I second Skip's interpretation.

It was Caitlynn. The point is made once more!

Iveta
It's going to be a tough moment when Iveta gets cut before her time because she appears so much older than the rest of the contestants. But that moment will come - it's just a matter of how quickly.

I thought the lyrical hip-hop choreography was decent, but the number to Forget You looked like a high school talent show performance. I agree that chopping up the song didn't help. More than that, though, I think that Ashley in particular could have done more than the vamping around Scott gave her to do.

Yeah, I'm with you on that. His interview was so annoying I almost couldn't get through it. "Whaaat? WHAAAA?"

Pawnee rental market?
I have no problem with the Ben/Leslie progression. However, I could not get over the idea that Ben chose living with April and Andy over renting on his own. Did I miss a good explanation for that?

Yep. Confirmed by another Jew whose Mom and Grandma made and bought fried chicken.

Personally, as a sci-fi geek, god explanations in TV series annoy me because I have to hear about them all the time in real life. The tsunami was god punishing Japan, god wants the WBC assholes to harass grieving military families, evolution is "just a theory", etc. God invading my escapist fiction I do not need.

It's not a first date, though. They'd been waiting a long time for that moment.

Hey, Mo Rocca is on "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" now. I'm sure that handjob at the bus station would have been for pleasure, not for money.

I think Duck's 'winning' the fight showed his desperation more than his strength. Don genuinely wanted to stand up for Peggy, but even as drunk as he was, he's a gentleman and probably intended to play by the rules and not get his face permanently fucked up. Duck, on the other hand, did not give a shit - he'd go the…

Anna wanted Stephanie to get in touch with Dick/Don when she died, so maybe she gave Stephanie his assumed name and contact information before she started slipping away.

Actually, what reminded me of the opening sequence was Don slumped on his couch drunk with one arm resting on the back in a sort of perversion of the iconic businessman pose.

What is this grenade thing? Whatever it means, Doris was definitely not as attractive as Don's previous conquests, and I'm sure that was intentional.

I'm not the biggest fan of how Hamm plays young n' naive Don. I can feel the tension in his face from keeping his eyes open so artificially wide.

And it's so wrong, but I thought his Jenna impersonation was kinda hot.

Yeah, the Tim Calhoun character was a good one. I also liked his bit with Fred Armisen as the political pundits that just sang nonsensical harmonies (mostly "yaaaa ya ya yaaaa"). Wow, that looks really stupid typed out, but it made me laugh despite myself, kind of like "What Up with That".

Ugh, Glory. The actor always pulled me out of the Buffy-verse with her middle school play-level emoting. I'm with the Dawn apologists here. Regarding Riley (which sounds like an awful romcom) I think he was meant to be a bland rank and file military man at heart.

The sad thing is, Betty Draper is such an important character. It's a lost opportunity to explore the daily isolation, frustration, and regret of the repressed housewives of the era.

But the important thing is that I HAD FUN!