What I like about the Peggy as Trailblazer story arc is that it shows all the problems — major and minor — that trailblazers have, and how, from their perspective, it was a bumpy ride to an uncertain future.

@avclub-7ee8e2fdc6652f2351e0bf3cd9a1a4be:disqus Thanks for the link to Life magazine. There's a lot of great stuff in there besides Richard Schickel's "Planet of the Apes" piece.

I got the idea that Abe had been deliberately living with the enemy, so that he could write about it. As I recall — I've been moving house this weekend, so I've only seen the episode once — he made some reference to how her stabbing him would make his — article? story? piece? — better.

I think Bob — who's bright enough to have landed a job at a Madison Ave. ad agency at a fairly young age — has figured out that Joan and Roger were a thing once upon a time. Assuming he hasn't picked it up in office gossip.

You were born too late. That's what swimming trunks looked like back then.

Not sure about horse imagery in a Chevy ad. GM tried to avoid any reference that might remind people of the Mustang.

@avclub-705562aaa4a5b85bfa44373d8e6bf234:disqus : I see your point about personal growth in long-running TV series. Stasis gets stale. That's why I gave up on "Rescue Me" after a couple or maybe three seasons.

Glad you bothered. I love your rankings.

Maybe you're lucky; I can't think of that many people I know who have experienced a great deal of personal growth.

I don't see what the fuss is about the beard. Is it because if you turned him upside down and had him scrunch his mouth as sideways as he could, he'd look like a '70s female porn star?

Well, we know he didn't finish high school and was a private in the Army during the Korean war. We don't know what he did in between, if there was an in between.

The same way they do all "next times" — pick tiny scene snippets that appear to hint at something that will not happen and them play them at random.

I was very impressed how cool Sally stayed. She did all the right things.

Really? You're not interested in how Don came to be Don — especially concerning his attitudes towards and treament of women? To me, that's one of the things that makes this show exceptional.

Interesting point, but it appears that Cutler had done it before; one of the CGC creatives mentioned it.

I think what happened is that he told her — they were in Anna's house in California — that sometimes people call him Dick or words to that effect.

I presumed that was your allusion.

And I thought it worked well with "Dream a Little Dream of Me," which was playing on Aimee's radio in one of the whorehouse flashbacks. Mama Cass covered it in the summer of '68.

Well, it fooled Cindy Lou . . .

If I knew how, I would change my name here to "shitty whore broth."