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They ultimately did show the final group on NBC, but it wasn't live, and took the place of the usual hour of coverage that comes after the primetime broadcast and news and before the primetime repeat. Still really poorly done considering NBC's the one who insisted skating take place live in primetime in the first place.

Parts of the letter are pretty much verbatim quotes from Fish's letter to Mrs. Budd. I remember reading the book as a teenager and being particularly disturbed by the letter and how well Carr conveyed the absolute creepiness of it, then some years later found out about Fish and the fact that the letter was real only increased the horror.

They didn't do Coldplay last year. Their short was the Sinatra/hip hop mashup and their free was some slower classical piece.

Of course, as a woman, doing a Supernatural-based program would thematically mean she'd have to die by the skate's end.

As far as (openly) gay athletes winning gold, I think Matthew Mitcham was the first to do so back in Beijing. So Eric gets to be the Winter King.

I was thinking that too, but more in a 'huh, never seen a heroic variant of that' before kind of way. Plus, what with Ming-Na Wen being the one on the receiving end of that speech in Street Fighter, it's almost sort of thematically circular.

Not sure about all the rest (was Flash fighting the Atomic Skull? What a weird pairing...), but the Wonder Woman cover was from '88- not that much older than Tim Drake era Batman.

I believe this isn't the actual Twin Peaks theme he's playing here, but rather the similar (and arguably eerier) 'Laura Palmer's Theme'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khMlcTE7lw8

No list of Cheers music moments is complete without at least a passing mention of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvns30-6Lz0

It was wildebeest meat, yes. But wildebeest are a genus of antelope, so you're both correct. :-)

Except several astronauts made the trip more than once. (Jim Lovell, for example, was part of both Apollo 8 and 13, being denied an actual moon landing twice.) As much as it pains me to defend anything on this show, they got their math there correct.