Actually, I was going to mention the "Jew" thing, because it struck me that you could see Bloom/Bunch react as an actual Jewish person (like, say, me) would in that situation — that is, not joking along with it as happens on sitcoms, but her jaw kind of sets and she tenses up. I thought that was the point there. And…

"Dying declaration, your honor!"

Yes, I was overly-cryptic there. In "Redshirts" the characters notice things like, how come every 10-15 minutes there's a big climax like something important is going to happen, then everything stops for 2 minutes until the action resumes?

It's 9000 in six billion on the first, 9000 in 5,999,999,999 on the second (assuming the first was not blue)…believe it or not, even though 9000 is a very small number compared to six billion, after 120 million ball selections, it comes out the way I worked out. Again, you have to work it out by computing the chance…

I'm such a cock-eyed optimist that I thought "oh, she buried an egg and it hatched!"

I admit I wandered off a little into trying to make my computation more accurate for the current case, that's why I was dividing the world into imaginary small towns. You seemed to be getting at that with the idea that some town, somewhere, might well be untouched. (I'm also trying to separate the idea of…

OK…right, the 1 in ten-to-the-79th is the chance that any specific 9000 people are untouched. Maybe we want the chance that there is some group of 9000 (grouped in advance!) are untouched. So let's imagine that the entire world is divided into 9000-person-towns. That gives (call it 7 billion divided by 9000)…

If 2% of the people disappeared, then the chances that 9000 people are all un-disappeared is .98 to the 9000th power, which is about 1 in (1 with 79 zeroes after it), so it's astonishingly unlikely. Oddly, it's so unlikely as to feel like it has to be explained, fictionally, even though the Departures themselves are…

…what did you think your job was?

Even worse was the other half of that line, "data breach". NO.

As in, the Montreal Expos, named after "Expo 67", a world's fair…or exposition, if you will.

This is one of my favorite movie jokes ever.

And at that moment in time Ben Savage looked amazingly like a younger Fred, so I completely understand that confusion.

Voldemort, rhymes with Report.

Forrest…you have two vetoes.

"It is sadly inappropriate to offer dessert to children who have not had a meal."

On the Comcast X1 platform, I certainly hope.

A cereal pedophile or a sandwich pedophile?

He manages to look like both Depp and James Franco.

If you want to hear a master class in completely missing the tone of the song you're covering, checkout The Seekers doing Don't Think Twice.