IIRC, there’s a short story where the devil — having yet again lost one of his signature wagers for a soul, as in tale after tale after tale — steps aside from keeping up appearances for a contemplative moment, in which that fallen angel thinks to himself, hey, another soul saved, nice work.
Okay, the Far Side panel, in which a hairy blob is watching “The Bacteria Bunch” on TV. Caption: “Single-cell sitcoms.” Instead of single-camera sitcoms. 
On the backup vocals front, there’s also Stevie Nicks on John Stewart’s “Gold” and Mick Jagger on Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” (excuse me: “Yaw sow vine”).
Portnoy’s Complaint ends with the same three-letter word as Ulysses.
I thought that was “Yellow Rose of Texas”?
As long as we’re, here, that back up singer, in the blue suit, that’s Luther Vandross.
Michael McDonald singing backup on “Ride Like the Wind” 
A relatively obscure one here. There’s a song titled The Intro and the Outro by the Bonzo Dog Band. The singer introduces the various members of the band. Some of them are the actual members of the band playing their actual instruments. But then the song goes on to add various other famous people who are supposedly performing, like John Wayne on xylophone, Liberace on clarinet, Charles de Gaulle on accordion, etc. And one of these is Eric Clapton on ukulele.
I always assumed this was just another joke. But I recently found out that Eric Clapton actually was there in the studio and actually played the ukulele for the recording.
Thanks for explaining that. That was one of the few Far Side cartoons that puzzled me.
And “Amazing Grace” and “Stairway to Heaven” and “House of the Rising Sun” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” and a bunch of others. It’s an incredibly common meter.
Okay, that’s hilarious. I’d assumed the same as you, but wow.
Here’s another interesting factoid from that song. The Zebra Kid was a professional wrestler. His name was Lenny Montana (actually his real name was Leonardo Passafaro). Five years after this song was released he’d become better known for his most famous acting role; he played Luca Brasi in The Godfather.
Now that I think of it, it’s obvious that True Grit would have been better if Barry Pepper and Matt Damon had switched roles.
A lot of people complained that the Hulu adaptation of Catch-22 changed the ending from the original novel. I didn’t dislike it, but it took me a long time to realize the irony of the Hulu series’s ending, and I actually like it more once it hit me. At the end of the Hulu series, Yossarian has clearly suffered a serious mental breakdown. Which means he can go home, just like he’s always wanted. All he has to do is ask…
It just dawned on me that the name of the department store “Costington’s” on The Simpsons is a pun on COSTING TONS.
That “Torchwood” is an anagram of “Doctor Who”
I dunno. Seems like way too involved for no real joke. There’s no humor derived from the knowledge there’s no studio audience vs the show is filmed like a movie. This is the same guy who made “cow tools”. It appears to just be a silly example of the type of sitcom a single celled bacterium might watch. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Huh. I think it is a play on “single-camera sitcoms.” I think it’s a known enough term, and The Brady Bunch, which is being parodied, was an example of one.
I’ve never heard the term before now.
Several years later watching Titanic with my daughter that I realized that Old Rose at the beginning of the movie when she’s doing pottery and overhears the TV discussing the Titanic…she’s wearing the Heart of the Ocean necklace. It just happens to be cosmetically concealed with a brass or bronze covering. See 1:19 mark in the video below.