TO THIS DAY I sing 'Who ya gonna call? CARPET MART!!!" any time I hear the Ghostbusters theme. I can confirm this aired constantly in central PA growing up. I've always considered this the gold standard of 'wacky local business owner who does their own commercials' commercials.

This movie is crap, but I grew up in central PA and have many fond high school memories involving that particular Denny's (still there today)

I remember hearing 'Tattva' on the radio in southwestern Ohio (Dayton area) at the time. I had no idea this was such an Ohio-specific bit of 90's nostalgia. Also, the phrase 'kula shaker' shows up in a Spice Girls song.

I saw Swervedriver on that 1998 tour, along with some loser opening band nobody cared about called Spoon.

Claymation Christmas is my all-time favorite Christmas special. Instead of the generic meet-Santa-save-Christmas plots of most animated specials, it's simply a celebration of Christmas music. It's not too crassly commercial, either; the California Raisins appearance is almost an afterthought. The Carol Of The Bells…

My family eats at Cracker Barrel all the time. Last time I was there I, too, zeroed in on the $20 keyboard.

Best thing about the old 1995 MTG computer game is getting to play with all these cards, making utterly broken decks with 4 Black Lotus (Loti?) 4 Mox Gems (per color!) 4 Timetwisters, 4 Time Walks etc.

I also flashed back to that Nintendo Power interview while reading the article.

I can't believe that the CHICAGO-BASED A.V. Club could make this list and not include KMFDM!!! The Angst album alone has three candidates: "Light", "Drug Against War", and "Sucks" plus "Inane" from the Xtort album. And those probably aren't the only ones.

Cedarville, believe it or not. Yep, I spent my wild college years at Cedarville. It's possible that Flansburgh had some sort of tie to Antioch (where Dave Chappelle grew up!)

I know, now that AV Club has given proper tribute to both John Henry and Ned's Atomic Dustbin's 'Are You Normal?' I have nothing left to be angry at them for.

If you love TMBG with horns, this is the album for you. Use of the horn section is both expansive and outstanding. (Producer Paul Fox, who also produced XTC's Oranges and Lemons and 10,000 Maniacs Our Time In Eden, seemed to love a horn section)

They performed that song on The Today Show (or one of the morning shows) and talked about how surprised they were to be asked to play that song, since it's about a cult. Some staffer, I imagined, must have requested it.

and it mentions Xenia, Ohio, which is where I went to go to places like Walmart or Kroger while in college.

I saw one episode of Cavemen and it had one hilarious scene - a discussion of how John Tesh was a 'shaver' - a caveman who hides his caveman heritage by staying clean-shaven.  At that moment, I thought 'this show actually has the potential to be decent'.  I never watched it again.