[Bloody Sam Roberts]

What you call reply # 1 is the actual posting of the thread;

Well, actually...the initiator of the thread is able to post comments in spot #1...so technically there was the possiblity of 5 comments regarding parrots. Ergo, 3 out of the first five were about the "Parrot Sketch".

Strictly speaking there were only 4 replies...but there were 5 comments. #1 was blank.

[Hanging Chad]

Not so fast.
If a thread is posted and it has absolutely no comments.
One would not say that the thread in fact has some
mysterious nebulous vaccuous "blank" comment
with a reply count of "1".
That would be positively absurd, now wouldn't it?

[Charles Henrickson]

Oh, I've had enough of this!