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Homerpalooza may be just about my favourite Simpsons episode ever, especially Abe's "I used to be with it" speech.

It's a good film which we still quote on a regular basis in our house - there's not a week that goes by without my wife telling our daughters to "make good choices".

I shouldn't like this show, but I am hooked every year. The way the contestants routinely help each other out whilst still striving to do the best they can themselves is Britain at its absolute best (something we don't see enough of these days). And the spread of contestants - old or young, gay or straight, and all

Or Breathing? You'd need a very big fake womb.

The first female to make number 1 in the UK with a song she'd written herself.

Geordies are from Newcastle/Gateshead and the very close surrounding area. People from Sunderland are known as Mackems.

People from Sunderland aren't Geordies!

Surely that picture at the top is Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson?

Heads up for some controversy. I actually prefer Ghostbusters II to the original.

Estrada or nada

One of the three best items on Muppets Tonight, together with Miss Piggy faking a sneeze opposite Billy Crystal, and Rizzo coaching Bobo through an attempt to chat up Cindy Crawford via an ear piece.

"I'm in disguise"

Sounds like Drunk in Time with Alexei Sayle and Peter Capaldi (warming up for the Doctor Who gig 20 years early).

That's where the phrase came from - Alf's insult of choice for his son-in-law from Liverpool (who was played by Tony Blair's real life father-in-law, Tony Booth).

Especially after Oliver's show about how the IRS is massively underfunded.

Kashmir?

Truly stellar trivia knowledge. Take a bow.

It's far, far worse with the sound on, as the main characters are played by actresses with zero comic timing. But my daughter liked it for a while, for some reason.

Very much disgust. I've tried to explain to them that their generation are producing the square root of sod all in terms of interesting new musical directions, but do they listen? Just taking the 70s as an example, you've got glam, prog, punk, disco, new wave, ska revival etc. What have the last 10 years given us?

I was driving my daughters home recently (20 minute journey) and put this on. Just as we were getting home one of them suddenly piped up with "is this still the same song??!!"