To the Xtreme!

I saw the Spin Doctors at some kind of inter-collegiate festival right around when their album came out. They were performing in a convention space as we students went from booth to booth getting various products and services pitched to us by marketers who had been recently trained in Gen X speak.

It was a technically really well-done episode. Aside from the implausibility of Ygritte being that beautiful as she dies, everything struck me as on-point and doing exactly what it was supposed to do. Kit Harrington even put a little Sean-Beanness into his performance.

Agreed. Jon and the Wall story is a thread that I find not terribly engaging. I get that it is important and must be explored to service the larger story, but I found the whole episode a bit of a slog.

RuPaul has a webseries called RuPaul Drives in which he interviews people while driving them around in LA in a classic Volvo. The John Waters episode is a standout primarily because of the reasons you cite. Well worth checking out.

Absolutely, positively.

Is there such thing as a non weird fish fetish?

Pssst…guys…you put this up on The AVClub instead of the Onion.

Not Americans. Only Southerners.

Historians help me out. How was Ben Franklin involved in the Sons of Liberty? Weren't they in Massachusetts while Franklin, who for a long while resisted the idea of revolution, lived in Philadelphia?

They did a great job with Herb, especially. First you got references to his wife, then we met Lucille and eventually the kids. They also brought in Herbert R. Tarlec, Sr.

His mom co-wrote Heartbreak Hotel, too!

It's called Jealous Man.

I remember seeing an interview with Loni Anderson about how cold it was on the set and how standards and practices were always making sure her "headlights weren't on" as it were, but they never bothered about Johnny Fever growing a pot plant in his apartment.

Punk rockers dress deplorably, and they usually don't physically attack their audiences.

This is my mother's all time favorite show. She's not very web-savvy but she has managed to find bootleg online copies of this show with the music in tact. She says that it aired during a time when she was going through rough times and her children were little and had no one to talk to, and this show was her weekly…

I disagree. In fact, the whole point of that song is that her "white breaded" world is inferior to the rough working class world that he's going to introduce her to if she loves him. Her world is portrayed as inferior to his.

My brother and I had a very lively debate on what made Billy Joel's music so awful. I maintained that the worst thing about it was the god-awful, schmaltzy arrangements. I've even heard some covers of his song that I argued that were not just tolerable but even pleasant when the cheese was stripped away. My brother…

Mr. Whiskers, is that you?

Definitely saw it. She was practically Cat's doppleganger in that scene.