, I remembered that it was so delightful to have something nerdy I liked referenced in something more mainstream. I felt the same way whenever a show would do a Star Trek parody or something.

I'm a soundtrack nerd, so yes.

I'm completely talking out of my ass, but it seems reasonable to me that the Clients' Security Trust Fund would've at least made a cursory attempt to figure out where all that money had gone when they agreed to repay the clients' complaints.

That was my read, as well. A lot of the things she does is the sort of alpha-dog asshole behavior you can get away with if you're a rockstar who delivers like nobody's business. Unfortunately, if you can't deliver and still act like it, it comes off more like being a lousy con-artist.

And Halo was mostly Marathon.

I think he meant the one that overshot when he went back in time to assassinate the Governor of California, and decided to be proactive and built the building he was going to perform the assassination in and had himself sealed into the walls.

I'm actually kind of stoked that this movie is taking on the convoluted time-travel craziness the series was beginning to deal with, like Derek and his girlfriend coming from different versions of the future, or the finale where John travels forwards in time and realizes that he can't trade on his reputation with the…

I was unreasonably pleased by Homer instructing everyone on the envy/jealousy split. Ever since I learned the difference myself, I've always been careful to use each appropriately… and a bit peeved when I hear them misused.

Oh, boy, now I'm staring at the backgrounds looking for him. During the "wheelbarrow full of love," there's a guy behind Homer whose head is in between Kirk Van Houten's glasses and his face. And everybody's eyes are weird in the crowds. They all have one wide open and one 3/4ths open.

But Bart and the rest of the Simpsons aren't in the same cultural group. Yes, they're all white and live next to each other and go to the same church, but they've also got different tastes in entertainment and recreation, different philosophies on parenting, wildly different issues with money (the Simpsons are always…