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Forty-Three

Well, I guess it's about time I did another roundup of the point-scoring answers for the past year. Check out the extended entry for the points awarded in 2005...

  • February:
    • Retirony Redux:
      • .2 points: (link)"cromulent": Simpsonsism meaning "legitimate". Only ever used ironically.
      • 3 points: (link) "LIONS!!!". David Cornelson, Cattus Atrox
  • March:
    • But the chicken, on the other hand...
      • 1 point: Billy Joel, We Didn't Start The Fire
      • .5 points: The 95 Thesis of Lake Wobegon in Lake Wobegon Days, which the author claims (and I have no reason to doubt him) is the longest footnote ever in a work of fiction
    • Forty-Two
      • .1 point: The answer to the ultimate question of Life, The Universe, and Everything, according to The Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy
  • July:
    • Inappropriate Thoughts 1
      • 4 points: (link) Refers to Archie's inability to avoid mentioning Sammy Davis Jr.'s glass eye in an episode of All in the Family, also the tvtropes.org term for gags of that sort
  • August:
    • IT 4
      • 1 point: (link) tvtropes term for the thing that is patently, glaringly obvious, but which you under no circumstances are allowed to acknowledge
  • September
    • Reverse Psychology
      • 1 point: character from GI Joe, who would often appear in the closing sequence to deliver a moral message, which invariable ended with the phrase, "And knowing is half the battle."
    • Spinoff!
      • .5 points: Troy McClure, The Simpsons: "The Simpsons Spin-off Showcase"
    • I am, as it turns out, the man
      • 1 point: Rick, explaining why he doesn't like Ugarte in Casablanca
    • Volcano Day
      • 2 points: Doctor Who: "The Empty Child"
      • 4 points: Arthur, when asked for a hint about any potentially useful swag to be found in a blacksmith's shop in The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
    • Everybody Lives!
      • 99 points: Doctor Who: "The Doctor Dances"
    • We are TiVo
      • 3 points: DEVO, "We are DEVO"
  • October:
  • November:
    • Little Jackie Paper
      • 3 points: Little Jackie Paper is from Puff The Magic Dragon. "That deaf dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball" is from Pinball Wizard

    • Eternity Alone...
      • 2 points: Bender, Futurama: "Godfellas"

Hope you did well.

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