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Laura Martineau
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Oh, this is a fun one, and there's no question for me. It's Lo Fidelity Allstars' song "Battleflag," linked to the episode "Be Still My Heart" in ER. It's diagetic music—played loud during an impromptu staff party, and it prevents anyone from hearing the mentally ill patient sneak into a mostly-empty room and stab

It SHOULD have been "Beth." I thought the high-school girls' names were all wrong—Nancy, Barb, and what was Steve's friend's girlfriend's name, Carol? No high-school girls in 1983 had those names. I actually chuckled about it because I've always thought Stephen King and Steven Spielberg are pretty tone-deaf about

Well, good lord, the article's called "Dream Pipes" and they manage to miss "Dream" by Forest for the Trees? How?

There were a few songs that actually did freak me out after 9/11, but I can pretty much guarantee that none of them would have been played on Clear Channel, so they didn't make the list. The first few lines of Soul Coughing's "Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago" ("A man/drives a plane/into the Chrysler building") hit me a

King of the Hill's "Hank's Unmentionable Problem" always does it for me. I think the point at which Peggy loses it with worry over Hank and Hank, mortified, cries out, "Peggy, don't touch me, I'm on the john!" is the capper, although the joyous resolution at the end is a close second.

Enh. The sex during the fireworks was too clichéd for my taste, although I did love the little group on the boat (and Will's dad).

I read the C-section in a different way—more that Nomi as a trans woman would have had another birth of sorts through her own surgery, which was paralleled by the surgery of the C-section. I had actually wondered if they would possibly show Nomi's "rebirth" rather than her birth, but I thought their choice worked.

What I want to know is, how did they get Trent Reznor to try it on?

My guess on this, too, is that their birth year is 1988. Fits in with the 8/8 birth date and would put them all at age 27, which seems reasonable to me, anyway.

I bet you're mixing him up with Robert Reed, dad of the Brady Bunch, who did die of AIDS. One quintessential 70s TV dad easily subs for another.

They decided that if the baby was a boy, he would be Jewish (which is what most concerned Rabbi father-in-law) and if it was a girl, she would be Christian. So of course they had boy-girl twins.

Another mashup guy, Wax Audio, already did the definitive mashup for Master of Puppets, IMHO—"Master of Doin' It," with Herbie Hancock.

So will AV Club do an inventory of *good* TV soundtrack albums? (Which the X-Files one should be on, IMHO.)

Dude. Showing my age here, but how did they leave out Isaiah Edwards from "Little House on the Prairie"? He cycled through several alcoholic peaks and valleys in the wake of family tragedy.

I always liked Everlast's "The Letter"—it's probably a bit too mature for this list, though ("I seen you out with your new mans, lookin kinda happy"—no one else seems to acknowledge that the ex might be in a decent place).