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Probably. I'm completely blanking on it and it's driving me nuts. Doesn't help that I have absolutely no recollection of whose podcast it was, either.

Scandal is to House of Cards what Analyze This is to The Sopranos. For all the complaints about the unrealistic politics on HoC, Scandal recently featured a plotline where a criminally unqualified Vice-Presidential candidate whose sole purpose for being nominated is to ensure the First Lady can run for President

I made it thru S1, but made it to the scene in the S2 premiere where the daughter walks in on her parents 69ing and immediately shut it off, never to resume watching.*

I think it's more "right place, right time" in that it was filmed and released right before a lot of the barriers to entry into film production were eliminated by new technology.

There was a podcast Patton Oswalt guested on a few years ago where he said a friend of his that was a film professor had a period shortly after Pulp Fiction where every script was "hitman has to do one more hit job before retiring," "oh my God, we just stole from the Mob, what do we do now?" or a third category I've

I really can't, either. Maybe Saturday Night Fever?

"Popular rib joint"? Other than the brief period of time between the profile in the Washington Not-Post and Freddy's son's attempted assault on the paparazzo, Frank was always the only one in there.

Is one of those videos the montage of Bob making female contestants reach into his trouser pockets to get the $50 for guessing the retail price of the prize precisely?

That definitely made Win Ben Stein's Money more fun to watch.

There's no irony in The Simpsons mocking British Brevity, is there.

Starts to cut off his legs, then hugs him.

I would've forgotten about it completely if I wasn't convinced it was part of the inspiration for When The Whistle Blows from Extras S2. Speaking of wastes of Atkinson's talent…

Sayle played the landlord in more than one ep, yeah.

Sometimes shows are completed and then shown in front of an audience, whose reactions are recorded for the laugh track.

About 20 years ago, I had a police scanner that I could use to spy on my parents' cordless phone calls.

One of the PBS stations in Atlanta used to (still does?) show a video of Georgia landmarks with the Ray Charles version of Georgia On My Mind playing over the footage.

Is that you, Vincent Gallo?

What's your name?
Billy.
What's your last name, Billy?
*spits in Weird Al's face*

There was nothing in Al Capone's vault
But it wasn't Geraldo's fault

Weird Al was on that plane.