I've been thinking about this today…it probably has something to do with Shirley Temple as a symbol of innocence par-excellence, and her parent-less film roles where she often finds surrogate parents, and the way she's a child but given grown-up choreography.

Exactly. The client had a near-impossible requirement - he wanted tradition and cool and the future all at the same time. When Megan tells Don the pitch, she or he says something like, "This solves everything." It was a decent concept that gave the client everything he wanted - Heinz for everyone, for all time,…

Peggy's not really a leftist, self-righteous or otherwise. Still funny, though.

I thought he was referring to something weightier than acting, too…but to a Marxist professor, advertising is the lightest of lightweight professions - he couldn't even grasp Pete's job function - and is in the service of snookering the working class into the ideology of capitalism. So not only is it bullshit, it's…

Megan couldn't take joy in her victory because of her father and his influence on her life and psyche. How could she be happy selling an ad to Heinz, who'll use it to shift product, when she was raised by a Communist killjoy who hates material success and consumerism? And then it was all fulfilled later when he shat…

My high school French teacher was French Canadian, and I studied abroad in France and went back a couple of times, so even though my French is shit now I can still tell the difference in accents from time to time. That puts me ahead of 90% of the American viewing public in this area, and I couldn't catch Ormond's…

She needs another show stat. Not having Hahn on TV on the regular was the worst thing about Free Agents dying.

Plus there was the unseen black contestant on "Baggage," who spent a thousand dollars on her weave.

Perfect! Thanks! I feel like there's a joke here about Disqus consuming itself, like that guy in Stephen King's "Survivor Type"…

I actually really want to read that article, but your link is to the URL for this recap.

Ha ha ha, "DC Hot." I don't know if this is a thing, but it will be in my mind from now on.

What about Yog-Sothoth, the Lurker at the Threshold, the Key and the Gate, the Opener of the Way? There's some Great Old One Yog right there for you.

Personally I really like how they handled the Will/Alicia "will they won't they" plot from the first 2 seasons. They did, it didn't stick. Now we and the show can all move on. It feels much more realistic than keeping that uncertain for as long as possible, like most (lesser) shows would.

I had the exact same impression. I think they said Edelstein was 24% of their business, so closer to a quarter rather than 1/5. Even without the settlement, with the balloon payments coming up, it seems like the firm is in a terribly prevarious position.

I don't know, isn't CW kind of known for keeping their shows going way past the point where it would be reasonable? I wouldn't be too surprised if they keep Ringer for at least another season. I stopped watching after the first couple eps, though…not even SMG could keep me watching.

It's funny, you point out a lot of faults with the plotting recently (Victoria's stupid affair, Jack saving the sweatshirt) but I enjoy the shit out this show to the extent that I just let all that stuff slide.

I like the shitty IM client everyone uses that looks like it's straight out of 1996.

Minor nitpick - Conrad said Dominic's De Kooning forgery was worth less than the frame it was in, not his originals.

I remembered it as Abraham Lincoln, but the more I think about it the more I think you're right.

I saw what was allegedly Lynyrd Skynyrd perform at the Orange County Fair in southern California around '01 or '02. I'm not even sure if there were any original members left in the band at that point…