Talk shows are much, much cheaper than scripted shows. Even talk shows with lots of weird sketches.

After you get sick of going straight through, I would recommend listening to the Best Of the Year highlight episodes and picking which of those snippets you liked, then listening to the full episode it belongs to.

If by "it always goes over their heads" you mean "they always pretend I didn't say anything", I totally believe you.

…Something tells me you have never been to a musical.

I would rather watch 8 terrible mashups on repeat for 8 hours than ponder the fact that the AV Club apparently thinks there were people who needed help with this clever, devious brainteaser.

'A left lane mustn't necessarily "left lane" any more than a sky must "above earth" or a "James Woods nose" must "cocaine."'

My favorite type of Facebook "puzzle" is the kind that almost anyone could get after thinking about it for 30 seconds, but it's captioned with "98% of American adults were stumped! Can YOU figure it out!" so millions of idiots will feel good about themselves and share it.

Took me about 1.2 seconds to find the mitsake, which I would be proud of a) if my job didn't heavily involve proofreading and b) if this wasn't the least-great GJI I've ever seen.

Yes, but HBO still seems to care about live ratings for some unfathomable reason. Or at least they did back in the days when they were disappointed by Blackwater's live ratings.

Nothing brainier than following astrology fads!

Thought my state's was "Did Jay-Z cheat on Beyonce?" and was proud of us for having a question that is a) topical, b) not universal common knowledge, and c) not about Tom Brady.

Where is the Internet*

Also quite plausible! Though we've already had one patricide this season.

But that's not what they were arrested for, they were arrested for rumors about their sex lives. Arresting a bad person for a bad reason doesn't make you a good person.

Today I learned homosexuality is an acceptable reason for ""purification"".

I think they started skipping Memorial Day weekend after the Blackwater battle episode got terrible ratings. But that was season 2. Apparently they've now decided people would watch GoT even if it aired on their 20th wedding anniversary slash birthday party on Christmas Eve.

The power of love?

Yeah, Cersei brought him up to Kevan in one of those audience-remindy ways ("Don't you want to have your son, Lancel, back? You know, the one who defected to the Sparrows? That skinny blonde kid?"), so I think he's coming back to die.

What is hype may never die, but rises hyper and stronger.

I was just thinking about this this morning (as I scrambled to press the right one for some poor girl). Is it that hard to write out "Open" and "Close"? We can even change "Close" to "Shut" if the fifth letter is taking too much space!