What the opening sequence has always reminded me of was the 1971 movie "Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying All Those Terrible Things About Me?" It starred Dustin Hoffman, who falls off the ledge of his balcony in the opening scene and plummets.

My recollection is late '50s/early '60s and it grieves me to no end that I can remember that far back.

It will be the third one.

Commanders advertised for awhile. Jingle: "Have a Commander! Welcome aboard!"

A lot more people dabbled in the counter culture, like Roger, than actually committed to it.

Betty — for all of her cruelty toward her children — is, to me, the most tragic of the principal women on the show. Sure, she sound lame saying "I'm smart. I speak Italian," but in truth she is no dummy.

I've always seen Henry's early sympathy toward Betty as contrived. He was smitten by her beauty and really didn't give a rat's ass about her mind, but he knew that was a way into her heart (and pants).

I'm ashamed to say that I put together ensembles like Harry Crane's during that time period. Had the sideburns, too. My hair didn't get really long until about '71.

Isn't it that way — or wasn't it that way — every year during the heyday of top-40 radio? The top 10 had a lot of dreck with a few great — or at least not cringe-worthy — hits.

Had Nashville Skyline come out yet?

Don't forget, she also saw Roger getting a blowjob. And started her period when she was on a semi-date with Glen.

I loved the 2001 reference. The thing is, Ginsburg was — and I'm sure he'd be horrified to think this — in the place of the evil computer. Does anyone remember if Ginsburg ever said he had seen 2001?

To add a sort of serious note to an otherwise charmingly light-hearted discussion (which I honestly regret), I saw a parallel with the Hollywood blacklist in the Don-Freddie ruse. Blacklisted screenwriters made ends meet by ghosting scripts or doctoring them without credit, and Don's sort of in the same boat.

@avclub-d80ecbbbef6ab40a4e53d1ad2c3fc1b2:disqus , those are good points, but I'm afraid CSI and such shows have given people the idea that fingerprints are everywhere. In fact,  full, clear prints are rarer than you'd imagine. On the other hand, Walt was known to be clever, so the remote-control machine gun would…

Or, since Walt is found in the lab, they may assume that he has been hiding with Uncle Jack's crew, and cooking the increasingly high-quality meth, all along, and someone else is responsible.

And on the after show, Vince Gilligan said they had to have Walt take it off because in the diner scene, where he's making 52 with his bacon, he isn't wearing the watch, so for continuity they had him take it off. Also, it was symbolic of Walt's severing his ties with Jessie.

Naw, Huell gets to Omaha where he helps Saul manage the Cinnabon.

Well, it was an older-model Volvo, with a lot of miles on it, and the owner probably figured that no one would steal such a car on a beastly cold night, with no one around, so might as well leave the keys in the car and the car unlocked. I had a '92 Jetta with an electronic door lock that froze up once, and nothing…

I'm sure there's a how-to video on YouTube. Or there will be shortly.

I took it that Walt caught either a round from the M-60 (which is a 7.62 mm, not 50-cal; that's the M-2) or some sort of shrapnel. Hard to figure he'd be unaware, but I'll willingly suspend my disbelief.