Exactly, it's like the Noah's Ark stories for kids don't go into how Noah got drunk afterward and one of his kids saw him naked (or worse).

I don't think the Bible is being disparaged by the show at all. Just because some characters are religious and some are skeptics doesn't make it disparaging.

Not everyone was raised in a Christian household.

Bringing her to the Hague or a US court would require proving the case in court. First you'd have to bring it to the attention of the Department of Justice, which obviously would be awkward in the context of this show. The KGB could through official channels send the evidence, but there wasn't much evidence to begin…

"Are they monsters? I'm not sure."

True, but it's really the same question as why do the same two NYPD detectives and the same two ADAs have to work every felony in Manhattan? in other words, it's TV.

I think that's more of the grammar and punctuation joke. They made a book about it.

What was said over the credits was in French, the Hebrew prayers — Avinu Malkeinu (Our Father, Our King) and Ashrei ("Happy are they…") — came later.

Just google "a panda walks into a bar."

Wouldn't they be in the fallout zone whether they stayed in Tasmania or went to Melbourne? I thought the ground stop was a security issue, not a health issue.

A panda walks into a bar and asks the bartender where he can find a little action. The bartender motions to a young woman and the panda goes home with her. The next morning, the woman asks the panda for money. The panda asks why and she says she's a prostitute. He asks what a prostitute is and she hands him a…

You can study the Bible without doing so through a socially conservative lens.

Exactly - he told her to squeeze her anus and it came off as sexual at first, but then you realize he's really trying to teach her how to pass the test.

Keep in mind that in 1984, the idea of evangelicalism being wedded to a right-wing mindset was in its relative infancy. You can imagine Tim 10 years earlier as a long-haired Jesus Freak doing street proselytization. The countercultural Jesus Movement of the 1970s gave rise to pastors like Tim as much as it did today's…

I used B&W in my junior high school technology class in '86-87, so that's another possibility.

Perhaps they have some redundancy built into the system. Claudia would have to inform the Centre, then the Centre would have to inform the Rezidentura. A dead drop is quicker.

I thought he was at his she's-not-my-girlfriend Chris's house.

It is very Orwellian, in the "We are at war/allies with X. We have always been at war/allies with X" sense.

Yeah, they seemed a little wary when she mentioned the Soviet hockey player boyfriend.

I was once at a Hindu wedding. It was at least an hour. They put out food and drinks in the back, people got up and talked, etc.