Large Birds, Spiders and Mom

When Jake gets on the school bus, the Stephens house from Bewitched (1964) is across the street.

Chuck Lorre's "Vanity Cards" usually don't suffer fact-checking criticism, but #183, the one at the end of this episode, is flawed. The brief scenario has a Sopranos-type character, Paulie Walnuts, trying to get rid of his "pesky cat". He whacks the cat, then "drives it to the East River for disposal". On arrival, he learns that the cat isn't quite dead, prompting the moral dilemma: "Should he spare the determined feline, or toss him into the polluted waters that separate two great states?" Unless Queens/Brooklyn, on Long Island, are so different than Manhattan Island as to be considered a different state (and the argument could possibly be made!), it is the Hudson River, on the west side of Manhattan, that separates New York and New Jersey.