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Has nobody mentioned Julian Cope's "Queen/Mother" yet? Cope also just refers to Love in his autobiography as "the adolescent".

"Atmospheric" would be my adjective of choice.

Not only the first 2 million seller in the UK, but still, I believe, the UK's best-selling non-charity record of all time.

I disagree - I love the song and love the bagpipes on it!

I was going to ask that!

It's one minute longer than This is Spinal Tap.

Ditto Matt Dawson.

And soon he'll be unpresidented……

Whereas we all know Britain is famous for pale-skinned, ginger-haired, short-sighted blokes willing to hurl themselves off a mountain for a shot at fame. What's your point?

"If one of those Swiss boys ever come across a pretty girl, he'll probably yell, "eins, zwei, drei" and try to push her down some ice."

See, Eddie’s (the Jamaican bobsled team) infectious determination brings hope not only to a nation of bemused TV viewers, but also to his (their) coach, washed-up Olympic ski jumper (bobsledder) Bronson Peary (Irv Blitzer) (Hugh Jackman (John Candy)). When we first meet Bronson (Irv), he’s a depressed alcoholic

Or as Rich Hall (in his BBC documentary, The Dirty South) describes Paul Newman's Brick, in Cat on a Hot Tin roof: "He had a little sugar in his socks, he's been to Arkansas, He had marshmallow toes. He's friends with Wayne Sleep. He's a bit of a velvet turtle."

There has always been an absurdity about anthropomorphic animals and nudity - hence Donald Duck only wearing a jacket and no trousers, but then putting a towel around his waist in the bathroom.

It's been….educational.

You've given this some thought, haven't you?

So the major part of an entire season of a sitcom would have to be devoted to the death of one character, the grieving of another, and the disintegration of a marriage for two more. Sounds like fun.

I'd go with Denise. But I'd be thinking of Piggy.

The combination of vocal delivery and physical flourish for that line had me on the floor.

Rizzo coaching Bobo through his attempt to chat up Cindy Crawford was one of the (admittedly few) highlight of Muppets Tonight:

To be fair I plucked the number 5 out of thin air (it was a few years ago), but it was definitely no earlier than the third French singer question.