S05.E10: Get Your La Las Out

The season five playoffs begin as James, Paul, and Seth duke it out for the North Shore High division title and a spot in the finals. Round one looks at songs with memorable uses of the note to follow sol before round two shakes up the before-and-after answer style with names instead of titles. But only one player can advance, and it all comes down to the lightning round!

NOTES

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🐊 Elton John has defended the... less than original sound of "Crocodile Rock" saying in the notes of the '95 re-issue, "Of course it's a rip-off, it's derivative in every sense of the word."

🧙‍♀️ Thankfully, we didn't use the modified version of "Popular" Chenoweth sang about Anthony Weiner.

🥃 If "la la" doesn't sound like something Tom Waits would normally sing, he has said that "Jersey Girl" was his "experiment with Sha La La."

☘️ The Uncanny Valley Scorebreak. The Uncanny Valley: I don't care how much it cost! The faces in The Irishman might as well have been Tom Hanks in The Polar Express.

🌅 For Before Sunrise, we say "mostly" in Vienna, Austria, because it starts on the train, so they might still have been in Hungary.

🌃 We could have used Stuart Townsend's role in the Kolchak remake, but we don't want to be predictable.

😵‍💫 The Stop making Dan say stupid things scorebreak. Stop making Dan say stupid things. So what if he likes old movies? TCM is great!

💵 Hey, remember when a show like Thanks a Million on Quibi could get a season two renewal announcement?

🕵️‍♀️ Kim Possible: So The Drama was actually the second Kim Possible animated movie.

🐦 You can follow James on Twitter

🎞 Track what James in watching on Letterboxd

🍻 If you're in Seattle you can play in Paul's Quiz Fix trivia nights.

🐦 You can tell Seth he has a great beard on Twitter