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Here are links to the things we mentioned:Sour Grapes (the wine fraud movie Elizabeth mentions)For a refresher on praxis, see Episode 20John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight  David Letterman and Johnny CarsonElizabeth’s Letterman knowledge has not grownSome More News  Big Joel’s tweet about John Oliver minus an audienceGarfield minus GarfieldSaturday Night Live At HomePaul Matwychuk’s tweet about telephone jokes in vaudevilleBrad Pitt as Fauci > Kate McKinnon as Hilary singing Hallelujah, says ElizabethThe Greatest American HeroBrooklyn Nine-Nine > Big Bang TheoryDecoder Ring episode on the laugh trackWhy M*A*S*H had a laugh trackPeter Brown shares thoughts about communal laughter on I Don’t Get ItPunching up and punching sideways, as seen in various lgbt tiktoksThat Amy Schumer skit on women and compliments The Underdogs of Comedy by Sally Poulsen and Jeff SamsonowSaturday Morning Breakfast Cereal web comicTikToks that use gay/bisexual codingLeft at London’s “relatable” VineLindsay Ellis on reactions to accusations of cultural appropriation“It’s just a joke” is a bad defence, says Thought Slime For more on standup, listen to Lars Callieou on Don’t Call Me a GuruRuPaul’s Drag Race and Bianca Del RioBo Burnham’s Left Brain, Right Brain and Country SongJohn Mulaney’s There’s a Horse in the Hospital and Street Smarts Inside Shelley BermanNestor Pistor (we warned you)Bill Cosby - Himself (sorry)Kids in the Hall, who are reunitingFour on the Floor (but Karen was actually thinking of The Frantics)SCTV (recently memorialized in Edmonton)Random moustachesYouTube PoopMichael Rosen in his nice, unadulterated formFoo Fighters vs The FooMany thanks to our sponsors: The Well Endowed Podcast (particularly Episode 69) from the Edmonton Community FoundationPod Power, courtesy of ATB, to the Alberta Queer Calendar ProjectThat's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB.  You can subscribe to us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely.Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or tweet at us: @thatsathingyeg.Do you want a That’s a Thing?! button? Send us your address by Twitter DM or email and we will send you one (sanitized, we promise). Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show, and to Jon Spencer for editing assistance.Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin.