"Twilight Zone" is so badddddd-assssssss that if that was their only hit, they should still have considered their career a success.  Some one-hit wonders are transcendent (whenever I descend to the Youtubes to listen to "Twilight Zone," I invariably also listen to "Get It On" by T-Rex).

"The blood just drained out of Ted's face as soon as [Don] said it was 'personal'. Peggy didn't look too calm either."

Exactly.  This is totally about Ted taking Peggy away from Don.  It's been brewing for several episodes, but Don really gets jealous when he sees one of them gently touching the other.

@avclub-236e42b5af241c85d97910f5c1aa6107:disqus , I fundamentally disagree with your assertion.  Nowhere in any English usage I know of is "east" automatically a derogatory term.  It's not derogatory to say that some people are from the Far East, the East, Eastern cultures, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, the East…

@avclub-5bbc67c39fbdf1c74e28b86c595f6e4a:disqus No one ever meant any hatred or antipathy when calling people of East Asian origins "Oriental."  That was the accepted term as recently as when I was in college.  Sometime in the last 20 years, people of East Asian origins started taking offense to it.  It's kind of like…

Yeah, the thing about his parents being brother and sister wasn't meant to be taken literally.  It was just Duck shading the West Virginia origins with a flourish.

Dick Whitman was from Illinois, not Appalachia.

I've mentioned this before, but the best product placement ever in a movie was in the original Superman movie, from 1978.  It was early morning in Smallville, and the Kent house was dark and quiet.  Clark was staring out at the fields, getting ready to go on his Arctic adventure to find out what the green crystal…

Rock, flag, eagle!

@avclub-2ada31fe193c3a8c3f18a2d15c64362c:disqus , that's one reason why Lex Luthor is ultimately irresistible as a villain for Superman.  Luthor is rich, corrput, and in some incarnations has taken political power in addition to his economic power.  Superman could easily squash him like a grape, except that he has…

@avclub-e8571c68352a23107327b622cbd51878:disqus  some of my favorite Superman stories have been the ones where he has to defend Metropolis from something like a giant space amoeba or radioactive-meteor shower or the like.  You put it very well: something that's hard for him to punch.

And with movie-theater sound, for that shoot-out.  Holy crap, that was some Saving Private Ryan-level sound work.

I wonder if the diner meeting at the beginning of Training Day was an homage to this one in Heat, though in Training Day, Denzel's character is presented as the consummate professional and veteran of the force, while Ethan Hawke's character is really green.  I haven't seen either film in so long that I can't remember…

The thing that bothered me most about the diner scene was that it was almost entirely over-the-shoulder shots.  I don't remember if there's a single frame with both DeNiro and Pacino clearly sitting at that table at the same time.  In my mind, it was like they couldn't even work their schedules around to being at the…

But the video to "Land of Confusion" hilariously had Ronald Reagan dreaming he was Superman.

"Oh, Superman where are you now?
When everything's gone wrong somehow.
The Man of Steel.  The Man of Power.
We're losing control by the hour."

In the sequel to Man of Steel, Lex Luthor will be an unscrupulous tycoon-turned-politician who disparages Superman as a Kryptonian anchor baby.

I'll just put this here:

Apparently, Schuster and Siegel thought of Metropolis as Chicago — I imagine they were influenced by the World's Fair there in 1933.

Marah Eakin, "clamoring" refers to making a loud noise or continuous shouting, not ascending a hierarchy.  You may have been thinking of "clambering."