I've used the "good times, great oldies" line before (that commercial will always stay with me), but this was definitely a nice spin on it.

Ah gotcha.

"Secretly, I kinda like that."

Letterman did have Father John Misty with a string section playing "Bored in the USA", with laugh track and surprise player piano, leading to a totally confused audience. Add to that the Rage Against the Machine "Guerrilla Radio" performance complete with mosh pit. He even had Run the Jewels on this year.

Craft beers can vary anywhere from 3% ABV Berliner Weisses to 13% ABV Barleywines:P But I think I catch your drift.

Odd…I did Century Club in university as well and it honestly didn't seem that difficult. We were drinking standard 5-6% ABV beers (not IPAs or Barleywine or something), but I remember getting to 100 minutes/100 shots of beer and thinking "well, I guess we can go out now." In hindsight, maybe my tolerance was a bit…

"an actor portraying a president in a movie "

Definitely a mixture of Single White Female and Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs stuff going on in this episode.

I thought spammers were getting better at making spam intelligible. Guess you didn't get the message.

The spoken-while-headlocked "what?" "say that again" exchange also seemed like a pretty clear Pulp Fiction reference. Maybe they're expanding the reference pool this season?

Yeah…the word "extant" is actually very common in evolutionary biology and is literally used to mean the opposite of "extinct." It would have been a good title.

"Senator Pelosi's office…"

I think this episode put a little too much on the shoulders of child actors and the comedy suffered for it. Alina Foley is a pretty good actress for her age, but her comedic timing is off and nothing quite lands the way it's supposed to…same with the guest star kids.

Ditto…my parents got almost this exact '95 Accord (though a slightly different shade of beige), also right when the '96 Accords were coming in and the 1995s were discounted.

That's why I added "et al." If anything, she's probably an amalgam of Glenn Greenwald and Julian Assange, though more on the Greenwald journalistic side of things but without worrying about filtering much of the data in a similar vein to Assange.

Nah, my issue is that the show seems to be passing judgment on the reporter, not the CIA agents in the show…Carrie disagreeing with her is pretty obvious, but the show also wants us to completely disagree with her.

Gotta love the pigeonholing on this show. With the way they're making Laura out to be the least likeable character in an episode that also contained a Hezbollah leader, it's pretty obvious how the writers feel about Snowden et al.

I can't stand Robin Meade…whenever I watched her on Headline News (when she was just an anchor in the early 2000s), she just seemed completely clueless.

Yup…I used to watch Headline News in high school (late '90s-early 2000s) every single morning and it was actually a good way to get caught up on the news within a set amount of time, especially in the days before solid news websites. I stopped watching in university and watching it now just kinda makes me sad.

This joke reminded me a lot of the Futurama Neutral Planet leader's final line, "if I don't survive, tell my wife 'hello.'"