[194] Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, as every old-timey medical drama fan knows, is the fire station that serves as headquarters to the main characters of the 1970s paramedic show Emergency!

[436] This is something angels of the Mercurian choir can do...

[444] ... and this is an ability possessed by demons of the Impudite band (Mercurians' infernal opposite number).

[804] Or, rather, a manifestation of the Eternal Soldier's main celestial power: the ability to master any weapon required for battle.

[919] Well, Asuka, it's funny you should say that...

[1018] Yeah, kind of an odd choice of music for a sequence like this, but what the hell. If I were writing it today, I'd probably use the first movement of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G (BWV 1048).

[1236] Stanfield; he figured Edwards would be less likely to intimidate the girl and maybe get the cops called on them.

[1501] Shinji hasn't seen this episode of Babylon 5, but of course DJ has.

[1547] The real Galleria had this very sign, and this same feeling of utter desolation, in the months before it went out of business and was renovated into the tonier Worcester Common Fashion Outlets. In a way, I kind of liked the Galleria better. If nothing else, it was less pretentious.

[1667] The Worcester County Institution for Savings (now part of Bank of America, I believe), one of early-'90s Worcester's many institutions with initials that make it seem like a radio station when it was, in fact, nothing of the kind.

[1781] Yup. He's become a Habbalite, all right. (As an aside, A Right to Die is the title of one of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novels.)

[1817] Apparently Tabris was not entirely aware that he'd Fallen until just then. Denial's not just a river in Africa.

[2031] Star Wars fans may recognize this device as the torture table from The Empire Strikes Back - a curious way of applying an agonizer grid, but undoubtedly not without visual impact.

[2192] Protagonist of the 1960s spy spoof The Man from U.N.C.L.E., played by Robert Vaughn.

[2825] Otis is based on the dumbass guard who shows up in Half-Life: Opposing Force. Amazingly, this move doesn't get him fired, although the next time we see him he's certainly not a squad leader.

[3180] Isaiah 35:4.

[3377] A riff on the most disturbing of the "Same Keith. New network." commercials that accompanied Keith Olbermann's brief flirtation with the Fox Sports Network.

[3572] There's been a Zach Stephens sighting!

[3700] Short version of "Du kannst mich mal am Arsch lecken," the German equivalent of "Kiss my ass."

Good call on K's part; Will Smith projects nice-guy vibes that you can detect from ten miles off. Actually, I was watching him in "Independence Day" last night on Fox Movie Channel and I had a hard time buying him as a Marine fighter pilot, he's just too _nice_. :) (Or I would have except that my own late dad was a F-8 pilot in the early '60's and he was a sweet guy too.)

>[2192] Protagonist of the 1960s spy spoof The Man from
>U.N.C.L.E., played by Robert Vaughn.

Just as an aside, the series is finally coming out on DVD next week from Time-Life. Kind of pricey, but I'm a fanboy for the adventures of Napoleon and Illya so I've got an advance order in.

-Joe-