NOW WITH 100% LESS NUDITY: With its erratic quality in recent years and an overly busy timeslot (TAR and Once Upon A Time take priority), I don't regularly watch The Simpsons any more, but sometimes, they pull out something amazing, like last night's Game of Thrones-inspired couch gag, which is well worth your time.

HE ALSO HAS THE POWER TO RECOGNIZE ANY SONG WITHIN FIVE SECONDS:  DC Comics is reviving Billy Batson's superhero alter ego under the name Shazam, abandoning "Captain Marvel" as a nom de guerre.

THE RAGAMUFFIN GUNNER IS RETURNIN' HOME LIKE A HUNGRY RUNWAY: In advance of tomorrow's Wrecking Ball album drop, tell me what Springsteen song you think is most enhanced by the live version.  I'm not asking "what's the best Springsteen live song," but rather "which song has the largest Value Over Recorded Version," or some superior acronym you'll come up with.

Related: excluding all songs from The Rising to the present (because then we'd all say "Empty Sky" or "You're Missing," right?), what song have you heard quite enough of live and have no need to see again?  For me, it's "Cover Me," a song off Born in the U.S.A. whose appeal I never, ever have appreciated.  That and "Adam Raised A Cain."

ANOTHER BUDDY RYAN INNOVATION OTHER TEAMS HAVE FAILED TO SURPASS: Updates you probably already knew, to two sports stories we've been following:

• The New Orleans Saints and Washington (football club) have admitted to maintaining a bounty pool under defensive coordinator Gregg Williams to reward players for inflicting game-ending injuries on their rivals. The NFL is still figuring out the proper discipline, but, yeah, this too does not make me feel better about being a football fan.
• MLB did add the additional wild card teams, with the twist being that because of scheduling concerns the 2012 Divisional Series will give the seeded team home games 3-4-5, rather than 1-2-5.  As previously stated, this is one of the rare instances where adding playoff teams makes things fairer, because it gives some real advantage to winning one's division.

YES, BUT WE KNOW WHERE THE VARIANT "DOUCHE CASSEROLE" STARTED:  Slate's Explainer traces the origins of "douche" and "douchebag" as insults.

FOR YOUR $22 YOU GET FIVE COURSES—APPETIZER, SEAFOOD, ENTREE, CHEESE, DESSERT—AND COFFEE: Tonight, Philadelphia one-time fine dining institution Le Bec-Fin serves its last meals after forty-plus years in business under Chef Georges Perrier, and will reopen under new ownership (Nicolas Fanucci, general manager of French Laundry) in a few months. Here's Philadelphia Magazine's original September 1974 review, which is a treat to read, and Pete Wells on the meal he had anticipated for twenty years:

Often, after ambitious restaurant meals, I leave feeling that too many hands mucked around with my food, and that despite all the fussing, the result wasn't even remotely satisfying. The cooking at Le Bec-Fin was of a different order; you didn't notice how much work had gone into it until you tasted it.

WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE:  Again last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, "Neil Young" and Bruce Springsteen covered a recent pop hit.