That sort of dispassion was more or less what I associated it with, and that’s a great way to phrase it.

Having just been Covid laid-off for a month, I intend to finally watch this. Fun fact about Southern Ontarians: In work settings, we tend to talk like that in jest, but to the point that it’s just regular speak. A coworker of mine is a spitting image of Keeso, and ran with it at a time when the server uniforms went…

I’m familiar with Ayn Rand, and the famous ‘Ayn Rand’s School for Tots’. I remember hearing that it was that sign gag that got people saying that this show was smarter than it seemed.

However, it’s possible I don’t get the joke, unless it’s the simple joke I took it for: Ayn Rand being a name you’d never associate…

Exactly. I had heard about the ‘Fuck and Suck’ joke that supposedly went over so many censors’ heads, but .. it works so much better as dry background humour. The rhyme wasn’t intentional. Sneed took it over the Feed and Seed store from Chuck. Simple as that.

Completely agree with you on the second part, but I have to join the ranks of being baffled that people took the first part in a different way. Homer is not quick enough to pull a kiss-ass fast one on his new boss, and he’s not stupid enough at that point in the series to interpret the question that literally. It’s a…

I was born in ‘85 as well, and that about nails it. The end of serendipity, as it was called once.

The little triangles he puts on the power plant diorama “to lower wind resistance” always gets me. “Also, these racing stripes I feel are pretty sharp.”

I’m kind of embarrassed that I’m not familiar with Jeff Beck. I know that Page came from The YardBirds, but that’s about it. I should check that out.

Yeah, I have no argument there. Imagine seeing him live! While I know names like Steve Vai and Yngve Malmsteen (mostly from highschool name-dropping), I could never name a single thing either of them have made.

That’s not a disrespect to either of them, or their work. An instrument is an instrument is an instrument,…

Noted, and I appreciate the correction. Admittedly my research went as far as Wikipedia, and knowing that the real story would be well-known enough that I wouldn’t be piling onto any sort of actual smear, but still, it’s an important thing to know.

I was born in ‘85, and the Eric Clapton of Derek and The Dominoes and…

I vaguely remember the Time article that named Jimi Hendrix the #1 guitar player of all time, with Clapton #2.* It was oddly sympathetic, in that the writer expressed admiration for Hendrix, but emphasized that it was in a way completely divorced from any hopes of competition; unlike Clapton, he would never be…

His biggest hit is about wanting to fuck George Harrison’s wife, so I guess that sounds about right?

The only other thing I ever say Brian Benben in (what a name, though!) was an advertisement for some Monday night sitcom. He had to manhandle some kind of robot or something for a reason that was nonsexual, but in such a way that it could be seen like he was trying to have sex with it if someone were to walk in at…

You skipped the best part: “..There’s nothing funny about that.”

“Pendant? Those bastards.”

I’m kind of surprised they didn’t just go with ‘Redskins’.

Wrong on one count: Dream On was a show made so adolescents could catch some boob on late-night TV in the halycon days before high-speed internet. It was literally about nothing else.

Glad I’m not the only one who felt that way. It’s been a long time since I watched season 6, and I vaguely remember liking at least one of them, but I never got the praise heaped onto it from this site. The lighting was darker, half the cast was gone, and with all due respect to Paget Brewster and Keith David, I never…

I had the same thought. It was one thing to do the good-natured hubris thing and own up to it, but at this point it sort of feels like the only person who isn’t long over it is him. 

Also, I will recall/remember correctly, that I legitimately fell for that. Sure, I’ll be the subject of fun.