Variations on a Theme by Townsend

Serious fans of That '70s Show will already know this, but look at the titles of the episodes of the current season:

129.   6- 1         601     29 Oct 03   The Kids Are Alright

130.   6- 2         602      5 Nov 03   Join Together

131.   6- 3         603     12 Nov 03   Magic Bus

132.   6- 4         604     19 Nov 03   The Acid Queen

133.   6- 5         605     26 Nov 03   I'm Free

134.   6- 6         606      3 Dec 03   We're Not Gonna Take It

135.   6- 7         607     17 Dec 03   Christmas

136.   6- 8         608      7 Jan 04   I'm A Boy

137.   6- 9         609     14 Jan 04   Young Man Blues

138.   6-10         610      4 Feb 04   A Legal Matter

139.   6-11         611     11 Feb 04   I Can See For Miles

140.   6-12         612     18 Feb 04   Sally Simpson

141.   6-13         613     25 Feb 04   Won't Get Fooled Again

142.   6-14         614      3 Mar 04   Baby Don't You Do It

143.   6-15         615     10 Mar 04   Who Are You

144.   6-16         616     17 Mar 04   Man With Money

145.   6-17         617     24 Mar 04   Happy Jack

146.   6-18         618     31 Mar 04   Do You Think It's Alright?

147.   6-19         619                 Substitute

148.   6-20         620                 Squeezebox

149.   6-21         621                 5:15

150.   6-22         622                 My Wife

That's as seen here. I imagine this has something to do with fact that the producers originally wanted to call the series Teenage Wasteland but could not get permission from The Who. Notice also the revisionist attempt to do the same thing to the previous season's episodes, but with Led Zeppelin songs.

Incidentally, the episode called "Sally Simpson", and the one after, features a character named Suzy Simpson (played by Alyson Hannigan.)
- posted by Don Porges @ 3/20/2004 01:58:00 PM |

 
Granite joystick

You know the spam you get with random words in the subject? (It's an attempt to fool Bayesian filters, a recent anti-spam technique that flags spam based on how many of the words in it have also been seen in other spam, compared to how many words in it have also been seen in non-spam mail.) I figured an email with the subject "granite joystick" was of that ilk. Until I realized it was a Viagra ad. (Excuse me, the ad was for "Viagrá" -- note the accent over the final 'a'. For precisely the reasons mentioned above.)
- posted by Don Porges @ 3/18/2004 12:07:00 AM |