It's a military coop

Perhaps?
https://www.youtube.com/wat…

"Poor, sweet baby"
http://www.animecellar.com/…

Also how excited Charlie Brown is when he gets a letter from his bunkmate that just says "Shut up and leave me alone."

I crack up every time Snoopy calls Charlie Brown "that round-headed kid"

Foreshadowing that the album was called Change the Channel?

It probably didn't help when they were told by their record company to make a video for MTV and the video is basically just a speaker playing their song. Gotta love them.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…

"Good night sweetheart, well it's time to go"
Here are the Ramones on Sha Na Na from 1979. Surreal but at the same time, it makes sense!
https://www.youtube.com/wat…

And Richie doing a Ratso Rizzo impersonation walking in front of the cab.

I think "Kinky Friedman" made an appearance as well at Max's

It killed me when the mom left him behind.

changed back :)

Anybody know why Louise CK thanked Joe Pesci in the final credits?

I was thinking that they were whittling away their lives at Horace and Pete's, especially with the knife playing a prominent role at the end. But your explanation makes more sense.

Half of a half of a man.

Yes but his first album came out in 1973 on Bell Records.

I still think it's going to be Barry Manilow and Richie is going to pass on him as being to schmaltzy and not being part of the vision he sees for his label, and of course Manilow would have saved the label and make them all millionaires. Poor Zak.

You're right. The rolodex in my mind stopped at Billy Joel and I thought that was him, but if I continued to the M's, I would have decided Barry Manilow is a better fit. His first album came out in 1973 on Bell Records. Good call.

I was going through the rolodex in my mind and thinking who can that be and Billy Joel came to my mind too. His breakthrough Piano Man, which was on Columbia, came out in late '73. His first album from 1971 was on a small label and then a Columbia exec "discovered" him and bought his contract. So it could be that Zak…

and "was actually" sounds better.