Could be, but I’m hoping not; Gaal being able to read the math and verify that things are on track isn’t nearly as cool as a recording of a dead man saying “Welp, just about now some Anacreonean ships should be headed your way”.  But then, this show is not being made for my sensibility.

Writers: So, can we insult Disney repeatedly in a sketch?

[After a setup about a “best jobs in America” list:] Meanwhile, the second-worst job in America was “crack whore”. The very worst job: assistant crack whore.

By the way, the video is that entire-screen-sized thing at the top of the page that you scrolled down over because you thought it was just an image or maybe an ad. This is a common web design problem, it turns out.

Oh, we’re just begging for stars now?  (It worked.)

If you remember the original reporting, there’s an email from a Disney guy saying “wow, if we put it on streaming, we’d have to pay her a whole lot of money”, which is just the sort of thing you shouldn’t put in an email.

I’d love to read that prenup.

It is remarkable that Ted, who had a hugely memorable speech about “curiosity” last year during the darts scene, has been manager of this team for 2 years and has managed to apparently learn nothing at all about the sport.

Incidentally, I feel that since the teachers know that Uncle/Coach Roy is the famous Roy Kent, they would also know about his relationship with Keeley, which would have been all over the gossip papers after she split from superstar Jamie Tartt.  (It just occurred to me that Roy/Keeley, and even Jamie/Keeley, have a…

One thing that makes a touch more story sense if the grand conspiracy is true: the bits about hiring actors for the museum, and the fake restaurant, would then be foreshadowing rather than odd story choices.  They do show “how rich” the guy is, I guess, but I can imagine a writer thinking this is clever.

Stupid question from my lack of attention: do we know that Nate even knows exactly what happened with Ted’s panic attack?  My memory is that Ted left the stadium altogether and then everyone sort of agreed to not to press it.

One thing I’m with Sam on: stop calling that suit “the suit that Ted bought you [a goddamn year ago]”.  It’s belittling.

Thanks -- my DVR lost the end credits and I was wondering.

“Nailed it.”

Yesterday’s Jeopardy had, as the last two categories in once of the rounds -- where they often stash a little joke -- “Ladies and Gentlemen” and “The Weekend”.

Ah, if it’s a Simpsons quote...ok, partial credit.

And guess who’s also there, still rabid and still mad?

I watched part of one episode of the Canadian “Murdoch Mysteries”, and I swear in the last half of the hour it became a series of summaries of scenes that weren’t quite filmed. Location change, fact, location change, another fact, three times a minute.

I once looked up how many murders occur in the UK, with the hope of showing that there are more murders on UK mystery shows total than there are in real life.  Sadly, it doesn’t pan out that way.

Hats off to your subtlety, sir.