“I want that thing out of my house!” -- Matt Groening, presumably

Hot cider and Gosling’s Black Seal are a match made in booze heaven.

The only pop-cultural use of my name I can think of is in those TNG episodes where Geordi falls in love with the hologram of the engineer who designed the Enterprise, and then he meets her in real life and it’s awkward. And those episodes would be cringy enough even without my name in them.

They’re all on premium cable.

Breakfast tacos are a beautiful, beautiful thing (not the Taco Bell ones, though, their breakfast is consistently terrible). My sister used to live in Austin and you can get them at a different place every day of the week. Bean and egg tacos are one of the most comforting foods in existence.

He was! (Or possibly bisexual, but although he had a lot of kids and a generally decent relationship with his wife, his most emotionally intense relationships were all with men.) There’s some stuff about it upthread — he was pretty notorious for having a string of male favorites, which isn’t always a sexual thing in a…

No, he commissioned the King James Bible because the popular Geneva translation was very Puritan-leaning, and the Anglican hierarchy was very important to his conception of kingship (he very famously said “no bishop, no king”) — the Church of Scotland had been very keen on abolishing the episcopate, and James, who…

Exchanging letters where they addressed each other as “dear dad and husband”/“sweet child and wife”...

People convicted of witchcraft in Britain (including the colonies) were hanged, yes — burnings tended to be restricted to heretics (although the practice was dying out by the early seventeenth century) and women convicted of treason, since the punishment prescribed for men was considered indecent thanks to all the…

He did not! He commissioned the King James Bible in order to establish a translation that was in keeping with Anglican beliefs about the church hierarchy and provide a counterweight to the popular and very Puritan-leaning Geneva translation! Then he banged dudes in his spare time!

There were enough free black people in early modern England that Elizabeth I tried to expel them, or at least considered it — there exists a draft proclamation dated 1601 that orders them to be deported, on the grounds that they were supposedly taking jobs from English people, because nothing ever changes in this…

No, I am afraid not, Sam...At least, I know that such things happened, but I cannot see them. No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I…

And he spoke English coherently!

He definitely said Rooney.

The final scene would probably also have had more impact if they hadn’t used it in the promo.

I can totally hear that in his voice.

They sure have! There are a bunch of them in Michigan (where I grew up) and now they’re at least as far south as St. Louis. They’re okay. Every so often I get a weird craving for their maple-glazed donuts.

“No springs? I don’t care, there’s still butter and meatloaf!”

Livonia Mazda on Plymouth Road! Dearborn Mazda on Michigan Avenue!

YES. I’ve had that the last couple of times I’ve been to the UK -- I actually love conventional fish and chips but developed a seafood allergy in my twenties. Halloumi is delicious enough that it was a very satisfying substitute.