"The Lars Affair" is actually Sue Ann's first appearance, and the most amazing thing in it is this:  when Phyllis is telling Sue Ann that Lars has his flaws, her example is that he has "a neurotic fear of swallowing hair".  Which I would not have noticed was a shockingly dirty joke had not the person I was watching it…

Ed Asner has the rare (unique?) achievement of winning Emmys for playing the same character in both a comedy series and a drama series.

I was trying to figure out what "Mary Tyler Moore socks" were until I finished your sentence.

"Espheni" is how it is on the captioning, and possibly from other publicity material from TNT.  (Which is weird because most people are putting in a "sh" sound, "eshpheni".)

Every other character's conversations with Pope should just be them constantly reminding him about the rape gang he used to run.

Ah.  They made sure to remind us that Tom was on the alien ship.  Probably they messed with his SEED.

No, Hal doesn't actually remember doing anything, he just knows whats-her-name is in his head and that he's been going to see her; the rest is him thinking it's a strong possibility. The plot description on my TiVo was "Hal thinks he knows who the mole is", which is nice.

"Beautiful downtown Burbank" goes back to Laugh-In and Carson.

Well, there was "Mad Movies" in the 1980s, although they improv'ed entire replacement soundtracks rather than commentary.

It "can't be" him, because Manchester would have noticed if the guy in the wheelchair walked into his room, and he seemed pretty unsurprised at it.

And why does the title sequence look like my TiVo is broken?  That would make more sense on Revolution.

If so — and I agree that it seems right, if only because what's Frewer doing in that role otherwise? — the show is likely cheating, because the shadowy figure didn't seem to be tall enough.

I want all my family dead too.

Don't forget that Tolkien has an appendix explaining how he translated TLOTR from the "real" text into English, and why he made some "choices" he made.  Which, given that he was a linguist, he was not kidding about.

Pure un-book-read speculation: it would be great if Joffrey is taken out by the one guy who's already called "Kingslayer".  What're they gonna do, called him "Repeated Kingslayer"?

Seriously, just last week I was saying to a friend (who's read the books so he couldn't answer) that I'm kind of tired of listening to Arya tell us repeatedly how many people she's going to kill; it's time for some stabbing.  Called it!

Maybe only the highborns ever have last names, as per Shae and Varys' conversation.

Google-image-searching Joi Lansing is recommended.

And now we circle back to another thread, where we learned that the first season of Slings and Arrows is based (in small part) on Reeves doing Shakespeare in Canada.

If you had asked me 30 seconds ago, I would have misremembered that Mr. Canoehead was a KITH character.