The truly weird thing — at least as reported at the time — was that some Bobby Kennedy supporters switched their allegiance to Wallace, of all people. It's almost a sick joke. The explanation was that these were people who admired style — stance, I suppose — to the exclusion of substance. Or it could just be that…

@avclub-e329caccd50119a7e020cb5532f30569:disqus , you may appreciate a quip Dick Cavett once made on the Tonight show, during the time Gilligan's Island was in its first or second season. Johnny asked Cavett what he was doing, and Cavett said "I'm working on a humorous version of Gilligan's Island."

Well, getting a guy drunk — and later discovering that the elevator was out — is hardly attempted murder. He'd gotten his job, remember, by getting Roger drunk.

I don't think I agree with your police work there, Joey. Chappaquiddick incident and moon landing were both in 1969.

Bear in mind, Chappaquiddick was the same weekend.

@avclub-705562aaa4a5b85bfa44373d8e6bf234:disqus I think you're on to something with this: " Instead, they're what he really wanted—an unsustainable fantasy that can only live in a hotel room, or maybe a whorehouse." The flashback(s) to Don's life in a brothel in earlier eps this season suggest that part of Don's…

Maybe it's just me, but is Pete looking sort of Nixon-ish? Scowling, jowly and paranoid?

No, the Viet Cong were successful.

I took that comment to mean that they wanted it to be a dairy farm, showing that even dairy farmers like margarine.

At the risk of sounding all "did I ever tell you kids about the Sixties" and such, my recollection of the RFK assassination is in line with what @avclub-911f90ac0e48768fec246c09605362a5:disqus said: " a weariness that some of the characters must be feeling over the violence, turmoil, and frightening uncertainty of…

@avclub-04d524031f29c89d78cae864bd6f0de7:disqus et al.:

@avclub-d7702a590d8b448050ba0392fa48f4b9:disqus It was XP-887. That's the Vega.

True, no one could have foreseen what was ahead. It's interesting that Peggy and Abe have different favorites at this point, Abe favoring McCarthy, Peggy loving on RFK. And, of course, once RFK got into the race, McCarthy was doomed. I wonder if Peggy will vote for Humphrey.

It'll end, of course, with a suicide. But it'll be Bob Benson falling.

@avclub-2ebe3bb8363c914bcd4b3e1f8395f9ff:disqus I didn't have any trouble with no one understanding what Marie was saying, either. My point was in response to a comment that when Marie said "idiote" (is there an e at the end?) someone would have picked up on it. I did, since I had French in high school and college,…

Yes, the Vega — rather than being the ground-breaking, computer-designed all-things-to-all-drivers wonder that the GM fact sheet suggested — would go on to be the second-worst car of the milennium, as rated by Car Talk, beaten out only by the Yugo.

@avclub-705562aaa4a5b85bfa44373d8e6bf234:disqus Re: " It's possible no one's ever underestimated the 'worst case' worse than Abe in that scene."

But people who don't know, or never studied, another language often assume that they can't understand a single word of any foreign language. "Ee-dee-ote" only sounds like "idiot" if you know some French pronunciation rules.

Correct. I just re-watched Season 1, episode 1. Pete was 26 in March of 1960. Unless he'd been career military, he'd have avoided Vietnam. Of course, as a member of the privileged class, he'd probably avoided Vietnam even if he'd been born in 1948 instead of 1933-34.

I'm not sure she's more conservative — she is more political, given who she's married to — but she could identify with JFK and Jackie in a way that she couldn't with MLK.