He played Juan Ortodoncia and only said “Gracias” as the character was going through the screening process.

Thomas Jefferson was a fan of macaroni (which he apparently used as a catch-all for all pasta) and likely helped to popularize macaroni (with or without cheese) in the United States. https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/macaroni

I’m not entirely sure about GTA references, but an article on NewscastStudio reports:

I’m surprised that Teti didn’t address the video game homages in the graphics presentation. Fox even flashed a Grand Theft Auto-themed card at one point going into a commercial break.

Barbara Ingram has apparently been an AAA member since 2005. However, she's probably having such a great time that it only feels like five years.

Well, San Francisco Fleet Week concludes this weekend. https://fleetweeksf.org/

One thing that stands out about NFL referees (but doesn’t really fit into today’s column) — they make bank. IIRC, they used to be part-time employees, but now they’re expected to pull down an average $205,000 this year.

Geez, where to begin?

Asterisks are for wild-card teams. 

Off the top of my head: Danny Pudi was in “Winter Soldier.” Ken Jeong was in “Endgame.” Donald Glover was in “Spider-Man: Homecoming.”

AFAIK, the song at the end of the show is called “The End of the Show Song.”

I would play a “King of the Hill” game where the objective is to sell propane and propane accessories.

For sumo, a 25-minute daily highlight program from the May Tournament is broadcast on NHK World Japan and is available online.

Someone or several someones have to click the “star” icon next to your post. It’s all part of the inscrutable Kinja system.

It references a joke from Rudd’s monologue. 

Uh, sorry to be the bear of bad/good news, but Univision sold off Gizmodo Media Group to a private equity firm last week. Here’s Clickhole’s take on the situation:

It was fun seeing Michael McDonald make a cameo in the finale as the host of the open mic. He played Darryl in the show’s unaired pilot and it felt like things had gone full circle.

Love the quote from The Question.

The plastic end piece on shoelaces and other strings is called an aglet. (I had to look it up.)

The author is being sarcastic about how taking a hard line against the Raiders didn’t really hurt Mayor Schaaf’s political career.