You gotta admit, though, that his self-serving bringing DVDs of Extras as a gift was pretty hilarious.

That fucking Simpsons episode.

I think so.  When I saw it, there was no way you could have convinced me that Shane would still be alive in 2013.  But, here we are.

O'Neil would also have avoided such errors as: "he’s recently gave up wearing them."  Ugh.

Wow, I didn't realize he had lost out even in a year when Cranston wasn't against him.  There is no shame in losing an acting contest to Bryan Cranston.  But shit is seriously fucked up when Jon Hamm doesn't beat everyone else besides Cranston.

Kind of like with Tony Soprano, they've already written Don Draper to the point where they want him to be for the series finale, so there's been a sense that he's in a holding pattern for a while, and will continue to be as the show extends beyond its natural lifespan, mostly for the sake of generating higher ratings…

Oh, you young-ins.  No, 9-1-1 became a widespread thing, at least nationwide, in the 1980s.  Before that, people dialed 0 and asked the operator to put them through to the police/fire/ambulance company.  This is what I was trained to do when I was a kid (born in 1974).  If you watch closely, I think that's exactly…

Pete, too.  They were probably forming a new agency.

That's the onomatopoeia of what my Chevy sounds like when I try to start it on cold mornings.

Hey the Democratic Convention should be coming up in the next couple of weeks! 

So, kind of a Blast from the Past scenario?

Yes, and the worst thing about that speech was how Don said that it helped him understand why his own father was so horrible.  He wanted to let his father off the hook for being such a bastard, because Don realizes that he, too, is quite a bastard.  Rather than try to be better, Don wants to absolve his own father's…

That's a very common thing in TV and movies where a character is remembering events of the past that inform what's happening in the present.  I'm actually amazed that you seem not to have encountered it before.  It's much like a dream you might have that incorporates a sound that is actually happening around you as…

I remember that toward the end, you thought you were a hummingbird of some kind.

Harry Hamlin and Bruce Greenwood need to be cast as brothers in something.

Well, in fairness, Cutler was high out of his mind at the time.

I hadn't thought about it, but that's a good point.  Roger is also not territorial the way Don is.  Don feels threatened by Ted and his youth.  Roger just sees Cutler as someone he can hang out with other than Bert, who is a generation older. 

Bert (the eunuch) and Peggy are the bitterly ironic end-game in a Ken Cosgrove short story about the last two people on earth.

Stan freed his mind sometime after the strip-off with Peggy.  Plus, I think a lot of us hated him at first because he was coming in after Sal's tragic departure.

Stan is helped by having a particularly wonderful specimen of a beard.  It is thick, well-combed and -groomed, and not at all scraggly.