A few points:

1. THANK YOU!

2. How I Met Your Mother, OR How I Met My Broodmare. Given what happens at the end, the kids' constant disinterest and eye-rolling during the stories adds an extra middle finger to the audience. They seem to almost hate their Mother.

3. Here's my funny, Game of Thrones anecdote: Last year, when my Mother called me from the hospital to tell me she had Cancer, I was in desperate need to busy myself to distract me from my world falling apart. Having no one to talk to at the time, I'd asked Tim Minear to podcast with me. Once we were on Skype, we ran into some recording difficulties, so we jettisoned the idea and settled for shooting the breeze. During the chat, I heard Tim pulling away from his microphone to speak to someone else in the room:

Tim: "What?... Oh, yeah. Mother of Dragons."
Me: "What's going on?"
Tim: "Oh, some friends are downstairs in my theater, watching Game of Thrones."
Me: Wait a minute. First off, you have your own personal theater!? Second, you have company over, with which you could be watching Game of Thrones and you're talking to me, instead!?"
Tim: "Eh. I've seen it, before."
Me: "I've actually never seen a single episode."
Tim: "Oh, you would love it!"
Me: "I mean, I feel like I've seen it because everyone won't shut up about it so I know about stuff like Lannister and Khaleesi and beheadings and incest..."
Tim: "Yup, yup, yup. Do you have an Amazon Wishlist?"
Me: "Yeah, I think I do. I think I started one a while ago but I almost never use it."
Tim: "Let me see if I can find it. Hold on... Is this you?... Yeah, there's nothing but Buffy and Firefly shit in here. This must be yours."
Me: "Yeah, that sounds right."
Tim: "You didn't put your address in here!"
Me: "Well, shit. Two minutes ago, I forgot I even had the fucking thing."
Tim laughs.
I log in and fill in my address.
Me: "Okay, I've updated everything now."
Tim: "....Alright, it's sent."
Me: "What is?"
Tim: "Season 1 of Game of Thrones."
Me: "Holy shit, thank you. Do you have an Amazon Wishlist?"
Tim: "Oh, I'm rich. I don't need one."

The next damn day, season 1 of Game of Thrones arrived, on Blu-ray!"

4. "Our show causes Cancer". I KNEW IT!

Great episode. I don't watch most of those shows, but it was great to hear this retrospective.

And the Tokes & Stokes talk was fun. I bought two of those shirts, and they really look great.