look at all the new comments and how now people can actually see what this episode was about!
people should spend some time reading the news and the int'l affairs page more often, instead of just watching tv… smh

it does have a lot to do with what you call the "invasion of the south", because framed in the context of the anti-colonialist/nationalist process that started back at the beginning of the 20th century that's not an "invasion"of a sovereign foreign state, but an attempt to unification. The analogy may hold only to a…

^ LOL again. I guess you're just missing the slightly larger picture of the anti-colonial resistance in southeast asia. You know, just those 4 or 5 decades of conflicts that eventually led to the vietnam war.

^LOL

so if it's not covered in school that means that it can be ignored? huh. cool!
meaning that these kids have heard about the vietnam war in countless movies/songs/tvshows/docs/news but never really cared to even read a few lines on, I don't know, wikipedia? huh.
and are you subtly suggesting that to use a name that…

what connotation?

umm isn't the fact that they picked the name and admittedly were "naive about the history of a war in a country we knew very little about" precisely a way to "trivialize the atrocities or violence that occurred on both sides of the vietnam war"?
on the other hand, I don't really understand what's so provocative in the…

anybody knows what the last bit of music was? I'm referring to the last minute of piano/guitar music playing over the closing credits, right after the closing montage and low anthem's "charlie darwin". Do you know if it's part of an actual song, or if it's just the original score of the episode? If that's the case,…

Terry and the WWOZ radio signal:
"Hey yo, this radio ain't working that well."
"You're losing it."
"Huh?"
"You're losing the station man."
"What you mean?"
"We've been gone so far outta [New Orleans] man, we're losing the station. Try some [Hattiesburg] station or some shit like that."
"What, the radio in [Hattiesburg] is…

I bet that if y'all were familiar with the Italian current political scenario, and especially if you had watched this episode right after the general elections held in feb 2013, y'all would find this episode much MUCH scarier. 'Cause you think a populist politician with no real platform (and whose public discourse is…

it just occurred to me, and this might definitely be a stretch, but maybe the fact that he decided to fight is somehow connected to the story of the prison rape, and all the talking with Ted about how pointless it is to fight back when you;re outnumbered and helpless (which Ted, in all is santcimony and black and…

I'm totally ignorant about the bible and the gospels, but is this some kind of reference to Peter denying thrice any knowledge of Jesus? Except that the whole thing would be flipped here, and if it's actually referring to that episode I wouldn't really know what to make out of it.
It's such a great show, but sometimes…