My God, that was worth it just for the phrase "reputable English"!

I eagerly await a scene next season where Manolo appears, heartbroken, as Pete's grieving step-father.

The good: "By simply providing a context for such a myriad of possible theories to even exist in the first place, shows like Mad Men do a tremendous amount of good by creating room for these conversations to occur at all. These conversations need not be centered around “whodunit” or “whoisit,” but can simply exist to…

And Milton Hershey is the epitome of the American Dream as much as anyone in real life could be.  He started with nothing, started making caramels in his kitchen, sold that caramel company for a cool million (in the mid-19th century, when a million bucks meant you and your grandchildren were set for life), travelled…

Different all-time great shows have different writing strengths.  I do think Mad Men makes poetic utterances from its characters more believable, because they've successfully made a high opera out of some everyday stuff in some people's lives (I mean, a divorce, losing a job, your kid getting in trouble, etc. are all…

Sometimes Don just lashes out.  Never forget his reaction when Peggy quit last season.  "Let's pretend that every good thing that's happened for you wasn't because of me." 

It was only played for laughs because Pete is so ridiculous.  The underlying truth of the matter is really that Bob and Manolo (if those are their real names) turn out to represent real menace.  One has proved himself so mercenary as to marry a demented old lady just to get her money, which he quite plausibly hastened…

I've said it before, @avclub-797134c3e42371bb4979a462eb2f042a:disqus , but it bears repeating: Bert Cooper is the most ruthless fucking gangster on this show.

About movie ratings —

Also, Detroit and LA (minus the entertainment industry, which isn't absolutely everything there) are big manufacturing centers (cars and aerospace, respectively).  Most people don't think of large-scale, low-slung, manufacturing complexes as glamorous.

If Don is now Duck, so reduced by drink that he's forced out of his job and his family life is crumbling, is Sally his Irish setter?

My favorite was when a co-worker once referred to my Chevrolet Cavalier as a rice-burner.  This co-worker, by the way, drives an extended-cab Toyota pickup.  He's pretty much an asshole.

@avclub-6c6094f256f51e83fe02bce6091163e7:disqus , moreover, Poppy and Daisy could also choose to go by Rose and Pamela, respectively.  Those other two have to invent new names for themselves out of whole cloth.  If Petal Blossom Rainbow Oliver wanted to, I suppose he or she could go by Bowie.  And I guess that last…

That scene was incredibly stupid from a dramatic standpoint.  Jonathan should have known that Clark could go back to the car for "Krypto," retrieved him, and rejoined the rest in complete safety, due to his powers, and it all could have looked like nothing more than a miracle.  Also, strange and unpredictable things…

No, I didn't use either of the two no-no words that I know of (one being a racial slur for black people; and the other being a derogatory term for homosexual men, which @avclub-3be42d8a3412057f79af152555e39bd4:disqus alluded to).  I merely said that what those two people were doing was unequivocally wrong, they needed…

Whoa!  My comment had to be approved by moderators?  All I did was basically echo @Al Capwne's point that anyone else in the audience would have leaped to your defense had that asshole tried anything. Is that sort of thing not permitted on the AV Club, as of about 10:00 a.m., Central Time, on June 24, 2013? Shit,…

Good for you, @LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus , not putting up with that shit, and doubly good for you for keeping everything nonviolent.

It's where you punch someone on the top of the thigh.  The rectus femorus, if I'm remembering my anatomy correctly (it's the muscle on the top of your thigh that you can feel when you are sitting in a chair and extend the bottom of your leg out, parallel with the floor), is very easy to bruise.

I don't believe Batman ever got treated as badly in the movies as Superman did by the time Superman III and Superman IV came along.  Good lord, the stink of shame on that character was so thick that it took almost 20 years for them to make another movie that was intended to wipe away all traces of III and IV — and…

Best of luck on the remaining job possibility.