@avclub-14e4cee178d88fb9aa346dbcc11f2873:disqus , one doesn't have to be Jewish to admire Jewish bad-assery. 

@avclub-236e42b5af241c85d97910f5c1aa6107:disqus , Bob clearly didn't worry about a beat-down from Pete Campbell because, well, no one should worry about getting beaten up by Pete Campbell.

Can't we agree that anyone being attracted to Pete is strange and inexplicable?  Peggy, Trudy, Rory Gilmore, and now Bob — all of them saw saw something in Pete that most of us viewers are unable to see.  Pete always has been unlovable (but that's much colder coming from his mother).

So, no one here has been having sex and had someone walk in on them?  Doesn't seem so unbelievable to me.

"Do you want me to cut you a piece?"

People were also, by 1968, beginning to openly question the wisdom, necessity, and morality of the Vietnam War.  It's terrible to contemplate your son being killed or wounded in any war zone, but it's even worse if you have come to think that your country is in the wrong for fighting the war.  Don says to Rosen that…

"Give it a search."

@avclub-d116ae13554d47530ed800aef8ed5755:disqus , you haven't seen Raising Arizona, have you?

Hollywood doesn't test for performance-enhancing substances as stringently as Major League Baseball does.

I was thinking Rip Torn.

Biblical names never go out of style…

National sports announcing is terrible, because the play-by-play guys are all communication-school graduates trying to be reporterly and impartial and just-the-facts.  Then the color-commentators are ex-players who have, apparently, been instructed to check the "color" part of their job at the door.  The best way to…

If it was a thread on the Tolerability Index, then I missed it.

Played outside a lot on Saturday (first long bike ride of the season, thanks to lousy Smarch weather), so I didn't see a lot on TV.  I did, however, turn the TV on Saturday evening and to my amazement, caught a Major League Baseball game in progress on an over-the-air station (I don't have cable).  I saw the 6th and…

I figured it was the less-well-read version of Tarkovsky'sFormerAD (or whatever-the-fuck that guy's name is).  But I don't know the typical content of Torkovsky's posts, since I've never read past the first few lines.

I don't know about a kid drowning in the bathtub.  I only know that pot makes you want to bake your baby in the oven.

Of course, in 2013, the national mood has shifted to the right so much that public libraries are being de-funded and de-staffed every bit as aggressively as public schools, so Joe Friday would get called a socialist (as if that were a derogatory term) by the Teabaggers.

@avclub-8585e3ef66f8d1bc4b1856e529ecdd2c:disqus , and that's why I objected to the sweeping, generalized, stereotyped use of "the Midwest" to begin with: it's a real cultural and economic area with real characteristics that make it different from other areas of the country.  Also, because of that, there are parts of…

@avclub-8856638da4354266a53ba0fe9aef68dd:disqus : Good point; but most Southerners don't view those two cities as Southern.  Anyway, bigger cities are usually more advanced, progressive, forward-looking, educated, etc. than the surrounding countryside anywhere.  Go to any random small town in Wisconsin and compare the…

Yes, I really can dispute that the Midwest is more conservative than the rest of the country.  If you want the most conservative parts of the country, you have to look to the South and to places in the Great Plains and Mountain West.