Handy Scrabble word though.

Much of the border between Austria & what's now Slovenia is mountainous (I think that was where he crossed the border to). I figure snow in a mountain pass wouldn't be unusual for mid-March.

/said in Frank Langella voice

Datapoint: Romancing the Stone's release date was March 30th, '84.

I initially figured bread, then when Mom put them on the edge of the stove, I thought maybe they were three chunks of coal.

I had the same thought that the fry box wasn't right for the time period. Cool this attracted the propmaster's attention.

Looks like The Masters preempted Sunday's scheduled Elementary. Kudos, AV Club content management people, I guess, for not publishing the review made from the screener? Also, thanks Sergio for wasting our time and not draining the putt on the 18th the first time.

I missed the 5-H "explanation"as well and was equally as confused.

The smurfiest episode in years.

Shots fired at Big Salt Grinder!

Hah, modern Texas and German town names make for some interesting pronunciations. My favorite is "Green" for Gruene (which is basically just saying the translation of Gruene).

Says who?

Bring back Rachel Maddow's youngest sister! (Tuesday's right podium)

Something something death spiral.

Crap, I forgot to get Rupert a card.

I had to do Googling after FJ, and I'm still not sure if I've ever even tangentially encountered David Hockney. But this is the painting the clue was meant to reference, I guess https://en.m.wikipedia.org/…

I watched clips of it on youtube after John Hurt's passing. I might have watched it once in whole in the 1980s when I was a kid and a lot of the stuff seemed way too impossible to actually happen. Ebert gave it 3.5/4 and Rotten Tomatos says 81%, so I think it's generally thought of as "good". Also interesting for…

You beat my answer. The spelling of it is part of Newspeak, a snappy way of saying "English Socialism".

Wings' "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" from Band on the Run.

No, the long-sleeved shirts Michael was eternally wearing after the tattoos became superfluous to the plot actually chaffed them right off.